Finance

Financial and investment listings 3245 public listings.

• PYMNTS | Small Business Optimism Rises as Oil Prices Moderate (pymnts.com)
  The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) said its Small Business Optimism Index rose 2.1 points in June.
• CPI | House Bill Targets Market Concentration in Emergency Bank Rescu… (pymnts.com)
  The US House of Representatives has passed legislation that would narrow the circumstances under which federal regulators may...
• PYMNTS | Perpetuals.com Won’t Acquire Trump-Linked Payments Firm (pymnts.com)
  Perpetuals.com has halted talks to acquire the Trump family cryptocurrency firm’s payments company, Alt5 Sigma Canada.
• PYMNTS | Wells Fargo Wealth Unit Drives Productivity With New AI Suite (pymnts.com)
  During an earnings call, Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf said the bank’s investments in technology have improved productivity.
• CPI | Federal Judge Allows DirecTV Antitrust Case Against Nexstar to … (pymnts.com)
  The satellite television provider will continue pursuing allegations that broadcasters illegally coordinated retransmission fee demands.
• CPI | Meta Sued Over Claims AI Tools Discriminated Against Workers Wi… (pymnts.com)
  Former employees allege Meta relied on AI-based metrics that disproportionately affected workers with medical conditions during layoffs.
• CPI | German Media Regulator Brings Google AI Overviews Under Nationa… (pymnts.com)
  Germany's media authorities concluded that AI-generated search content should be treated as media subject to national regulation.
• CPI | Asset Sales Loom Over Paramount-Warner Deal as States Escalate … (pymnts.com)
  The legal challenge comes as Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery are already negotiating remedies with regulators abroad.
• CPI | Turkey Producers Face Trial as US Antitrust Litigation Narrows (pymnts.com)
  A lawsuit alleging collusion in the U.S. turkey industry is closer to trial after a federal judge ruled that antitrust claims can proceed.
• CPI | South African Regulators Clear Harith’s FlySafair Deal Subject … (pymnts.com)
  South African infrastructure investor Harith General Partners has moved a step closer to acquiring low-cost carrier FlySafair.
• CPI | HP India, Resellers Fined After Watchdog Finds Bid-Rigging in G… (pymnts.com)
  India ordered HP India to halt anti-competitive practices, concluding they manipulated bidding on a government e-procurement platform.
• PYMNTS | World Cup Trading Pushed Prediction Market Volume Up in June (pymnts.com)
  Prediction markets reportedly surpassed $50 billion in monthly volume in June, with volume driven by trading on the FIFA World Cup 2026.
• CPI | Italy Set to Appoint Antitrust Expert to Lead Market Watchdog (pymnts.com)
  Italy's government is expected to appoint senior antitrust official Guido Stazi as the next chairman of financial markets regulator Consob.
• PYMNTS | Anthropic Recruits Monzo Co-Founder to Tackle Compute Issues (pymnts.com)
  Anthropic has reportedly brought on Monzo Co-Founder/Former CEO Tom Blomfield to strengthen its compute team.
• PYMNTS | Robots Crack the Factories Automation Couldn’t Touch (pymnts.com)
  AI-powered systems and simpler programming are making robots easier to train and redeploy across variable production lines such as apparel.
• PYMNTS | Deutsche Bank, World Bank Debut $1.1B Trade Finance Platform (pymnts.com)
  Deutsche Bank and the World Bank launched a trade finance platform to increase access to trade finance in frontier and emerging markets.
• PYMNTS | Klarna Aims to Offload $516 Million in Credit Risk to Fund G… (pymnts.com)
  Klarna is working on a significant risk transfer that will enable it to offload credit risk tied to BNPL loans and free up capital.
• PYMNTS | DeepSeek Considers New Funding Round After Raising $7 billion (pymnts.com)
  Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek is reportedly considering a second financing round weeks after concluding its first.
• PYMNTS | Digital Banking Becomes Bank of America’s Deposit Engine (pymnts.com)
  Bank of America’s 4.4 billion digital logins are helping the bank win primary accounts, hold cheaper deposits and more.
• PYMNTS | Delaware Updates Banking Laws for the Digital Finance Era (pymnts.com)
  Delaware has enacted banking legislation aimed at updating its regulatory framework for digital assets, money transmission and stablecoins.
• PYMNTS | Dimon Says AI Will Make Banking Better and Tougher (pymnts.com)
  JPMorgan executives said second-quarter consumer spending and credit quality remained stronger than anticipated.
• PYMNTS | Google DeepMind Chief Calls for Testing of Frontier AI Models (pymnts.com)
  Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is calling for a U.S.-led standards body to independently test the world’s most advanced AI models.
• PYMNTS | Visa Readies AI Financial Assistant for Banking Apps (pymnts.com)
  Visa will soon begin piloting an AI Financial Assistant that financial institutions will be able to add to their banking apps.
• PYMNTS | Bill Would Let Consumers Bring Their AI Agents to Amazon, Go… (pymnts.com)
  The AI Agent Act would force big platforms like Amazon to let outside AI agents in, and force their own agents to stay loyal.
• PYMNTS | AI Banking Platform Flex Secures $1.2 Billion Valuation (pymnts.com)
  Flex, a 3-year-old startup offering AI-powered banking solutions for medium-sized business owners, was valued at $1.2 billion.
