Perplexity has introduced Comet, its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered web browser. “Comet transforms entire browsing sessions into single, seamless interactions, collapsing complex workflows into fluid conversations,” the company wrote on its blog. The browser lets users answer questions, and carry out tasks and research from a single interface. “Tabs that piled up waiting for your return now join one intelligent interface that understands how your mind works,” the company added. “Context-switching between dozens of applications, sites, and interfaces has stolen the focus and flow that bring joy to our work and fuel our curiosity.” The browser also features an assistant that can conduct browsing sessions while users work, and can do things like compare what a user is reading to something they’ve already read, or help with more practical matters like comparing insurance plans or deciding on investments. Comet is available to Perplexity Max subscribers, with plans to roll out invite-only access throughout the summer. Perplexity Max is the company’s $200-a-month or $2,000-a-year subscription tier
OpenAI’s Chromium-based AI browser to likely include a chat-style assistant that can perform complex tasks on behalf of the user in click-free mode and an agentic AI to handle multistep tasks across the web that lets users delegate responsibilities
OpenAI is reportedly close to releasing a browser that could potentially take on Google LLC’s market dominance with its Chrome browser, several months after the company said that it would be interested in buying Chrome from Google. The browser is slated to be launched in the coming weeks and uses artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse the web. Notably, the browser would also give OpenAI direct access to user data, which it could use to train its models. The browser is expected to be built on Chromium, the open-source codebase that underpins Chrome and most other browsers except Firefox, but with AI tightly integrated into the user experience. The OpenAI browser is said to include a chat-style assistant that can perform complex tasks on behalf of the user, such as summarizing pages, autofilling forms, booking travel or completing online purchases, without requiring users to click through websites manually, instead of simply serving as a traditional interface for web navigation. Where things could get particularly interesting is that the browser may include OpenAI’s Operator agent, an agentic AI offering designed to handle multistep tasks across the web, allowing users to delegate responsibilities such as scheduling appointments or ordering food to an AI agent. Its inclusion could turn the browser into more than just a gateway to the internet versus a fully capable assistant embedded directly in the browsing environment. The move could place OpenAI in direct competition with Google on multiple fronts, not only in search but also in advertising and data collection.
Icon Business Bank’s integration with ZimpleMoney to enable businesses to offer private financing across multiple loan types with automated ledgering, integrated payments, borrower portals and detailed reporting
Icon Business Bank announced a strategic partnership with ZimpleMoney to simplify private party financing for customers. This collaboration gives Icon Business Bank customers access to advanced loan servicing technology that streamlines the management of private loans, leases, and installment payments. Powered by ZimpleMoney’s cloud-based platform and open APIs, businesses can now offer private financing to their customers, creating new revenue streams while improving cash flow management. ZimpleMoney’s platform features multiple loan types, automated ledgering, integrated payments, borrower portals and detailed reporting—all designed to simplify the complexities of private financing and enhance trust between borrowers and lenders. It provides a compliant, professional framework that brings transparency and efficiency to every step of the process. With this offering, Icon Business Bank continues to lead with innovation by offering tools that align with today’s business environment and provide access to more modern solutions.
Moment automates fixed income investments- instantly generates portfolios from email requests, builds transition proposals from PDFs in seconds, and produces client-ready reports with custom commentary
Moment, the company automating trading and portfolio management workflows for fixed income teams, has raised $36 million in Series B funding led by Index Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and others. Moment’s platform unifies trading, research, portfolio optimization, reporting, and risk and compliance in a single system, with a layer of automation that allows financial institutions to supercharge their fixed income teams. Leading financial institutions use Moment to: Execute thousands of trades in seconds with automated execution rules; Optimize tax-sensitive, multi-asset class portfolios across hundreds of thousands of accounts; Scan all of their accounts and trades in real-time for compliance violations using custom rules; Use AI-powered workflows to instantly generate portfolios from email requests, build transition proposals from PDFs in seconds, and produce client-ready reports with custom commentary. By embedding forward-deployed engineers with its largest customers, Moment co-develops multi-year transformation roadmaps while delivering near-term solutions in production. Dylan Parker, CEO and co‑founder of Moment said “These firms are partnering with Moment to co-create the future of fixed income – empowering their fixed income teams with a differentiated platform to win new business, unlock eight-figure revenue channels, and genuinely 10x their productivity.”
