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Banking giant J.P. Morgan Chase is reportedly considering lending against its customers’ cryptocurrency holdings.
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That’s according to a report Tuesday (July 22) from the Financial Times (FT), which calls the proposed plan the latest signal that big banks are supporting crypto’s mainstreaming.
Such a policy, the report adds, would mark a major shift for J.P. Morgan CEO...
Watch more: i2c: It Takes Capital Plus Context to Rethink SMB Lending Strategies
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When it comes to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the conversation around financial empowerment is overdue for an overhaul.
Despite accounting for over 99% of businesses in the United States, SMBs have historically been treated as an afterthought by traditional financial...
Watch more: Mid-Market Firms Gain Enterprise-Grade Treasury Tech as Finance Goes Instant
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Technology has pulled the world into a more efficient, digital future. That’s been great news for the treasury function.
In the not-so-distant past, the corporate treasury function was largely viewed as administrative — a necessary but isolated domain responsible for managing...
Software has already eaten much of the enterprise world, and now the digital revolution is coming for Main Street. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the heart and soul of commerce around the world, are ready and primed for it.
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That’s according to PYMNTS Intelligence data in the June 2025 “Payments Optimization Tracker® Series” report, “Platform Power: The...
Done right, embedded finance shifts from a buzzword to a reliable infrastructure, Ingo Payments Chief Product Officer Lisa McFarland writes in the latest PYMNTS eBook, “Halftime 2025: Charting the Future of Payments.”
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Embedded finance used to feel like a novelty — an extra button you bolted onto checkout. Six months into 2025, it’s closer to table stakes. When every...
A new report suggests that while initial cost concerns may deter merchants from adopting pay by bank, the long-term financial and operational benefits for consumer-facing businesses could be substantial, potentially surpassing the expenses of traditional payment methods.
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The pay-by-bank study, produced by PYMNTS Intelligence in collaboration with Trustly, examines U.S....
The Stargate artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project reportedly got off to a slow start.
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Six months after project was announced, the newly formed company operating the effort has not made a deal to build a data center and has shifted its goal from investing $100 billion immediately to building one data center by the end of 2025, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ...
The Brazilian government launched a social media campaign defending the country’s instant payment system, Pix, after the U.S. government said it is investigating the system as one of several alleged unfair trading practices.
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The slogan of the campaign is “PIXéNosso, My Friend” (“Pix is Ours, My Friend”), the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday (July 21).
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Every time an artificial intelligence (AI) model is introduced, the company that created it — whether Google, Anthropic, Meta, xAI or others — often points out that it has topped several AI benchmarks.
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But if everyone claims its AI model excels, benchmarks become less meaningful. So how can companies know which AI systems are the most capable and best-suited for their...
For decades, small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have been the underserved middle children of enterprise technology.
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Too small to afford robust enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and too complex for consumer-grade tools, many SMBs have had to rely on spreadsheets, manual entry and fragmented services to manage their financial operations.
But that is...