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Consumer Insights
5 Ways Millennials’ Cash-Flow Habits Are Shaping Payments

Millennials’ financial lives are shaping how they receive, spend and manage money, creating new…

CBDC
ECB Expands Digital Euro Efforts With Pontes Tokenization Tool

The European Central Bank is expanding its digital euro efforts with its new Pontes solution. Get…

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Artificial Intelligence
Kastle Raises $24 Million to Help Lenders Adopt Agentic AI

Kastle, an agentic AI platform for consumer lenders, has raised $24 million in new…

AI Rutgers
Artificial Intelligence
Rutgers Gives Future Doctors an AI Head Start

Watch more: Digital Shift With Rutgers’ Dr. Amy Murtha Get the Full Story Complete…

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Artificial Intelligence
Younger Cardholders Tell Issuers What Would Get Them to Use…

Issuers can invest in faster, more precise credit decisions, but those improvements alone may…

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Consumer Payments
Billing Problems Send Digital Customers Back to Support

Companies have spent years making it easier for customers to pay bills online. They…

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SMBs
Small Businesses That Track Customer Sources Report Stronger Growth

For small businesses, knowing where a customer came from appears to be nearly as…

AI supply chain
Artificial Intelligence
AI Agents Take the Controls in Supply Chains

Global supply chains have always been the operating system of the modern economy. They…

Bank Regulation
OCC Opens Three Bank Doors to Stablecoins and AI Agents

U.S. financial regulators have issued conditional approvals for three new national trust banks. Get…

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Cybersecurity
Citi CEO Says Companies Scrambling to Launch AI Cyber Defenses

Citigroup’s CEO says artificial intelligence-related security concerns have led to a wave of cyber…

OpenAI Super App
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI’s Cash Burn Could Approach $280 Billion by 2030

OpenAI has reportedly forecast that it will burn through nearly $280 billion by the…

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Artificial Intelligence
Trump Seeks New Czar to Lead ‘AI Force’

President Donald Trump says will name a new artificial intelligence czar to head an…

Polymarket
Markets
Polymarket Accused of Ignoring Fraud in Pursuit of Growth

The prediction market sector is quickly growing, and marquee player Polymarket along with it….

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Cryptocurrency
Clarity Act’s Failure Kicks Off Wave of Blame in Crypto…

The collapse of the Clarity Act has reportedly triggered a wave of finger-pointing among…

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Cybersecurity
Scammers Use Outdated Payment Tech to Steal Government Benefits

Decades-old payment technology is reportedly helping scammers steal hundreds of millions of dollars from…

Anthropic
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Mulls New AI Model Despite Investors’ Pre-IPO Worries

Anthropic is reportedly considering the launch of a new artificial intelligence model before it…

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Cross-border Payments
Saudi Arabia Exits China’s mBridge Cross-Border Payments Program

Saudi Arabia has reportedly withdrawn from China’s mBridge digital currency/cross-border payments program. Get the…

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Retail
Santa Would Like a Word With Your Pumpkin

Santa has apparently checked his calendar and decided Halloween has had quite enough time….

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