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Microsoft Leads Prompt Economy Focus on the Enterprise
Artificial Intelligence // November 17, 2025

The velocity and scale of the Prompt Economy’s™ development has been fast even by AI’s standards. Making sense of that maturity curve isn’t easy but the past week has seen some notable attempts, including a maturity model from Microsoft. In a blog post last week,...

Funding Rounds and Walmart’s Credit Card Push Mark Busy Week for FinTech
Fintech Investments // June 13, 2025

Circle and Chime garnered the lion’s share of FinTech-focused headlines through the past several days, particularly those centered on Wall Street. However, there is a tailwind to early-stage financing of FinTechs focused on platform models that re-imagine lending and businesses’ back-office processes. Banks are broadening...

Stablecoins, Payments and Court Battles Define This Week in Web3
Blockchain // October 09, 2024

Cryptocurrency and Web3 technologies are supposed to represent the future of finance, offering a decentralized and borderless world where money, data and assets flow freely. Despite progress and setbacks, however, the advance guard of a hypothetical future-fit financial sector is fighting the same historical battles...

Coinbase Widens Access to Crypto B2B Payments
B2B Payments // October 03, 2024

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is expanding the ways businesses can pay. PayPal paid invoices to EY using the PayPal USD (PYUSD) stablecoin deposited into EY’s Coinbase Prime account, according to a Thursday (Oct. 3) news release. Coinbase Prime is a brokerage platform that facilitates trades, custody...

Interviews & Exclusives
Microsoft Leads Prompt Economy Focus on the Enterprise

November 17, 2025
The velocity and scale of the Prompt Economy’s™ development has been fast even by AI’s standards. Making sense of that maturity curve isn’t easy but the past week has seen some notable attempts, including a maturity model from Microsoft. In a blog post last week, the company sharpened its vision for its own use of […]

Blockchain Tracker: Blockchain’s Impact On The Supply Chain Industry

April 21, 2017
As the supply chain industry is one of the oldest businesses, it can sometimes be viewed as stodgy. While the industry has been around for well over a century, the...

Quick Reads
Microsoft and EY Team to Promote Corporate AI Adoption

May 21, 2026
Microsoft is working with professional services network EY to help companies launch AI projects. The $1 billion partnership, announced Thursday (May 21), will see Microsoft’s Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) and EY industry professionals join forces to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. “AI is quickly moving from experimentation to a core driver of business performance, and the companies pulling ahead are […]

Coinbase Widens Access to Crypto B2B Payments

October 03, 2024
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is expanding the ways businesses can pay. PayPal paid invoices to EY using the PayPal USD (PYUSD) stablecoin deposited into EY’s Coinbase Prime account, according to a...

German Prosecutors Charge 2 Former Wirecard Executives With Embezzlement

August 06, 2024
Four years after the collapse of online payments company Wirecard, German prosecutors have reportedly charged two more of the firm’s former executives. Wirecard’s former finance chief, Alexander von Knoop, and...

German Agency Criticizes EY’s Audits of Wirecard

April 19, 2024
A German regulator has reportedly concluded that EY’s audit work and quality control regarding the now-defunct payments firm Wirecard was marked by “grave” and “repeated” violations of professional duties. The regulator, Apas,...