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The long-awaited Federal government campaign to quash state-by-state AI regulations is on. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11 directing the federal government to establish a new national approach to artificial intelligence and to push back against state-by-state AI rules the administration says are slowing U.S. innovation. For banks, payments firms and FinTechs leaning on...
Brazil’s Pix real-time payments network already moves more money than cards or cash in Latin America’s largest economy. Now, the same digital rails that let Brazilians scan a QR code to pay a beach vendor or a department store are being extended to millions of Argentines, who will be able to use Pix in Brazil and in every country where the system is accepted.
PagBrasil, a Brazilian...
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As artificial intelligence (AI) agents edge from novelty to shopping companion, merchants are revisiting an old question in a new form: Who — or what — gets trusted to pay? Agentic commerce promises frictionless buying, but it also creates new openings for fraud and disputes. Tokenization, which swaps real card credentials for...
Fraud prevention is no longer a single tool or team; it’s a coordinated ecosystem. As digital transactions scale and fraud tactics evolve, fraud orchestration has emerged as the missing layer connecting risk signals, verification systems and payment gateways. This Tracker explores how fraud orchestration turns fragmented defenses into unified, intelligent protection.
What Fraud Orchestration Is...
Modern enterprise leaders have grown accustomed to major technological transitions arriving with a playbook. Cloud migration? There were frameworks, maturity models and reference architectures. Cybersecurity? Standards, best practices and step-by-step roadmaps proliferated.
Even digital transformation, messy as it was, offered blueprints for customer journeys and operational overhauls...
For business-to-business (B2B) platforms, embedded finance has moved from a niche add-on to a core engine for revenue growth, loyalty and operational efficiency.
However, there is a clear divide between platforms that have embraced embedded finance as a strategic lever and those that remain hesitant or underdeveloped. Larger platforms see the most dramatic returns. Two-thirds of firms...
An analysis of mobile wallet adoption across 11 major economies shows that the most consequential shift in digital payments is unfolding not in headline growth rates but in the sharp contrasts between markets where wallets replace familiar payment habits and those where they struggle to gain ground.
The report, “How the World Does Digital 2025: Pocket Revolution,” finds that mobile...
Crypto wallet Trust Wallet has integrated Revolut as a payment provider, enabling users to fund their wallets instantly and buy crypto across Europe, Trust Wallet said in an announcement on its website.
In a Thursday (Dec. 11) post on X, Trust Wallet said the integration enables Revolut users to buy crypto directly in Trust Wallet.
“Two trusted brands. One seamless onramp,” the company...
Terraform Labs Co-Founder Do Kwon was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the $40 billion crash of the company’s TerraUSD and Luna coins in 2022.
Kwon, who pleaded guilty to two criminal counts in August, had asked for a sentence of five years, while federal prosecutors had sought a sentence of no more than 12 years, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (Dec. 11).
The...
Costco’s digital transformation continues, as the fiscal first quarter delivered double-digit growth in digital comparable sales and engagement with the app, and warehouse members are showing what management termed “consistency” in their spending even amid economic uncertainty.
The company logged net sales growth of 7.2% to just under $66 billion, and comparable sales gained 6.4%. CFO...