Tag: finance | BizAndTech Newswire

finance

A White House Tweet Exposed the Real Risk in the CLARITY Act
The CLARITY Act debate has largely revolved around the tug-of-war between banks and crypto firms over stablecoin yield. While that conflict dominates coverage of what is framed as a market-structure b...

Bessent Proposes Unlimited Insurance for Business Checking Accounts
The House Financial Services Committee convened Wednesday (Feb. 4) for a marathon session on financial sector stability lasting roughly five hours, characterized by sharp ideological divides and proce...

EnFi’s $15 Million Fundraise Pushes Agentic AI Into Bank Credit Decisions
EnFi has raised $15 million to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that analyze and make credit decisions at banks, Reuters reported Wednesday (Feb. 4). The move comes as ...

Wall Street Is Eyeing a CME Coin, and It Could Matter More Than Stablecoins
Wall Street’s most powerful derivatives exchange is exploring its own crypto-style token, and the implications go far beyond another institutional experiment. According to reports, CME Group CEO ...

Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies
Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more accur...

Bitcoin bear market ends when 3 signals flip, and one is already starting to twitch
Julio Moreno, head of research at CryptoQuant, recently declared that Bitcoin is in a bear market that could extend through the third quarter of 2026. He's not alone. Matt Hougan at Bitwise and a grow...

Coinbase Launches Prediction Market Platform Across All 50 U.S. States
Coinbase has officially entered the fast-growing prediction market space with the launch of Coinbase Predict, a new platform that allows users to trade on real-world outcomes spanning sports, politics...

Y Combinator’s Stablecoin Funding Move Gives Blueprint for Enterprise Crypto Finance
Adding crypto into the finance stack has traditionally had the flair of a younger business. On Tuesday (Feb. 3), the startup incubator Y Combinator (YC) codified that impression, announcing...

Equifax Says AI Tools Help Drive New Product Innovation to Record High
Equifax used its cloud and artificial intelligence resources to help drive innovation and efficiencies across its operations in 2025, Equifax CEO Mark Begor said Wednesday (Feb. 4) during a fourth-qua...

Embedded Payments Give SaaS a Lifeline as AI Reshapes Workflows
Software as a service once promised a steady rhythm of recurring subscriptions, predictable upgrades and incremental productivity gains. That rhythm has been thrown off kilter as artificial...

B&T Television

finance

May