Новости за 06.05.2026

Google and Meta are building personal artificial intelligence agents, moving at the same time toward the same idea of an assistant that operates in the background, handles tasks without being asked twice, and gets sharper at anticipating needs the longer it runs. Google’s version is codenamed Remy, Business Insider reported Tuesday (May 5). It […]

Visa Canada launched a collaboration with remittance-focused FinTech platform RemitBee, according to a Wednesday (May 6) press release. The partnership is designed to integrate Visa Direct into RemitBee’s cross-border payment platform and facilitate real-time money movement in more than 190 countries and 150 currencies, the release said. “We built RemitBee as immigrants who understood […]

PhonePe launched an artificial intelligence agent that enables merchants to integrate the company’s payment gateway through a conversational interface. With this new AI-powered integration layer, merchants can integrate the payment gateway in minutes, with no need for deep technical expertise, PhonePe said in a Wednesday (May 6) press release. PhonePe expects this tool to […]

Autonomous finance data layer Astrada has raised $3.8 million in new funding. The company’s seed round, announced Wednesday (May 6), was led by Bain Capital Ventures, QED Investors and Nyca Partners, with participation from Visa and Mastercard. The company says the funding will help boost product development and expand partnerships in the FinTech and enterprise finance worlds. […]

Domestic payment systems around the world are growing more instantaneous. And money movement in the blink of an eye is reframing the possibilities of commerce. Consumers in Brazil can transfer money in seconds using Pix, while businesses in India settle transactions instantly through UPI, and Europe’s SEPA Instant and Singapore’s PayNow have dramatically compressed […]

Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit that alleged that the company failed to add artificial intelligence features to its iPhone at the time it had promised, Reuters reported Tuesday (May 5). The proposed settlement needs a judge’s approval, and the agreement does not include an admission of fault by […]

Cryptocurrency exchange Drift has outlined a plan to recover $295 million taken in a hack. That attack was carried out by a group associated with the North Korean government, the company said Tuesday (May 5), adding that the culprit had been confirmed by Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant. “The majority of stolen assets remain traceable and contained with limited successful off-ramping […]

Solana Foundation’s president says increasing corporate stablecoin adoption is validating blockchain’s role as global financial infrastructure. This trend is also setting the stage for AI-driven “machine economies,” said Lily Liu, whose comments Tuesday (May 5) at Consensus Miami 2026 were reported by CoinDesk. According to the report, Liu cited recent stablecoin payment integrations from Meta and Western Union as proof that large enterprises […]

Cryptocurrency investors are reportedly exiting the decentralized finance (DeFi) space following two high-profile hacks. Close to $14 billion has been pulled from DeFi projects in recent weeks, the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (May 6), citing the data firm DefiLlama.  This came after hackers tied to the North Korean government stole $290 million from […]

Watch more: The Digital Shift With JPMorgan’s Meagan Sibbald The race to move money faster has entered a different phase, one where the defining feature is no longer speed alone but the degree of certainty that accompanies it. Against a backdrop of record-setting volumes on The Clearing House’s RTP® network, the conversation is moving […]

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stood on stage at Macworld and introduced three products. An iPod with a bigger screen and touch controls, a mobile phone, and something he described as a breakthrough internet communications device. He repeated the list three times so that all three product announcements could sink in. Then he […]

Buy now, pay later may have started as a checkout convenience, but for credit union members it is becoming a cash flow tool that could use a better home. That is the central opportunity outlined in the March 2026 Credit Union Tracker Series, “Pay Later’s Next Chapter: Why Credit Unions Are Rethinking Installment Payments,” a […]

LoanDepot’s investment in digital transformation and other growth and efficiency initiatives delivered positive results in the first quarter, Founder and CEO Anthony Hsieh said Tuesday (May 5). Speaking during the company’s first quarter earnings call, Hsieh said these initiatives helped the company gain market share at a time when the market environment has been […]

Meta plans to build an agentic artificial intelligence assistant for consumers that is comparable to OpenClaw but easier to use, The Financial Times (FT) reported Tuesday (May 5), citing unnamed sources. The assistant is being trialed internally by some staff, and Meta outlined its plan for the project at a companywide meeting last week, […]

Financial services companies and other organizations have six to 12 months to fix vulnerabilities in their software before Chinese artificial intelligence models develop capabilities equal to those of Anthropic’s Mythos, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Tuesday (May 5). Speaking during Anthropic’s livestreamed event The Briefing: Financial Services, Amodei said the Chinese models are six […]

The number of hires increased to 5.6 million in March, a figure that was 655,000 higher than the previous month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said in a Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) report released Tuesday (May 5). The BLS highlighted 165,000 new hires in professional and business services, 124,000 in […]

As embedded finance providers race to move beyond standalone debit cards, Marqeta’s latest earnings on May 5 showed how card issuing platforms are being asked to support a broader mix of lending, buy now, pay later (BNPL) and credit-building products on a global scale. CEO Mike Milotich said on the company’s earnings call that […]

Etsy is working to offer conversational search both in OpenAI’s ChatGPT and on its own platform. The company said in a Tuesday (May 5) blog post that the Etsy app in ChatGPT is now live in beta and that it is testing a beta conversational search experience on Etsy. “Our approach will evolve based […]

Delaware, long synonymous with corporate incorporation, may extend its reach more fully into digital finance, advancing legislation that could shape where stablecoin issuers and FinTech firms choose to establish their legal base. At the center are Senate Bill 16, the Banking Modernization Act of 2026, and Senate Bill 19, the Payment Stablecoin Act. The […]

Apple plans to offer third-party artificial intelligence models alongside its own in-house models, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (May 5), citing unnamed sources. With this offering, users of the company’s software will be able to choose the model they want to use for tasks such as generating and editing text and images, according to the report. […]

Enterprise services can change forever in an instant, at least in today’s digital era. On Monday (May 4), businesses from mid-market to Main Street and the Fortune 50, potentially witnessed such a change. The change, visible in announcements from Amazon, Anthropic and OpenAI, signaled the growing emergence of a top-down software and corporate services […]

Billtrust has added a self-service payment experience and a cash forecasting tool to its B2B accounts receivable workflow and payment software. These tools are designed to accelerate collections, improve buyer payment experiences and provide AR teams with earlier cash flow visibility, the company said in a Tuesday (May 5) press release. Billtrust’s new Buyer […]