If March Madness is America’s annual reminder that probability is a prankster, the Final Four is when the prank starts charging subscription fees. This Weekender finds otherwise sensible adults becoming pop-up quant traders, building models in spreadsheets, consulting mascots as if they were macro indicators, and asking chatbots to pick between a 12-seed and
The post March Madness 2026: AI and Prediction Markets Replace the Office Pool appeared first on PYMNTS.com. An artificial intelligence (AI)-generated country song reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart last fall, and few listeners knew the song was created by a machine. The track, “Walk My Walk,” was released under the name Breaking Rust, a fictional artist with an AI-generated cowboy persona, generic lyrics about perseverance, and
The post Who Made This Song? Platforms Start to Label AI Music appeared first on PYMNTS.com. OpenAI introduced an application security agent designed to build deep context about the user’s project to identify complex vulnerabilities and minimize false positives. The agent, Codex Security, is now in research preview, the company said in a Friday (March 6) blog post. It was formerly known as Aardvark when it was in private beta
The post OpenAI Challenges Security Giants With New AI Agent appeared first on PYMNTS.com. The month-end close remains one of the most labor-intensive processes in finance. It is the ritual sprint that follows every reporting period. Spreadsheets proliferate, data is pulled from multiple systems, discrepancies are chased down, and reconciliations stretch late into the night. Despite years of enterprise digitization, the close process has remained manual and left
The post CFOs See Month-End as the Front Line of Finance Automation appeared first on PYMNTS.com. Alchemy Pay, a payment gateway that connects cryptocurrency with traditional fiat currencies, announced Tuesday (March 3) that it obtained a Money Transmitter License (MTL) in Delaware. This brings to 15 the number of U.S. states in which Alchemy Pay holds Money Transmitter Licenses, the company said in a Tuesday press release. The company secured
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- DolFinTech Introduces Digital Banking Online and 500+ Locations Nationwide
by BusinessWire on March 7, 2026 at 8:00 amPowered by Green Dot’s embedded finance platform, Arc, the new demand deposit accounts expand access to secure, FDIC-insured banking for Hispanic and other underserved communities across the U.S. The post DolFinTech Introduces Digital Banking Online and 500+ Locations Nationwide first appeared on FinTecBuzz.
- Clearcover Launches Dearborn Labs for Insurance AIby BusinessWire on March 7, 2026 at 7:00 am
Backed by nearly a decade of proven results, the firm’s AI concierge model designs, builds and deploys customized AI infrastructure into insurers’ existing operations to eliminate fragmented pilots The post Clearcover Launches Dearborn Labs for Insurance AI first appeared on FinTecBuzz.
- OneShield Expands AI Hub to Support Insurance Providersby BusinessWire on March 7, 2026 at 6:33 am
OneShield, a leading provider of technology solutions for the property and casualty insurance industry, today announced that a Michigan-based specialty insurance provider has selected the OneShield AI Hub platform to power its next-generation insurance operations. OneShield’s AI Hub is an AI operating system purpose-built for the insurance industry. The AI-native platform gives insurers access to the latest large language models and agentic capabilities without exposing private data, requiring a core system replacement, or bolting AI... The post OneShield Expands AI Hub to Support Insurance Providers first appeared on FinTecBuzz.
- Bitget Integrates TradFi for the Next Phase of Exchangesby GlobeNewswire on March 6, 2026 at 6:00 pm
Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has introduced a major structural upgrade to its trading interface, elevating traditional financial assets such as stocks, commodities, and forex into a standalone product category alongside crypto trading. The update reflects a broader shift in how exchanges are evolving as crypto infrastructure increasingly supports global financial markets. Across the industry, exchanges have begun adding traditional assets to their platforms, including equities, indices, and precious metals. While this trend signals growing... The post Bitget Integrates TradFi for the Next Phase of Exchanges first appeared on FinTecBuzz.
- Vermiculus Deploys VeriClear Risk Platform at OCCby PRNewswire on March 6, 2026 at 5:30 pm
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC®) has accepted delivery of two essential microservice-based risk systems from Vermiculus within a few months of implementation. The post Vermiculus Deploys VeriClear Risk Platform at OCC first appeared on FinTecBuzz.