Feed Items
A leading Federal Reserve official says that employment in the U.S. likely declined last year.
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showing that job creation dropped to an average of 15,000 new positions a month last year contained an “upward bias,” Fed Governor Chris Waller said at a National Association for Business Economics conference Monday (Feb. 23).
Based on a likely...
Chime Enterprise has announced three of the latest employers that have adopted its financial wellness suite, Chime Workplace.
Chime Workplace is an enterprise financial health solution that includes financial tools such as earned wage access, a high-yield savings account and credit-building tools, Chime Enterprise, the enterprise division of Chime, said in a Monday (Feb. 23) press...
If the first wave of generative AI lived in the browser, the next wave is being wired into the enterprise backbone and this week’s funding news reflects that shift. Across orchestration engines, spatial intelligence, wealth management automation and compliance agents, artificial intelligence use cases are ramping to operational deployment.
Infrastructure and Orchestration at Scale
The...
Walmart has introduced a new data insights platform for its retail suppliers.
Scintilla In-Store is an off-shoot of the company’s Scintilla platform, and is designed to “reduce out-of-stocks, streamline execution, and deliver a seamless omni-shopping experience,” Walmart Data Ventures announced in a news release Monday (Feb. 23).
Scintilla is Walmart’s first-party insights platform,...
Experian acquired AtData, a data and intelligence company employing “email insights technology,” according to a Monday (Feb. 23) news release.
“Verified, real-time email insights represent one of the most powerful digital identity signals,” the release said. “The acquisition expands Experian’s vast data and identity assets, adding over 10 billion email addresses worldwide. AtData’s...
Crypto.com says it has gotten conditional governmental approval for a bank charter.
The conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) allows the digital assets company to charter Foris Dax National Trust Bank, doing business as Crypto.com National Trust Bank, Crypto.com announced Monday (Feb. 23).
“With this conditional approval, Crypto.com clears a...
OpenAI is collaborating with four consulting firms to help it deploy its Frontier enterprise platform.
The artificial intelligence (AI) startup on Monday (Feb. 23) announced partnerships with Boston Consulting Group (BGC), McKinsey...
A consumer receives a text message that appears to come from her bank. The tone is urgent. The link opens a convincing login page. Credentials are entered. Moments later, a transfer request appears inside what seems to be a trusted session.
Across town, a mid-sized business CFO reviews an invoice from a long-standing supplier. The amount aligns with prior payments. The banking details...
Modern furniture brand Article now offers Klarna’s flexible payment options at checkout in the United States and Canada.
With these options, Article customers can choose to pay in full, split purchases into four interest-free payments or finance larger orders over time, the companies said in a Monday (Feb. 23) press release.
“Our goal has always been to make shopping for modern...
Digital transformation often comes with a deceptively simple pitch. Move a formerly analog industry online, unlock transparency and let network effects do the rest.
When it comes to the freight sector, digital platform Freightos has been among the most persistent champions of that idea. Its latest fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings released Monday (Feb. 23) suggest that its...