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Embedded Finance Catches On With Credit-Shy Japanese Consumers
Embedded Finance Catches On With Credit-Shy Japanese Consumers
August 21, 2024  |  SMBs

Embedded lending is growing in popularity around the globe. It offers users convenient, streamlined access to financing without having to leave the platforms of merchants,...

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Payments Leaders Share How Business Threats Become Innovation’s Stepping Stones
Payments Leaders Share How Business Threats Become Innovation’s Stepping Stones
August 20, 2024  |  Opinion

  It’s not just the known challenges that companies must be wary of — it’s the unexpected threats that can suddenly appear and disrupt even...

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Visa’s Koenigsberg Says Small Businesses Are Ready to Embrace BNPL
Visa’s Koenigsberg Says Small Businesses Are Ready to Embrace BNPL
August 19, 2024  |  Buy Now Pay Later

In the global view, small businesses aren’t so small. They represent 90% of all businesses and more than 50% of employment globally. And in emerging...

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As If: Retail Brands Revive the ’90s With Nostalgic Classics
As If: Retail Brands Revive the ’90s With Nostalgic Classics
August 17, 2024  |  Retail

Seizing on millennials’ nostalgia, retail brands are bringing the ’90s back, reintroducing iconic products and styles that defined a generation. Casio’s Baby-G watch, a highly...

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France Keeps Mobile Wallets Ready for Post-Olympic Events
France Keeps Mobile Wallets Ready for Post-Olympic Events
August 14, 2024  |  Digital Payments

Consumers in France are embracing digital wallets for payments. For example, more than one-third (38%) use them for online shopping. Surprisingly, we find millennials in...

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Citi: Faster Payments Help Treasurers Extract ‘Last Drop’ of Liquidity From Financial Ecosystems
Citi: Faster Payments Help Treasurers Extract ‘Last Drop’ of Liquidity From Financial Ecosystems
August 13, 2024  |  Faster Payments

Corporate treasurers once were relegated to the back office, manipulating spreadsheets, preparing audits, handing printed reports off to more senior management — the folks charting...

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Gen Z Transforms Workplace Communication by Keeping It Caszh
Gen Z Transforms Workplace Communication by Keeping It Caszh
August 10, 2024  |  Personnel

Generation Z is changing the tone (or the vibe, as it were) of professional communications, with their preference for casual language creating new norms. Anecdotal...

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Putting ‘Scam Dens’ Out of Business Means Using AI to Fight AI
Putting ‘Scam Dens’ Out of Business Means Using AI to Fight AI
August 09, 2024  |  Security & Fraud

Fraud has become, to put it mildly, big business. Featurespace Chief Operating Officer Tim Vanderham told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster in an interview that “when you...

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NCR Voyix: $2.5 Billion Sale to Veritas Verifies Digital Banking’s Long-Term Potential
NCR Voyix: $2.5 Billion Sale to Veritas Verifies Digital Banking’s Long-Term Potential
August 07, 2024  |  Digital Banking

Publicly traded companies are marked to market each and every day. And when quarterly results roll in, investors parse the data, the top line and...

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