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Watch more: Trustly: Growth of AI Agents Will Put Corporate Controls to the Test
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The technology sector’s famous phrase, “Move fast and break things,” just got a shot in the arm with the advent of autonomous artificial intelligence agents.
“This isn’t a technical upgrade; it’s a governance revolution,” Trustly Chief Legal and Compliance Officer Kathryn McCall told PYMNTS...
Jeff Bezos is getting married this weekend. The Amazon founder has spared no expense, reportedly buying out much of the luxury accommodations in Venice, Italy, for his wedding to Lauren Sanchez.
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But while the tech billionaire’s splashy nuptials have captured the pop culture headlines, business news this week reveals that Amazon and Walmart continue to do battle over the...
Financial institutions are rapidly abandoning the notion of picking a single lane in the real-time payments highway, instead opting for a dual-track approach to meet evolving consumer and business demands.
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A recent report titled “Real-Time Payments Drive Demand for Multi-Rail Strategy” reveals a shift in the U.S. financial landscape: banks are embracing a multi-rail...
Watch more: Boost: Agentic AI Helps Execute B2B Payments at Machine Speed
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Agentic artificial intelligence (AI), a class of autonomous systems empowered by advanced large language models (LLMs) and decision-making frameworks, is reshaping the backbones of B2B commerce.
“Agentic AI is showing promise across the entire customer life cycle,” Boost Payment Solutions Chief...
June’s winding to its last few days of trading. Earnings season will begin in earnest in the next few weeks.
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Through the past week, the FinTech IPO Index gained 1.4%, buoyed by platforms and partnerships, and announcements that were focused on crypto, too.
Expensify, up 10.8%, said this past week that it has expanded international support across its platform. The launch...
Consider the stress of middle-market companies like retailer Warby Parker, which sources a lot of its eyewear from China, one of America’s largest trading partners and a major focus of the United States’ global trade war. U.S. tariffs on nearly all foreign countries are making the eyeglasses it sells online and in more than 300 brick-and-mortar stores across the country more expensive, a...
Niural has raised $31 million in a Series A funding round to expand the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and accelerate the global expansion of its AI-native professional employment organization (PEO) platform.
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The company’s platform manages payroll, global compliance and payment operations, Niural said in a Thursday (June 26) press release. It is expanding to...
Crafts retailer Michaels reportedly saw a 2.3% increase in same-store sales in the quarter ended May 1.
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In a private report to its debtholders, the company attributed the increase in part to the business it gained from customers who had previously gone to stores closed by retailers Party City and Joann, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Thursday (June 26), citing...
Meta is reportedly in talks to acquire voice artificial intelligence (AI) platform PlayAI.
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The companies are in advanced talks on a deal in which Meta would acquire PlayAI’s technology and some of its employees, Bloomberg reported Thursday (June 26), citing unnamed sources.
The deal has not been finalized, and its provisions could change, according to the report....
The Senate parliamentarian has reportedly raised further questions about a provision in the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that would ban states from making rules about artificial intelligence (AI), after initially approving the provision over the weekend.
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The parliamentarian advised Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz to rewrite the provision, saying that in its current form, it...