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E-Trade, the online stock trading arm of Morgan Stanley, reportedly plans to add cryptocurrency trading to its platform in the first half of 2026.
The service will initially enable E-Trade clients to trade Bitcoin, Ether and Solana, Reuters reported Tuesday (Sept. 23), citing a Morgan Stanley spokesperson.
The offering of crypto trading will be enabled by a partnership of Morgan...
Albertsons Cos. has added a travel booking experience powered by Expedia to the mobile app and website of its “for U” loyalty program.
The new “for U Travel” offers Albertsons Cos. customers the travel booking experience; member-only deals on flights, hotels, car rentals and vacation packages; and cash back to use toward grocery purchases, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 23) press...
Amazon, Google and Microsoft set out their latest moves on artificial intelligence and infrastructure in the past week, underscoring how the industry’s largest firms are positioning themselves for growth under mounting regulatory and policy scrutiny.
The announcements from the Big Tech trio come at a time when AI is advancing at a breakneck speed and governments at all levels are...
British FinTech Revolut has confirmed earlier reports of its American banking plans.
The company is “actively looking” at whether to purchase a U.S. bank or to apply for its own banking license there, Revolut’s U.S. CEO Sid Jajodia told Reuters Tuesday (Sept. 23).
He added that “being a bank in every market we operate in is critical,” particularly in the U.S. where Revolut’s business...
Financial technology firm FIS says it has turned its Private Capital Suite into a cloud-native software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution.
FIS announced this change Tuesday (Sept. 23), adding that the tool had been “upgraded into a fully front-to-back solution” by integrating the company’s recently-launched Investor Services Suite.
“At its core, the Private Capital Suite is engineered to...
Crypto and stablecoin infrastructure platform zerohash has raised $104 million in new funding.
This Series D-2 raise will help zerohash do things like speed product expansion and hire new talent, the company said in a news release Tuesday (Sept. 23).
The release notes that this round is happening amid a surge in demand for enterprise-grade on-chain infrastructure, triggered by a boom...
Visa and intella, a builder of Arabic-first artificial intelligence models for enterprise contact centers, partnered to co-develop conversational AI models for financial institutions across the Middle East and North Africa.
These solutions will support more than 25 distinct Arabic dialects, the companies said in a Tuesday (Sept. 23) press release.
The companies will use intella’s...
Mastercard launched a Global Reach Partner Program, which is designed to help its customers enter new markets.
“As the world becomes more globally connected, customers across Mastercard’s ecosystem, including banks, FinTechs, crypto players, merchants, marketplaces and digital platforms, aspire to deliver their services across multiple countries with greater agility, and without ...
Households in the United States are struggling to cover their monthly expenses.
Rent, groceries, utilities and childcare are demanding a greater share of the paycheck. In response, consumers are making deliberate choices about where and how to cut back and stretch the household dollars further.
The PYMNT Intelligence report “Why Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumers Can’t Weather a $2,000...
Nvidia, the artificial intelligence industry’s most valuable chipmaker, will commit as much as $100 billion to OpenAI beginning in 2026.
The deal ties the investment to the rollout of “at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence,” according to a Monday (...