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43% of Consumers Bail on Purchases Without BNPL Option

43% of Consumers Bail on Purchases Without BNPL Option
43% of Consumers Bail on Purchases Without BNPL Option
July 25, 2025  |  BNPL

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) options have become deeply embedded in the financial lives of consumers in the United States, influencing everything from daily grocery...

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Instant Payments Rewrite Treasury Playbooks
Instant Payments Rewrite Treasury Playbooks
July 25, 2025  |  Opinion

Instant payments are set to disrupt B2B transactions as businesses adapt around their speed, WEX President of Corporate Payments Eric Frankovic writes in the new...

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Partnership Buzz Lifts FinTech IPO Index 2%
Partnership Buzz Lifts FinTech IPO Index 2%
July 25, 2025  |  Fintech Investments

Earnings season has yet to be fully felt in the FinTech IPO Index’s realm, and in fact several of the news items through the week,...

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Walmart Outpaces Amazon in Same-Day Deal Days Showdown
Walmart Outpaces Amazon in Same-Day Deal Days Showdown
July 24, 2025  |  Retail

In the race to dominate modern retail’s final frontier of instant convenience, Walmart has done what once seemed improbable: outpace Amazon in the battle for...

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Banks Push to Stall Crypto Charter Approvals
Banks Push to Stall Crypto Charter Approvals
July 24, 2025  |  Cryptocurrency

Through the past few months, as cryptocurrency regulations have been reshaped by the President Donald Trump administration, crypto firms have applied for national trust bank...

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Why Tech Only Works if It Solves a Human Problem
Why Tech Only Works if It Solves a Human Problem
July 24, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

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Mobile Texts Have Changed How Consumers Make Payments
Mobile Texts Have Changed How Consumers Make Payments
July 24, 2025  |  Consumer Finance

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This Is the Consumer’s Brain (and Wallet) on Amazon Prime Day
This Is the Consumer’s Brain (and Wallet) on Amazon Prime Day
July 24, 2025  |  Amazon

Buying a pillow-top mattress on Amazon.com seems like the most basic thing: Find, grab, check out, then wait for delivery (two days for Prime members)....

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