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Oil Prices and Supply Chain Stress Sour Economic Outlook
14+ hour, 11+ min ago (21+ words) The Conference Board's Leading Economic Index (LEI) declined by 0. 6% in March amid higher oil prices and stressed supply chains....
Extend Embeds WEX B2 B Payments'Into'SAP Concur Invoice
15+ hour, 36+ min ago (18+ words) WEX'corporate card customers can now generate and settle vendor payments with virtual cards within'SAP's'Concur Invoice platform.'...
Agentic AI Gets Its Own Payment Protocol
14+ hour, 10+ min ago (555+ words) A traveler books a flight through an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant embedded in a super app. The agent finds the fare, selects the seat and completes payment. The user never leaves the interface. The digital wallet was built for a…...
Agora Seeks US Bank Charter to Scale Digital Dollars
11+ hour, 42+ min ago (394+ words) Stablecoin issuer Agora Finance has filed for a national trust bank charter as it looks to build its business in the United States. Agora aims to secure the bank charter to open the door to the U. S. market under a unified…...
Why The Anchorage CEO Wants 3, 999 Crypto Bank Competitors
1+ day, 11+ min ago (940+ words) Explore more conversations like this From the Block." Nathan Mc Cauley said something on the latest episode of "From the Block" that should have stopped the conversation cold. It almost did. "There was one crypto bank, there are now nine, and…...
One Pay Joins Tempo Blockchain to Launch Stablecoin Payouts
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (374+ words) Consumer Fin Tech company One Pay aims to add stablecoin payouts and account funding to its banking product through a new partnership with the Tempo blockchain. One Pay currently powers instant payouts and direct deposit access for millions of American…...
Parallel Web Systems Raises $100 Million for Agentic AI Efforts
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (350+ words) Parallel Web Systems, an AI startup launched by Twitter's ex-CEO, has raised $100 million. According to the announcement, the company offers two types of products. First are web tools "built as primitives" for search, extraction and retrieval for agents to use....
FIS Platform Bridges the Gap Between Banking and Digital Money
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (363+ words) FIS'has launched a new platform that enables banks to issue, manage and settle their own digital money while keeping those deposits on their balance sheet. The digital money Lyriq can handle includes tokenized deposits and digital currencies, according to the…...
States Move to Rein'In'Crypto Kiosks as Fraud Concerns Mount
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (40+ words) Lawmakers in nearly 30 states have introduced or passed legislation targeting crypto ATMs, driven largely by a surge in fraud....
Rogo Raises $160 Million to Lessen Wall Street Workloads
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (341+ words) Rogo has raised $160 million for an artificial intelligence (AI) product focused on the finance world. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Stengel described the origins of the company, with him and fellow Princeton University computer science graduate John Willett, a…...