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Google Pay launched a digital credit card designed for everyday transactional use in India.
The new Flex by Google Pay is built on India’s RuPay payment network, powered by the country’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) instant payment system, and available only on the Google Pay app, Google said in a Wednesday (Dec. 17) blog post.
The card is co-branded, with the first partner being...
Marketplace optimization platform Teikametrics has debuted an artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Artificial Retail Intelligence (ARI).
This new system is designed to increase merchant success on Walmart, Amazon and TikTok as AI increases the volume of content and makes it harder to gain attention, the company said Wednesday (Dec. 17) in a news release.
“Retailers are combating...
Fraudsters no longer break in by force alone.
Increasingly, they persuade, fatigue or impersonate their way past defenses that were designed to stop credential theft but now sit at the center of more complex attack chains.
The shift is showing up in data. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “2025 State of Fraud and Financial Crime in the United States,” a collaboration with Block, found...
Bitcoin is on pace for the fourth annual loss in the largest cryptocurrency’s history.
As Bloomberg News noted in a report on the downturn Wednesday (Dec. 17), this is the first yearly decline that is not accompanied by an industry meltdown or high-profile scandal.
This week, the report added, began with a sharp selloff Monday (Dec. 15), with bitcoin now down 7% for the year, trading...
It may seem counterintuitive, but forward-thinking businesses spend much of their time thinking about the “right now.”
Sector leaders and chief financial officers don’t have time to wait around for grand visions to materialize. Instead, their time is spent focusing on narrower, more practical problems, recognizing that those with a real-world business impact are what matter most over...
Freightos founder and CEO Zvi Schreiber has decided to step down from his role as CEO to pursue other entrepreneurial interests.
Schreiber will leave the role Jan. 31, 2026, but will continue to serve as a non-executive board member, the global freight booking and payment platform said in a Wednesday (Dec. 17) press release.
The board has begun an executive search, with Freightos Chief...
Robinhood is expanding its fast-growing prediction market offering with a new pro football-centered feature.
The trading platform is giving users the ability to trade preset combos for individual NFL games, “giving them another way to turn their nuanced sports knowledge into an investing opportunity,” Robinhood said in a Tuesday (Dec. 16) announcement.
“These will be a combination of...
It was sort of an accident. In 1927, Time magazine was chasing an interview with Charles Lindbergh shortly after his successful, first-ever solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in May of that year. (It took 33.5 hours, BTW.) The interview kept getting pushed until finally a date was set later than originally hoped. In the spirit of making lemonade out of lemons, Time turned the delay...
Visa and cybersecurity and cloud computing company Akamai Technologies are collaborating to strengthen the trust layer in agentic commerce.
This collaboration will integrate Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol with Akamai’s edge-based behavioral intelligence, user recognition, and bot and abuse protection, the companies said in a Wednesday (Dec. 17) press release emailed to PYMNTS.
By...
A group of shareholders in digital bank Monzo reportedly want to reinstate its outgoing CEO.
TS Anil is due to step down as head of the U.K. company in February, but these investors hope to keep him in the chief executive position, the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (Dec. 17), citing sources familiar with the matter.
Investors have teamed and hired attorneys as they seek...