As consumers opt for convenience, many are leaving behind cash and moving towards digital payment solutions. Shiv Singh, SVP of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at Visa, joined us to discuss the key trends transforming commerce.
Visa just completed a major study and uncovered five major trends. Singh says the whole idea of paying in messenger environments is one of the biggest themes.
Singh highlights China's progress in messenger payments on the WeChat platform, which has seen a spike in volume. He also provides insight into Visa’s strategy for breaking into the Chinese market. When China's government is ready to loosen up its regulations, Singh says Visa will be ready to capitalize.
The CEOs of three popular tech companies have been subpoenaed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which ordered the heads of Discord, Snap and X to testify at a hearing on protecting children online.
Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content, hate speech on the site in general or billionaire owner Elon Musk’s own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
The Energy Department is making a push to strengthen the U.S. battery supply chain, announcing up to $3.5 billion for companies that produce batteries and the critical minerals that go into them.
Ed Egilinsky, managing director and head of sales and distribution & alternatives with Direxion, joined Cheddar News to discuss how bond traders are reacting to the latest consumer price index data and how they're positioning portfolios ahead of next week's release of Nvidia's earnings. Egilinsky also discussed some of the other bigger-cap companies, including Alphabet, Amazon and Apple.
