December, 2024

December, 2024

Consumer Confidence Declines Amid Concerns About Politics and Tariffs
Consumer confidence declined in December, with a growing number of consumers expressing concerns about politics and tariffs. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index decreased by 8.1 points ...

Fiserv Acquires Earned Wage Access Firm Payfare
Payments and financial services technology company Fiserv is acquiring earned wage access (EWA) provider Payfare. “This acquisition complements the embedded finance solutions of Fiserv with card ...

Google Proposes Revision of Search Deals to Address Antitrust Ruling
For many Apple device users, Google is the default choice for browsing the web. That could change, however, under a plan proposed by Google to address a U.S. antitrust ruling, Reuters reported Monday ...

AI’s Growing Role Across B2B Payments Will Be Impossible to Ignore in 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI), throughout 2024, became an increasingly permanent component of many business processes. Particularly across the back office and finance and treasury departments, where cr...

UK Financial Authorities to Improve Cooperation on National Payments Vision
Four financial authorities in the United Kingdom said they are working to improve their cooperation and will revise their agreement as the government pursues its National Payments Vision. The Bank of ...

Nordic Challenger Bank Lunar Launches Update to Hyper-Personalize Banking
Lunar has recently rolled out a major app update, which is described as a game-changer in hyper-personalized banking. Lunar claims that it takes digital banking to the next level with the launch of th...

UK’s Lending Standards Board Releases Review of Registered Firms’ Application of Standards of Lending Practice
A review by the LSB (Lending Standards Board) of its registered firms’ application of the Standards of Lending Practice for business customers has identified 102 areas where action has been needed t...

Wealthfront Brings Tax Efficiency to Index-Based Investing with S&P 500 Direct Portfolio
Wealthfront‘s new S&P 500 Direct portfolio combines the performance of the S&P 500 with the benefit of tax savings and is available for just 0.09% – the same price as the “most popular” ETF th...

Fintech CEOs Kravchunovsky, Kozyakov See Busy Bitcoin in 2024, 2025
From Donald Trump’s strategic Bitcoin reserve to the potential for a Santa rally, fintech CEOs had plenty to say about the world’s most popular cryptocurrency this week. Tim Kravchunovsky, founder...

Latin America’s Bitso Announces Support for Stablecoin Ripple USD (RLUSD)
Bitso— the financial services company powered by crypto in Latin America—listed on its platform the “enterprise-grade” token Ripple USD (RLUSD), a stablecoin with “1:1 parity” with the US ...

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