Gamification has a bad name in finance, and rightfully so. Trading apps fired confetti when you bought options. Meme stocks turned rent money into casino chips. Say “gamified finance” today and people picture slot machines packaged as financial product…
PayPal finally addressed the $53bn offer sitting on its table. Its answer was: not at that price. The company gave its first public response on Tuesday’s Q2 earnings call, alongside a beat. Chief executive Enrique Lores would not comment on Stripe and …
Apple has a new answer to the complaint that its products cost too much. Do not buy them. Lease them. On Tuesday the company launched Apple Upgrade in the US, a leasing programme run by the buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna. It covers the iPhone, Apple Wat…
X Money went live on Monday. Buried in its support pages is a rule that no ordinary bank applies to a current account. “If your X account is suspended for violating Child Safety or Violent and Hateful Entities policies, you will lose Money access,” the…
An investment firm is offering a way to invest in the broad market without owning Elon Musk’s companies. New York-based Subversive ETFs has filed with the SEC for two “Ex-Elon” funds, Bloomberg reports. One fund tracks the Nasdaq-100 and the other the …
Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run by an independent company named Open Standard, is a …
The American dream is “very dead” for millennials and Gen Z, according to financial influencer Haley Sacks, better known as Mrs. Dow Jones. In an interview with Business Insider, Sacks argued that traditional markers of middle-class success, homeowners…
Revolut is planning to launch a private banking unit in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe as soon as this summer, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The eligibility threshold is 500,000 pounds, roughly 675,000 dollars. Coutts, t…
Xero, the New Zealand-founded accounting platform used by 4.6 million subscribers worldwide, announced on Wednesday a multi-year partnership with Anthropic that will embed Claude directly into its product and, more unusually, bring Xero’s financial dat…
CuraeSoft, a software studio developing practical solutions for professional services firms, observes that among growing consultancies and service-based organizations, many leaders operate without clear visibility into the profitability of their work. …