February, 2025

February, 2025

Overcoming Retail Challenges: Smart Stores to the Rescue
For decades, self-service technology promised to remake retail, aspiring to be a frictionless alternative to traditional...

Galileo Bets Big on Debit Rewards to Boost Loyalty Among Credit-Wary Consumers
About 90% of U.S. consumers have debit cards. Forty-six million consumers don’t have established credit histories — which means they don’t have credit cards. With the rising use of debit as a pr...

Marketplaces Go Global in Pursuit of $20 Trillion Payments Opportunity
Marketplaces have transformed the global economy, creating ecosystems where buyers and sellers converge in the digital universe. But as they evolve, so must the infrastructure that supports them. “M...

Data Silos, Meet GenAI: The Next Frontier for CFOs Seeking AP Excellence
CFOs and payments leaders are faced with a challenge. To unlock the true potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in areas like accounts payable (AP), they must rethink how new systems interact with ...

Affirm’s Levchin Sees Company Becoming the American Express of Buy Now, Pay Later
The lure of paying over time lies with the predictability of the repayment. Consumers don’t think of pay later options as credit, at least not in the traditional sense. They see a finite timeline ov...

New Data Shows Dramatic Consumer Shift on Instant Digital Disbursements
Even as an executive order mandating digital disbursements from the U.S. Treasury gains momentum, a new report underscores a powerful undercurrent reshaping financial disbursements: the escalating con...

Identity Verification, Fraud Prevention : TransUnion’s TruValidate Solutions for Government Assessed FedRAMP Ready
TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) announced it completed a FedRAMP Ready assessment for TruValidate solutions for government, which help public agencies interact with American public users to help protect agains...

CLEAR Partners with Fintech Stripe to Power Billing and Payments
Stripe, the financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced that CLEAR—an identity verification platform trusted by over 30 million customers—is moving its payments and billing to Stri...

Block’s Layoffs Signal Broader Fintech Industry Challenges
Block (NYSE: XYZ), the fintech co-founded by Jack Dorsey, announced a significant workforce reduction, laying off 931 employees—approximately 8% of its total staff. Known for its subsidiaries Squar...

Insurtech Akur8 Selected By France’s Insurance Provider Covéa Group to Streamline Pricing Processes
Akur8, the artificial intelligence (AI)-based pricing solution dedicated to insurers, announces today that the Covéa Group, an insurance provider in France, has chosen its platform to optimize its pr...

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