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Snowflake and OpenAI Expand Partnership to Bring AI Into Enterprise Data

February 02, 2026
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Fifth Third and Comerica Merger Scales Digital Competition Across Regional Banking
Banking // February 02, 2026

The merger between Fifth Third Bancorp and Comerica Incorporated closed Monday (Feb. 2), forging an institution with roughly $294 billion in assets and signaling a reshaping how regional banks compete across mobile banking, commercial payments and middle-market services. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Digital Asset Investment Products Have Seen $1B in Net Outflow in 2026
Cryptocurrency // February 02, 2026

Digital asset investment products recorded a second consecutive week of outflows during the week ended Friday (Jan. 30), leaving year-to-date flows at a global outflow of $1 billion, James Butterfill, head of research at asset manager CoinShares, wrote in a Monday (Feb. 2) blog post....

QuickBooks Payments to Integrate Affirm’s Flexible Payment Options
Buy Now Pay Later // February 02, 2026

QuickBooks will soon enable small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United States to offer their customers flexible payment options from Affirm. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

Why CFOs Are Letting AI Agents Touch Their Cash — Carefully
artificial intelligence // February 02, 2026

Corporate treasury is a game of anticipation. Teams forecast inflows and outflows, monitor balances and decide when to move idle cash into short-term yield or pull it back for operations. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

Interviews & Exclusives
How Virtual Power Plants Teach Utility Grids to Manage Themselves

February 02, 2026
The modern power grid works so well that most people never think about it. At least until it doesn’t. Lights turn on instantly, homes stay cool during heat waves and electric vehicles charge overnight, as if electricity were infinite. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access […]

Google Trains AI Agents for Hard Questions and Real Work

February 02, 2026
The Prompt Economy is all about promise and execution. The promise is easy to see in all the announcements from companies like Visa, Mastercard, Google and others that continue to...

Mobile Wallet Usage Soars, Even as Apple Pay Leaves Spend on the Table

February 02, 2026
Apple Pay usage has doubled in physical stores over the past year, yet the mobile wallet still processes only 1 in 10 eligible transactions and faces intensifying competition from rivals...

America’s Workers Got Left Behind in the FinTech Boom

February 02, 2026
American workers drive spending, and rely on timely payments, Ingo Payments CEO Drew Edwards writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off.” Get the Full...

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Snowflake and OpenAI Expand Partnership to Bring AI Into Enterprise Data

February 02, 2026
Snowflake and OpenAI have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership aimed at embedding artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into Snowflake’s data platform, as enterprises push to move AI from experimentation into production. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins […]

Digital Asset Investment Products Have Seen $1B in Net Outflow in 2026

February 02, 2026
Digital asset investment products recorded a second consecutive week of outflows during the week ended Friday (Jan. 30), leaving year-to-date flows at a global outflow of $1 billion, James Butterfill,...

QuickBooks Payments to Integrate Affirm’s Flexible Payment Options

February 02, 2026
QuickBooks will soon enable small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United States to offer their customers flexible payment options from Affirm. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Alibaba Raises Stakes in China’s Chatbot War Ahead of Lunar New Year

February 02, 2026
China-based Alibaba plans to spend 3 billion yuan (about $432 million) during the Lunar New Year holiday to promote its Qwen artificial intelligence app, Reuters reported Monday (Feb. 2). Get...