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More than salary, gig work serves as a primary source of income for many

  • The gig economy trend is flying high as workers pull out of their full-time jobs and transition to gig platforms, a new report from Marqeta and Branch shows.
  • Gig jobs come as a no-strings-attached option for professionals, who find competitive wages, flexibility, faster payouts, and the fringe benefit of being their own boss alluring.
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AI Innovation, Member Exclusive, Payments, Podcasts

Mastercard’s Marc Pettican on the road to a $17.4 trillion virtual card market

  • Mastercard projects virtual card spend will hit $17.4 trillion by 2029, and Marc Pettican explains what's fueling that growth.
  • He details Mastercard's push into agentic payments, embedded finance, and a multi-rail strategy spanning cards, account-to-account, and stablecoins.
Zack Miller | August 05, 2026
AI Innovation, Banking, Payments

How J.P. Morgan Payments eliminated 13 billion keystrokes a year by automating the paper behind payments

  • Rather than waging war on checks, J.P. Morgan Payments is tackling the manual workflows behind them.
  • JPM Payments' systems now process more than 4,000 envelope and document variations, while its AI platform delivers over 99.999% accuracy in data extraction and business-rule validation.
Sara Khairi | July 14, 2026
AI Innovation, Member Exclusive, Payments

Paper still defines payments’ last mile. J.P. Morgan Payments thinks AI and robotics can tackle that.

  • Most payment discussions assume the biggest challenge is moving money from Point A to Point B. What if the bigger bottleneck is actually the operational noise surrounding the payment?
  • Investing in checks sounds like a step backward, but J.P. Morgan Payments is doing exactly that – because paper checks still create the greatest operational friction in the modern financial system.
Sara Khairi | July 09, 2026
Blockchain and Crypto, Member Exclusive, Payments

The on-chain credit card: Stablecoin credit moves from experiment to infrastructure

  • What does banking look like when money can be spent outside the traditional account structure?
  • June's announcements point to a new model: card programs backed by tokenized dollars. But stablecoin-backed credit raises three harder questions.
Sara Khairi | June 25, 2026
AI Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Payments

J.P. Morgan Payments’ Michael Lozanoff on why agentic commerce can’t scale without governance

  • AI agents today can already handle end-to-end commerce. The open question is whether those actions can be trusted at scale.
  • Intelligence is becoming table stakes as AI scales. The differentiator shifts to governance: agent identity, permissions, and enforceable limits.
Sara Khairi | June 16, 2026
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