Новости за 09.04.2026

The Binance App now offers access to prediction markets. The app’s new Prediction Markets feature is powered by an integration with third-party platforms, starting with Predict.fun, Binance said in a Thursday (April 9) announcement. “Users can now take positions on real-world outcomes across different categories,” Binance said in the announcement. Prediction Markets provides Binance […]

Bank of America analysts believe that the annual volume of U.S. sports-related event contracts could grow to $1.1 trillion and that this activity could generate $10 billion in annualized revenue for prediction market platforms, Bloomberg reported Thursday (April 9), citing a report by the bank’s analysts. That potential figure would be up from the $100 billion in event […]

Early-stage venture firm Collide Capital has raised an oversubscribed $95 million Fund II that will back FinTech, supply chain and “future of work” companies. This capital raise brings Collide’s total assets under management (AUM) to over $170 million, the firm said in a Thursday (April 9) press release. “Fund II allows us to double […]

Moody’s Agentic Solutions (MAS) will be available natively in Claude applications, bringing Moody’s risk intelligence to Anthropic’s AI. This offering will be available through a purpose-built Model Context Protocol (MCP) application and will make MAS accessible in Claude Desktop, Claude.ai and Claude Enterprise, the companies said in a Thursday (April 9) press release. Moody’s […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Thursday (April 9) for Congress to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act), warning that the current lack of a clear regulatory framework is eroding U.S. leadership in the crypto market. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Bessent argued that prevailing uncertainty has “predictable consequences,” driving development […]

Oracle is accelerating its push into agentic artificial intelligence, unveiling new capabilities across financial crime compliance, human resources, customer experience, finance and supply chain applications as competition intensifies around AI-driven automation. Announced Thursday (April 9) at its AI World Tour, the updates aim to move enterprise software beyond passive tools into systems that can […]

The enterprise software landscape has sold finance leaders a simple promise: better automation would come from smarter machines. Optical character recognition would read invoices more accurately, machine learning models would classify expenses faster, and large language AI models (LLMs) would interpret messy vendor communications with near-human fluency, with each capability combining in aggregate to […]

OpenAI expects its nascent advertising business to generate $2.5 billion in revenue this year and surge to $100 billion by the end of the decade, according to an Axios report cited by Reuters on Thursday (April 9). The projections underscore the artificial intelligence (AI) company’s push to monetize its user base to help fund the […]

Household spending is still advancing, but income isn’t keeping up anymore. The latest economic data and PYMNTS Intelligence reporting show households continuing to transact and absorb higher prices, but with less support from paychecks and more reliance on financial workarounds that don’t necessarily show up in top-line data. Figures from the Bureau of Economic […]

On Wednesday (April 8), Meta released Muse Spark, the first artificial intelligence (AI) model out of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Built over the past nine months under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, the new AI model is showing performance competitive with systems from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, according to CNBC. The model now powers Meta’s […]

Amazon will continue to bet big on artificial intelligence (AI), Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a 2025 Letter to Shareholders posted Thursday (April 9). Jassy said that while investment spikes invite scrutiny, AI is a game-changer that will reinvent every customer experience. “I’ve followed the public debate on whether this technology is over-hyped, whether we’re in ‘a bubble,’ and if […]

Walmart-backed OnePay is making a push beyond consumer finance and into the workplace, striking a new partnership with Workday that puts its financial tools directly inside employer benefit systems. The move gives OnePay a new channel into the employee experience and signals that financial wellness is becoming a more serious part of the HR […]

Meta expanded its agreement with CoreWeave to $21 billion for AI compute capacity, according to a Thursday (April 9) report from Bloomberg. The deal runs through 2032 and builds on a prior multibillion-dollar contract between the companies. The agreement gives Meta access to large-scale GPU clusters used to train and run artificial intelligence models. […]

Revolut is adding an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personal assistant to its app in the United Kingdom. The company began rolling out AIR (AI by Revolut) Thursday (April 9), it said in a blog post. “With AIR, you get tailored insights and the power to complete daily tasks, simply by starting a quick chat,” Revolut said […]

Credit union service organization (CUSO) Velera has expanded its Fintech Engagement Program to include FinTech partners that will offer credit unions discounted pricing, waived fees or other exclusive benefits. Velera announced the first six FinTech partners in a Thursday (April 9) press release and said it plans to add more partners and exclusive opportunities […]

PayPal now enables users of the global visual communication platform Canva to accept payments directly from their digital or printed designs. This capability is provided by the integration of PayPal Payment Links into Canva, PayPal said in a Thursday (April 9) press release emailed to PYMNTS. Creators, entrepreneurs and small businesses use Canva to create content. Now, with […]

Think about how you shop. Not how you used to shop, but how you actually shop now. You probably do most of it on Amazon. Not all of it. You still go to a specialty running store for shoes, to a wine shop for a bottle for that special occasion dinner, maybe to a boutique […]

Explore more conversations like this From the Block.  The headlines would have you believe stablecoins are already eating the payments world. Hundreds of billions in market cap. Transaction volumes that allegedly rival Visa. A DeFi ecosystem humming along in the background. And sure, directionally, those numbers are real. But in latest “From the Block” […]

Banks are learning that fraud defense is no longer just about stopping losses after the fact. The bigger shift in the latest data is that many institutions now see fraud prevention as part of protecting growth, customer trust and the ability to keep up with faster payments. That is the central takeaway from “2025 State […]

Few industries have fates as entwined with their regulatory guardrails as crypto. After all, few industries are as unregulated as crypto has traditionally been. At least in the U.S. But as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reportedly readies a “regulation crypto” proposal, the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) publishes a stablecoin report with findings that […]

The Treasury Department has proposed a rule that would require permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs) to adhere to anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions compliance obligations. The proposal was included in a joint proposed rule issued Wednesday (April 8) by Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), according to a Wednesday press release. It implements provisions of the GENIUS Act that require Treasury […]

Citigroup has identified an initial 50 processes that it aims to automate, and the bank is already seeing results from those it has transformed, Reuters reported Wednesday (April 8), citing its interview with Citi Head of Technology and Business Enablement Tim Ryan. The bank’s initial focus includes processes such as client and employee onboarding, […]

Regulators’ proposed anti-money laundering (AML) rulemaking, introduced this week, offers a clear path for how compliance will be expected to operate as financial services continue to digitize and expand across platforms. The proposal, issued jointly by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), aligns […]

Cookware brand Le Creuset paid a digital video artist to spend days shooting and hand-editing footage frame by frame. When the video went live, the comments asked one question: Is this artificial intelligence (AI)? Le Creuset replied it was not in the comments, and some viewers still did not believe it. That is the […]

The Federal Reserve Board proposed Wednesday (April 8) that U.S. banks and credit unions be allowed to use intermediaries to transfer funds through the FedNow® Service. This would mark a change from the current rules, in which a transfer of funds sent through the FedNow Service can include only two U.S. banks, the Fed said in a […]