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Conversational artificial intelligence startup PolyAI raised $86 million in new funding.
The company’s Series D round will allow it to further develop the technology behind its Agent Studio platform, PolyAI said in a Monday (Dec. 15) news release.
“This is a living, breathing system that understands what your customers, employees and AI agents are doing in real time—and helps them all...
Digital wallets, compliance tooling and payment innovations are helping chief financial officers move from checkers to chess with their cross-border strategies.
As money and data move faster across digital platforms, and as financial infrastructure becomes increasingly programmable, cross-border complexity is shifting from a defensive and administrative burden to a set of variables...
Square is piloting a cash rounding functionality with sellers in the United States to help them deal with the end of the penny.
The solution automatically rounds cash transactions to the nearest five cents, with one or two cents being rounded down to zero, three or four cents being rounded up to five cents, six or seven cents being rounded down to five cents, and eight or nine cents...
Cryptocurrency exchange HashKey is set to raise $206 million after pricing its initial public offering, Reuters reported Monday (Dec. 15), citing an unnamed source.
HashKey, founded in 2018, is Hong Kong’s largest licensed crypto exchange, the report said. Its other services include asset management, brokerage and tokenization. The company is due to begin trading on the Hong Kong Stock...
In 2025, enterprises reported meaningful gains from AI pilots, but fragmented deployments quickly ran into rising costs, governance gaps and operational complexity once adoption moved beyond small teams.
After two years of rapid experimentation, companies are consolidating disconnected tools into unified AI platforms designed to support core workflows, control inference spending and...
The United Kingdom is reportedly set to begin regulating cryptocurrencies starting in October 2027.
The goal is to provide certainty for the industry and push away “dodgy actors,” Reuters reported Sunday (Dec. 14), citing comments from the country’s finance ministry.
The law, set to be introduced Monday (Dec. 15), is designed to extend the country’s existing financial regulation to...
Visa has announced the launch of its Stablecoins Advisory Practice that serves banks, FinTechs, merchants and businesses of all sizes.
The global practice is a value-added service offering by Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) and provides actionable insights and recommendations to help clients with things like market fit, strategy and implementation of stablecoins technology, the...
J.P. Morgan Chase is reportedly deepening its blockchain efforts with its first tokenized money market fund.
The bank’s asset management unit is deploying the fund on the Ethereum blockchain, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday (Dec. 15), adding that J.P. Morgan will seed the fund using $100 million of its own capital before opening it to outside investors Tuesday (Dec. 16)....
Watch more: Wage to Wallet: WorkWhile’s Alan Armen
The consumer still drives the U.S. economy, but a new Wage to Wallet Index report suggests that a growing share of that spending depends on platforms workers turn to when wages wobble. Those in the Labor Economy, which is hourly workers earning $40,000 to $50,000 a year, typically spend most of what they earn, so wage volatility does...
A new PYMNTS Intelligence report shows that tariffs are no longer a temporary policy shift. They are now a structural force shaping how America’s middle-market CFOs rethink investment, budgeting and growth plans for 2026.
“Revising the Roadmap: How Tariffs Are Transforming CFOs’ Strategic Planning” analyzes how 60 CFOs are recalibrating strategies as trade policy uncertainty...