• PYMNTS | Goldman’s $20 Billion Quarter Powered by Banking’s AI Flywhe… (pymnts.com)
  Goldman Sachs announced record quarterly net revenue of $20.34 billion, up 39% from a year earlier, while net earnings jumped 78%.
• PYMNTS | Fully Robotic Pharmacy Fills Prescriptions in Under 60 Secon… (pymnts.com)
  Queue says its fully autonomous pharmacy system can fill a prescription in under 60 seconds across 250 commonly prescribed medications.
• PYMNTS | Brazil’s Pix Instant Payments System Part of US Trade Dispute (pymnts.com)
  The U.S. could impose a 25% tariff on Brazilian goods due to a dispute over Brazil’s Pix. A negotiation deadline is Wednesday (July 15).
• PYMNTS | Insurance Industry May Be Unprepared for Agentic AI Risks (pymnts.com)
  New research shows the insurance industry might not be equipped to deal with AI risks, including lawsuits.
• PYMNTS | Mobile Wallets Can’t Tell a Privacy Guard From a Fraudster (pymnts.com)
  Lithic’s Bo Jiang discusses why privacy has become one of the payments industry’s hardest problems when it comes to fraud.
• PYMNTS | Middle Market Companies Require Better Financial Solutions (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS Intelligence reports how fast-growing middle market firms face cash shortages, delayed investments and reliance on personal funds.
• PYMNTS | Debit Wins Loyalty Through Small Fixes, Not Big Overhauls (pymnts.com)
  Debit issuers don’t need a sweeping overhaul to win loyalty—just the discipline to fix small frictions across every transaction. A PYMNTS I…
• PYMNTS | 53% of Financially Strained Consumers Cut Nonessential Spend… (pymnts.com)
  PYMNTS finds a gap in financial resilience between those with savings and those living paycheck to paycheck while struggling to pay bills.
• PYMNTS | The Grocery Run No Longer Belongs to One Retailer (pymnts.com)
  Walmart still owns the weekly grocery run, but Amazon increasingly gets the click when shoppers plan a bigger electronics purchase.
• PYMNTS | New York Regulator Proposes Licensing Rules for BNPL Lenders (pymnts.com)
  Some of the proposal’s provisions include requirements that BNPL lenders cap their late fees at $8 and set up dispute resolution processes.
• PYMNTS | Microsoft’s New Security Chief Forces AI Overhaul (pymnts.com)
  Microsoft’s cybersecurity business is developing more artificial intelligence (AI) security products and consolidating engineering teams.
• PYMNTS | AI Helps Food Brands Spot Viral Trends Before They Peak (pymnts.com)
  AI platforms are now helping food companies identify which trends are worth pursuing before demand subsides.
• PYMNTS | 40 Finance, Tech Giants Unite to Standardize Agentic Payments (pymnts.com)
  The x402 protocol, an open standard designed to support agentic payments, has a new open-governance body that includes 40 organizations.
• PYMNTS | Nubank Names Brazil Chief Livia Chanes as Latin America CEO (pymnts.com)
  Nubank has appointed Livia Chanes to the newly created position of chief executive officer for Latin America.
• PYMNTS | After Years of ERP Consolidation, M&A Still Outpaces Integra… (pymnts.com)
  The strategic value in the office of the CFO is moving away from the system of record and toward the control layer that sits across systems.
• PYMNTS | Open Standard Challenges Circle With Yield-Sharing Stablecoin (pymnts.com)
  The upcoming launch of Open Standard’s Open USD (OUSD) stablecoin could pose an “existential threat” to Circle’s USDC.
• PYMNTS | Microsoft Coaches Sales Staff to Challenge OpenAI and Anthro… (pymnts.com)
  Microsoft is intensifying its competitive strategy against artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Anthropic.
• PYMNTS | Cyclops Raises $20 Million to Scale Stablecoin Platform (pymnts.com)
  Cyclops raised $20 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the development of its stablecoin rails for the payments industry.
• PYMNTS | Spreedly Gives Merchants Control of Customer Credentials (pymnts.com)
  Payment platform provider Spreedly has launched of a standalone payment vault that lets merchants to store and manage customer credentials.
• PYMNTS | US Transfer of Seized Crypto to Coinbase Prime Raises Questi… (pymnts.com)
  The $288 million transfer of seized cryptocurrency is fueling speculation over whether federal authorities are preparing to liquidate.
• PYMNTS | Anthropic to Begin Investor Meetings for Potential October I… (pymnts.com)
  Anthropic wants to meet with prospective investors ahead of a potential initial public offering that could take place as soon as October.
• PYMNTS | Banks Face a Faster Cyber Clock as Gold Eagle Goes Live (pymnts.com)
  As the federal cybersecurity system Gold Eagle begins coordinating vulnerability reports and patches, banks must race to patch problems.
• CPI | FCC Chair Suggests CNN Ownership Changes Could Be Ahead (pymnts.com)
  FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has sparked discussion about the ownership of CNN after suggesting changes could be ahead for the news network.
• PYMNTS | JPMorgan Stock Surge Puts $1 Trillion Within Reach (pymnts.com)
  JPMorgan Chase is reportedly close to becoming a $1 trillion company after its shares reach a record high following an earnings report.
• CPI | Italy Investigates Alleged Abuse of Market Power in Superyacht … (pymnts.com)
  Italy is investigating allegations that Luise Group leveraged its position in yacht marinas to advantage its own maritime agency operations.