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Longevity Rewrites the Economics of Inheritance
What's Trending // January 13, 2026

AI-driven longevity is redefining aging, with longer, healthier lives fueling more spending later in life. The result: inheritance happens later and looks very different.

Consumers Pay the Price as State Regulation Fractures FinTech Scale
What's Trending // January 13, 2026

The CFPB’s decision to dial down enforcement of BNPL and other nonbank credit products hasn’t created a vacuum. It has invited fifty competing rulebooks to take its place.

Legacy Business Models Break
What's Trending // January 12, 2026

“Your margin is my opportunity” was Jeff Bezos’s way of describing Amazon’s hunger for bloated profit pools. In 2026, the real question isn’t whether margins get attacked, but who gets to turn whose margin into whose opportunity as consumers, enterprises and their agents decide how...

AI Doers Drown Out AI Naysayers
What's Trending // January 12, 2026

By the end of 2025, the conversation around autonomous AI changed in a way that had little to do with public debate and everything to do with use. In 2026, that shift makes the argument about AI hype largely irrelevant.

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Longevity Rewrites the Economics of Inheritance

January 13, 2026
AI-driven longevity is redefining aging, with longer, healthier lives fueling more spending later in life. The result: inheritance happens later and looks very different.

Legacy Business Models Break

January 12, 2026
“Your margin is my opportunity” was Jeff Bezos’s way of describing Amazon’s hunger for bloated profit pools. In 2026, the real question isn’t whether margins get attacked, but who gets...

Online Finally Breaks Brick and Mortar

January 09, 2026
In 2026, online and digitally-influenced retail finally surpasses brick-and-mortar sales in the categories that matter most to modern retail. This moment has been years in the making, obscured less by...

Building A Responsible AI Roadmap

May 17, 2018
FIs are turning to artificial intelligence to make more financial decisions than ever before, from deciding who gets (or doesn’t get) a loan to helping customers make smarter financial choices....

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R3 Raises $107M To Expand Partnerships

June 12, 2017
The R3 consortium, the distributed ledger technology group, has raised $107 million from roughly half of its members, marking the largest funding round for the technology. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily […]

Medical Tourism Explodes For Wealthy Chinese Patients

May 30, 2017
While healthcare availability is a topic of great debate in the United States, the quality of healthcare on offer is generally not. So when Chinese citizen Guo Shushi’s stomach cancer...

First Data To Buy CardConnect For $750M

May 30, 2017
As of yesterday, First Data has officially agreed to acquire rival payment processor CardConnect for around $750 million.  The deal will reportedly be covered mostly in cash — and will include...

GOP Just Says No To Debit-Card Fee Hike

May 26, 2017
Retailers — led by Walmart — seem to have beaten back an attempt to raise swipe fees, according to Congressional aides speaking to Bloomberg.  Get the Full Story Complete the...