Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) has introduced a FRED MCP Connector that uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to simplify connecting FRED data with artificial intelligence systems, Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher J. Waller said Thursday (Oct. 1). In a speech delivered during FRED Con...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Mike Magennis of FIS Fall brings football, starting lineups and plenty of arguments over who deserves the first pick. Mike Magennis, senior director of Strategy, Networks at FIS, said he already knows what he would take first in...
Watch more: Need to Know With Relay’s Chris Chuang In 1940, engineers at Galvin Manufacturing, the company that would become Motorola, built a handheld two-way radio for the U.S. Army. Soldiers called it the Handie-Talkie. You pressed a button, you talked, you let go. Eighty-six...
Merchant lending has traditionally been built around the sales a platform can see. Multichannel commerce is widening that view. A small- to medium-sized business (SMB) might collect orders through its own website, Amazon, Walmart, TikTok and other marketplaces while using the same inventory and staff...
October 02, 2026
Artificial intelligence agents add information to a card payment that merchants, issuers and networks don’t routinely exchange today: what the consumer authorized the agent to do and whether the transaction falls within that authority. EMVCo is developing a technical framework for carrying that information through card payments. The standards body closed public comments Sept. 30 […]
October 01, 2026
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Mike Magennis of FIS Fall brings football, starting lineups and plenty of arguments over who deserves the first pick. Mike Magennis, senior director...
September 30, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Relay’s Chris Chuang In 1940, engineers at Galvin Manufacturing, the company that would become Motorola, built a handheld two-way radio for the U.S. Army....
August 31, 2026
Merchants have plenty of ways to target shoppers with promotions. Their problem is getting the right offer in front of the right customer while there is still a purchase to...
October 01, 2026
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) has introduced a FRED MCP Connector that uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to simplify connecting FRED data with artificial intelligence systems, Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher J. Waller said Thursday (Oct. 1). In a speech delivered during FRED Con at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Waller said […]
September 23, 2026
A trove of data allegedly stolen from the FBI includes detailed information about employees working on sensitive intelligence, counterespionage and security operations, Reuters reported Wednesday (Sept. 23). The data, obtained...
September 23, 2026
Local commerce platform DoorDash introduced a platform that provides brands with purchase-based signals from consumer orders and audit-based signals from shelf scans, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 23)...
August 20, 2026
Anthropic plans to modify the data retention policy it announced in June, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 20), citing an unnamed source. The AI startup will still require enterprise customers that...
