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Amazon Uses Healthcare and Banking to Woo More Holiday Workers
Amazon will begin offering seasonal workers health coverage to attract more workers for the holiday shopping season. The eCommerce giant made that announcement Tuesday (Oct. 20) as it began its annual holiday recruitment effort, aiming to h
PYMNTS · Published 10/21/2026, 02:57DeepSeek Open Sources Inference Tech to Lower AI Costs
DeepSeek has made its in-house inference framework, DeepInfer, fully open source, saying this will help make artificial intelligence more affordable. DeepInfer powers the company’s DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model at scale with high throughput and
PYMNTS · Published 10/21/2026, 02:52Apple Wallet Car Keys Now Work With GM Vehicles
Automaker General Motors has begun offering Apple Wallet car key support in some vehicles. The integration went into effect last month, and was flagged Monday (Oct. 9) in a report on the website MacRumors. It applies to select Cadillac, Che
PYMNTS · Published 10/21/2026, 02:29Mural Raises $15 Million to Help Companies Scale Agentic Finance
Financial infrastructure company Mural said it has raised $15 million in new funding. The Series A financing round will support the firm’s global expansion and investments in the regulatory and payments infrastructure needed to scale agenti
PYMNTS · Published 10/21/2026, 02:10Governments Urged to Plan for Breaches That Defenses Cannot Stop
State and local governments need to prepare for attackers getting inside their networks, with cybersecurity protocols that contain intrusions before they disrupt water systems, transportation, benefits payments and other essential services.
PYMNTS · Published 10/21/2026, 02:01Robot Arms Finally Crack the Meal Assembly Line
For a long time, robots made little economic sense for food manufacturers juggling many recipes, each with its own mix of ingredients. Chef Robotics, a San Francisco startup that sells artificial intelligence (AI)-guided robot arms to food
PYMNTS · Published 10/21/2026, 01:38Hasbro Hopes for Happy Holiday Season as Revenue Rises 15%
Hasbro saw 15% year-over-year revenue growth in the third quarter, fueled by its Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming segment, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 20) earnings press release. “Despite all of the macro noise in the quarter, we st
PYMNTS · Published 10/21/2026, 01:26Equifax Data Shows Mortgage Volume Slump While Consumer Financial Health Stays Strong
The U.S. mortgage market has “weakened meaningfully” since July, though the rest of the U.S. market remains as healthy as it was, Equifax Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer John Gamble said Tuesday (Oct. 20) during an earn
PYMNTS · Published 10/21/2026, 01:24Mastercard Debuts Tool to Help AI Agents Purchase Digital Services
Mastercard has launched early access to Agent Pay for Machines, a tool designed to let autonomous artificial intelligence agents purchase digital services. The new offering builds on x402, an open protocol that allows digital services to re
PYMNTS · Published 10/21/2026, 00:00Synchrony: Broad-Based Consumer Spending Drives Q3 Purchase Volume to Record High
Consumer financing company Synchrony saw record third-quarter purchase volume, with both discretionary and non-discretionary out-of-partner spend on its consumer co-branded cards growing by double digits, Synchrony President and CEO Brian D
PYMNTS · Published 10/21/2026, 00:00Treasury Stablecoin Proposal Draws Questions Over Foreign Access
Treasury’s effort to regulate payment stablecoins hinges on questions on when a coin has actually been issued, who issued it and how a stablecoin created outside the country can legally reach a customer in the United States. The department’
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 23:51Google Offers Gemini Agent to Government Workers
After introducing an artificial intelligence (AI) agent for workers in the private sector, Google is shifting its focus to public employees. The tech giant on Tuesday (Oct. 20) announced the preview of its Gemini agent for government servic
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 23:40Utah’s Healthcare AI Sandbox Tests Limits of Regulatory Oversight
Utah is expanding its artificial intelligence sandbox with three healthcare pilots. At the same time, regulators are developing answers to questions about patient protection, such as who bears liability when an automated system causes harm,
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 23:29Finsei Picks Thredd to Help Launch New Debit Offering
London-based payments firm Finsei has picked issuer processing platform Thredd to power its new Mastercard debit offering. “The partnership reflects a shared focus on simplifying an increasingly complex payments environment,” Thredd said in
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 23:16Google Mandates Further Verification for US and Canada Financial Ads
Google is bringing to the United States and Canada a Financial Services Verification program that already protects 2 billion internet users in 42 countries from financial scam ads, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) blog post emailed t
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 23:00Finastra Makes Trade Finance Technology More Accessible for Regional Banks
Finastra has launched a cloud-enabled solution designed to help U.S. banks digitize and automate their standby letter of credit (SBLC) flows, without having to deploy a full trade finance platform, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 19) pre
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 22:39Boost Turns to Airwallex to Enhance B2B Payments Capabilities
B2B payments company Boost Payments Solutions has launched a partnership with financial operating system Airwallex. The collaboration is designed to enhance Boost’s international commercial card processing capabilities and help it streamlin
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 21:00Visa Launches Agentic Payments Pilot With BILL and Billtrust
Visa has launched an agentic payments partnership with accounts payable and receivable solutions providers BILL and Billtrust. The collaboration is the first live pilot to allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents “to initiate and complete
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 20:25Nacha Says Faster Payment Demand Drives 37% Surge in Same Day ACH Volume
Same Day ACH saw year-over-year increases of about 37% in volume and 32% in value in the third quarter as it met user demand for faster payments, Nacha said in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) press release emailed to PYMNTS. With those increases, the t
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 19:00OpenAI Racing to Raise $30 Billion Ahead of Anthropic Listing
OpenAI is reportedly rushing to lockdown investors before chief competitor Anthropic goes public next month. That’s according to a report Monday (Oct. 19) by Reuters, which describes the effort as “unusually fast fundraising” that could bri
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 18:36Cross River Plans to Buy Accrue to Merge Payments With Loyalty
Cross River Bank plans to add branded wallet, stored value and loyalty rewards technology to its regulated financial infrastructure by acquiring FinTech company Accrue, Cross River said in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) press release emailed to PYMNTS
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 18:00Axya’s $12 Million Bet on Fixing Procurement’s Broken Data
Watch more: Digital Shift With Félix Bélisle-Dockrill of Axya A supplier promises to deliver parts on the 18th of the month. The shipment gets pushed to the 25th. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) system updates the expected delivery d
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 16:03Banks’ Growing Fraud Tech Stacks Create an Integration Challenge
Banks have plenty of fraud technology, but getting all of it to work as a cohesive line of defense is becoming a problem. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Scams Get Personal: Why Banks Pay More to Fight Fraud” found in September that 78% of
PYMNTS · Published 10/20/2026, 16:01At 12, Apple Pay Has Yet to Break the Card Habit In-Store
Your phone can handle the checkout. Your hand may still reach for the same old card. Twelve years after Apple Pay arrived, mobile wallets are gaining users, but familiar payment habits still have a firm grip on the register. “Apple Pay @12:
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