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UPS is hiring 100,000 seasonal employees in hundreds of locations across the United States to meet the demand of the upcoming holiday shipping season, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 7) press release. These seasonal employees will join UPS’s global workforce that numbers around 460,000, accord...
The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) has taken its long-running fight against special-purpose crypto banks to federal court. In a lawsuit filed Friday (Oct. 2) in federal district court in Washington, the ICBA argued that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is allowing...
U.S. Bank introduced a service called Project 360, designed to help customers protect their privacy, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 7) press release. Project 360 lets users monitor credit activity, identify threats to their privacy and respond when personal info might be exposed, per the release. “F...
California employers will soon need a person to stand behind any artificial intelligence-driven decision to fire or discipline a worker. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 947, the No Robo Bosses Act, on Sept. 30 as one of 13 bills that day, according to the governor’s signing announcement. The law bars em...
Chase is expanding its payroll service to help business clients dealing with cash flow pressures. The new offering, announced Wednesday (Oct. 7), brings Chase Payroll alongside the banking and payment activities business customers already manage through the lender. “Small business owners are constan...
Wells Fargo says customers can now personalize debit cards within its mobile banking app. The Mobile Card Design Studio lets customers upload personal photos from their phone to create personalized cards, the bank said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) news release. “For many customers, a debit card is more tha...
Experian has launched a new consumer reporting agency that helps financial institutions leverage consumer-permissioned cash flow insights to support underwriting decisions, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. The Experian Cashflow Data Bureau operates under the Fair Credit Reportin...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a mainstream consumer technology. But paying for it remains a much narrower habit. The consumers who do spend heavily on AI, however, are opening their wallets at levels that look less like entertainment subscriptions and more like business software budgets. T...
The President Donald Trump administration’s new artificial intelligence task force is coming under pressure to demonstrate that it can address powerful AI systems without relying solely on the industry to police itself. President Donald Trump announced the Super Intelligence Force Sunday (Oct. 4), p...
Rain is the latest digital asset company seeking to launch a national trust bank. The stablecoin payments infrastructure company announced Monday (Oct. 5) that it has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish Rain National Trust Bank (RNTB). If approved, RNTB will “...
Clara Quakenbush, a medical assistant at Hancock Health’s Sue Ann Wortman Cancer Center in Indiana, used to make 10 to 15 trips a day carrying specimens to the hospital lab, according to an October 2025 news release from autonomous delivery company Arrive AI. She spent at least 90 minutes a day on t...
Walmart Marketplace sellers can now directly access Walmart-negotiated shipping rates within ShipStation’s intelligent shipping and logistics platform, ShipStation said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. This capability is enabled by ShipStation’s new Ship with Walmart solution, which allows Walma...
