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When leaders outside of finance think of treasury management … they typically don’t.
For much of its history, the enterprise treasury function has been taken at face value as something operational, essential and largely invisible. But, as 2025 proved, that mindset is coming to an end.
Looking ahead to 2026, treasury has come to sit at the center of the enterprise, increasingly...
Bank of America expects artificial intelligence (AI) to have a growing effect on the economy next year and beyond.
Speaking Monday (Dec. 22) with Bloomberg Television, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said that AI had an increasing impact this year and that it will accelerate in the coming years.
Moynihan said this while sharing that Bank of America expects the U.S. economy to grow 2...
As peak holiday demand stretches supply chains to their limits, global retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target are leaning heavily on artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to move goods faster, reduce errors and protect workers from physically demanding tasks. What was once experimental technology has become core infrastructure, reshaping how companies handle seasonal surges across...
Trucking industry insurance company Nirvana has raised $100 million.
The company’s Series D round, announced last week, will allow it to bolster its operating system, which it says it constructed to combat the industry problem of slow decisions and innovation cycles that could stretch into years.
“Telematics and AI have changed that equation,” wrote Co-Founder and CEO Rushil Goel. “For...
Venture capitalists poured hundreds of millions of dollars into business efficiency tools in mid-December, leading large funding rounds for startups promising to untangle corporate operations.
Companies like Cyera, Tebra, Mythic and more secured capital to deploy platforms that centralize fragmented data and reduce administrative overhead across regulated industries.
Securing and...
Google’s parent company is set to acquire Intersect, a company providing data center and energy infrastructure solutions.
The $4.75 billion deal is designed to allow more artificial intelligence (AI) data center and generation capacity to come online more quickly while accelerating energy development and innovation, Alphabet said in a Monday (Dec. 22) news release.
“Intersect will help...
Coinbase is expanding its new prediction markets business by acquiring The Clearing Company.
The acquisition, announced Monday (Dec. 22), comes days after Coinbase said it would begin offering access to prediction markets in the U.S.
“Prediction markets let people trade on real-world events across everything from elections and the economy to sports and culture,” the company said on its...
Digital bank Monzo is set to expand to Ireland and other European markets after securing a full banking license from the European Central Bank and the Central Bank of Ireland.
Monzo will first expand into Ireland, with its European headquarters and a team located in Dublin, the company said in a Wednesday (Dec. 17) press release emailed to PYMNTS.
The company was founded in 2015 and...
JPMorganChase is reportedly weighing cryptocurrency trading for its institutional clients.
The country’s largest bank is determining what products and services its markets division could offer to widen its digital assets business, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Dec. 22), citing a source familiar with the plans.
The efforts, which the source said could involve spot and derivatives...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said Monday (Dec. 22) that certain earned wage access (EWA) products are not credit and are not covered by Regulation Z of the Truth in Lending Act.
The regulator said this in an advisory opinion that was filed with the Federal Register on Monday and is set to be published there on Tuesday (Dec. 23).
It also withdrew a proposed...