Broadridge’s instructing party model developed in collaboration with the European Central Bank’s TIPS system is reducing onboarding complexity for clients and is enabling rapid compliance with EU instant payments regulations
To support banks in accelerating their transition to real-time Swift payments ahead of the October 2025 European deadline, Broadridge has announced the significant market adoption of its service for connectivity, message processing and workflow management for instant payments. Broadridge’s service for instant payments is built for continuous operation, processing transactions in less than 10 seconds with no downtime, with SwiftNet Instant connectivity for enhanced efficiency. This allows banks to support high-volume transactions, not only for the current set of instant payment transactions, but also in readiness for the future transition of all payment types to the instant payment model. Kai Marzenell, Director, Swift Product Management at Broadridge said “Our solution not only minimizes onboarding complexity but also offers financial institutions a significant cost advantage, enabling them to better operate, innovate and grow.” By providing seamless integration with the European Central Bank’s Target Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) system, Broadridge has provided banks with a high-availability infrastructure that ensures transactions settle 24/7, with zero downtime. Broadridge’s instructing party model developed in collaboration with the European Central Bank’s TIPS system, has been a key factor in client adoption, significantly reducing costs, simplifying compliance and minimizing time to market. Broadridge’s infrastructure offers “active-active” failover across two data centers ensuring uninterrupted service availability. This capability significantly reduces risk and enhances resilience by allowing banks to rigorously pre-test failover scenarios under real-world conditions, setting a new benchmark for instant payment infrastructure.
International Money Express’s Remittance-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform enables businesses to embed fast, secure branded person-to-person and business-to-person payment services across WhatsApp, mobile apps, and the web
International Money Express has launched its fully redesigned Remittance-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform. The upgraded service gives businesses a straightforward way to embed fast, secure cross-border money transfers into their own customer experiences. Through Intermex’s RaaS platform, companies can introduce their own branded person-to-person and business-to-person payment services to eligible markets including Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador, as well as select countries in Southeast Asia, the European Union, and Africa. The enhanced platform offers a customizable system that lets businesses create branded customer experiences across WhatsApp, mobile apps, and the web. The service is supported by appropriate licensing across U.S. jurisdictions, incorporating required know your customers and anti-money laundry compliance measures. Companies gain access to one of the largest payout networks in Latin America, supporting cash pickups, home deliveries, and direct bank deposits. The solution also provides integrated payment services, merchant account management, chargeback support, and advanced anti-fraud tools. Additionally, partners benefit from 24/7 bilingual customer support, business insights, and ongoing strategic guidance. Marcelo Theodoro, Chief Digital, Product & Marketing Officer at Intermex said “Our partners don’t have to build everything from scratch. Through a simple API, we provide the infrastructure, licenses, payout networks, and even the support teams they need.”
International Money Express’s Remittance-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform enables businesses to embed fast, secure branded person-to-person and business-to-person payment services across WhatsApp, mobile apps, and the web
International Money Express has launched its fully redesigned Remittance-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform. The upgraded service gives businesses a straightforward way to embed fast, secure cross-border money transfers into their own customer experiences. Through Intermex’s RaaS platform, companies can introduce their own branded person-to-person and business-to-person payment services to eligible markets including Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador, as well as select countries in Southeast Asia, the European Union, and Africa. The enhanced platform offers a customizable system that lets businesses create branded customer experiences across WhatsApp, mobile apps, and the web. The service is supported by appropriate licensing across U.S. jurisdictions, incorporating required know your customers and anti-money laundry compliance measures. Companies gain access to one of the largest payout networks in Latin America, supporting cash pickups, home deliveries, and direct bank deposits. The solution also provides integrated payment services, merchant account management, chargeback support, and advanced anti-fraud tools. Additionally, partners benefit from 24/7 bilingual customer support, business insights, and ongoing strategic guidance. Marcelo Theodoro, Chief Digital, Product & Marketing Officer at Intermex said “Our partners don’t have to build everything from scratch. Through a simple API, we provide the infrastructure, licenses, payout networks, and even the support teams they need.”
