Issue 1307

These days our email inboxes are inundated with pseudo news announcements, including scores of payment industry press releases. AI has served to obscure the usefulness of these messages by encumbering their text with bland jargon that hides what might be noteworthy, or inflating what is merely ordinary. In every issue, we separate signals from the noise in our First Look section. Our first decision is to select only news that is worth your time. Then we distill what is important into a few sentences that provide the context needed to understand what has been announced. If the news is useful, you can act, because we provide the verified email addresses of executives empowered to do business.