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Watch more: The Digital Shift: WalletConnect’s Jess Houlgrave
Cryptocurrency payments have spent years hovering at the edge of mainstream commerce.
Now, momentum is building as infrastructure providers focus less on blockchains and more on making digital currency usable at scale.
WalletConnect Pay CEO Jess Houlgrave said the long road to adoption reflects a fundamental misunderstanding...
With U.S.-based companies like Visa, Mastercard, Microsoft and AWS leading the Prompt Economy’s development, it’s understandable to see agentic AI from a Western lens. But it’s not an inclusive one. The rest of the world — especially the Middle East — is taking notice.
In fact, a Jan. 15 article published by the World Economic Forum argues that Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries...
For much of blockchain’s commercial life, regulation functioned as a question mark rather than a framework.
Financial institutions monitored developments, commissioned pilot projects and waited for clarity that rarely arrived in usable form.
Early blockchain governance was often aspirational, relying on loosely defined communities and computationally derived consensus.
However,...
Fraud is no longer just a cost line item for banks and payment firms. It is increasingly a force that shapes how institutions invest, modernize and compete.
That is the central takeaway from the “2025 State of Fraud and Financial Crime in the United States” report from PYMNTS Intelligence, produced in collaboration with Block.
The research shows that while fraud losses are rising, the...
Watch more: Need to Know: Mastercard’s Marc Pettican
Few dynamics in corporate operations are as familiar and unchanging as the B2B acceptance choreography.
Buyers negotiate terms with suppliers. Suppliers weigh costs, settlement speed and risk. Banks and card networks provide rails largely in the background.
This traditional dance has historically meant that acceptance decisions...
Pinterest is reportedly launching a shoppable TV partnership with streaming platform Roku.
Two companies are set to debut “Bring My Pinterest to Life,” an original series where viewers can move seamlessly from watching to shopping through Pinterest and its brand partners, Chain Store Age reported Friday (Jan. 16).
In the series, set to premiere in March on Roku, creators Drew Michael...
Meta-owned social media platform Threads is reportedly surpassing X in terms of mobile usage.
Threads now has more daily usage on mobile devices than Elon Musk’s X, TechCrunch reported Sunday (Jan. 18), citing data from Similarweb.
Meta introduced Threads, a text-based app seen as its answer to Twitter/X, in 2023. Although X, formerly Twitter, still beats Threads among web-based users...
Bitcoin accumulation among medium and large investors is reportedly at a three-year high.
That figure has reached its strongest monthly level since the cryptocurrency collapse that accompanied FTX’s bankruptcy in late 2022, Coindesk reported Sunday (Jan. 18).
In the last 30 days, investors holding between 10 and 1,000 bitcoin, otherwise known as the “Fish-to-Shark” category — have...
Brazil-based digital bank Inter has gotten regulatory approval to do business in the U.S.
Inter has received permission from the Federal Reserve and Florida Office of Financial Regulation to establish a state‑licensed international banking branch in Florida, the company said in a news release Friday (Jan. 16).
“This milestone strengthens our position as a global platform and enables us...
British digital bank Monzo is reportedly creating an expanded role for departing CEO TS Anil.
That’s according to a report Sunday (Jan. 18) by the Financial Times (FT), which says this new role comes in the wake of shareholder backlash to the announcement of Anil’s departure.
In a surprise announcement in October, Monzo said that Anil would be leaving the chief executive’s post,...