An Idaho bill to tighten payday lending that legislators started softening after testimony from Moneytree, a major regional payday lender. Based on what’s visible and on Moneytree’s prior playbook in Washington and elsewhere, the core story is: legislators initially advanced ...

Luxury retailer Saks Global is cutting about 1,226 jobs and closing 12 Saks Fifth Avenue locations as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring.​ Who is cutting the jobs? The layoffs are at Saks Global, parent of Saks Fifth Avenue ...

Qi Lei always knew artificial intelligence would rock his industry — he just didn’t expect it to happen so fast. The 35-year-old programmer began coding in 2011, a golden age for app developers, and launched his own business in 2022 ...

India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has granted fintech firm Cred final authorisation to operate as a payment aggregator, allowing it to directly handle merchant payment flows under RBI regulation. What the approval allows Cred (via Dreamplug ...

recently lost a major UK court challenge to the payments regulator’s plan to cap certain cross‑border card fees, and they also face fresh UK collective actions over allegedly unlawful interchange charges. The recent UK court ruling In January 2026, the ...

Clark County Credit Union is rebranding and changing its name to Create Credit Union, with the transition rolling out in early 2026 across its branches and marketing.​ What is happening Clark County Credit Union has announced that it “will soon ...

Complaints about debt collection have jumped sharply in the last year, with federal data showing a dramatic rise in reports of aggressive or abusive collectors. What’s happening Federal Trade Commission data indicates debt collection complaints rose about 200% per capita ...

In February, clothing retailer Eddie Bauer announced it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Now all of its stores could be on the verge of closing after it failed to find a buyer, according to court documents filed in ...

Affirm is expanding its long‑running collaboration with Stripe so that Stripe’s Shared Payment Tokens (SPTs) can be used with Affirm, allowing AI “shopping agents” to initiate BNPL transactions on a consumer’s behalf inside agentic commerce experiences without exposing underlying card ...