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TikTok and parent company ByteDance have signed agreements with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX to form a new TikTok U.S. joint venture...

Financial services platform OnePay has joined Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), saying it will help make agentic payments more secure, transparent and useful....

Consumers have spent over $3 billion in OpenAI’s ChatGPT mobile app in the roughly 31 months since the app was launched. Get...

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Twenty-four organizations have either expressed interest in or are already participating in projects related...

Colgate-Palmolive is pushing enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) beyond chatbots, moving into agentic systems, internal...

OpenAI opened its ChatGPT App Directory on Wednesday (Dec. 17), which is a marketplace...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency terminated a July 2024 amendment to...

PayPal is reportedly extending the role of its stablecoin into artificial intelligence finance. Get...

Mastercard, BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are all players in a new blockchain adoption promotion effort. Get the Full...

Consumers are increasingly open to letting artificial intelligence (AI) move beyond answering questions and...

Instacart agreed to pay $60 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that...

Coinbase has become the latest financial platform to enter the prediction market game. Get the...

Cryptocurrency solutions company Ripple says it has expanded its partnership with broker-dealer TJM Investments....

Amazon Business is offering new benefits to members of its Business Prime program. Get the...

Alternative asset manager Blackstone is reportedly in talks to offer its funds through FinTech...

Cryptocurrency thefts crept up this year amid a rise in hacks from North Korea....

OpenAI announced on Wednesday (Dec. 17) the launch of OpenAI Academy for News Organizations,...

OpenAI reportedly aims to raise as much as $100 billion at a valuation of...

Among retail’s most dominant themes in 2025 was that the next era of competition...

Personal finance firm SoFi has launched SoFiUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin. Get the Full Story Complete...

Credit union service organization (CUSO) Velera appointed Todd Lane, president and CEO of California...

UPS-owned reverse logistics company Happy Returns reportedly plans to use artificial intelligence to combat...

Bitso Business’s stablecoin-powered payments platform is on track to process $82 billion in annualized...

Wall Street began the year hopeful that 2025 would usher in a wave of...

After weeks of a government shutdown, economic data continue to roll in, and the...

The story of enterprise transformation in 2025 wasn’t just about technology but about who...

Visa is on track to offer artificial intelligence-enabled commerce to consumers within months and...

OpenAI has reportedly made deep inroads with American colleges. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a default tool at work because it is delivering...

Meta’s chief AI scientist is reportedly in early talks to raise $585 million for...

Federal regulators are reportedly investigating Instacart’s artificial intelligence (AI) pricing tool. Get the Full...

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When one thinks of fast payments, manufacturing isn’t the first sector to come to...

Artificial intelligence is changing jobs faster than companies can reorganize them, and a new...

Credit unions (CUs) are entering a pivotal moment in their modernization journey. Member expectations...

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A growing number of consumers will be able to shop for groceries in OpenAI’s...

The Federal Reserve Board said Wednesday (Dec. 17) that it withdrew a 2023 policy...

Fiserv completed its acquisition of StoneCastle Cash Management and will integrate the company’s institutional deposit network...

Caroline D. Pham, acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will join crypto payments company MoonPay as...

Big Tech’s artificial intelligence (AI) push is accelerating on multiple fronts, from productivity agents...

Google launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) model called Gemini 3 Flash on Wednesday...

Predictions of a cashless world have circulated for decades, yet physical money continues to...

Mastercard and Interchecks have partnered to expand the adoption of account-to-account (A2A) payments. Get...

Amazon has formed a new organization that will bring together its artificial intelligence (AI)...

Co-branded credit card startup Imprint is now a billion-dollar company. Get the Full Story...

Digital analytics platform Contentsquare has launched a new partnership with Shopify. Get the Full...

Revenue platform Sequence has secured $20 million in new funding. Get the Full Story...

Cryptocurrency industry leaders and lobbyists are reportedly meeting with Sen. Tim Scott of South...

There’s a growing divide at the center of the digital asset universe, and it’s...

Speaking at a recent financial conference, American Express’ CEO offered a blunt opinion on surcharges....

DoorDash rolled out Zesty, an AI-powered mobile app designed not for ordering food but...

Nuvei received approval to operate under the European Union’s new regulatory framework for cryptocurrency....

The United States Postal Service (USPS) plans to make its last-mile delivery service available to shippers...

Federal prosecutors are accusing four executives from defunct subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings of...

The British government is reportedly planning sharp funding increases for areas like artificial intelligence...

Google Pay launched a digital credit card designed for everyday transactional use in India....

Marketplace optimization platform Teikametrics has debuted an artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Artificial Retail...

Fraudsters no longer break in by force alone. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Bitcoin is on pace for the fourth annual loss in the largest cryptocurrency’s history....

It may seem counterintuitive, but forward-thinking businesses spend much of their time thinking about...

Freightos founder and CEO Zvi Schreiber has decided to step down from his role...

Robinhood is expanding its fast-growing prediction market offering with a new pro football-centered feature....

It was sort of an accident. In 1927, Time magazine was chasing an interview with Charles...

Visa and cybersecurity and cloud computing company Akamai Technologies are collaborating to strengthen the...

A group of shareholders in digital bank Monzo reportedly want to reinstate its outgoing...

Amazon is reportedly in discussions to invest around $10 billion in OpenAI. Get the...

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Construction timelines depend on precision, coordination and confidence, but slow payments continue to undermine...

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An attack that begins with a trusted vendor rather than a masked hacker is...

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While many sectors use AI mainly for back-office tasks, telecommunications involve live infrastructure where...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) approved a deposit insurance application to establish Erebor...

OpenAI has hired former U.K. Treasury chief George Osborne to lead the artificial intelligence...

The United States Trade Representative (USTR) said Tuesday (Dec. 16) that the U.S. will...

Real-time money movement is rapidly moving toward always-on status. The Federal Reserve has laid...

Revolve Group, a fashion retailer for millennial and Generation Z consumers, now offers Affirm’s...

The threats snowballed in 2025. Cyberattacks stopped being episodic crises and instead became a...

Mastercard partnered with regional FinTech Ottu to expand access to local and global payment...

In its first action to implement the GENIUS Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is...

Wix has teamed with Stripe to offer more local payment options in Europe. Get...

Speed raised $8 million to accelerate the growth of its payments solutions built on...

Square has expanded its partnership with inventory management reporting system Thrive. Get the Full...

Thread Bank has raised $30.5 million to promote its embedded banking strategy. Get the...

BBVA said it has formed a strategic partnership with OpenAI to embed generative artificial...

Lending platform Slope has teamed with Amazon to offer financing to the eCommerce giant’s...

Data analytics/artificial intelligence (AI) firm Databricks is reportedly raising $4 billion in a new...

Federal government employment dropped sharply in October and continued to fall in November as...

A collection of app developers and consumer groups want Europe to enforce laws against...

Citi formed a data and analytics pact with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)....

A new regulatory report shows non-bank groups accruing more assets than their traditional banking...

Uber said Tuesday (Dec. 16) that a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that was joined...

After weeks of delay, a fresh wave of government data is finally offering a...

Livestream shopping is popular in China, but it hasn’t caught on in the United...

When it comes to cryptocurrency, the Securities and Exchange Commission is increasingly trading in...

Mastercard and LoanPro plan to launch a program that will enable lenders to deliver...

The United States government reportedly paused its technology deal with the United Kingdom. Get...

Monzo CEO TS Anil announced in October plans to hand the company over to...

Rivian Automotive unveiled a custom artificial intelligence (AI) chip and a comprehensive autonomy platform...