Новости за 19.02.2026

Global technology company Sea has partnered with Google to develop artificial intelligence-powered innovations for Sea’s core business lines, including online games company Garena, eCommerce platform Shopee, and financial services provider Monee. This marks an expansion of an existing collaboration that includes Shopee’s participation in the YouTube Shopping Affiliate Program and Garena’s partnership with Google […]

Users of the Rakuten Card Lite app can now get questions about their credit card statements answered by an artificial intelligence agent. The new AI agent can summarize monthly spend amounts in chronological order, show selected statements within a designated period, and show estimated spending amounts for usage categories such as “supermarkets” or “restaurants,” […]

Community bank and credit union technology company interface.ai, has debuted a new collection tool. The company’s Smart Collections offering, announced Thursday (Feb. 19), uses agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to help community financial institutions address delinquency earlier, before accounts proceed to later stages and recovery costs increase. “Early-stage delinquency is becoming a sharper focus across […]

Talk about raining on the parade. New Walmart CEO John Furner’s first earnings call was dampened by the news Thursday morning (Feb. 19) that it had been surpassed by Amazon in terms of total sales. That and a tepid forecast led to a lackluster start to Furner’s first showing with Wall Street analysts. And while […]

California-based startup ZaiNar has raised $100 million to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered GPS alternative. That $100 million figure includes the $10 million the company recently took in, valuing it at $1 billion, the company said in a Thursday (Feb. 19) press release. ZaiNar said it addresses an ongoing problem for robots and other […]

Figure is reportedly introducing a tokenized class of stock that trades on blockchain rails. Company officials told Coindesk Thursday (Feb. 19) that Figure’s FGRD token will be available on its Onchain Public Equity Network (OPEN), and issued, traded and settled without using traditional Wall Street clearing and custody systems. Instead, FGRD transactions are recorded and finalized […]

Visa plans to acquire two companies in Argentina — Prisma and Newpay — from private equity firm Advent International. The company entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the firms and expects the transaction to close during the current quarter, subject to closing conditions, Visa said in a Thursday (Feb. 19) press release. Prisma provides credit, debit and prepaid card issuer processing, while Newpay operates […]

Embedded finance platform Jaris expanded its partnership with payments firm Paysafe, according to a Thursday (Feb. 19) press release. The collaboration makes Jaris’ instant payouts solution available to the tens of thousands of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Paysafe’s merchant network in the United States, per the release. “By integrating Instant Payouts into […]

Etsy is joining the Prompt Economy in a big way. Its fourth-quarter results, reported Friday (Feb. 19), showed improving buyer engagement and its first positive year-over-year gross merchandise sales (GMS) comparison since 2023. The company is shifting capital and execution toward its core platform, positioning agentic artificial intelligence (AI) and mobile-first engagement as the […]

The Supreme Court could rule on President Donald Trump’s tariffs any day now. However, the outcome of that case might make little difference to the struggling furniture industry, CNBC reported Thursday (Feb. 19). Furniture importers are dealing with steep tariffs on their products, with duties specific to their businesses of around 25%, the report said. […]

Klarna said in a fourth-quarter earnings report that it doubled its number of banking customers over the past year. During the fourth quarter, Klarna’s number of banking customers grew 101% year over year to reach 15.8 million, the company said in a Thursday (Feb. 19) earnings press release. Klarna defines banking customers as those […]

ByteDance is reportedly hiring for dozens of open positions on its U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) team. That’s according to a report Thursday (Feb. 19) from Bloomberg News, which said this is an effort by the Chinese tech giant to compete with American AI companies despite ongoing national security fears from the U.S. government. The […]

The velocity of change in B2B eCommerce isn’t just moving the goalposts. It’s creating a whole new ballgame. While B2B commerce leaders have for years been chasing the moving target of delivering corporate buying experiences that feel as seamless as consumer eCommerce, a new shift is emerging that could render even the most advanced […]

Meta has reportedly resurrected its smartwatch project, aiming to release the device this year. That’s according to a report Wednesday (Feb. 19) from The Information, which notes that the company’s efforts are happening as its Big Tech peers like Apple, Google and OpenAI are also planning new consumer device launches. The report, citing sources familiar with the matter, says Meta has relaunched its shelved […]

Stablecoins are often portrayed as a triumph of blockchain innovation, but behind the scenes they can frequently run on conventional infrastructure. It may come as a surprise to corporate leaders weighing blockchain finance solutions that, in practice, much of the heavy lifting enabling stablecoin transactions can happen off chain, not on it. Stablecoin ledger […]

WalletConnect, a company that enables businesses to accept crypto and stablecoin payments, has appointed Riaz Bordie, a former Checkout.com and SumUp, as its chief technology officer. Bordie will drive the technical development of WalletConnect Pay, the company’s payment method that allows the acceptance of crypto and stablecoin payments on a widely adopted wallet network, […]

Australian buy now, pay later firm Zip says it is seeing enthusiasm from American customers. The company reported earnings Thursday (Feb. 19) that showed revenue growth of 46.4% for Zip’s U.S. business. Growth during the company’s second quarter was “supported by a strong holiday trading period, which included the single largest day and month of transaction volumes in […]

OpenAI’s latest round of funding could reportedly value the startup at more than $850 billion. The ChatGPT creator is close to concluding the initial phase of a new round of funding that is likely to take in upwards of $100 billion, Bloomberg News reported late Wednesday (Feb. 18), citing sources familiar with the matter. […]

Online retail platform eBay has invested in TrueLayer as part of a partnership with the Pay by Bank provider. “This milestone follows a year of strong momentum for Pay by Bank across Europe, as merchants increasingly prioritize fast, safe, and flexible payment options that align with evolving consumer payment preferences,” TrueLayer said in a […]

For more than two decades, financial technology companies have been racing to expand a financing model invented by General Motors over a century ago. The model established in‑house finance arms so that car buyers could get a loan at the dealership instead of trudging to a bank. Now the sprint to put more financial […]

Hype can go hand in hand with immediacy. Since artificial intelligence first went mainstream, the innovation has been framed as having an immediate impact. As a result, the goals for enterprise buyers have centered around productivity gains that happen upon implementation; quick, cost-saving wins that justify experimentation; and other early, easy victories. However, PYMNTS […]

Cash is king when uncertainty reigns. But for many firms, profit is not disappearing due to macroeconomic forces alone. In many cases, it is being forfeited through slow processes, limited visibility and outdated assumptions about how their payments operations and accounts receivables (AR) functions must work. In an environment where growth is harder to […]

Rule 1033 was supposed to be the moment U.S. “open banking” stopped being a patchwork of screen-scraping workarounds and became a regulated data-right. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)’s final rule set out a clean idea: Consumers should be able to direct their bank or card issuer to share their account data with authorized […]

Watch more: TechReg Talks With Nixon Peabody’s Andrew Glass and Gregory Blase For years, getting a bank charter was something only traditional financial institutions worried about. That’s changing fast. A growing number of FinTech companies now see charters as powerful tools that can shape how they build their businesses, manage compliance and compete in […]

The fastest way to spot where agentic artificial intelligence will land next is to watch the technology sector, where it is already being built and tested. Inside tech, familiarity is translating into early, careful moves along a classic S-shaped adoption curve. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Tech on Tech: How the Technology Sector Is Powering […]