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The New York Stock Exchange is reportedly creating a venue for round-the-clock tokenized stock trading.
The exchange (NYSE) plans to combine its technology that matches sellers and buyers with private blockchain networks, to allow for the trading of tokenized securities in real-time, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Jan. 19), citing comments from executives. Launch of this new platform...
In 2024, Andreessen Horowitz set up a $1.25 billion fund for AI infrastructure projects.
Now, the venture capital firm is committing an additional $1.7 billion to that effort in a bet against fears of an artificial intelligence bubble, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Jan. 19).
For Andreessen Horowitz — or a16z, to use its finance world nickname — “infrastructure” means any AI software...
Revolut has added Peru as the next stop in its ongoing Latin American expansion effort.
The U.K. FinTech announced Monday (Jan. 19) that it has applied for a full banking license in the South American country and named Julien Labrot—a veteran of the banking industry in Chile—as CEO of Revolut Peru to oversee local operations.
“This move underscores Revolut’s commitment to building a...
Mastercard and Moneythor have partnered to add personalized experiences to First Abu Dhabi Bank’s (FAB’s) digital channels.
This collaboration will provide the bank with Mastercard’s payments innovation experience and Moneythor’s enrichment and personalization technology, the companies said in a Monday (Jan. 19) press release.
The combination will help FAB’s customers better understand...
The specter of a global trade war once again raised its head over the weekend. The immediate takeaway of the tariff news was familiar: uncertainty is back, and companies must prepare to weather it.
But a more consequential issue lurks. The central question of the threatened trade escalation between the U.S. and Europe is not whether firms can withstand tariff volatility, but whether...
Agentic commerce promises a world in which transactions happen with less human intervention, fewer screens and fewer keystrokes. The shift may benefit guest checkout.
Despite years of investment in wallets, stored credentials and one-click flows, guest checkout has had its pain points. PYMNTS Intelligence data shows that friction at checkout continues to weigh heavily on conversion,...
The European Union could implement tariffs on U.S. goods as soon as Feb. 7, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday (Jan. 19), citing a European Commission spokesman.
The EU approved the tariffs in July 2025 but paused their implementation for six months as the EU continued negotiating a trade deal with the U.S., according to the report.
The suspension of the tariffs is set to...
Watch more: The Digital Shift: WalletConnect’s Jess Houlgrave
Cryptocurrency payments have spent years hovering at the edge of mainstream commerce.
Now, momentum is building as infrastructure providers focus less on blockchains and more on making digital currency usable at scale.
WalletConnect Pay CEO Jess Houlgrave said the long road to adoption reflects a fundamental misunderstanding...
With U.S.-based companies like Visa, Mastercard, Microsoft and AWS leading the Prompt Economy’s development, it’s understandable to see agentic AI from a Western lens. But it’s not an inclusive one. The rest of the world — especially the Middle East — is taking notice.
In fact, a Jan. 15 article published by the World Economic Forum argues that Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries...
For much of blockchain’s commercial life, regulation functioned as a question mark rather than a framework.
Financial institutions monitored developments, commissioned pilot projects and waited for clarity that rarely arrived in usable form.
Early blockchain governance was often aspirational, relying on loosely defined communities and computationally derived consensus.
However,...