Новости за 12.02.2026

Alinea Invest launched a partnership with digital asset infrastructure provider Zerohash, according to a Thursday (Feb. 12) news release. The collaboration allows users to invest in cryptocurrency along with stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) within the Alinea platform, the release said. “Younger investors want access without complexity,” Alinea Invest co-founder and co-CEO Anam Lakhani […]

Japan-based PayPay filed for a U.S. initial public offering Thursday (Feb. 12), saying it aims to continue expanding the capabilities of its digital finance platform. In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company did not specify the number of shares to be offered or the IPO price range of the shares. PayPay’s platform includes payments, banking, investments […]

Companies have spent the past two years racing to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents across sales, finance, operations and customer support. Now, a new constraint is surfacing inside the enterprise: the technology is scaling faster than the management structures designed to control it. Autonomous AI agents are no longer limited to drafting emails or […]

Computer seller MSI has formed a pay-later partnership with B2B payments company Mondu. The collaboration, announced Thursday (Feb. 12), will allow MSI to offer buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions in its online business store. “As B2B procurement shifts online, the demand for a seamless, ‘B2C-like’ checkout experience has never been higher,” the companies said in a news release. […]

Experian says it is launching its insurance comparison platform on OpenAI’s AI chatbot, ChatGPT. “This debut represents a significant advancement in Experian’s AI strategy, leveraging conversational technology to simplify everyday financial choices and create a more intuitive and helpful consumer experience,” the company said in a Thursday (Feb. 12) news release. The company says its Insurance Marketplace […]

The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) models has led to a new form of intellectual property theft called “model extraction attacks” or “distillation attacks,” Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said in a Thursday (Feb. 12) blog post. In these attacks, threat actors use their legitimate access to a large language model (LLM) to extract information that can be used […]

FedEx says it is focusing on “high-margin” clients to reach $98 billion in revenue in 2029. During its investors day presentation Thursday (Feb. 12), the shipping company outlined its strategy for reaching that goal, including focusing its commercial strategy on “premium” business-to-business (B2B) and specialized business to consumer (B2C) markets “where customers value speed, precision, visibility, and […]

What used to be a retail war between Amazon and Walmart is now a platform war over who embeds themselves deepest into consumers’ daily routines. Over the past week alone, a cluster of headline announcements have clarified how far the category-defining rivalry has moved beyond price matching and two-day shipping. Amazon is scaling same-day […]

PayPal is launching an artificial intelligence-focused partnership with tech firms Sabre and Mindtrip, according to a Thursday (Feb. 12) press release. The collaboration combines PayPal’s agentic commerce capabilities, Sabre’s enterprise-grade travel technology and agentic AI expertise, and Mindtrip’s agentic consumer platform, the release said. The goal is to replace the “fragmented multistep booking processes” […]

Truist launched its inaugural open banking integration, connecting first to Mastercard’s open finance technology, according to a Thursday (Feb. 12) press release. The platform is designed to give consumers and small businesses “secure, centralized access to their financial data, unlocking transparency, personalization and control across a growing ecosystem of trusted FinTech apps,” the release […]

Foreign exporters paid a growing share of the cost of new tariffs in 2025, though U.S. importers continued to pay for most of that cost, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Thursday (Feb. 12). The share paid by foreign exporters was 6% from January through August, 8% from September through October, and 14% […]

Payment/financial services firm Fiserv has debuted a real-time cash-settlement platform for digital asset companies. The INDX platform, announced Thursday (Feb. 12), is designed to help digital asset companies securely store and transfer U.S. dollars in real time and around the clock. “INDX advances the strategic vision behind bringing StoneCastle into the Fiserv ecosystem, combining […]

As counterintuitive as it sounds, businesses have typically moved forward by looking backward. The reason for this was the humble, and all too frequently monolithic, enterprise resource planning system (ERP). These platforms recorded transactions, enforced controls and closed the books. They were not designed to move money but rather to explain and track where […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) proposed new terms for voluntary use in contracts for direct buys of digital advertising. The Direct Buy Addendum v1.0 covers sponsorships, audience extensions and other direct buys, the trade association for the digital advertising industry said in a Thursday (Feb. 12) press release. The addendum and updates to IAB’s […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Simile has raised $100 million in a new funding round. That’s according to a report Thursday (Feb. 12) from Bloomberg News, which says the financing will help Simile develop AI tools designed to help companies predict human behavior. That includes guessing which products consumers might buy, or questions that analysts might pose during […]

Insurance companies are beginning to deploy agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems that do more than summarize documents or answer customer questions. They are orchestrating entire workflows across claims, underwriting and policy servicing functions, touching legacy policy administration, billing and claims systems that were never designed for autonomous coordination. Unlike earlier automation waves that focused […]

AI startup Modal Labs is reportedly looking to raise funds at a $2.5 billion valuation. The company, which specializes in artificial intelligence (AI) inference infrastructure, is in talks with venture capitalists about a new funding round, TechCrunch reported Wednesday (Feb. 11), citing sources familiar with the matter. According to the report, the deal would more than double Modal […]

  Explore more conversations like this From the Block.  The cryptocurrency industry appears to have a narrative problem. The story it tells is about speed, innovation and a financial system rebuilt from scratch. The story it hasn’t figured out is what happens when an ordinary person makes an ordinary mistake, and there’s no one […]

Watch more: The Digital Shift With North’s Greg Gorman Back-office details don’t inspire much excitement. But for all that they may be overlooked, when back-office detail is executed poorly, it can derail even the best laid front-office plans. Think of the humble invoice. Now think of trying to pay a poorly designed one. “Gone […]

The novelty phase of conversational artificial intelligence has officially ended, giving way to a more formidable market phase: structural reliance. While nearly half of U.S. consumers have now interfaced with AI assistants, the real story isn’t the influx of new users — it’s the stickiness among the incumbents. The February 2026 “Agentic AI Report” […]

This edition of “The Prompt Economy™ Tracker®” examines how tokenization is emerging as the foundational trust layer for agentic AI and the next generation of digital commerce. Through the narrative persona of a consumer whose AI agent manages everything from paying bills to handling returns and booking travel, the report illustrates how invisible checkouts have reshaped the […]

A growing share of retail small businesses are not planning for the next downturn so much as financing their way through the next week, and PYMNTS Intelligence data showed just how thin that margin has become. The PYMNTS Data Book “How Retail Small Businesses Finance Survival in Uncertain Times” sketched an economy where access […]

Amazon-owned eero has introduced a device that provides dedicated cellular backup connectivity for the user’s eero network when a primary interconnection goes down. The eero Signal 4G LTE is compatible with USB-C-powered Wi-Fi 6 or greater eeros and eero PoE Gateway, the company said in a Wednesday (Feb. 11) blog post. To deploy the […]

BlockFills, a provider of crypto liquidity and technology, announced Wednesday (Feb. 11) that it suspended client deposits and withdrawals last week. The company said in a statement that it did so to protect clients and itself during the recent market and financial conditions. It added that clients can still trade with BlockFills for select […]

The Federal Reserve plans to review “matters requiring attention” (MRAs) issued to banks by its examiners and downgrade some to “non-binding supervisory observation,” Reuters reported Wednesday (Feb. 11), citing a Fed internal memo seen by Reuters. The review of the MRAs will be guided by Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman’s directive that […]