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The rising adoption of stablecoins could reportedly increase the volatility of U.S. Treasury Securities with short-term maturities.
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Some analysts say that as these dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies grow, their volatility could spread to the bills market, Reuters reported Friday (June 6).
Any disruption in the stablecoin market could trigger liquidations that could drive...
The share of venture capital (VC) investors who expect VC funding to rise over the next year has fallen by 20 percentage points over the last six months, according to PitchBook.
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The share dropped from 58% in the second half of 2024 to 38% today, the capital market intelligence platform said in its H1 VC Tech Survey released Wednesday (June 4).
In addition, the share of...
When Alex Schlesinger, founder and CEO of insurance firm Active Mutual, faced the tough reality of training sales agents without the budgets or trainers big firms could afford, he turned to something unexpected: an AI chatbot.
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“Our small business had been struggling for a while to give our agents the kind of in-depth training bigger companies can afford,” Schlesinger...
Fiserv has agreed to acquire the remaining 49.9% stake in AIB Merchant Services (AIBMS) from AIB Group, aiming to strengthen its merchant services footprint across Ireland and Europe.
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The transaction, announced June 6, will give Fiserv full ownership of AIBMS, one of Ireland’s largest payment solution providers and a top European eCommerce acquirer. Founded in 2007 as a...
Forget your plastic cards for a moment. A quiet revolution is happening in how we pay for everything from dinner to electronics, and it’s being led by the smartphone in your pocket.
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A forthcoming report from PYMNTS Intelligence, “How the World Does Digital,” the latest installment in the series, reveals that mobile wallets, like Apple Pay, PayPal and Google Pay, are...
The first few trading days of the last month of the quarter marked a muted but positive start for the FinTech IPO Index, which tacked on 0.8% through the past five days.
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Robinhood’s browser-based desktop trading platform is now available to customers in the United Kingdom. First introduced last year, Robinhood Legend is designed for active traders and is available at no...
Retailers like Amazon and Walmart don’t just battle for consumer spend in brick-and-mortar or online. They battle everywhere, all the time.
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As shoppers shift habits faster than you can say “same-day delivery” and tech upends every aisle, the winners aren’t just reacting but are increasingly predicting what customers want before they even know it themselves.
Both giants...
Despite the widespread adoption of digital technologies, merchants are finding that cross-border payment complexities continue to pose hurdles to capturing international sales opportunities.
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It’s one of the key findings from “How Payments Optimization Can Power an International Commerce Strategy,” from PYMNTS. As global eCommerce is projected to exceed $10 trillion in...
Perplexity expects to keep growing at its current pace, with gains driven by its upcoming browser and consumers’ weariness with “legacy browsers” like Google’s Chrome, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said Thursday (June 5).
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The artificial intelligence (AI) startup is handling 780 million queries per month, and that figure is growing over 20% month over month, Srinivas...
Uber Technologies is reportedly considering using stablecoins to transfer money among different countries.
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Stablecoins are appealing to global companies because they can help reduce the cost of moving money, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told Bloomberg on Thursday (June 5) in an interview conducted at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco.
“That’s super...