After Retail Closures, Amazon Pivots on Just Walk Out Technology
Amazon is closing all 72 of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations, shifting its focus to Whole Foods locations and grocery delivery from Amazon.com. But the company isn’t ready to walk away from the much-ballyhooed Just Walk Out technology that powered many of its retail experiments. Instead, Amazon plans to double down on marketing […]
Zelle Expands to Include Community Banks and New Use Cases
As the leading U.S. peer-to-peer payments service, Zelle has become a staple offering for most financial institutions. Even so, the network found room to expand last year, onboarding 337 new institutions. Nearly all of these new partners were community banks or credit unions managing less than $10 billion in assets. Collectively, these institutions serve a […]
When Can Payments Trust AI?
Banks are no strangers to artificial intelligence. For years, machine learning and deep learning models have quietly powered fraud detection, transaction monitoring, and risk analysis. But the industry is now approaching a more consequential shift: agentic AI—systems that don’t just analyze data, but can act on it. With that shift comes a fundamental question about […]