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The holidays are fast approaching, and gifts are on everyone’s minds. With so many shopping apps available, it can be overwhelming to pick one to browse. Fortunately, PYMNTS has you ...

This month in PYMNTS’ Provider Rankings of Shopping Apps we see Walmart climbing to the top, giving Shein something to fight for. We also see double ties in our lower half but ...

The PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps showcases the top-performing apps transforming the shopping experience. This month, there are four ties, and Shein finds itself back in first place. The Top 5 Shein ...

Back to school looms, and shopping — for now, at least — revolves around backpacks, Chromebooks, fall fashion, sneakers and, possibly, stocking up on dorm room snacks. And for the key ...

You may have clicked this link looking for radical changes of position in PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps. Sorry to disappoint, but this is not the month for rank changes. In ...

Been shopping lately? It’s pricey out there. The wise shopper is prepared, and the PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps indicates how those wise shoppers save. Putting our money where our ...

What’s better than a shopping app? Air. Maybe. See if you don’t agree after perusing this month’s latest listings to see who’s got the mobile shopping mojo. The Top 5 Still at ...

In the latest Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps, we find three ties among 13 different retailers, including a neck-and-neck race to claim the top spot and some churn at the bottom ...

Inflation, schmiflation. People purchase the things they need and want regardless of macroeconomic headwinds and anything else that gets between us and our stuff. Witness the latest PYMNTS Provider Ranking of ...

Lots of movement in PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps this cycle, which we take as a positive sign that despite inflation and war and pandemics, people still want that ...

The evolution of digital payments has often followed a predictable pattern. As transactions become faster and more seamless, new layers of infrastructure emerge to support them. Cloud computing, for example, enabled scalable ...

Watch more: Digital Shift With Flagright’s Madhu Nadig Scale is fast becoming a central challenge in financial crime compliance. As digital payments expand and real-time transactions accelerate, the number of alerts generated ...

The construction industry builds skylines, bridges and critical infrastructure, yet its own critical financial infrastructure often runs on outdated payment practices. Findings in the February 2026 edition of the B2B and ...

Indian payments platform PhonePe reportedly hopes to go public at a valuation of $9 billion to $10.5 billion. This indicates that the Walmart-backed company will raise around $900 million to $1.05 ...

Watch more: Need to Know With North’s Suril Patel When merchants viewed payments solely through the lens of cost, they typically looked for as little cost as possible. But that one-dimensional calculus ...

Ripple Payments now allows customers to collect, hold, exchange and payout in both fiat and stablecoins. The platform also enables customers to provision named virtual accounts and wallets, automate collection flows, ...

PayPay reportedly hopes to raise up to $1.1 billion when it goes public. That’s according to a report Tuesday (March 3) from Bloomberg News, which says it would be the largest ever initial public ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Paymentus’ Nicole Haskins The FinTech landscape has overindexed on innovation. But in an operational landscape defined by automation, predictive analytics, and invisible payments, the ...

Interoperability in crypto payments has long been discussed as a technical aspiration. Over the past several months, it has started to look more like a commercial necessity. As stablecoins and digital ...

Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are approaching a practical turning point in how they pay. Cash and checks still play an outsized role in day-to-day operations, especially for supplier and ...

 Meta delayed the launch of Avocado, its next-generation artificial intelligence model. The company pushed the release to at least May from a planned debut this month, The New York Times reported ...

Elon Musk said X Money is set to launch in April. “X Money early public access will launch next month,” Musk said in a Tuesday (March 10) post on X. ? Money early ...

The Visa Acceptance Platform now enables acquirers to modernize their payment processing through a single API. The capability comes from the newly launched Visa Intelligent Authorization, which is now available to ...

Small businesses may still like the local, relationship-first feel of credit unions, but that loyalty now comes with a digital price tag. The new PYMNTS Intelligence and Velera report, “Credit Union ...

There’s an affordability crisis rocking households in the United States. Housing, insurance, healthcare, childcare, transportation and other categories once expected to scale gradually with income have instead shifted upward in step ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With FIS’ Mladen Vladic Innovation in payments has historically followed a bottom-up adoption curve. Niche players test, incumbents wait, standards emerge, and scale follows. Agentic commerce, a ...

Cash is king when uncertainty reigns. But for many firms, profit is not disappearing due to macroeconomic forces alone. In many cases, it is being forfeited through slow processes, limited ...

Cash App introduced a peer-to-peer payment feature designed to simplify money requests. The company’s new payment links service lets customers generate shareable Cash App payment request links that can be sent ...

Not long ago, FinTechs and credit unions often approached each other from opposite sides of the same market. Today, they increasingly meet in the middle, trading rivalry for collaboration as both ...

Watch more: Need to Know: Boost Payment Solutions’ Daniel Artin B2B payments typically arrive with invoice and remittance data, not fanfare. These fundamental value transfers are largely invisible to anyone outside finance ...

In the digital economy, not every war is fought over market share. Some are fought over principle, some over pricing and some, let’s be honest, because an adult in a ...

 Meta delayed the launch of Avocado, its next-generation artificial intelligence model. The company pushed the release to at least May from a planned debut this month, The New York Times reported ...

FedEx aims to have artificial intelligence agents participating in more than half of its core operational workflows by 2028, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday (March 13). “Every employee and every ...

Amazon Web Services, Nvidia and MassRobotics have named nine startups for the 2026 cohort of the Physical AI Fellowship, highlighting the growing push to develop artificial intelligence systems that operate ...

  In the early days of the internet, networks did not naturally speak to one another. Standards had to emerge, trust had to be layered on top of open protocols and institutions ...

Bank executives appearing before a House Financial Services subcommittee Thursday (March 5) delivered a blunt message. Financial fraud has become more sophisticated, more coordinated and more difficult to contain, even as ...

Apple unveiled a new laptop Wednesday (March 4) that it said offers the Mac experience at a “breakthrough price” that starts at $599 for consumers and $499 for students. The MacBook Neo features ...

The artificial intelligence industry is causing a shortage of memory chips needed by the smartphone industry even as AI features become part of the latest mobile devices, Bloomberg News reported ...

AT&T boosted the efficiency of its internal Ask AT&T personal assistant by reworking the orchestration layer and shifting more of the work from large language models (LLMs) to small language ...

Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said the industry is decades away from developing artificial general intelligence (AGI). In an interview with Fast Company posted Friday (Feb. 27), Ng said he defines ...