October 31, 2024
TruckPay CEO: Trash Sector Cashes In on Digital Payments
Trash — often dismissed as a gritty, behind-the-scenes operation — is going digital. It is arriving in good company. Traditionally, waste management involved cash-heavy transactions. Independent truckers and small business...
October 30, 2024
ABBYY Rolls Out AI Center to Boost Business Automation
ABBYY is introducing new capabilities for artificial intelligence to help companies bolster automation. The offerings include Phoenix, a “multi-modal approach to zero-shot learning leveraging small language models” designed for document...
October 30, 2024
Fixing the Fix: Updating Policy on Merger Remedies
Remedies are a critical part of merger enforcement and policy. Despite this, current policy on merger remedies lacks coherence and certain features work against the broader goal of vigorous merger...
October 30, 2024
Gone in 60 Seconds: The Metals Market Moves Online
Industrial sectors have been feeling the weight of a slow-moving, high-friction procurement process for decades. Endless supplier coordination, manual paperwork, lengthy wait times, and the countless resources spent sunk in back-and-forths...
October 29, 2024
How B2B Firms Can Capitalize on the $7 Billion Embedded...
There’s a multitrillion-dollar opportunity that’s rewriting the B2B playbook, and it starts with two words: embedded finance. The consumer payments buzzword is steadily making headway into the B2B space, and...
October 28, 2024
From Banking to Binge-Watching: How AI Spots the Unseen
Machine learning algorithms scan millions of transactions in banks’ fraud detection centers, flagging suspicious patterns human analysts might miss. Similar mathematical models help Netflix predict which shows subscribers want to...
October 27, 2024
Tiny AI Models Could Give Retailers Big Cost Edge
Companies from corner stores to retail giants are discovering that pocket-sized artificial intelligence (AI) can ring up big savings, as nimble new language models match their hulking predecessors at a...
October 25, 2024
Forget Cyber Monday: Evolving Habits Reshape Holiday Spending
As the holiday season approaches, consumer shopping habits are shifting to earlier purchases and retailers are scrambling to get ready for what may be a blockbuster fourth quarter. As consumer...
October 25, 2024
Embedded Finance Finds New Use Cases From Gig Economy to...
As we head into the fourth quarter of arguably the most innovative year in payments since the pandemic, the liberation of capital is emerging as the story of the year....