Prudent regulation is needed in helping to define the risks and rewards in emerging partnerships between financial institutions and banks — but current regulatory efforts may be too vague, critics charged at a Congressional hearing held Friday (July 12). A “field hearing” held by the...
Interpol — short for the International Criminal Police Organization — may be familiar to readers as a staple of spy and action movies … where the police join forces around the globe to stop the bad guys in their tracks. And, as detailed in a...
Consumers were not shy about loading up on the cards in May. The latest data from the Federal Reserve, released Monday (July 8), show that overall, consumer credit rose $11.3 billion in June, far outstripping the $6.5 billion gain on an absolute and annualized basis....
A bumpy but generally downward path for inflation — and the prices paid for all manner of goods — may pressure consumers to pull back on spending. To that end, consumers see some softening of just how much prices will increase over the short term...
July 17, 2024
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its own 40-year-old ruling in the LoperBright Enterprises v. Raimondo case on June 28 — in what has come to being popularly tagged SCOTUS v. Chevron — the reaction was split. On one hand, some politicians and legal experts were outraged that an activist court attacked what it saw […]
July 12, 2024
Prudent regulation is needed in helping to define the risks and rewards in emerging partnerships between financial institutions and banks — but current regulatory efforts may be too vague, critics...
July 02, 2024
Since the start of the pandemic, PYMNTS Intelligence has tracked the real impact of inflation, as real wages, adjusted for price increases, have failed to keep pace with sticker shock....
June 26, 2024
Merchant steering, which is a practice where retailers offer discounts to consumers if they use certain payment methods, could be getting eclipsed by surcharges and tipflation. The PYMNTS Intelligence report...
July 03, 2024
The Synapse bankruptcy case had another court hearing on Wednesday (July 3), this one with consumers testifying to their financial losses and another status report filed by trustee Jelena McWilliams. In an “urgent” supplement to her fourth status report, the former FDIC chair put the spotlight on a time-sensitive dispute with financial services database provider […]
July 02, 2024
The Federal Reserve is investigating possible effects generative artificial intelligence (AI) may have on productivity, inflation and the labor market, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday (July 2). Speaking during...
July 01, 2024
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has a new first vice president and chief operating officer. Cheryl Venable, who has been with the bank since 1991, will assume her new...
July 01, 2024
The Supreme Court handed a victory to retailers battling debit card “swipe fees.” The high court’s 6-3 ruling Monday (July 1) sided with the plaintiffs in a case challenging a...
