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2025 Turned Uncertainty From Surprise Into Strategy
2025 Turned Uncertainty From Surprise Into Strategy
December 24, 2025  |  Economy

By year-end, one conclusion from PYMNTS Intelligence’s The Certainty Project series is hard to miss: Uncertainty rarely arrives as a single shock. Get the Full...

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Payments Leaders Get Candid: The Boundaries That Defined 2025
Payments Leaders Get Candid: The Boundaries That Defined 2025
December 24, 2025  |  Payments Innovation

If 2025 felt like the year the future stopped “arriving” and started showing up in production, you are not imagining it. In payments and commerce,...

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Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
December 24, 2025  |  Fraud Attack

The holiday shopping period compresses weeks of spending into days, multiplies the number of online interactions, and makes consumers and companies vulnerable to fraudsters. Get...

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Crypto Loses the Hype but Wins the Banks
Crypto Loses the Hype but Wins the Banks
December 24, 2025  |  Cryptocurrency

For cryptocurrency markets, 2025 was a year that went full circle. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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Retail Closes the Holiday Season Leaner and More Focused
Retail Closes the Holiday Season Leaner and More Focused
December 24, 2025  |  Retail

Retail in 2025 was defined less by a single breakthrough than by a set of pressures that forced retailers to get practical. Consumers kept shopping....

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FINRA Flags Gaps in Oversight as Gen AI Expands Across Financial Operations
FINRA Flags Gaps in Oversight as Gen AI Expands Across Financial Operations
December 23, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) reported that member firms’ use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is outpacing the controls, documentation and supervisory frameworks needed...

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SEC Says Cryptocurrency Scam Took $14 Million From Retail Investors
SEC Says Cryptocurrency Scam Took $14 Million From Retail Investors
December 23, 2025  |  Cryptocurrency

An investment scam allegedly took $14 million from retail investors by connecting with them on social media and convincing them to fund accounts on fake...

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Big Tech Moves Toward Specialized AI and Immersive Retail
Big Tech Moves Toward Specialized AI and Immersive Retail
December 23, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

From new multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) models to immersive storytelling spaces and agent-driven enterprise tools, Big Tech’s latest moves show AI becoming the connective tissue...

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Edge AI Emerges as Critical Infrastructure for Real-Time Finance
Edge AI Emerges as Critical Infrastructure for Real-Time Finance
December 23, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

The financial sector’s honeymoon phase with centralized, cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) is meeting a hard reality: The speed of a fiber-optic cable isn’t always fast...

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