Introducing TNW Council
A private network for founders and executives, limited to 1,000 members The Next Web today announces the launch of TNW Council, a private membership community created for founders and executives leadi...
Legal Expert Says Bank Charters Are Crypto’s Credibility Play
Watch more: TechReg Talks: Davis Wright Tremaine’s Steve Gannon
The pursuit of bank charters by FinTechs and cryptocurrency-focused firms is accelerating, driven less by novelty and more ...
Walmart’s Closing the Amazon Online Sales Gap
Walmart’s online business is no longer defined by how far it trails Amazon, but by how quickly it is changing the structure of the retail race.
That is the central insight of “Walmart A...
Card Program Complexity Puts Scale-or-Stall Pressure on Issuers
Card programs have become tools in modern payments, enabling banks, FinTechs and non-financial brands to extend financial services, deepen customer relationships and unlock new revenue streams.
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CFOs Discover AI Is Only as Strong as Their Data
For years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been pitched to finance leaders as a faster way to do what they already do: close the books, reconcile accounts, forecast cash, and manage risk.
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The Wild West of Web3: A New Frontier
The good ol’ times are back, in a different wayIf you thought the dot-com boom was chaotic two decades ago, welcome to Web3, where fortunes are minted overnight, rug pulls happen before lunch, and t...
Chinese AI Video Generator Kling Hits $240 Million Annual Run Rate
Chinese social media firm Kuaishou Technology said its AI video generator, Kling AI, achieved monthly revenue of $20 million in December, boosting its annualized run rate to $240 million from $100 mil...
PrimeXBT Expands Crypto Futures With 40 New Crypto Assets
January 14, 2026 – Castries, Saint Lucia
PrimeXBT, a leading global crypto and CFD broker, has listed 40 new crypto futures trading pairs, significantly expanding its asset coverage across high-de...
Visa Turns to BVNK to Power Stablecoin Payments
Stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK is set to start powering stablecoin payments for Visa’s money movement network.
The partnership between the two companies, announced Wednesday (Jan...
