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Fueled by Stablecoins, Monthly Crypto Card Purchases Top $1 Billion
Crypto cards have the potential to bridge the longstanding gap between digital assets and established retail infrastructure—and finally bring widescale...
How Leading Brands Are Building Better Digital Gift Card Experiences
The gap between good and great gift card programs is widening. While most brands offer some form of gift card,...
Hard Times, Easy Money: BNPL Now Finances Rent and Utilities
Buy now, pay later brought another credit option to stressed budgets, with a model that typically settles an installment loan...
TikTok Could Add P2P Payments in Financial Services Push
While once known primarily as a platform for short-form videos, TikTok has rapidly transformed into a gaming and e-commerce titan....
Beyond Compliance: Rewiring Fraud Prevention for Faster Payments
Not long ago, creating a fake vendor convincing enough to fool a seasoned finance team would have required significant effort...
Embedded Finance: Banks’ New Growth Channel
In the past, a community bank in Connecticut could attract customers through physical branches and marketing efforts, but expanding beyond...
Synchrony Brings OpenAI into Customer Experience, Agentic Commerce
Synchrony may be best known for its credit card partnerships with major retailers such as Walmart, Amazon, and Lowe’s, but...
Stripe’s OpenRouter Deal Expands Its AI Payments Ambitions
Artificial intelligence has become an new layer of the internet, but the proliferation of AI models has also created a...
How Innovation Is Transforming Payment Fraud Prevention
The biggest challenge in modern payments isn’t moving money instantly—it’s making sure it reaches the right person. As payment technologies...
How the Evolving Role of the CFO Is Changing Payments Strategy
It’s a truism in business that the CFO’s mandate only moves in one direction: It expands over time. A CFO’s...
Chime Considers Adding Stablecoin Support to Its Consumer App
Like many fintechs, Chime‘s business model is built around bringing conventional banking services into the digital realm. However, the company...
American Express Expands Virtual Cards for Commercial Payments
Digital platforms have improved consumer payments in nearly every way, but the experience has yet to fully extend into commercial...
