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B2B Payments
Adobe on Why the Tech Industry Is Ripe for Consumerizing Business Payments
August 04, 2023

Business-to-business (B2B) payments are generally last on the innovation train. Still, the lack of modern B2B payments technology is nowhere more evident than in the technology industry itself. A recent Gartner survey reveals that challenges plague technology purchasing in the B2B space. Technology buyers routinely...

Digital Banking
Strategic Mergers Help Credit Unions Survive — and Thrive — in a Tough Economy
August 04, 2023

Credit unions have long occupied a specific market niche within the financial industry. CUs favor more personalized and member-focused services than their bank counterparts but typically operate on a much smaller scale. This market niche has come under threat in recent years, however, as consumers...

Loyalty & Rewards
Receipt-Level Data Keeps Brands From Flying Blind, Says Chipotle’s Loyalty Chief
August 04, 2023

Chipotle’s experience through the pandemic mirrored that of other merchants, Jason Scoggins, senior director of loyalty and CRM, told PYMNTS. “We saw minimal foot traffic, but our digital customers really came out in full force,” he said. But as the pandemic has receded, as Chipotle’s...

Retail
Wish Reports 42% Decline in Q2 Revenue, Blames Competition
August 03, 2023

The eCommerce giant ContextLogic Inc., better known as Wish, reported a 42% drop in total revenue year-over-year in its second-quarter earnings Thursday (Aug. 3), blaming competition and a challenging business environment for the decline. According to the company’s earnings call with analysts, it closed out Q2...

Regulation
Cuba Implements Regulations to Combat Inflation and Off-the-Books Economy
August 03, 2023

The Cuban Central Bank has issued new regulations designed to address runaway inflation and the large off-the-books economy that has developed in the midst of the country’s economic crisis. The regulations, which went into effect Thursday (Aug. 3), put a limit of 5,000 pesos on...

Banking
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon: New Bank Capital Requirements ‘Hugely Disappointing’
August 03, 2023

The head of America’s biggest bank said new capital requirements may have slowed economic growth. J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said in a Wednesday (Aug. 2) CNBC interview that the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) proposed requirements would make mortgages and...

B2B Payments
LegalZoom Launches Online Accounting Solution for Solopreneurs
August 03, 2023

LegalZoom has launched an online accounting solution designed specifically for solopreneurs. The new LZ Books was built to help these emerging entrepreneurs manage their books, secure new work and better prepare for tax time, LegalZoom said in a Thursday (Aug. 3) press release. “LZ Books is a significant step...

Investments
Novo Secures $125 Million Facility for New Working Capital Offering
August 03, 2023

Novo has launched a new offering to help small businesses access working capital. The company has also secured a $125 million facility from Victory Park Capital (VPC) to provide working capital via the new offering, which is called Novo Funding, Novo said in a Tuesday...

Social Commerce
Social Media Shoppers Are Minority but Highly Satisfied
August 03, 2023

Fourteen percent of consumers, representing approximately 36 million shoppers, buy items through social media. However, as illustrated in “Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover: Monetizing Social Media,” a PYMNTS and Amazon Web Services (AWS) collaboration, the ones that do rate their experience as highly satisfactory. An...