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This Week in B2B: Rewiring Legacy Payment Rails With Stablecoins and Automation
B2B Payments // May 01, 2025

Sleek tech is turbocharging the B2B space. And slow wires and clunky payment systems going the way of the fax machine couldn’t be happening at a better time for businesses. The global financial ecosystem is in flux, driven by a confluence of high-stakes innovation and...

Apple Faces Tariff-Related ‘Sword of Damocles’ Ahead of Earnings
Apple // April 29, 2025

Apple will likely face tough questions on tariffs and AI from investors when it reports earnings this week. That’s according to a report Tuesday (April 29) from Reuters, which says the tech giant’s investors will want to know more about the delayed launch of Apple’s artificial intelligence (AI)...

Amazon Reportedly Pushing Suppliers for Discounts to Combat Tariffs
Amazon // April 29, 2025

Amazon is reportedly looking for steep supplier discounts to offset the cost of U.S. tariffs. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Tuesday (April 29), the tech giant has asked for low double-digit price decreases from merchants in a range of categories, from homeware to consumer electronics. That’s according to...

Washington Weekly: Tariffs, Tensions and the New ‘Business as Usual’
Economy // April 28, 2025

Springtime in Washington, D.C. Cherry blossoms color the presidential monuments. Outdoor cafés in Georgetown are bustling. It’s a time when the talk of the town turns to … baby strollers. That’s right. Baby strollers. Ninety-seven percent of them are made in China and they played...

Interviews & Exclusives
Singapore Businesses Embrace Digital Wallets, Consumers Still Catching Up

April 18, 2025
Cross-border payments may sound simple, but their reality is anything but. Cracking the code for sending payments between countries, whether for individuals or businesses, has taken up much of the focus of innovation across payments for at least the past few decades. As the payments ecosystem continues to evolve, digital wallets are increasingly emerging as […]

Instant Payments Set to Boost Intra-African Trade by $5B Annually

February 01, 2022
There’s a huge economic opportunity available to grasp, but Africa will need to be able to trade with itself to tap into it. Until now, however, that has been extremely...

OpenFin’s Plans To Bridge The Financial Services Desktop App Gap

May 28, 2019
Building and deploying new apps for the financial desktops that keep Wall Street humming can be friction-filled endeavors. Traders and analysts juggle tasks across several platforms, and interoperability is elusive. Fresh...

As March Looms, Brexit Impact On Financial World Still Uncertain

November 22, 2018
Brexit is still being hammered out. Much remains to be done, and amid political wrangling, the future of what financial services will look like after the divorce between the UK...

Quick Reads
Apple Faces Tariff-Related ‘Sword of Damocles’ Ahead of Earnings

April 29, 2025
Apple will likely face tough questions on tariffs and AI from investors when it reports earnings this week. That’s according to a report Tuesday (April 29) from Reuters, which says the tech giant’s investors will want to know more about the delayed launch of Apple’s artificial intelligence (AI) features, and the impact of the U.S.-China trade war on […]

Amazon Reportedly Pushing Suppliers for Discounts to Combat Tariffs

April 29, 2025
Amazon is reportedly looking for steep supplier discounts to offset the cost of U.S. tariffs. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Tuesday (April 29), the tech giant has asked for low double-digit price decreases...

Gadget-Makers Warn ‘There Will Be No Christmas’ if Tariffs Persist

April 27, 2025
Big tech companies may be able to weather America’s tariffs on Chinese goods. Small tech companies, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday (April 27), may not be as lucky....

Apple Aims to Mitigate Tariffs by Sourcing All US-Bound iPhones From India

April 25, 2025
Apple has reportedly accelerated its plan to source all its iPhones for the U.S. from India, in response to new U.S. tariffs. While the company previously planned to increasingly prioritize...