Новости за 24.02.2026

The Federal Reserve is building artificial intelligence into its daily work to achieve operational efficiencies in payments, financial management, human resources and the financial services it provides to the U.S. Treasury, Fed Governor Christopher J. Waller said Tuesday (Feb. 24). In a speech delivered at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 2026 Technology-Enabled Disruption […]

Planet Fitness continues to lean on Generation Z engagement to navigate a shifting wellness landscape. The fitness chain reported year-end and quarterly earnings Tuesday (Feb. 24) showing that it had wrapped 2025 with 20.8 million members, while also marking a record-setting 104 club openings during its fourth quarter. CEO Colleen Keating highlighted the company’s […]

A data breach at Conduent Business Services, an operator of back-end systems for state governments, has affected more than 25 million people across the country, according to data breach information posted this month by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP). Conduent’s systems handle Medicaid claims and eligibility systems to support […]

Google has teamed with marketing automation platform Klaviyo to help brands offer “AI-driven” customer experiences. The partnership, announced Tuesday (Feb. 24), aims to combine Google’s expertise in search, advertising, artificial intelligence (AI) and messaging with Klaviyo’s real-time customer data and decisioning. The goal, the companies said in a news release, is to help brands trade “static campaigns” for experiences […]

Most people who deposited a paycheck this week, withdrew cash from an ATM, or filed a government form probably had no idea their transaction ran through COBOL. If you haven’t heard of it before now, it’s understandable. It’s a programming language developed when Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House. That invisibility has suited […]

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said in a Tuesday (Feb. 24) speech that rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) could pose new challenges for the central bank’s traditional tools as it fundamentally reshapes the U.S. economy. In remarks delivered at the National Association for Business Economics conference in Washington, D.C. as part of a panel […]

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is offering tokenized securities on its Binance Alpha platform, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 24) announcement. The company joined forces with Ondo, a blockchain-based platform focused on tokenizing real-world assets, like securities and exchange-traded funds, the announcement said. “This update provides a seamless and powerful trading experience,” Binance said in the […]

Keurig Dr Pepper saw growth across its business segments in the fourth quarter as it advanced its plans to separate into two companies by the end of the year. “We navigated a dynamic operating environment with agility while strengthening our foundation for the long term,” Keurig Dr Pepper CEO Tim Cofer said Tuesday during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call. […]

Meta is hoping to enter the stablecoin payment space sometime this year, CoinDesk reported Tuesday (Feb. 24), citing unnamed sources. The move would happen if the Facebook owner is successful in integrating with a third-party company to facilitate stablecoin payments, the report said. Meta wants to begin its stablecoin integration early in the second […]

Anthropic’s Claude is moving into the human resources, design and investment banking fields, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Feb. 24). The artificial intelligence startup announced the expansions of its chatbot Tuesday during a livestream event, the report said. The rollout comes weeks after Anthropic triggered stock market turmoil with the launch of new tools that […]

Accounting-focused artificial intelligence (AI) startup Basis has raised $100 million in new funding. The company’s Series B round, announced Tuesday (Feb. 24), was led by Accel and Google Ventures and values Basis at $1.15 billion. “Accounting is structured, high-stakes, and essential to every business on earth. It’s also one of the most underbuilt areas […]

India-based cross-border payments company Xflow raised $16.6 million in new funding. “This milestone strengthens our mission to simplify cross-border payments for Indian exporters,” the company said in announcing its Series A round in a LinkedIn post Tuesday (Feb. 24). Investors included PayPal Ventures, Stripe, General Catalyst and others. Xflow Head of Operations Rahul Unnikrishnan […]

Home Depot is learning to grow even when housing does not. The retailer on Tuesday (Feb. 24) reported fourth-quarter 2025 adjusted earnings per share of $2.72, comfortably ahead of Wall Street’s expectations, on revenue of $38.2 billion that also edged past forecasts despite being down 3.8% year over year. Comparable sales, long the pressure […]

Stripe was valued at $159 billion in a tender offer designed to provide liquidity to current and former employees, the programmable financial services company said in a Tuesday (Feb. 24) update. The figure is up from the $106.7 billion valuation the company achieved in September and the $95 billion valuation it had in 2021. […]

Meta has signed an AI infrastructure agreement with chipmaker AMD. The deal, announced Tuesday (Feb. 24), will see AMD supply up to 6GW of its Instinct GPUs to help Meta support its artificial intelligence (AI) models. “At Meta, we’re working to build the next generation of AI and enable personal superintelligence for all,” the tech giant said […]

The value of the luxury resale space reportedly grew to $59 billion last year. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Feb. 24) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which says the market for secondhand luxury goods is now growing faster than the primary market. The report describes an “uneasy truce” luxury companies have formed with resale […]

Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments firm RedotPay is reportedly planning to go public. The company is weighing a U.S. initial public offering (IPO) that could raise more than $1 billion, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Feb. 24), citing sources familiar with the matter. These sources say RedotPay is working with banks and could seek a valuation of more than […]

Thomson Reuters’ professional-grade artificial intelligence technology CoCounsel has been adopted by 1 million professionals across 107 countries, the company said in a Tuesday (Feb. 24) press release emailed to PYMNTS. CoCounsel is Thomson Reuters’ AI technology that powers generative and agentic capabilities across the company’s legal, tax, accounting, audit, risk, compliance and corporate solutions, […]

FedEx has taken legal action over the tariffs recently struck down by the Supreme Court. The shipping giant’s complaint, filed Monday (Feb. 23), is believed to be the first major lawsuit seeking a reimbursement since the court ruled that President Donald Trump had no authority to issue tariffs under the International Economic Emergency Powers […]

Watch more: Need to Know With Visa’s Chavi Jafa Nearly half of growth corporates across Asia Pacific, companies with revenues between $50 million and $1 billion, say they don’t use working capital tools. Not because they don’t need them, but because what’s available doesn’t match how they actually operate. That finding, from Visa’s latest […]

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Velera’s Cody Banks The payments environment facing credit unions in 2026 reflects a subtle yet consequential shift in emphasis, as competitive pressures, member expectations and technological capabilities converge around a single organizing principle. For Cody Banks, senior vice president of Product Experience and Enablement at credit union […]

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With The Clearing House’s Sal Karakaplan A single word rarely captures the trajectory of an entire industry. Yet during periods of structural change, language often provides a useful lens through which priorities, anxieties and ambitions can be understood. During a conversation for the February edition of the What’s […]

Big Tech spent millions on flashy Super Bowl commercials to hype generative artificial intelligence as a creative tool for the masses, but the holy grail is locking down lucrative enterprise subscriptions for armies of corporate employees. Multinational giants like Alphabet don’t just sell 8 million Gemini Enterprise seats in four months for novelty’s sake. Google’s […]

The smartphone is no longer just a shopping tool. It has become the storefront. That was the central takeaway from the “2025 Global Digital Shopping Index: The Rise of the Mobile Window Shopper and What It Means for Payments,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions. Drawing on surveys of 18,468 consumers […]

Job security has long been treated as the cornerstone of financial stability, yet new data suggest that security without mobility can narrow economic choices rather than expand them. The “Wage to Wallet Index” from PYMNTS Intelligence, WorkWhile and Ingo Payments finds that workers’ perceptions of job mobility increasingly shape how they spend, save and […]