After years of predictions about the “death of the mall,” a new trend is turning that narrative upside down: younger consumers, especially those born around 1997 – 2012 and commonly known as Generation Z (Gen Z), are helping revive in‑person shopping hubs across the U.S. and beyond.
Corporate fintech platform Brex has launched in the ChatGPT app marketplace, making it one of the first financial apps available in OpenAI’s ecosystem. ChatGPT Enterprise users can now ask natural language questions about their spending, balances, and expense policies directly inside ChatGPT.
Bitcoin payments startup Utexo has closed a $7.5 million seed round to build production-ready infrastructure for settling USDT directly on the Bitcoin network, marking a significant push to reunite the world’s largest stablecoin with the world’s largest blockchain.
Payments and fintech company Splitit, focused on BNPL and flexible payments, recently announced that it is supporting the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI commerce championed by Google and a group of major retailers and technology partners.
Global payments and financial platform Airwallex has expanded its treasury management capabilities with a new feature for U.S. customers that allows businesses to earn yield on idle balances held within its payments infrastructure.
The trading and financial services platform Robinhood has introduced a new premium credit card plated with real platinum, marking its latest effort to expand beyond retail trading and compete in the high-end credit card market.
BitGo has been selected to provide stablecoin infrastructure and distribution support for SoFiUSD, a new U.S. dollar-pegged digital currency issued by SoFi Bank.
As the financial industry marks International Women’s Day 2026, private banks and wealth managers are increasingly focusing on one of the fastest-growing forces in global finance: female wealth. Across Asia, women are accumulating assets at a rapid pace, prompting leading institutions such as Lombard Odier, Pictet, Howden, and JPMorgan to adapt their wealth management strategies […]
The summit opened with a focus on innovative finance for nature, exploring green, blue, and wildlife bonds, including the “Rhino Bond” and emerging biodiversity credits
Cassava Technologies has unveiled two major initiatives aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud adoption across emerging markets while strengthening digital sovereignty for African governments. The company announced the launch of its new Cassava Cloud Partner (CCP) programme alongside a National Sovereign Cloud (NSC) solution designed to support secure AI-enabled public infrastructure across the […]
AI shopping vision where ChatGPT gets a direct checkout button, performing the role of an agentic gateway, faces merchant, consumer, and technical headwinds
Nexi, Europe’s leading PayTech company, unveiled its 2026–2028 strategic plan at Capital Markets Day in Milan, targeting approximately €2.4 billion in total excess cash generation over the three-year period, a proposed dividend of €350 million (€0.30 dividend per share, corresponding to ~9% dividend yield), and a return to mid-single-digit revenue growth by 2028.
The platform is built on an open-source microservices architecture with high resiliency (99.8% availability), encrypted data structure, and API interoperability
The patented proof of use (PoU) mechanism introduces a reciprocity-based approach: participants validate others’ transactions in exchange for having their own transactions validated, aligning blockchain network influence with actual participation rather than computational power or capital
As tech giants pour hundreds of billions into AI infrastructure and executives paint visions of transformation, a new wave of research reveals that most Americans remain unconvinced in their scepticism and many are quietly opting out.
Reports show the crypto payment gateway market is moving from niche tools to an operating-layer role.
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