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Financial and retail technology solutions company Diebold Nixdorf has debuted new services for bank branches.
The company’s new Branch Automation Solutions portfolio, announced Monday (Aug. 25), is designed to help financial institutions (FIs) improve efficiency in their physical channels, while addressing customers who are seeking an omnichannel banking experience.
This offering...
Features enhancing reliability, tools for restaurants and expanded financial access are on Square’s product roadmap.
The business technology platform highlighted these upcoming offerings in a Monday (Aug. 25) article announcing that it has made its product roadmap public.
Willem Avé, global head of product at Square, wrote in the article that the company did so to increase transparency...
Agentic artificial intelligence is embedding itself into everyday shopping and enterprise workflows, turning simple prompts into fully executed tasks and streamlining online interactions that improve customer-facing and supply chain interactions.
The promise that beckons is hands-off commerce, whether you’re a consumer or business, but the reality remains mixed. In B2C, retailers are...
Late-stage delinquency rates increased across all credit scores in July, compared to a year earlier, with the greatest percentage increases seen among the highest credit tiers, according to VantageScore.
The credit scoring company said in a Monday (Aug. 25) press release that the rate among consumers with a credit score between 661 and 780 increased 47% year over year, while that among...
Text-to-pay platform Authvia has integrated Visa’s real-time money movement capabilities into its core offering.
The collaboration with Visa Direct, announced in a Monday (Aug. 25) news release, allows for real-time disbursements across industries such as healthcare, automotive services, insurance and gig economy platforms with a single text message.
“Whether it’s sending a co-pay...
The lines between the gamification of money and the monetization of gaming are increasingly blurring.
At the heart of this blurring lies a fundamental tension: Are sports prediction markets better viewed as financial investments, e.g. derivatives regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC), or as gambling needing state-level regulation?
Last week, Robinhood, the...
Elon Musk-owned companies X and xAI reportedly sued Apple and OpenAI, alleging that they operate an “anticompetitive scheme” in which Apple favors OpenAI and deprioritizes the artificial intelligence startup’s competitors in its App Store rankings.
The lawsuit also alleges that Apple favors OpenAI by integrating that company’s chatbot, ChatGPT, into Apple products, CNBC reported Monday...
Flexible payments firm Klarna has brought its payment solution to Walmart Canada.
The roll-out, announced Monday (Aug. 25), makes Walmart Canada and its 400-plus stores the largest retailer in that country to host Klarna’s flexible payment offerings.
“We’re always looking for innovative ways to enhance the shopping experience and provide more flexibility and convenience for our...
Marketers have been working for years to refine their search engine optimization (SEO) strategies to ensure their company websites are visible in search results. But search powered by artificial intelligence (AI) risks making SEO all but obsolete.
That’s because when a user does a search, AI-powered engines such as Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT or Perplexity answer the question...
DHL is teaming with Shopify to expand international shipping for U.S.-based merchants.
The collaboration, announced Monday (Aug. 25), lets Shopify merchants access DHL eCommerce’s Parcel International Direct and Parcel International Standard services, and DHL Express Worldwide.
This arrangement, the company said in a news release, is designed to provide “reliable and cost-effective...