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President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order excluding certain student loan borrowers from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

AI Innovation | March 7, 2025 Microsoft Launches AI Sales Agents, Challenging Traditional Sales Methods and Salesforce’s Agentforce On March 5, 2025, Microsoft launched a new AI Sales Accelerator program with two new AI sales agents to help businesses sources leads, find potential customers and manage/follow-up on outreach.  This iteration of AI agents automate routine

Digital Assets | March 7, 2025 Trump Signs Executive Order Establishing Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile On March 6, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile (read the Fact Sheet), which was announced by White House AI and Crypto Czar David

The film from Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris had its New York premier on Thursday.

When an investor invests in an early-stage company, they may already be considering the various exit pathways that a startup could pursue. Some may consider an initial public offering (IPO) to be the ultimate goal, but what happens if the … Continue reading →

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The Trump administration's purge of federal staff may flood a benefits system ill-equipped to handle the deluge.

The Education Department's role working on federal student loan borrowers' complaints is at risk after significant staff cuts under Trump, agency employees say.

The U.S. is now home to almost 40% of the world's super rich, nearly double the share in China, which has the next highest contingent of multimillionaires.

Retail Payments | March 6, 2025 PSPs Must Protect End-User Funds, Here's What the New Rules Require The Bank of Canada has shared two new guides (see below) to help payment service providers (PSPs) prepare for supervision under the Retail Payment Activities Act (RPAA). The new materials explain the key rules PSPs must follow and

Cybersecurity | March 6, 2025 Lessons From $35M Phone Scam That Used AI, Crypto, and Fake Celebrity Ads Gone are the days of obvious phishing email scams that are full of typos, conflicting domains and emails that don't match while urgently asking the victim to do something.  Scammers these days are getting much smarter and

Meta expects a market of hundreds of millions of small businesses where gen AI will directly interact with customers, says head of AI for Business, Clara Shih.

The Federal Housing Administration, a major provider of low-down-payment loan options for first-time homebuyers, is facing a staff cut. What you should know.

March 5, 2025 iGaming is growing rapidly, driven by the increasing popularity of mobile gaming, the ease of online payments, and the introduction of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Two of the most important segments are driving this growth – online casinos and sports betting. Historically, sports betting accounted for the majority of money gambled at

The 9 million federal student loan borrowers who are late on their bills may see their credit scores tank by as much as 129 points, a new report finds.

Innovation | March 5, 2025 Canada’s Fintech Paralysis is A Crisis of Political Will and Competition The impetus for this article is a recent interview by the Toronto Star with EQ Bank's CEO Andrew Moor.  While everyone is busy dealing with the impact and new realities of North American's tariff and trade war, the primary