Stories tagged fintech.
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Gas prices are rising as a large swath of consumers are already under pressure, which could eventually affect demand for credit.
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The share of American households considered "financially vulnerable" rose to 17%, the highest level since at least 2018, according to the nonprofit Financial Health Network.
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In an ambitious move to bolster India's digital payment landscape, PhonePe is set to hire more than 20,000 sales professionals aimed at expanding its merchant network nationwide. The company plans to roll out over 50 lakh payment devices by next year, with a strong focus on Tier 6 towns and rural…
Africa: TechCabal / Techpoint Africa / TechCentral / WeeTracker / Ventureburn
Uber’s exit from Nigeria is a warning about unsustainable unit economics and the real cost of infrastructure. However, local rails and fintech solutions are shaping the next phase of African mobility.
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The shares of PB Fintech, the parent company of Policybazaar, fell over 30% in Thursday’s trade after the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) proposed changes to insurance distribution and commission structures. On the stock exchange, PB Fintech's stock fell from its…
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Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Gaurang Shah of Mastercard Agentic commerce is approaching an awkward transition point in its adoption cycle. The artificial intelligence (AI) foundation is getting good enough to shop for consumers faster than the commercial system responding to it is…
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The shopping basket has always held the answer. Brands just haven’t had a clear way to read it at the moment a customer pays. Smart checkout technology could change that by matching products in the basket with eligible offers and applying the savings automatically. “The Smart Checkout Opportunity…
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The World Cup gave small businesses in host cities a sales bump. That, at least, was a relatively predictable outcome. But findings shared in the September 2026 edition of the SMB Growth Report from PYMNTS Intelligence reveal that the bigger surprise is who delivered that sales dump. And it wasn’t…
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Small businesses could give credit unions their next opening for growth, with demand for artificial intelligence financial tools running ahead of consumer interest. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Practical AI Opportunity: Why SMBs Want Guidance Before Automation” revealed in June that 75% of…
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Millennials’ financial lives are shaping how they receive, spend and manage money, creating new opportunities for payment providers to make transactions faster and more useful. About 7 in 10 millennials have lived paycheck to paycheck in each year from 2020 through 2025, according to the August…
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Benefits teams can spend more than a week of staff time every month handling transactions that don’t move cleanly through the system. For a benefits program with 5,000 active accounts, the new PYMNTS Intelligence report produced with SoFi Tech Solutions titled “Making Health and Wellness Benefits…
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A payment request can look perfectly ordinary until someone checks the bank account. By then, the finance team may be one click away from sending money to a fraudster. “Prevention First: Building a Smarter Defense Against Payments Fraud” is a PYMNTS Intelligence report produced in collaboration…
LATAM: Contxto / Startupi / LAVCA
Startupi RecargaPay avança na expansão e atinge 15 milhões de clientes no Brasil Impulsionada por cartão de crédito, crédito pessoal e Tap to Pay, fintech ampliou base de usuários em 50% em pouco mais de um ano. O post RecargaPay avança na expansão e atinge 15 milhões de clientes no Brasil aparece…
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Tencent Holdings on Thursday launched TenPayGo, a mobile payment app targeting foreign visitors, as the tech giant seeks to capture China’s growing inbound tourism market ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Shenzhen. Developed by Tencent’s WeChat Pay team, TenPayGo…
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Digital lending platform Moneyview has raised Rs 327.5 crore from anchor investors ahead of its Rs 1,092 crore initial public offering (IPO), which opens for public subscription today (September 24). The Bengaluru-based fintech allotted 9.63 crore shares at Rs 34 apiece, the upper end of its IPO…
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Apple Pay remains one of the notable omissions in India’s digital payments ecosystem. In recent months, however, the rumour mill has suggested that its launch could be on the horizon. Apple now appears to be building out its payments operations in the country. A new job listing published by the…
arXiv
arXiv:2609.25960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When an agent handling a payment exception loses money, the agent-step attribution methods this paper compares against will name one of its actions. They will do so even when a settlement message was dropped and the agent never had a chance: they…
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arXiv:2603.01919v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Access to frontier large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-5 and Gemini-2.5, is often hindered by high pricing, payment barriers, and regional restrictions. These limitations drive the proliferation of $\textit{shadow APIs}$, third-party…
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Online personal styling service Stitch Fix is seeing a “significant lift” in spending from clients who engage with its tool that lets them see artificial intelligence-generated images of themselves wearing the outfits they’re considering, Stitch Fix CEO Matt Baer said during a Wednesday (Sept. 23)…
ANZ: iTnews / SmartCompany / Startup Daily
Westpac has announced its flat transaction rate will fall from 1.20% to 0.79% for payments made via its point-of-sale terminals. The post Westpac cuts merchant fees in the race to October 1 surcharge ban appeared first on SmartCompany.
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A retailer can see what customers buy from that firm’s online and offline channels. A bank with a large card portfolio can see spending across a much wider range of merchants. Payments networks and technology providers have other views of transactions and checkout. Financial services companies are…
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The CEOs of rival artificial intelligence labs Anthropic and OpenAI agreed Wednesday (Sept. 23) that there is a need for global standards to address potential risks around AI and that both governments and the industry should be involved in decisions about the technology, Bloomberg reported…
American Banker (headlines)
The bank was determined, by multiple industry rankings and experts, to be the best mobile banking provider in the U.S.. Bank of America took second place.
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Succession planning experts say that the possible next generation of RIA owners need clear communication, tangible career paths and thoughtful compensation plans. But that is often easier said than done.
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The move came 12 days after Canada's bank regulator said tokenized deposits are not legally distinct from ordinary deposits.
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Bank of America, Capital One and other large banks have teamed up to publish a set of principles for agentic commerce. But the call for a set of standards from banks comes as other fintechs and payment companies are already forging ahead with the technology.
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WestStar Bank of El Paso is acquiring Albuquerque's Southwest Capital Bank, bringing it six new branches in New Mexico.
American Banker (headlines)
The U.S. economy is expected to keep growing despite nagging inflation, according to the latest consensus report from the American Bankers Association's Economic Advisory Committee.
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As the payment company looks for new ways to drive volume, it's using the social media company's personal artificial intelligence to aid shopping and checkout.