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Online broker Robinhood wants to let everyday investors put funds into private AI companies.
In an interview with the Financial Times (FT) published Monday (Nov. 10), CEO Vlad Tenev said he was interested in offering “normal people” a chance to invest in fast growing artificial intelligence firms, and less worried about a possible industry bubble.
AI is going to lead to “widescale...
Kamran Ansari has lived through nearly every major turn in FinTech, from the first digital wallets and mobile payments to the rise (and recalibration) of billion-dollar disruptors. With nearly 100 investments behind him, including early stakes in Venmo, Braintree, Facebook and Robinhood, he has seen what separates fleeting hype from lasting impact.
Now, as an operating partner at...
“Financial Scams and Consumer Trust,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report commissioned by Block, examines how the rise of digital scams is undermining the confidence powering everyday banking, commerce and payments. Drawing on a survey of 15,110 United States consumers conducted from Sept. 9, 2025, to Sept. 22, 2025, the report reveals how fraud has evolved from a personal nuisance to a systemic trust...
Fitness, it turns out, is an inside job when it comes to the PYMNTS App provider rankings for the category. Because it wasn’t the usual suspects that made the biggest jumps for the month of October. It was a meditation app.
More specifically, it was Headspace. It posted a six point gain to add to its excellent total score of 76. The PYMNTS.com Fitness Apps page offers a monthly ranking...
For years, embedded finance was shorthand for retail convenience. It included buy now, pay later buttons, one-click checkouts and rideshare wallets.
This year marks a turning point, however. The same technology stack that made consumer payments invisible is now redrawing how businesses fund, transact and grow.
Embedded B2B finance isn’t just about convenience; it’s about control.
As...
Behind almost every great innovation is a story of time.
Maybe an innovation saved a lot of our time. Or it made us live longer. Made us more productive workers who could command a higher premium on our time. Or enabled us to pack more things into the limited time we have. Some innovations have done most of the above.
Innovations in time have massively improved and extended our...
The CE 100 Index slipped 3.5%, in a week governed by earnings reports. Only the Banking segment and the Be Well pillar, both up 0.5%, were in the green.
Call it a “buy the rumor, sell the news wave,” where runups into quarterly announcements and even strong results from a variety of firms nonetheless led to sell-offs. The tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 3.3%. In large part, names with...
The Prompt Economy was generous this week. Instead of the recent deluge of instructions and advice for developers, we saw some more practical applications for digital media and retail as agentic artificial intelligence (AI) continues to become a real factor for the end of the year.
One of the more interesting use cases came in the area of SEO and digital media. Search is moving from a...
The uncertainty surrounding the shutdown has left millions of Americans unsure how they’ll restock their pantries. Food insecurity spikes when government benefits stall, and for millions of households, SNAP dollars are the difference between an empty fridge and a family meal.
That’s the gap Gopuff CEO Yakir Gola says his company is stepping in to fill.
Building on a Foundation of...
A leading Federal Reserve official warns that problems of poorer Americans could threaten economic growth.
In an interview Saturday (Nov. 8) with the Financial Times (FT), New York Fed President John Williams says data and conversations with community leaders spotlighted the affordability crisis facing many poorer households.
“There is quite a bit of evidence … that lower and moderate-...