In AI Shopping Wars, Rivals Team Up to Take On Amazon
AI firms are promoting shopping as a new area of growth for chatbots, and retail giants and payments companies don’t want to be left out. That’s spawned a web of partnerships among companies that ...
Fipto Granted French Crypto License
Fipto, a regulated payment infrastructure for stablecoins, has been granted the Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) licence by the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF). Fipto said it will n...
Agentic Web Firm Limy Raises $10M Seed
Limy, an Agentic Web infrastructure platform, this week emerged from stealth, announcing a $10M funding round led by Flybridge with participation from a16z speedrun. Other investors include Axiom, Cla...
EWA Becoming Expectation: Report
A new report from Everest Group finds that earned wage access (EWA) has become an established workforce benefit after more than a decade in the market. According to the research, EWA has reached an in...
Fintech Firm Marquis Claims SonicWall Security Breach Led to Hack
Fintech firm Marquis has reportedly attributed a significant data compromise to vulnerabilities stemming from its security partner, SonicWall. The incident, which occurred in 2025, allegedly involved ...
Fintech Firm PicPay Reaches $2.5B Valuation in US IPO
Brazilian fintech PicPay (Nasdaq:PICS) controlled by the billionaire Batista brothers—known for their role in the global meatpacking industry through JBS—has gone public on the Nasdaq in New York,...
