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Pay-later network Klarna has launched a partnership with gift platform Nift.
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This arrangement, the two companies announced Thursday (June 12), is designed to enhance Klarna’s customer experience through gift offers from Nift.
“Under the partnership, Klarna is increasing brand sentiment and customer loyalty with personally tailored gifts that customers can use toward...
U.S. Bank says its Elan Financial Services has launched a partnership with Fiserv.
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The collaboration, announced Thursday (June 12), will integrate Elan’s credit card program with Fiserv’s Credit Choice solution.
As the companies noted in the news release, Credit Choice lets financial institutions provide a “digital-first, branded agent-bank credit card program” for...
Citigroup and Carlyle Group have reportedly joined forces to fund FinTech companies.
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As Bloomberg News reported Thursday (June 12), the companies have signed an agreement that lets them jointly invest in growing companies and the assets those companies originate, like consumer loans.
The report noted that private credit outfits have been seeking ways to carve out a...
Conveyor raised $20 million in a Series B funding round to expand the availability of its artificial intelligence agents that are designed to accelerate the B2B sales process by automating security reviews and requests for proposals (RFPs).
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The company will use the new funding to scale its AI research and engineering teams, expand its go-to-market initiatives and pursue...
The everything consumer requires an everything retailer, and that’s the pole position that retail giants Amazon and Walmart have been battling for over the past two decades.
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The rivalry between Amazon and Walmart is no longer just about who sells more. It’s about who builds the more intelligent, responsive and interconnected ecosystem. Once purely retail competitors,...
Blockchain firm Ripple launched a partnership with newly-public stablecoin issuer Circle.
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The collaboration brings Circle’s USDC stablecoin to Ripple’s XRP Ledger (XRPL) blockchain, according to a Thursday (June 12) press release.
“Stablecoins are key entry points connecting traditional financial markets with the crypto space — essential for use cases focused on utility...
Online billing/payments service firm InvoiceCloud has debuted a new reporting tool.
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The company’s AI Report Generator, announced Thursday (June 12) is designed to offer utility, government and insurance billers real-time reporting using natural language processing.
“Creating reports on overdue invoices or payment behaviors has historically required manually building...
Chase has launched a new online shopping experience that lets its cardholders pay with points, their card or both.
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Dubbed “The Shops at Chase,” this platform also offers cardholders exclusive promotions and a seamless shopping experience in which their shipping information is pre-filled, the bank said in a Wednesday (June 11) press release.
The platform is now available...
European regulators say they will hold off on imposing new banking rules until 2027.
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The delay, announced by the European Commission (EC) Wednesday (June 11), revolves around a regulation known as the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB).
As the EC explained in a news release, this rule “aims to introduce more sophisticated risk measurement techniques, allowing...
Mattel reportedly teamed with OpenAI to weave artificial intelligence into its products.
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The toymaker, whose brands include Barbie and Hot Wheels, signed a deal to use OpenAI’s tools and could create digital assistants based on Mattel characters, Bloomberg reported Thursday (June 12).
The technology could also be used to make products like the Magic 8 Ball or the card...