Watch more: CFOs Prioritize B2B Payment Control as Economic Uncertainty Persists
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It’s not just cash and capital that are king for today’s chief financial officers.
Against a backdrop of dynamic and ongoing uncertainty, visibility and control are surging to the top of the list of valuable commodities for finance leaders.
“Payment control is becoming a key risk management...
Watch more: Visa Prepares Global Network for Agentic AI-Driven Commerce Boom
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All transactions, whether eCommerce or in brick-and-mortar settings, happen in a merchant’s environment.
Click a buy button, or present a card at the register, and the conversion from browsing to buying is complete.
But there’s a new wrinkle. It’s a semi-intelligent middleman, so to speak, that...
Coursera’s significant post-earnings surge helped set the stage for a broad-based rally in the CE 100 Index.
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The Index’s 2% gain this past week came as 10 of the 11 pillars advanced. Only the Communicate Index was lower, by a muted 0.4%, as Snap Inc.’s common stock gave up 2.4%.
In the Work segment, up 5.1%, Coursera jumped by more than 41.5%.
The company stated in...
Two top Trump administration officials are reportedly working with tech companies to promote healthcare data sharing.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz were expected to host tech executives at a White House event this week, Bloomberg News reported Sunday (July 27),...
As QR codes have grown in popularity, so too have QR-code driven scams.
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“Because they are everywhere — from gas pumps and yard signs to television commercials — they’re simultaneously useful and dangerous,” Dustin Brewer, senior director of proactive cybersecurity services at BlueVoyant, said in an interview with CNBC Sunday (July 27).
Brewer added that hackers exploit...
DOGE has reportedly turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to drastically reduce the number of federal regulations.
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That’s according to a report Saturday (July 26) by the Washington Post, citing government documents and interviews with four officials familiar with the plans.
The goal is to cut the number of regulations by half in time for the first anniversary of...
What good are tax-free tips if there’s no around to do the tipping?
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That’s the question facing workers in Las Vegas these days amid economic uncertainty and a decline in travelers from Canada, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Saturday (July 26).
As the report noted, the government gave these workers a boost earlier this month when it exempted up to $25,000 per...
More Americans than ever are contributing to — and withdrawing from — their 401(k)s.
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In 2024, a record 4.8% of workers with these retirement plans took a hardship distribution for financial emergencies, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Saturday (July 26), citing data from Vanguard Group.
Meanwhile, close to a third of people who leave their jobs each year...
Citigroup has entered the luxury card market with its new premium credit card.
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As Bloomberg News noted in a report on the launch Sunday (July 27), Citi’s Strata Elite places it in competition with the likes of American Express (Amex) and JPMorgan Chase in targeting big spenders with a taste for travel and fine dining.
The company said the benefits on the card, which...
China has proposed creating an organization to promote global artificial intelligence (AI) cooperation.
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The country wants to help guide worldwide efforts to regulate AI and share China’s own innovations, said Premier Li Qiang, whose remarks at the annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Saturday (July 26) were reported by Reuters.
Li’s comments...