Joey Pizzolato

The brokerage fintech launched agentic trading and an agentic credit card that allow AI agents to trade equities and make credit card purchases on customers' behalf, with or without final human confirmation.

Key insights : Chime with Invest America launched its financial education community event, Compound Combine, in Jersey City, New Jersey on Thursday

Key insights : Mastercard announced a series of six staffing shuffles targeting the upper echelons of its organization in an effort to increase the depth of its bench.

Early Warning Services' digital wallet solicited actors Elizabeth Banks and Gabrielle Union for its second national advertising campaign as it looks to tie itself to financial institutions in the public eye.

The consumer intelligence company alleged that Chime willfully misused J.D. Power's name and trademark in its marketing materials. The neobank said it would "vigorously" defend its position.

Key insights : Tennessee's new tax on remittances for money transmitters goes into effect Jan. 1, 2027, with a notable exception for banks.

The AI-powered fintech accused the neobank and buy now, pay later lender of misappropriating its trade secrets and breaching its license and loan sale agreements.

The AI-powered fintech accused the neobank and buy now, pay later lender of misappropriating its trade secrets and breaching its license and loan sale agreements.

Key insights : The Financial Technology Association is challenging Tennessee's cross-border remittance tax, claiming that it infringes on Congress' power to regulate foreign commerce.

Visa and Mastercard are making it easier for AI agents to make autonomous payments within large language models, while fintechs such as Robinhood and Coinbase are opening their doors to those same agents to keep customers within their ecosystem. Payment experts say that puts banks on the defensive.