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Your Business Has Its Payments Data. Now What?
Your Business Has Its Payments Data. Now What?
March 13, 2025  |  B2B Payments

A company’s transactions aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet. Those numbers, it turns out, can be kernels of actionable intelligence. In today’s digital operating landscape,...

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Visa to Add Tokenization and Digital Wallet Capabilities to Fleet Cards
Visa to Add Tokenization and Digital Wallet Capabilities to Fleet Cards
March 13, 2025  |  B2B Payments

Visa will soon add tokenization and custom provisioning for mobile transactions to its Fleet cards, enabling issuers and FinTechs to integrate encrypted and tokenized card...

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How Web3 Can Raise Customer Engagement in Rewards Programs
How Web3 Can Raise Customer Engagement in Rewards Programs
March 13, 2025  |  Loyalty & Rewards

Most consumers are members of loyalty or rewards programs, whether for supermarkets, hotels, airlines, car rental companies, retailers or coffee shops. But these businesses, after...

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Dollar General: Customers Can Only Afford ‘Basic Necessities’
Dollar General: Customers Can Only Afford ‘Basic Necessities’
March 13, 2025  |  Earnings

Dollar General is expecting its customers to face deteriorating financial conditions this year. “Our customers continue to report that their financial situation has worsened over...

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Jobless Claims Decline by 2,000 as Labor Market Remains Resilient
Jobless Claims Decline by 2,000 as Labor Market Remains Resilient
March 13, 2025  |  Economy

Jobless claims were little changed last week, dropping by 2,000, with analysts saying the labor market remains resilient. During the week ended Saturday (March 8),...

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Blackwall Raises $49 Million to Battle AI-Powered Bots
Blackwall Raises $49 Million to Battle AI-Powered Bots
March 13, 2025  |  Investments

Estonia-based cybersecurity firm Blackwall raised 45 million euros (about $49 million) in new funding. The financing round will let Blackwall — which rebranded from BotGuard...

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SoFi Lands $5 Billion to Expand Loan Platform Business
SoFi Lands $5 Billion to Expand Loan Platform Business
March 13, 2025  |  Investments

SoFi has finalized an agreement with Blue Owl Capital worth at least $5 billion. The deal with the asset manager, announced Thursday (March 13), will...

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Wave of FinTech Dealmaking Spotlights Appeal of Embedded Finance
Wave of FinTech Dealmaking Spotlights Appeal of Embedded Finance
March 13, 2025  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Within the FinTech space, a surge in dealmaking over the past few months is taking shape as macro factors set the stage for mergers, acquisitions...

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MoonPay Acquires Iron to Add Enterprise-Grade Stablecoin Solutions
MoonPay Acquires Iron to Add Enterprise-Grade Stablecoin Solutions
March 13, 2025  |  Acquisitions

Crypto payments company MoonPay said Thursday (March 13) that it expanded its enterprise offerings by acquiring API-first stablecoin infrastructure platform Iron. Iron’s application programming interfaces (APIs) provide solutions...

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