April 17, 2024
Misfits Market Teams With Gopuff as Shoppers Demand Instant eGrocery
Online shoppers want options for a wider range of grocery occasions, not just their weekly haul, Misfits Market CEO Abhi Ramesh said. The online grocer on Wednesday (April 17) announced...
April 17, 2024
From Trips to Tips: How Faster Payments Can Elevate Travel...
The hospitality and travel industries have endured a turbulent few years, with the pandemic bringing operations to a halt as travel restrictions led to declines in tourism and subsequent layoffs....
April 16, 2024
Lendica and EBizCharge Partner on Embedded Business Credit Solution
Lendica and EBizCharge have partnered to launch an embedded business credit solution for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United States. This collaboration brings together Lendica’s embedded artificial intelligence...
April 16, 2024
Upcoming Data Reporting Requirements Could Shape Small Business Lending’s Future
Main Street businesses represent the backbone of both the American economy and their local communities. And with the news on Tuesday (April 16) that Rapid Finance has teamed up with Galileo Financial...
April 15, 2024
What Generation Z Wants From Their Bank
There are 69 million consumers in the U.S. who are between the ages of 12 and 27. They are described as the first digitally-native generation — a generation that has...
April 15, 2024
CE 100 Index Slips 2% as Bank Earnings Spark Decline
Earnings season has begun, and at least initially, investors seemed nonplussed. Despite resilient consumer spending, inflation’s sticky too — and pressures are evident in the CE 100 Index, especially on...
April 11, 2024
CFPB and EU Eye Consumer Risks of BNPL, AI and...
Consumer protection officials for the United States and the European Commission have met to discuss three shared priorities: buy now, pay later (BNPL), digital payments and artificial intelligence (AI). The...
April 10, 2024
Store Card Revenue Under Pressure From Late Fee Change, BNPL
Retailers’ revenue from store credit cards is reportedly facing pressure for several reasons. These forces are impacting all retailers, but especially department stores, whose businesses face other challenges as well,...
April 10, 2024
Just in Time for Summer: Apparel and Dining Out Get...
We’re all booking trips. But what we’re able to spend once we get away from it all … well, that remains to be seen. Delta Air Lines reported earnings on...
Why Are Merchants and Acquirers So Confused About BNPL and Installment Payment Plans?
Split-payment plans like BNPL are gaining traction, with 3 in 5 shoppers having used these options in the last year. There’s a “but” — merchants and acquirers aren’t sure which plans have the most appeal to consumers or when to present them in the purchase flow. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest report, “Divided, Not Conquered: Acquirer and Merchant Confusion Clouds Split-Payments Landscape,” a collaboration with Splitit, draws from multiple surveys of consumers and executives to get a 360-degree view of the split-payment space — the facts and the gaps.