The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has given conditional approval to World Liberty Trust Co., clearing the way for the Trump family-linked crypto venture to operate as a national trust bank. The decision lets World Liberty Financial (WLF) bring management of its USD1 stablecoin in-house. For now, the company relies on third-party […]
Two major M&A deals this week show how deeply artificial intelligence (AI) and payments are becoming intertwined. Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter, an innovative tech marketplace that lets people access hundreds of AI models through one gateway, for more than $7 billion. Meanwhile, Anthropic is in early talks to acquire Decart, an Israeli startup […]
Three different regions made their movements this month to reduce dependence on the two global companies that process most of the world’s card payments. On the surface, they may look unrelated, but together, a pattern emerges where governments and central banks build various types of alternative payment rails instead of relying on Visa and Mastercard.
Knot, a merchant-connectivity platform that lets people move saved payment details between apps and websites, announced a partnership with Venmo on August 12. The deal lets Venmo users set the PayPal-associated platform as their default saved payment method at merchants they already shop with, without typing in card details each time.
New survey data shows Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) is becoming a routine part of predictable, recurring shopping for American households, and almost half of US consumers will use it to make the annual back-to-school purchases possible.
Nvidia, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Microsoft, IBM, Hugging Face, Databricks, Salesforce, SpaceXAI, and hundred more tech firms are supporting the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA) SAFE Framework aimed at standardizing reporting for cases when AI agent or an automated system makes unauthorized, unintended or otherwise unsafe actions.
Artificial intelligence has moved beyond being an emerging technology to become a defining pillar of Malaysia’s economic and digital ambitions. As the country accelerates investments in AI infrastructure, sovereign cloud capabilities, and enterprise-wide transformation, the focus has shifted from experimentation to execution. Against this backdrop, World AI Show Malaysia returns for its 48th Global Edition […]
Artificial intelligence in its physical form is starting to enter the hospital floor. A growing number of health systems and technology vendors are testing machines that combine AI decision-making with physical action. This category is increasingly called “physical AI” to be distinguished from, say, generative AI tools that only generate textual recommendations.
More young shoppers are paying with their phones instead of physical cards, but new research suggests the shift is driven not only by convenience but also by tight budgets.
NOBO Finance, Dun & Bradstreet and Polygon Labs have been selected to take part in Phase 2 of the Bank of England’s Digital Pound Lab. The programme is a sandbox where the central bank and outside companies test, with no real money involved, whether a digital pound could work alongside other forms of digital money, […]
Coinbase has received regulatory approval in Abu Dhabi to offer tokenized securities, a step that lets the crypto exchange bring traditional stocks onto the blockchain outside the United States.
Around 70% millennials continue to live paycheck to paycheck, according to new August 2026 research from PYMNTS Intelligence. The finding is spectacular and not simply because of the size of this generation group. A vigilant industry observer must notice that the same consumers are increasingly using instant payouts, buy now, pay later services and AI […]
MVB Bank has entered a multi-year agreement with Bretton AI to use AI-supported operations for anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring and know-your-customer (KYC) compliance as its fintech business expands.
P2P blockchain network Ravencoin is facing a serious test of transaction finality after a critical flaw affected its blockchain. Two mining pools controlling most of the network’s hashpower are rebuilding the chain from before the first invalid block, potentially putting around four days of transactions at risk of reversal.
Financial markets are heading into one of the week’s most important economic releases with oil prices adding another layer of uncertainty. The U.S. Consumer Price Index for July is due today, while producer-price data follows on August 13. Economists surveyed by Reuters expect headline CPI to rise 3.4% from a year earlier.
Google’s latest update to Maps brings agentic food ordering into its Ask Maps experience. Toast and Square are among the first services supporting orders.
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