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As financial pressures intensify across the U.S., a growing number of consumers are shouldering an obligation that rarely shows up as a line item in household budgets: financial support for extended family members and friends.
Even as incomes fluctuate and expenses rise, helping others remains one of the most durable financial commitments American households maintain.
Supporting Others...
The OpenClaw story went viral for the wrong reasons. Headlines fixated on AI agents forming a religion, encrypting their communications and building their own social network. The spectacle was real. So was the distraction it created from the more consequential story underneath it.
OpenClaw, an open-source personal agentic assistant that links to any large language model through an...
Anchorage Digital now enables licensed international banks to access stablecoin rails for U.S. dollar cross-border transfers and settlement.
This capability is provided by the company’s new Stablecoin Solutions for Banks, which is a purpose-built offering under U.S. federal oversight, Anchorage Digital said in a Thursday (Feb. 19) press release.
Stablecoin Solutions for Banks brings...
Digital transformation is inherently disruptive. For legacy sectors such as automotive, adapting to a digital-first commerce model requires a period of recalibration as companies, partners and consumers adjust to new ways of buying and selling.
CarGurus’ fourth quarter 2025 and full year earnings call Thursday (Feb. 19) only underscored this reality. The company’s full year results...
In identity verification, who someone says they are across financial services can often depends on where they live.
In mature economies, financial identity is commonly anchored in banking relationships. Opening a bank account establishes identity, enables payments, and unlocks access to credit, savings and commerce.
But across large parts of the world, including Africa, the Middle East...
Subprime borrowers drove unsecured personal loan originations and balances to record highs, TransUnion said in a Thursday (Feb. 19) press release.
Unsecured personal loan originations reached a record of 7.2 million in the third quarter of 2025, according to the release, which highlighted findings from TransUnion’s Q4 2025 Credit Industry Insights Report. The company views originations...
JPMorgan Chase said in a Thursday (Feb. 19) court filing that it will seek a dismissal of President Donald Trump’s lawsuit that alleges the financial institution “debanked” him in 2021, Bloomberg reported Thursday.
The bank also said in the filing that it seeks to have the case move from a Florida state court to a federal court in Miami and then to a court in New York, according to the...
Conversations about the future of money have started to forget one fundamental thing. The cash itself.
For all the rhetoric about tokenization, programmable finance, and digital wallets, the defining feature of physical cash is not its technology but its structure. Cash is a distribution system. It is bearer-based, universally accepted, settlement-final, and requires no intermediary to...
Badge raised $17.1 million to expand its wallet platform that enables businesses to interact with their customers through Apple and Google digital wallets.
The company raised $13.8 million in a Series A round and $3.3 million in a previously unannounced seed round, according to a Thursday (Feb. 19) press release.
Badge will use the funding to support its go-to-market efforts, product...
Imagine this scenario: Suspicious activity begins moving across an enterprise’s network. It is not triggered by a phishing email or a careless user mistake. An automated system is attempting to breach defenses, probing for weaknesses and assessing how much access it can gain before detection.
Seconds later, another system steps in. A defensive AI spots the abnormal pattern, tightens...