Новости за 11.03.2026

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) plans to propose rules saying that stablecoins are not eligible for FDIC pass-through insurance, and that tokenized deposits are eligible for such insurance. FDIC Chairman Travis Hill said this on Wednesday (March 11) in a speech delivered at the American Bankers Association’s Washington Summit. With pass-through insurance, deposits […]

Digital assets are reshaping U.S. financial services, and their impact can be traced by the wake of new banking charter applications. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is receiving so many applications for digital asset-focused national trust charters that a lobbying group for the traditional financial sector, the Bank Policy […]

OppFi is keeping an eye on the gas pump as it enjoys record revenues. The personal loan platform reported annual earnings Wednesday (March 11) showing its income up 74.4% year over year to $146.2 million, an all-time high. But during an earnings call with analysts, management faced questions about the macroeconomic forces facing its borrowers. This includes […]

Claude for Excel and Claude for PowerPoint now share full context across open files and allow users to save skills that make processes repeatable in the future. Anthropic announced these features in a Wednesday (March 11) blog post, saying they enable users to complete tasks faster. Claude’s ability to pass context across multiple Excel […]

McDonald’s is reportedly planning to lower the cost of its value meals even further. Beginning next month, the fast food giant will debut a series of new discounts that include meals that cost $3 and less, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday (March 11), citing sources familiar with the matter. “We have achieved incredible progress together […]

Mind Robotics has raised $500 million to develop what it calls “AI-enabled” robotic systems. The company’s Series A round, expected to close later this month, follows $115 million in seed funding Mind received last year, the startup said in a Wednesday (March 11) news release. The company, founded and led by Rivian CEO RJ […]

OpenAI is shifting the focus of its commerce efforts to retailers’ ChatGPT apps after scaling back its plans to sell products directly through ChatGPT checkouts, The Information reported Wednesday (March 11). An OpenAI spokesperson said this approach will give merchants greater control over the purchasing experience, according to the report. The shift to in-app purchases has presented […]

Wells Fargo has filed a trademark application for “WFUSD,” a new digital asset-centric platform. WFUSD would provide services “featuring software for tokenization of assets” and “cryptocurrency payments processing” and would “execute trades of digital assets,” the banking giant said in a filing Tuesday (March 10) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The filing was flagged in […]

The supply chain is undergoing a structural transformation that goes well beyond the automation wave of the past decade. Across distribution centers, planning systems and logistics networks spanning dozens of companies, artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from a tool that assists human decisions to a system that makes them, and in some cases, executes them […]

Revolut’s long journey to obtaining a U.K. banking license has reached its end. The London-based FinTech announced Wednesday (March 11) that it had landed regulatory approval from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) to launch as a bank in Great Britain. Revolut has technically been licensed since July of 2024 — after undergoing a three-year wait — but has spent nearly the […]

Meta has launched new artificial intelligence-powered anti-scam tools for its platforms WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger. These tools are designed to help users of these platforms spot and avoid scammers, the company said in a Wednesday (March 11) press release. “Across our apps, our systems find and remove malicious accounts,” Meta said in the release. […]

Google says it has finalized its acquisition of cloud/artificial intelligence (AI) security platform Wiz. With the deal concluded, Wiz will become part of Google Cloud as that division of the company invests in improved cloud security, the tech giant said Wednesday (March 11). The $32 billion deal was first announced last March. “In today’s […]

JPMorgan marked down the value of loans to software companies in the portfolios of private credit lenders, the Financial Times reported Tuesday (March 10), citing unnamed sources. Software companies are seen as vulnerable to the effects of artificial intelligence, according to the report. JPMorgan’s move will limit the amount of credit available to firms […]

Germany’s Commerzbank launched a partnership with anti-fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) technology firm Hawk. The collaboration, announced in a news release Tuesday (March 10), is designed to optimize the bank’s internal processes by supplementing its existing compliance system with Hawk’s AML AI Extended Risk Model. “Given the complexity of the landscape, we can only […]

Mastercard has launched an initiative aimed at exploring the future of cryptocurrency payments. The company’s Crypto Partner Program, announced Wednesday (March 11), brings together 85 different digital asset and payments companies, including high-profile players like Binance, Circle, Gemini, PayPal and Ripple. According to the announcement, the program is designed to address digital assets’ transition from something that “ran in parallel to existing […]

Inflation in the United States appears contained for the moment, yet the latest reading suggests consumers may be navigating a calm that could prove temporary. The Consumer Price Index rose 2.4% year over year in February, according to data released on Wednesday (March 11) and increased 0.3% month over month on a seasonally adjusted […]

B2B is sitting atop a goldmine of operational exhaust in the form of payment data, and it’s mostly concentrated in the finance function. Every invoice issued, payment received, and purchase order fulfilled contains latent information about how businesses interact. Traditionally, that information has been relied on mostly as a ledger of past performance. But […]

When Elon Musk posted that Tesla’s Optimus robots could one day reach artificial general intelligence, the comment drew the usual mix of skepticism and excitement. But strip away the noise, and the underlying thesis is worth taking seriously: that machines that perceive, reason and act in the physical world may be on a more direct […]

Anthropic says it could lose billions of dollars due to a government ban on its services. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup made that argument in a court hearing Tuesday (March 10) as it tried to get a judge to lift the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk designation on the company, Bloomberg News reported. That designation came last month amid […]

The credit industry has spent decades competing for something consumers were never actually optimizing for. Top of wallet. Issuers built elaborate rewards architectures to win it. Travel points. Cash back ladders. Category bonuses. Limited time offers designed to nudge one card ahead of another in the consumer’s mental stack. But the data tells a […]

Digital lender Upstart has become the latest U.S. FinTech seeking a banking charter. The company announced Tuesday (March 10) that it had applied to federal banking regulators the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to establish an insured national bank.  The personal loan platform also […]

Watch more: Need to Know With Boost Payment Solutions’ Rene Stynen At first glance, Europe appears to have solved one of modern finance’s most stubborn problems: moving money. Compared with the United States, where legacy systems have historically slowed transfers, Europe’s payment rails are widely regarded as efficient and mature. But the biggest bottleneck […]

Watch more: Digital Shift With Flagright’s Madhu Nadig Scale is fast becoming a central challenge in financial crime compliance. As digital payments expand and real-time transactions accelerate, the number of alerts generated by fraud detection and anti-money laundering (AML) systems has surged beyond what human analysts can reasonably and cost-effectively investigate. The result is […]

Buy now, pay later has been hitting an adoption wall, and could be losing momentum with the critical Gen Z and millennial age groups. The recent holiday shopping season tells a lot about BNPL’s struggles. PYMNTS Intelligence survey data shows that 14% of shoppers paid with BNPL in the three months through December, down […]

Fraud prevention is no longer about stopping a single bad transaction. It is about managing risk across an entire payment journey without driving away legitimate customers. That is the central theme of the December edition of the Payments Orchestration Tracker series, “Orchestrating Trust: The Future of Fraud Prevention in Payments.” The report argues that […]