Channel3 this week confirmed a $6 million seed round led by Matrix, with participation from Ludlow Ventures, Paul Graham, Sri Batchu and Matteo Franeschetti. The investment assists Channel3 with its mission of making every product on the web discoverable and actionable by AI. The agentic… Read More
Tagged AI agent, Alexander schiff, Chanel3, funding round, George Lawrence, Kojo Osei, matrix
Research from Checkout.com indicates that this festive season will mark a key turning point for agentic AI adoption, as consumers increasingly turn to intelligent digital agents in order to “manage the stress, cost and complexity of peak-season shopping.” With almost half or 47% of consumers… Read More
Tagged agentic ai, agentic commerce, checkout.com, research
Stripe, the programmable financial services company, has recently introduced the Agentic Commerce Suite, a solution to help businesses get ready to sell via multiple AI agents. More than likely, the future of digital commerce will involve the assistance of various artificial intelligence powered tools to… Read More
Tagged agentic commerce, ai, fintech, payments processing, stripe
Equifax (NYSE: EFX) has released its Social Services Outlook Index. The survey of 500 government social service workers supporting programs such as Medicaid, SNAP and TANF found that the majority or around 54% of respondents say their workplace is very efficient, and all respondents (100%)… Read More
Tagged automation, digital technology, equifax, research, survey
AI dominates cybersecurity experts’ 2026 predictions as it touches on authentication, privacy and attack acceleration. GPU optimization and AI-driven attacks will push companies toward regional cloud providers “GPU optimization becomes a headline topic in 2026. Today, most companies only use about 60% of the GPU… Read More
Tagged ai, Ashwin Sugavanam, cybersecurity, jumio, Marijus Briedis, NordVPN, Richard Copeland
A new study from Tink, an open banking and payments platform, reveals that many UK consumers feel anxious about making mistakes when paying by manual bank transfer. This lack of confidence is driving abandoned transactions and undermining trust in the small businesses they buy from… Read More
Tagged COMU, FOMU, Ian Morrin, manual bank transfers, tink
Mastercard (NYSE: MA) unveiled Mastercard Credit Intelligence, which is described as a suite of solutions developed to enable lenders with inclusive insights that help them better serve consumers as well as small businesses. Harnessing Mastercard’s network and insights, Mastercard Credit Intelligence delivers analytics to inform… Read More
Tagged lending, masttercard, open finance
Morpheus Lending has announced a new £110m senior funding line with leading alternative asset manager, Pollen Street Capital. Launched this year, Morpheus has built a “digital-only” bridging platform centred around speed and efficiency, for both clients and brokers. Building on their progress to date, the… Read More
Tagged funding, morpheus lending, pollen street capital, uk
GoTyme Bank, which claims to be one of the fastest-growing banks in the Philippines and a JV between the Gokongwei Group and Tyme Group, announced the launch of its cryptocurrency investment feature. This launch was reportedly made possible in partnership with Alpaca, a global player… Read More
Tagged alpaca, Crypto Adoption, Philippines, southeast asia
Capitolis has named Okan Pekin as president. He is based in London and reports to founder and CEO Gil Mandelzis. Okan brings more than 35 years of global financial services experience, including senior leadership roles at Citi (NYSE: C) until his retirement in April. Most… Read More
Tagged capitolis, gil mandelzis, okan pekin, tom glocer
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