FV Bank’s new Virtual Account feature enables business clients to automate the tagging and attribution of incoming international payments by pre-generating and assigning a unique virtual account number and deposit instructions to every counterparty
FV Bank has launched its new Virtual Account feature, empowering business clients to automate and streamline the attribution of incoming international payments with unique, dedicated account numbers. With this feature, FV Bank customers can now pre-generate virtual account numbers for each of their clients or counterparties, enabling seamless automation of incoming payment attribution. Businesses can assign a unique virtual account number and deposit instructions to every client, ensuring that when a client sends a SWIFT wire, ACH, Domestic Wire or USDC Stablecoin to this virtual account, FV Bank automatically tags and attributes the deposit to the underlying counterparty. This Virtual Account structure also significantly improves FV Bank’s compliance controls through enhanced KYCC (Know Your Customer’s Customer), enabling FV Bank to improve its transactional monitoring and KYC structures. Key features of the Virtual Account solution include: Unique virtual account numbers for each counterparty; Support for incoming international wire (SWIFT), ACH, Domestic Wires and Stablecoin deposits; API availability for integration into client platforms; Robust reporting tools; Enhanced KYCC and monitoring controls.
Gen Z creators are choosing affiliate tools as preferred monetization models over subscription and gated content models due to their flexibility, repeatable income and transparency
A new report from Collective Voice, reveals a generational shift in how creators approach monetization. 92% of creators, across all generations, view content creation as a professional pursuit rather than a side hustle, stating that affiliate is the core of how they will build their business. Gen Z is ushering in a new era of business-first creators who prioritize speed, simplicity, and affiliate tools to monetize quickly, rather than relying on traditional brand deals, subscription models, or co-creation models. Clair Sidman, vice president of Marketing at Collective Voice said “Gen Z starts their creator journey with baked-in expectations around earning potential. They’re choosing affiliate models because they offer flexible, repeatable income without waiting for brand deals.” Content Creation Is a Career: 92% of creators, across all generations, view content creation as a professional pursuit rather than a side hustle, stating that affiliate is the core of how they will build their business. Affiliate as Main Income Stream: Approximately 64% of creators use shoppable content to supplement their income, while fewer than 30% rely on it as their primary revenue source. Diverging Affiliate Strategies: While Millennials seek to diversify their revenue streams through multiple sources, including merchandise, subscriptions, and ad revenue, Gen Z creators tend to focus more narrowly on native affiliate payout referrals and seamless product integrations. Skeptical of Paywalls: Gen Z creators overwhelmingly prefer affiliate tools with flexibility and transparency over subscription and gated content models.
Prime Day 2025 is seeing a shift from impulse electronics to practical essentials driven by tighter budgets and rising skepticism over perceived value
Prime Day 2025 is seeing a shift from impulse electronics to practical essentials, signaling consumers are buying smarter. According to early reports, spending at the start of Prime Day Tuesday (July 8) was down 14%. PYMNTS Intelligence data reveal spending may have dropped not due to a lack of interest in the event, but because of tighter budgets and rising skepticism over perceived value. Flash deals on electronics, once the hallmark of Prime Day, underperformed per Tuesday sales data, while essentials like home goods, pet care, and household appliances fared better. It’s a shift from impulse to pragmatism. Prime Day’s spending contexts are also a reflection of subtle but seismic changes in how consumers pay. The old model — credit card plus shipping address — is fading. Instead, new habits are being formed around wallets, embedded finance and more payments innovations. BNPL orders for Amazon’s Prime Day, for example, were up 13.6% year over year for Tuesday’s shopping event. Amazon Prime Day 2025 was still a massive success by any traditional measure. But beneath the surface, a critical shift is underway, powered by AI innovation, payments optimization and changing consumer behavior. Adobe said that during Amazon’s Prime Day sales event, it expects the amount of traffic to all U.S. retailers that comes from generative AI chat services and browsers to leap 3,200% year over year.