February, 2025

February, 2025

Apple Brings Tap to Pay to 9 New European Countries
Apple is expanding Tap to Pay on iPhone to nine new countries in Europe. The contactless payment method is now available in Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Sl...

Bakkt Suffers Major Set Back as Bank Partners Drop Platform
A growth strategy that relies heavily on strategic partnerships can be derailed when those partnerships come to a close. That is happening in real-time to Bakkt Holdings, the digital asset and payment...

FlexTecs Updates FlexTrap Tool to Capture Payments Discrepancies
Payment accuracy solutions company FlexTecs has expanded FlexTrap, its payment discrepancy detection tool. First introduced with a focus on payment error prevention, the artificial intelligence (AI)...

FTC: eCommerce Support Platform Click Profit Misled Customers
Federal regulators have accused eCommerce infrastructure platform Click Profit of misleading its customers. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday (March 18) that it had obtained a court...

AI Startups: Luminance Launches AI Contract Negotiator; Halliday Aims to End Smart Contracts
Luminance, a legal contracts artificial intelligence (AI) startup, has launched Lumi Go, an AI agent that lets users send draft agreements to counterparties and auto-negotiate on their behalf. The sta...

Ant International’s Bettr Launches Small Business Financing Solution in Brazil
Ant International’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven lending business, Bettr, has officially launched in Brazil and will work with local partners to expand lending to small and medium-sized busin...

EarnIn Debuts Early Pay For Faster Paycheck Access
EarnIn has debuted a product that lets users access their paychecks two days early. Early Pay, announced by the earned wage access (EWA) provider Tuesday (March 18), lets customers get paid early no m...

FinTechs and Crypto Firms Get Banking Ambitions
A friendlier regulatory environment has cryptocurrency companies and FinTechs trying to become banks. As Reuters wrote in an analysis Tuesday (March 18), companies that had been hoping to expand see...

NCR Atleos: ATM Management at ‘Critical Inflection Point’ Due to New Complexities
How can financial institutions (FIs) optimize their ATM operations? That’s the question at the heart of a new paper published Tuesday (March 18) by NCR Atleos and Datos Insights, focused on the conc...

IRS Staffing Cuts May Delay Refunds, and a Financial Lifeline for Consumers
A financial lifeline for many consumers — particularly lower-income consumers — in the form of tax refunds may be fraying a bit at a time when those refunds may be needed to bolster households aga...

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