August, 2025

August, 2025

Retail Sales Get a Summer Boost on Promotions, but Dining out Dips
The July retail sales report showed solid spending overall, but a deeper dive into category-by-category spending reveals a bit of give and take. [contact-form-7] The households budgets in ...

Institutional-Grade Custody Remains Missing Link in Crypto’s Mainstream Breakthrough
The cryptocurrency industry has matured from garage-hack experiments to a trillion-dollar asset class with global implications. [contact-form-7] Yet, behind the scenes, one stubborn obstacle...

Citigroup Considers Offering Crypto-Related Custody Services and Stablecoin-Powered Payments
Citigroup is reportedly considering getting involved in stablecoins. [contact-form-7] The bank is exploring providing stablecoin-powered payments as well as custody services for the assets t...

This Week in AI: Peloton Taps AI and Cohere Nets Funds to Take on OpenAI
Peloton plans to roll out new AI features as soon as October, OpenAI rival Cohere raises $500 million and Anthropic offers Claude to the federal government for $1. PYMNTS breaks it down. [contact-...

Cognition Raises $500 Million to Support AI Coding Products
Cognition reportedly raised $500 million in a funding round to support its artificial intelligence (AI) software code generation products. [contact-form-7] The round doubled the company’s ...

N26 Faces Leadership Overhaul Amid Regulator Pressure
Investors in Germany’s most valuable FinTech, N26, are pushing to remove its co-founders from executive roles and install the bank’s supervisory board chair as interim co-chief executive, the Fin...

Is Student Loan Debt a Ladder Up or a Weight Down?
It was Aristotle who said: “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” It could be a headline for the latest paycheck-to-paycheck study from PYMNTS, which found a mix of regret an...

Amazon and Walmart Make Same-Day Grocery Delivery Retail’s New Battleground
Amazon and Walmart occupy overlapping territory in retail but dominate in very different ways, largely because they’ve built their empires around different strategic identities. [contact-form-7...

EP #532 How This Founder Raised Over $900K with Crowdfunding | Arro Finance
What if your credit score reflected your potential, not your past? That’s the radical idea behind Arro, a behavior-ba...

Roku Launches New Howdy Ad-Free SVOD Service and Shares Its Home Screen Strategies?
This week Roku launched a $2.99-per-month, ad-free SVOD service called Howdy, which bucks the prevailing ad-supported content trend for low-cost/no-cost streaming and offers what Roku says is nearly 1...

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