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AI Innovation | March 7, 2025 Microsoft Launches AI Sales Agents, Challenging Traditional Sales Methods and Salesforce’s Agentforce On March 5, 2025, Microsoft launched a new AI Sales Accelerator program with two new AI sales agents to help businesses sources leads, find potential customers and manage/follow-up on outreach.  This iteration of AI agents automate routine

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order excluding certain student loan borrowers from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

Economy | March 7, 2025 Canada-U.S. Tariff Delay Until April 2, $6 Billion Federal Support Announced As of March 7, 2025, Canada and the U.S. are still locked in a tense tariff dispute but there's been a shift in the timeline. The 25% tariffs originally set to take effect this month have now been delayed

SBF | March 7, 2025 Sam Bankman-Fried breaks his silence from jail on FTX, regrets, and crypto’s future Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of FTX, is serving time after being convicted of fraud, but that hasn’t stopped him from talking. In a rare jailhouse interview, he discusses what went wrong, his regrets, and what he

In 2025, Social Security payroll taxes apply to wages up to $176,100. Workers with $1 million in annual wages have already stopped paying those taxes for the year.

If you're a single-income, married couple, you could use a spousal IRA to save more for retirement. Here's what to know.

The U.S. is now home to almost 40% of the world's super rich, nearly double the share in China, which has the next highest contingent of multimillionaires.

Meta expects a market of hundreds of millions of small businesses where gen AI will directly interact with customers, says head of AI for Business, Clara Shih.

The Education Department's role working on federal student loan borrowers' complaints is at risk after significant staff cuts under Trump, agency employees say.

Cybersecurity | March 6, 2025 Lessons From $35M Phone Scam That Used AI, Crypto, and Fake Celebrity Ads Gone are the days of obvious phishing email scams that are full of typos, conflicting domains and emails that don't match while urgently asking the victim to do something.  Scammers these days are getting much smarter and

Retail Payments | March 6, 2025 PSPs Must Protect End-User Funds, Here's What the New Rules Require The Bank of Canada has shared two new guides (see below) to help payment service providers (PSPs) prepare for supervision under the Retail Payment Activities Act (RPAA). The new materials explain the key rules PSPs must follow and

As the federal government vows to to tackle rising prices, there are key steps consumers can take to bring monthly costs down.

The Federal Housing Administration, a major provider of low-down-payment loan options for first-time homebuyers, is facing a staff cut. What you should know.

Vopay | March 5, 2025 VoPay’s AI GPT Assistant is Transforming Fintech with Smarter, Faster, Fintech Integration On March 4, 2025, Vancouver-based embedded payment solutions leader, VoPay, has revealed its latest innovation, it's API GPT Assistant. It's an AI-powered tool designed to help developers integrate financial technology solutions quickly and efficiently. By using advanced language

Federal cuts to Medicaid would impact more than 80 million people who rely on the program. It may also negatively effect the economy, new research finds.