If you want to know how consumers feel about faster payments, talk to the millions of Americans who still have not received stimulus money as of mid- to late-May. The U.S. real-time payments void has hurt commerce, too, as PYMNTS research finds that close to...
Sweden recently became the first nation outside the eurozone to join TIPS, the European Central Bank’s real-time payment platform — setting the stage for other countries to do so in the future. In the latest Faster Payments Tracker®, PYMNTS spoke with the European Central Bank...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken both the United States and global economies, with 38.4 percent of small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) reducing their payroll and experts warning that the pandemic could reduce global trade by anywhere from 13 to 32 percent. The pandemic has caused...
The U.S. consumer has literally thousands of options for financial services given that America has traditional banks, credit unions and FinTech challenger banks of all shapes and sizes. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
While many advancements have been made over the last five years toward enabling 9-to-5 employees to gain instant access to wages they already earned, the progress has been uneven at best. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
For all the human and business impacts caused by the global coronavirus pandemic, the crisis has also been instructive, particularly in illustrating the shortcomings in systems that worked just fine — until they didn’t. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
The Federal Reserve has formed a FedNow Community group for its upcoming instant payment offering, the FedNow Service, and needs volunteers to support it, the Fed announced Wednesday (May 6). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Sweden is the latest country to join the European Central Bank’s (ECB) instant payments platform in an effort to ease electronic payments. The agreement allows the ECB to offer Sweden access to the Eurosystem’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) in Swedish currency to support the...
The last few weeks have been hard times for the restaurant industry in the U.S. — big chains and mom-and-pop joints alike are closing their dining rooms, furloughing their staff in some cases and working overtime to find out-of-the-box ways to weather the incoming storm....
