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          Send, Same Day ACH, stablecoins and tokenized depos-   loan servicing agents summaries of borrowers' account
          its. It compares settlement, finality, speed, transaction   histories during customer calls. Powered by Anthropic's
          limits, fraud management, governance, liquidity and    Claude, the tool converts payment records, missed pay-
          other factors. The report also addresses interoperabil-  ments, returned fees and other account data into plain-
          ity, payment orchestration and programmability, while   language  summaries,  reducing call  times  by  up  to  15
          examining use cases including earned wage access, B2B   percent, according to LoanPro. Agents can query account
          payments, bill pay and government disbursements.       information conversationally while the system maintains
                                                                 an audit trail of actions taken during calls. LoanPro said
          1 in 6 U.S. shoppers will sacrifice                    the interface has also reduced internal support tickets
          essentials for holiday gifts                           by enabling agents and lenders to resolve more issues
                                                                 directly.
          An Invoice Home survey found 49 percent of U.S. con-
          sumers plan to buy holiday gifts despite rising costs, with   Nuvei, Kolleno integrate payments
          16 percent expecting to sacrifice everyday essentials and   into finance platform
          20 percent taking second jobs to cover expenses. Fifteen
          percent plan to use BNPL, rising to 21 percent among   Nuvei partnered with Kolleno to embed payment capa-
          millennials. Shoppers also cited crowds, online and    bilities into Kolleno's AI-powered order-to-cash platform.
          in-store price discrepancies, and checkout lines as rea-  The integration allows businesses to accept invoice pay-
          sons to abandon purchases. Social media and streaming   ments within the same system used to manage collec-
          advertising remain influential, while 29 percent of Gen Z   tions, disputes, cash application and financial forecasting.
          respondents expect to do most holiday shopping through   Nuvei provides the underlying payment infrastructure,
          TikTok  Shop.  Additionally,  29  percent  of  respondents   enabling Kolleno customers to offer multiple payment
          anticipate making January returns specifically to save   methods and support transactions across markets. The
          money.                                                 companies  said  combining  payment  acceptance  with
                                                                 accounts receivable workflows can reduce manual pro-
          Connected is not orchestrated, RS2 warns               cesses  and  simplify reconciliation. Kolleno's  platform
                                                                 uses  AI and automation  to  manage  finance  operations,
          RS2 released a white paper stating that businesses often   while Nuvei provides payment processing and related
          mistake payment connectivity and basic failover for true   capabilities  for  businesses  operating  across  multiple
          payments orchestration. Research cited by the payment   countries and currencies.
          technology provider found 89 percent of organizations
          had implemented failover or redundancy, but only 41    Talus, Samsung launch mobile POS solution
          percent used automated dynamic routing and 22 percent
          continuously updated routing logic. More than half still   Talus partnered with Samsung, with payment technol-
          made routing decisions manually. RS2 identified five   ogy from Ingenico, to launch ReadyPoint, a mobile POS
          capabilities for mature orchestration: connect, control,   solution for small and midsize businesses. ReadyPoint
          optimize, protect and adapt. The company said intelligent   turns compatible Samsung Galaxy smartphones and
          routing, automated retries and centralized controls can   tablets into payment and business-management systems,
          improve transaction completion, resilience and flexibility   using Ingenico's SoftPOS technology to accept contactless
          for merchants, PSPs, payfacs and acquirers while reduc-  payments without additional payment hardware. The
          ing operational complexity and risk.                   platform also includes inventory management, customer
                                                                 engagement and reporting capabilities. Talus plans to
        PARTNERSHIPS                                             distribute ReadyPoint through its reseller network and
                                                                 provide support and revenue-sharing opportunities for
                                                                 ISOs and sales agents. The companies said the offering is
          LoanPro, AllCloud build AI servicing tool              designed to give merchants a mobile alternative to tradi-
                                                                 tional POS systems while supporting multiple business-
          LoanPro  partnered  with  AllCloud  and  Amazon  Web   management functions.
          Services to develop an  AI-powered interface that gives
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