16+ hour, 2+ min ago   (465+ words) Cravath, Swaine & Moore is hiring prominent mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer Michael Aiello and five other partners from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, adding a major dealmaking team as competition for senior legal talent intensifies among elite law firms. Aiello will move to Cravath alongside…...

18+ hour, 39+ min ago   (164+ words) PYMNTS.com The Hidden Cost of Checkout Gaps: What 56 Million Abandoned Carts Mean for U.S. Merchants and How Agentic AI is Changing What Comes Next They’ve picked the product and are ready to pay. Then their preferred digital wallet is missing,…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (146+ words) PYMNTS.com 48% of FinTechs Plan to Pursue Credit Union Deals FinTechs What In: How Credit Unions Can Turn Partnerships Into Growth PYMNTS Intelligence surveyed 100 FinTech executives and found a sharp shift toward credit union partnerships. A market with nearly 146 million…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (265+ words) FinTechs once saw credit unions as a hard market to crack. Now the door is crowded, and many providers want a way inside. “FinTechs Want In: How Credit Unions Can Turn Partnerships Into Growth” is a PYMNTS Intelligence and Velera…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (709+ words) Revolut, Ramp and Adyen are extending their reach with large companies through banking, financial operations and global payments, respectively. PYMNTS Intelligence found that companies approaching enterprise scale can free up more cash when financing, supplier payments and treasury operations work…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (910+ words) Revolut and Upstart are pursuing national banks that can take insured deposits and originate loans, while Circle and Block are using national trust charters for custody and other specialized activities. The OCC received 40 de novo charter applications in 18 months, including…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (530+ words) AI agents may not need money; they need permission to spend it. Treasury can keep liquidity centralized while software receives programmable authority to create approved obligations. Virtual cards, stablecoins and bank rails become execution options, not the core product. The…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (517+ words) Stablecoins are becoming financial infrastructure, not just payment rails. The competitive moat is shifting toward the layers around the token: custody, credit, liquidity, settlement, FX, compliance and developer distribution. Payments data is starting to become a financing input. Visa’s settlement…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (394+ words) The startup, founded by two veterans of Intuit, automates payroll for human capital management (HCM) platforms, Intermezzo said in a Thursday (Sept. 10) news release. These platforms often have no localized payroll capabilities in most international markets, requiring them to work…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (615+ words) Visa is testing whether settlement data can become an underwriting input, not just a reporting output. Verified payment obligations could help lenders price risk more precisely and reduce the need for excess collateral or prefunding. Stablecoins matter because they can…...