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New Year’s Eve is supposed to be a clean break. A fresh calendar. A symbolic reset. Instead, it has become the Olympics of planning: the group chat that never sleeps, the spreadsheet of “who’s bringing what,” and the annual question that haunts every host like a low-grade cyberattack: Is this a celebration, or am I accidentally running an event venue?
Airbnb’s latest New Year’s Eve...
Three former executives involved with bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX have agreed to final judgments from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), without denying the commission’s allegations, according to the SEC.
The SEC obtained the final judgments against Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research; Zixiao (Gary) Wang, the former chief technology officer of FTX...
Customers of Abu Dhabi-based real estate developer, manager and investor Aldar will be able to pay their real estate service charges by talking with an artificial intelligence (AI) agent.
Aldar and Visa added this capability as part of the launch phase of their strategic collaboration that is implementing Visa Intelligent Commerce in the region, they said in a Thursday (Dec. 18) press...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) have new leaders.
The Senate voted Thursday (Dec. 18) to confirm Michael Selig as commissioner of the CFTC and Travis Hill as chairperson of the board of directors of the FDIC.
Both were among a group of nominees who were confirmed in a single vote of 53 to 43, according to Congress.gov...
A bill introduced in the United States Senate would create a federal task force to combat cryptocurrency scams.
The task force created by the “Strengthening Agency Frameworks for Enforcement of Cryptocurrency (SAFE Crypto) Act“ would bring together Treasury, law enforcement, regulators and private-sector experts in a coordinated effort to stop fraud, according to a Monday (Dec. 15) ...
Health systems are turning to artificial intelligence as rising complexity and labor pressures demand faster, more reliable decisions.
They use AI to predict hospital operations, scale intelligence across networks and personalize cancer care. Digital twins, cloud platforms and multimodal models make that shift possible. PYMNTS looks at three ways AI is changing healthcare.
AI Turns...
Merchants across the Middle East and Africa can now connect to Mastercard’s portfolio of merchant-focused solutions through MoneyHash’s payment orchestration platform.
The capability is enabled by a new partnership between the two companies that facilitates access to Mastercard’s Merchant Cloud platform, according to a Thursday (Dec. 18) press release.
The collaboration eliminates the...
If stablecoins finally had their moment during 2025, it wasn’t the moment most crypto evangelists imagined.
There were no consumer splash campaigns that took off, no breathless promises of “banking the unbanked,” and no viral apps that suddenly made digital dollars part of everyday life.
Instead, the stablecoin economy throughout 2025 was one that was increasingly real, increasingly...
Coinbase filed lawsuits in Connecticut, Michigan and Illinois, challenging each state’s efforts to control or block prediction markets.
Paul Grewal, chief legal officer at Coinbase, said in a Thursday (Dec. 18) post on social platform X that the lawsuits will confirm that “prediction markets fall squarely under the jurisdiction of the [Commodity Futures Trading Commission], not any...
BNP Paribas has rolled out an internal artificial intelligence (AI) portal designed to speed up pitch preparation for its investment bankers, according to a Friday (Dec. 19) report from Financial News.
The move is part of the firm’s wider strategy to embed generative AI into core workflows and leverage partnerships with AI model providers.
The tool aims to reduce the time teams spend...