Visa to buy cybersecurity firm BioCatch for $2.4 billion amid surge in AI-powered scams
Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesVisa on Monday said it is acquiring fraud detection startup BioCatch for $2.4 billion...
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Fintech broker Clear Street offers investors pre-IPO access to $188 billion AI giant Databricks
Close-up of Databricks company logo on building facade, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, June 7, 2024.Smith Collection/ gado | Archive Photos...
How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund — and lost most of it in days
Leopold AschenbrennerPhoto: Josh EdelsonTwo years ago, Leopold Aschenbrenner argued he was one of few people in the world who saw...
Goldman Sachs creates private markets platform as rich investors seek the next SpaceX and Stripe
A SpaceX Flacon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 on June 8, 2026, in Cape Canaveral Space...
Klarna seeks U.S. bank charter in latest push beyond buy now, pay later
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO and co-founder of Swedish fintech Klarna, gives an interview with CNBC during the company’s initial public offering...
Morgan Stanley will soon open its trillion-dollar wealth management funnel to AI agents
Morgan Stanley's office in Canary Wharf financial district on Jan. 30, 2025 in London, UK.Mike Kemp | In Pictures |...
'Disrupted or dead': AI is crushing a generation of startups built before ChatGPT
Matthias Balk | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesFive years ago, venture capitalists were pouring money into American startups selling everything...
Fintech firm Mercury hits $5.2 billion valuation after funding round, up 49% in 14 months
Immad Akhund, CEO and co-founder of the startup Mercury.Courtesy: Mercury TechnologiesMercury, a fintech firm that provides banking services to startups,...
PayPal's new CEO makes Venmo a standalone business unit as potential buyers circle
Enrique Lores, then-CEO of Hewlett-Packard speaks on CNBC outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22, 2025.Gerry...
This bank CEO let his AI clone handle an earnings call — now he's signing an OpenAI deal
Sam Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank.Courtesy: Customers BankNearly half an hour into a conference call on Friday to discuss first-quarter...
Mastercard says it's acquiring stablecoin startup BVNK in $1.8 billion bet on future of payments
A view of the Mastercard company logo on its stand during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on March 1,...
Inside JPMorgan Chase's push to become the startup world’s new Silicon Valley Bank
People line up outside of the shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) headquarters on March 10, 2023 in Santa Clara, California.Justin...
Mortgages in 47 seconds: Better’s new ChatGPT app targets lenders Rocket and UWM
Vishal Garg, Better.comSource: Better.comThe online mortgage platform Better has partnered with OpenAI to launch an app within ChatGPT that the...
Jack Dorsey made the loudest case yet that AI is already replacing jobs
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Block, listens during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, June 4, 2021.Eva Marie Uzcategui...
PayPal pops nearly 7% on report fintech startup Stripe is weighing an acquisition
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesPayPal's stock surged nearly 7% on Tuesday following a report that...
Register now: Applications open for the World's Top Fintech Companies 2026
A person using a laptop and mobile phone. Tom Werner | Digitalvision | Getty ImagesApplications are now open for the...
PayPal sees 2026 profit below estimates, holiday-quarter results fall short
A PayPal sign is seen at its headquarters in San Jose, California, on Jan. 30, 2024.Justin Sullivan | Getty Images...
Dust to data centers: The year AI tech giants, and billions in debt, began remaking the American landscape
The Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty...
Visa says new AI shopping tool has helped customers with hundreds of transactions
Mustafa Hatipoglu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesVisa said on Thursday that it successfully completed hundreds of AI transactions as part...
Fifth Third signs deal making fintech firm Brex the provider of its commercial cards
Regional bank Fifth Third on Tuesday announced a deal making fintech firm Brex the provider of its commercial cards and...
