Новости за 08.05.2024

In a world increasingly flooded with artificial intelligence-generated content, tech behemoths are now locked in a high-stakes battle to develop cutting-edge tools that distinguish between what’s real and what’s not. From OpenAI’s launch of a new system to identify images created by its own DALL-E 3 text-to-image generator to Amazon’s deployment of AI to spot fraudulent reviews, companies are attempting to stay […]

Trimble has acquired Flashtract to add construction payment, compliance and lien waiver capabilities to its connected construction technology ecosystem. Flashtract’s technology streamlines the flow of payment and compliance information between construction general contractors and subcontractors, Trimble said in a Wednesday (May 8) press release. Now branded as Trimble Pay, the technology will initially be integrated with the Trimble Viewpoint Vista enterprise resource planning […]

When shopping in stores, retail customers prefer to pay with debit, but eCommerce is a different story. By the Numbers According to an October survey of more than 2,100 U.S. consumers, 44% of respondents had paid for their most recent retail purchase in stores via debit card, while 28% paid with a credit card. Conversely, 41% […]

With revenues sliding, Qurate Retail is focused on women over 50 and their discretionary income. The parent company of QVC and HSN on Wednesday (May 8) released quarterly earnings showing its revenues declining 4% year over year, contributing to an overall drop of 11%. Those figures mirrored the company’s quarterly report from February. “Consumers remain selective in their spending due to inflation […]

Enterprise AI platform ServiceNow and Microsoft have announced an expanded strategic alliance to combine their generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities and enhance employee choice and flexibility. The integration of ServiceNow’s Now Assist and Microsoft’s Copilot will allow employees to interact with both AI assistants to meet their needs wherever they are, the companies said in a Wednesday (May 8) press release. Employees will be able […]

Quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are converging, promising to push computing boundaries to transform industries and accelerate discoveries. Quantum computers harness quantum mechanics principles to perform complex calculations. They could turbocharge AI systems’ processing power by leveraging quantum bits (qubits) properties like superposition and entanglement. This quantum-AI synergy could tackle computationally-intensive tasks beyond classical […]

Google’s digital wallet is now available in the world’s most populous country. The tech giant announced Wednesday (May 8) that the Google Wallet was now open to users India, with a focus on “localized experiences.” “To start, we’ve partnered with over 20 of India’s top brands, offering one of the widest ranges of partners for any digital […]

Dubai-based payments firm MoneyHash launched a partnership with Visa. The collaboration is designed to offer secure digital payments for MoneyHash’s clientele in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region, who rely on the company’s payments orchestration and revenue operations platform, according to a Wednesday (May 8) press release. “Working with Visa enables MoneyHash to gain unparalleled access to Visa’s extensive suite of […]

Although it didn’t address two big elephants in the room, buy now, pay later company Affirm rode solid advancements in its debit card and gross merchandise volume metrics to better-than-expected Q3 earnings results.  In what is a continuing referendum on consumer spend this earnings season, CEO Max Levchin painted a picture of a consumer financing […]

CTS Systems has integrated Corcentric’s Managed Accounts Receivable (AR) services into its travel booking platform.  With this integration, the CTS Systems platform will offer corporate travel agents and hotels a single-source solution providing consolidated, digitized and secure invoice processing, the companies said in a Wednesday (May 8) press release.  “By partnering with Corcentric, we’re able to leverage our existing platform to vastly […]

Uber and Lyft bring to mind the oft-quoted Robert Frost poem. You know the one — about two roads that diverged. The rest of the poem is about the woods, the path not taken … but more than a century after its publication, it proves apt for online platforms, for the digital age. Uber and […]

The U.S. financial system is exploring the use of shared ledger technology for multi-asset transactions. The project will involve a number of high-profile financial institutions (FIs) — including Visa, Mastercard, Citi and JPMorgan — managed by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). “In the current financial system, commercial bank money, wholesale central bank money, and securities such […]

As the electric vehicle (EV) landscape shows signs of short-circuiting, automakers are eyeing another innovation. One more futuristic, and more fitting, for our rising artificial intelligence (AI) era.  That’s because, with the news Tuesday (May 7) that Wayve — a software startup focused on self-driving cars, had raised a whopping $1.05 billion Series C round […]

Basware expanded its market offering by acquiring AP Matching. The acquisition will add AP Matching’s cloud-based solutions for managing invoices and reconciling statements to Basware’s accounts payable (AP) automation and invoice processing capabilities, the companies said in a Wednesday (May 8) press release. “We’re excited to combine forces with AP Matching so that CFOs can enhance their AP automation […]

Just 58% of growth corporates in Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) had been using working capital solutions, but that percentage is slated to grow to 95% in the coming months. This is one key finding included in PYMNTS Intelligence’s “CEMEA Edition” of our 2023-2024 Growth Corporates Working Capital Index series, which was […]

Brazilian digital bank Nubank now has more than 100 million customers. The company announced the achievement in a Wednesday (May 8) press release, saying it was the first digital banking platform to mark this milestone outside of Asia. “In 2013, we had set ourselves the ambitious goal to reach 1 million customers in five years, which seemed almost impossible at the […]

Expensify will add travel booking and management capabilities to its financial management platform for expenses and corporate cards. The new Expensify Travel will begin rolling out next week in the Expensify web and mobile apps and will later be integrated into the new chat-based super app, New Expensify, the company said in a Wednesday (May […]

With the first quarter recently in the books and Q2 well underway, most companies have their collective eye on an uncertain economy and an inconsistent consumer. But for some companies, it’s beginning to look a lot like the holidays.  Count Balsam Brands among them. The upscale eCommerce and D2C holiday decor retailer has to fit […]

U.K. neobank Monzo reportedly raised $190 million as it plans to expand overseas. The funding brings the total Monzo has raised to $610 million so far this year, valuing it at $5.2 billion, company officials told CNBC Wednesday (May 8). The total funding marks the single-largest round for a European FinTech in the last year, the report said. CEO TS Anil said the company will use […]

Retailer discounts reportedly helped drive a roughly 12% increase in Chinese iPhone shipments in March. Shipments of foreign smartphones — most of which would have been Apple’s flagship product — rose to 3.75 million units in March, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (May 8), citing data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. The 12% increase follows a 37% […]

Eighteen months after its collapse, FTX is ready to repay its customers in full. The cryptocurrency exchange says it has pulled together assets worth $14.5 and $16.3 billion, enough to pay back 98% of its creditors 118% of what they are owed.  The remaining 2% would get back 100% of their claim under a plan […]

You’ve heard of embedded finance. Get ready for embedded lending. It’s a relatively new term to describe an important trend in consumer financial behavior, and Visa is among the companies that believe it is poised to take off, if its partners can educate consumers about its advantages. “We’re still on the journey of educating consumers […]

A trip is never just a trip. The end-to-end travel journey spans nearly ever touchpoint across hospitality.  And in the landscape of rental property management, the role of technology is becoming paramount. From streamlining operations to optimizing revenue, leveraging centralized platforms to do things like manage guest communication at scale and automate task management is providing short-term […]

There’s no place like home, particularly when it comes to preferred payment mechanisms. That’s why businesses looking to expand internationally need to ensure that their strategic approach includes diversification of payment methods and the integration of local payment solutions. “You need to embrace local payment methods and prioritize them unless you want to have a lot of cart abandonment,” […]

As payments go digital, their authentication is getting more organic — literally. One of the latest frontiers in the ongoing evolution of payments is leveraging biometric information for authentication, where the very characteristics of individuals — such as fingerprints, facial features or iris patterns — are used to authorize transactions securely and safely. “Biometric authentication, […]