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Boosted.ai has debuted the newest version of its agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform Alfa.
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“Alfa is the culmination of everything we’ve learned about how asset managers want to work with AI,” Joshua Pantony, chief executive of the investment research firm, said in a news release Monday (July 7).
“It’s fast, powerful, and most importantly, it’s agentic. That...
Freightos and Seko Logistics are expanding their partnership to improve the speed and accuracy of multimodal shipments worldwide.
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Seko is scaling its use of Freightos’ 7LFreight and WebCargo forwarder solutions, the companies said in a Monday (July 7) news release, unifying air and ground rate management and booking across Seko’s international network.
The expanded...
In artificial intelligence, the trend du jour is AI agents, or algorithmic bots that can autonomously retrieve data and act on it.
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But how are AI agents different from AI chatbots, and why should businesses care?
Understanding how they differ can help businesses choose the right solution for the right job and avoid underusing or overcomplicating their AI investments.
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For several FinTechs, in the move to broaden scale and scope to a nationwide level, all roads lead to the Fed.
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As has been reported in recent days, FinTechs including Wise, Ripple and Circle have applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for national trust bank charters.
In doing so, should the applications be approved, the charters would allow...
When bitcoin first appeared in 2009, it was heralded as a decentralized, peer-to-peer alternative to traditional finance.
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However, in the industry’s early days, before most businesses had even heard the term “cryptocurrency,” the first scams were already unfolding.
Fast forward to today, and crypto-related fraud has evolved into a multibillion-dollar global phenomenon....
Apple has appealed what it calls an “unlawful” $580 million fine from the European Union.
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“We believe the European Commission’s decision — and their unprecedented fine — go far beyond what the law requires,” the tech giant said in a statement on Monday, per a report by Bloomberg News.
“As our appeal will show, the EC is mandating how we run our store and forcing...
Mastercard has teamed with self-service payment portal Pay4You on a spend management solution for European companies.
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The collaboration, announced Monday (July 7), employs Mastercard’s Virtual Card Network (VCN) technology, and is designed to guarantee card acceptance, giving corporations a better way to manage their tail spend.
“Tail spend refers to the portion of a...
A group of Belgian banks have signed onto Europe’s digital wallet project Wero.
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Argenta, Bank Van Breda, Beobank, Crelan, and vdk bank are all planning to begin offering the digital wallet and instant account-to-account (A2A) payment solution starting next year, the European Payments Initiative (EPI) announced Sunday (July 6).
“Wero is about Europe, and it starts with...
Revolut is still reportedly waiting for permission to offer credit services in the U.K.
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That’s according to a report Monday (July 7) by the Financial Times (FT), which notes that this is the latest in a series of roadblocks on the company’s journey to become a full-service bank in its home country of Great Britain.
Sources told the FT that Revolut is still waiting for...
Initial public offerings (IPO) funding in the London market has reportedly reached a 30-year low.
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The five listings on the British market in the first half of the year took in 160 million pounds, the Financial Times (FT) reported Friday (July 4). That’s the lowest six-month level in Dealogic data dating back to 1995.
According to the report, this total represents a 98...