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Tax loophole fears cloud UK marketplace VAT reform
UK retailers warn that proposed marketplace VAT exemptions could weaken tax enforcement and reduce funding for business rates relief. The post Tax loophole fears cloud UK marketplace VAT reform appeared first on Retail Insight Network.
Retail Insight Network · Published 10/23/2026, 09:36OpenAI Aims to Lock In $30 Billion Funding Round by Next Week
OpenAI is close to finalizing a funding round in which it could raise as much as $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, CNBC reported Thursday (Oct. 22), citing unnamed sources. OpenAI told investors Thursday that it aims to s
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 09:20FTC Data Shows Investment Scams Fuel Fivefold Surge in Seniors’ Fraud Losses
Fraud losses reported by older adults increased fivefold between 2020 and 2025, leaping from $600 million to $3 billion, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Monday (Oct. 19). The FTC shared this data in a press release outlining finding
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 08:53Uber Deploys OpenAI Agents to All 30,000 Employees
Uber has made OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work available to all its 30,000 employees around the world after initially piloting it with 1,000 employees, OpenAI said in a Thursday (Oct. 22) press release. ChatGPT Work is an agent designed to take on com
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 07:50Credit Card Delinquencies Creep Up to 2.6% Among Major Issuers
Credit card delinquencies crept up in September, while net charge-offs declined, according to the latest edition of Seeking Alpha’s Credit Pulse, released Thursday (Oct. 22). This report tracks monthly delinquency and charge-off rates at se
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 07:37Nvidia and Reflection Make Open Models Enterprise-Ready
Chinese labs have led the open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) race for most of the year. This week, the U.S. stacked up its own entries, with Nvidia and Reflection releasing models built for enterprise work. DeepSeek and MiniMax respon
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 07:08American Airlines Says Loyalty Program Drives Revenues and Margins
American Airlines’ loyalty program, AAdvantage, differentiates the company from its rivals and provides a competitive advantage, executives said Thursday (Oct. 22) during a third-quarter earnings call. “We said we’d lead in loyalty, and we
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 06:03Bitcoin-Backed Loans Add Debt to Leveraged Crypto Trading
Bitcoin holders borrowing to finance leveraged trading retain their original investment and take on another source of exposure. Their coins continue to fluctuate, the financed position produces its own gains or losses, and the dollar loan r
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 05:10Best Platforms for Custom Team Apparel and Group Orders
Compare the best platforms for custom team apparel and group orders, with Fourthwall ranked first. Find the right fit for team stores, payments, and delivery.… Continue reading Best Platforms for Custom Team Apparel and Group Orders The pos
Ecommerce Platforms · Published 10/23/2026, 04:25Procter & Gamble Sees Resilient Consumer Demand Despite Higher Commodity Costs
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) company Procter & Gamble expects the costs of raw materials, energy and transportation to be higher throughout its fiscal year 2027, the firm said in a Thursday (Oct. 22) press release outlining its results for
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 04:03FinTechs Face Tough Licensing Choices as They Outgrow Early Setups
Launching a FinTech often starts with a simple plan. Get the right state licenses, team up with a bank and start moving money. But success brings a new problem. Once a company adds overseas customers, large business clients or cryptocurrenc
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 02:55David’s Bridal Plans to Spin Off Pearl in $350 Million SPAC Deal
David’s Bridal plans to separate its Pearl division, with Pearl becoming an independent public company offering a digital wedding planning, media and commerce platform, the company said in a Thursday (Oct. 22) press release. To enable this
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 02:25Coast Secures $35 Million to Expand Financial Platform for Physical Economy
Financial technology firm Coast announced in a Thursday (Oct. 22) press release that it has raised $35 million in a new growth equity funding round to expand its payment and expense management platform built for physical economy businesses.
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 02:15Discover a merchant's retail stores with UCP location search and lookup
Shopify storefronts now support the UCP location capability, dev.ucp.common.location.search and dev.ucp.common.location.lookup, starting with UCP 2026-08-25. When you negotiate these capabilities over the storefront MCP endpoint, your agent
Shopify 开发者更新 · Published 10/23/2026, 02:00Cloudflare Reports Millions of Exploit Attempts After PHP Flaws Disclosed
Cloudflare reported millions of attempts to exploit newly disclosed vulnerabilities in PHP, or Hypertext Preprocessor, as companies and governments raced to secure websites and online services built on the widely used programming language.
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 01:12DOL Data Shows Jobless Claims Drop to Near 1960s Lows
There were 6,000 fewer initial claims for unemployment last week than the previous week, with multiple media reports saying the labor market remains about as steady as it has been since the 1960s. There were 194,000 initial claims for unemp
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 01:10Currency Costs Test the Promise of Cross-Border Payment Bundles
Small businesses in the United States purchasing overseas want faster payments, lower fees and better exchange rates. Financial providers are combining accounts, currency management and spending services around that activity. The PYMNTS Int
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 00:42Beyond Yoga aims to have ‘many’ stores. They’ll probably be yellow.
CEO Nancy Green says the brand color is reflective of a broader focus on joy — and making progress over perfection.
Retail Dive · Published 10/23/2026, 00:34David’s Bridal to spin off Pearl into stand-alone, publicly traded company
David’s Bridal CEO Kelly Cook is expected to become the chief executive of Pearl, which will own the wedding retailer’s intellectual property and brand.
Retail Dive · Published 10/23/2026, 00:29EBay cuts 1K jobs, downsizing for the second time this year
The layoffs, affecting about 9% of the marketplace giant’s global workforce, will impact all regions where it operates.
Retail Dive · Published 10/23/2026, 00:11Affirm Inks Exclusive Deal with Sam’s Club as Competition for BNPL Shoppers Intensifies
Affirm’s new exclusive partnership with Sam’s Club gives the buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider a new foothold in warehouse retail, where shoppers make purchases ranging from household essentials to big-ticket electronics. The deal, announc
PYMNTS · Published 10/23/2026, 00:01POS UI extensions 2026-10 adds s-pos-list, a virtualized list with custom row templates
POS UI extensions API version 2026-10 adds s-pos-list, a virtualized list component for Polaris web components. You pass rows as plain data and lay out each kind of row with a template built from web components. s-pos-list is now available
Shopify 开发者更新 · Published 10/23/2026, 00:00POS UI extensions now support reactive storage access
The new shopify.storage.current API lets POS UI extension developers respond automatically when stored values change across extension targets on the same POS device. It’s now available in API version 2026-10. No changes are required for exi
Shopify 开发者更新 · Published 10/23/2026, 00:00Pressure mounts to increase online retail tax as Budget looms
Pressure is mounting on Andy Burnham and Chancellor John Healey to tax online retail more heavily in the upcoming Autumn Budget. The post Pressure mounts to increase online retail tax as Budget looms appeared first on InternetRetailing.
InternetRetailing · Published 10/22/2026, 23:59
