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Cross-border payments/card issuance company Nium has launched its stablecoin card issuance platform.
The solution is designed to let companies holding stablecoins issue spending cards on both the Visa and Mastercard networks through a single API integration, Nium said in a Monday (March 30) news release.
This allows the coins to be used at hundreds of millions of merchant locations...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming sales across the B2B ecosystem, but not the way companies think.
While CEOs talk about AI’s impact across automated outreach, predictive pipelines and agents that can draft proposals in seconds, what is vanishing isn’t friction but the B2B sales process itself.
Procurement leaders inside large organizations are faced with a declining volume...
Plaid’s chief financial officer says the financial data network is not racing to go public.
Preparations for the initial public offering (IPO) are ongoing, but Seun Sodipo told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in an interview posted Monday (March 30) that she is concentrating on growth, following a year in which Plaid’s revenue jumped 40% to top $500 million.
The company, best known for...
Uber Technologies plans to acquire Blacklane, a company that provides an app and web booking platform that connects guests with independent local chauffeur services in 500 cities across 60 countries.
Subject to customary closing conditions, the acquisition is expected to close by the end of the year, the companies said in a Monday (March 30) press release.
Upon closing, the acquisition...
Private credit fund managers are reportedly downplaying their exposure to software amid market upheaval.
That’s according to an analysis of the industry published Sunday (March 29) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The news outlet examined four large funds marketed to investors by Apollo Global Management, Ares Management, Blackstone and Blue Owl Capital, and found that these funds...
Singapore-based stablecoin payment infrastructure company StraitsX is reportedly seeing a surge in card transaction volume.
Between the fourth quarter of 2024 and the same quarter last year, that volume surged 40-fold, Co-founder and CEO Tianwei Liu told CoinDesk Sunday (March 29). The number of cards issued saw an even sharper uptick, increasing 83-fold during the same period....
Pharmaceutical titan Eli Lilly wants to bring medications developed with AI to market.
To that end, the company has struck a $2.75 billion deal, announced Sunday (March 29), with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine.
The companies say this collaboration will use Insilico’s artificial intelligence (AI) engine to accelerate the “discovery and development of novel therapeutics.” The...
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Kelly Cook of David’s Bridal
When I sat down with Kelly Cook, it didn’t feel like an interview. It felt like we were getting right back into a conversation that never really stopped.
Cook has always been direct about what she’s trying to do at David’s Bridal. As she approaches her first anniversary as CEO, that clarity hasn’t softened. If anything,...
Secured credit has long served as a pathway for consumers to build or rebuild their credit histories. Today, it is reemerging as something more: a strategic opportunity for financial institutions (FIs) seeking sustainable growth in a changing regulatory and revenue environment.
As credit access tightens for many consumers and debit revenue faces ongoing regulatory pressure, secured credit sits at...
For digital commerce and financial services, onboarding represents the first real test of trust between a platform and a customer. The process determines whether identity verification protects the ecosystem, including consumers, banks and merchants, while still allowing legitimate users to enter quickly and with confidence.
Hal Lonas, chief technology officer at Trulioo, said...