Новости за 05.02.2026

Checkout and payments company Bolt has teamed with Socure to bolster its identity verification system. “Bolt has built a powerful ecosystem of merchants and consumers, with identity checks embedded directly into checkout,” Socure said in a Thursday (Feb. 5) news release. “By integrating Socure’s RiskOS platform, Bolt ID now delivers a network-wide eCommerce identity layer […]

Yum Brands is seeing both its restaurant operators and customers benefit from the Byte by Yum technology platform the company announced in February 2025. The platform is a collection of proprietary software-as-a-service (SaaS) artificial intelligence-driven products designed for the quick-service restaurant (QSR) company’s KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Habit Burger & Grill restaurants. […]

Stablecoin issuer Circle has launched a partnership with prediction market Polymarket. The collaboration is designed to support dollar-denominated settlement infrastructure for Polymarket users, the companies said in a Thursday (Feb. 5) news release. Polymarket now uses Bridged USDC (USDC.e) on Polygon as collateral for its trades. Under this partnership, the company will shift to […]

Corporate rivalries are traditionally cast in simple, static terms. Take, for example, the competition between Amazon and Walmart, which has long been described as a clash of two competing models: each giant standing on its respective side of digital-native versus physical-first, growth versus efficiency, and Prime versus price. But as this week’s news highlights, that framing is […]

Corporate rivalries are traditionally cast in simple, static terms. Take for example the competition between Amazon and Walmart, which has long-been described as a clash of two competing models: each giant standing on its respective side of digital-native versus physical-first, growth versus efficiency and Prime versus price. But as the news this week highlights, […]

Blockchain-based lender Figure says it is expanding investor access to its On-Chain Public Equity Network (OPEN). This is happening via new integrations with moomoo and Keplr, Figure said in a Wednesday (Feb. 4) news release. The collaboration is designed to extend the distribution of blockchain-native public equities on regulated brokerage platforms and self-custody wallets. […]

Anthropic announced Thursday (Feb. 5) Claude Opus 4.6, a new version of its flagship artificial intelligence model that it described as a direct upgrade to Claude Opus 4.5, designed for enterprise and knowledge work. The model is built around three outcomes Anthropic considers critical for enterprise use, including finding information, analyzing it and producing […]

Peloton reported fiscal second-quarter results that missed revenue expectations, reflecting slower-than-anticipated equipment upgrades among existing members and longer delivery timelines that delayed revenue recognition. Nevertheless, the quarter showed continued progress on margin expansion, cost discipline and deleveraging, underscoring the company’s push to stabilize the business before returning to sustained top-line growth. “I will not […]

Cryptocurrency-focused bank Anchorage Digital says it has received a $100 investment from stablecoin issuer Tether. The investment, announced Thursday (Feb. 4), follows collaborations between the two companies, as Anchorage is Tether’s U.S. stablecoin issuer, and values the bank at $4.2 billion. “This moment reflects years of deliberate execution. Tether’s investment is a strong signal of conviction from one of […]

OpenAI now offers both a platform and the services of human engineers to help enterprises use artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The new platform, Frontier, helps enterprises build, deploy and manage AI agents, the company said in a Thursday (Feb. 5) press release. Frontier provides these “AI coworkers” with shared context, onboarding, hands-on learning, and clear permissions and boundaries, according to the release. It […]

Nubank’s effort to get a banking license in the United States is part of a global expansion planned by the digital bank, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Feb. 5). The company’s 2024 investment in digital banking group Tyme Group, which operates TymeBank in South Africa and GoTyme in the Philippines, was part of an effort to […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent used his House testimony Wednesday (Feb. 4) to spotlight an urgency for new bank formation. More than half of community banks have disappeared since the financial crisis, he told lawmakers, as PYMNTS reported, and “there have been virtually no de novo banks created,” arguing that regulatory tailoring is essential if […]

Goodfire has raised $150 million to continue its research into understanding artificial intelligence (AI) models. The company’s Series B funding round, announced Thursday (Feb. 5), values Goodfire at $1.25 billion, and comes as the startup continues its efforts in the field of interpretability. As Goodfire describes it, interpretability is the science of reverse engineering […]

Michael Burry, the investor immortalized for calling the U.S. housing collapse, has made a career of being early, lonely and often uncomfortably right. His latest target is the orange-pilled bitcoin evangelists that claim the digital asset will one day be worth $1 million. Over the weekend, Burry issued a note highlighting how free-falling bitcoin and […]

American Express (AmEx) has debuted its Flexible Payment Option (FPO) for small businesses. The new offering, announced in a Thursday (Feb. 5) news release emailed to PYMNTS, is aimed at giving businesses more control over their cash flow needs with an instant line of credit. “We know that cash flow is vital for small businesses […]

Visa has launched a new platform designed to help small business owners access capital, reach customers and adopt modern business tools. The Visa & Main platform will continue adding resources, programming and local activations, the company said in a Thursday (Feb. 5) press release emailed to PYMNTS. “With Visa & Main, we’re connecting Visa’s […]

Compliance/identity platform Duna has raised $35 million in a Series A funding round. The new funding, announced Thursday (Feb. 5), will help Duna as it works towards its goal of building a “global trust infrastructure” by offering a “digital passport for every business,” leading to “a network for shareable identity and one-click onboarding.” Founded […]

Agentic artificial intelligence is gaining momentum across banking and commerce, and payments networks are among the leaders. Case in point: Mastercard announced Jan. 27 the Mastercard Agent Suite, a set of services and customizable AI agents that it said will help businesses build, test and deploy agents in day-to-day operations. Kaushik Gopal, executive vice […]

Watch more: Office of the CFO With Smarsh Ian Goodkind CFOs have traditionally been tasked with keeping things in their place. For years, that has kept CFOs mostly in place themselves, behind the walls of their own finance functions. But change comes fast, and it doesn’t spare the finance department no matter the projections. […]

Instant payouts have moved from novelty to norm, reshaping how consumers expect to receive money across payroll, insurance, rewards and platform disbursements. Nearly three in four consumers have now received at least one payout instantly, a clear sign that instant delivery has reached mainstream scale. Yet the data also shows a growing disconnect between access […]

Nearly three-quarters of credit cardholders who requested a limit increase and were denied turned to installment plans as an alternative source of credit, revealing how rejection decisions push consumers toward competing financial products. The findings come from “Credit Limits: Understanding Requests, Denials And The Consumer Experience,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and Elan Credit Card collaboration […]

Digital wallet use has accelerated, resetting expectations for frictionless commerce, Thales Europe Region SVP Cyril Villemin writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off.” Digital wallets were on issuers’ roadmaps, but Apple Pay’s exponential adoption and eCommerce scale reset payment expectations, making frictionless, tokenized payments the standard and laying the […]

Snap positioned artificial intelligence (AI) as the core lever for improving advertiser performance and driving more profitable growth during the fourth-quarter earnings call. The company said it is embedding AI end to end across its advertising platform, from creative development to campaign delivery and optimization, with a focus on direct-response outcomes and return on […]

Ahead of the Sunday (Feb. 8) Super Bowl, the venue in Santa Clara, California, was outfitted with technology to combat cyber threats, boost Wi-Fi capacity and power a “massive” 4K videoboard, Reuters reported Wednesday (Feb. 4). For cybersecurity, the NFL set up a cyber command center within the stadium and manned it with the […]

When Alphabet outlined plans on its fourth quarter earnings call Wednesday (Feb. 4) to invest between $175 billion and $185 billion in capital expenditures during 2026, the range seemed to be less about ambition than necessity. Management framed the commitment during the call with analysts as a direct response to sustained demand for artificial […]