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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 ...

Swap raised $100 million in a Series C funding round to continue expanding the capabilities and reach of its global commerce solutions platform. The platform was initially focused on returns but ...

PYMNTS and Citigroup are launching a weekly podcast series aimed at giving corporate leaders practical guidance on stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets. The first episode will debut Tuesday (Jan. 13). Called ...

Consumer payments platform Zilch plans to acquire Fjord Bank to gain a European banking license that will enable Zilch to accelerate its expansion across Europe. The transaction is expected to close ...

In 2026, tokenized bank deposits overtake stablecoins as the preferred on-chain dollar for institutional and wholesale money, not because stablecoins disappear, but because banks turn deposits into programmable infrastructure without ...

Mastercard has granted a license to QNB Group, the largest financial institution in the Middle East and Africa, to extend its issuing and acquiring activities in Syria, a move intended ...

Latin America has captured an outsized share of global attention in recent weeks as geopolitics, elections and monetary pressures sharpen focus on emerging markets. Despite the volatility in the region, however, ...

Healthcare is not typically filed under “payments innovation.” But across 2025, PYMNTS’ reporting treated the sector less like a purely clinical domain and more like a sprawling, regulated marketplace where the ...

Digital wallets did not suddenly transform money movement in 2025. They did it quietly, one use case at a time. At the start of the year, wallets were still widely framed ...

The story of digital transformation across the Connected Economy™ is becoming inextricably tied to expectations around uptime. Whether the system in question is a cloud platform, a payments network or even ...

Predictions of a cashless world have circulated for decades, yet physical money continues to anchor daily commerce across much of the globe. Visa’s 2026 outlook highlighted just how large that footprint ...

By now, the consumerization trend of the B2B space is old news. But if the 2026 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is any indication, the tides of innovation ...

Connection to the Federal Reserve has always meant more than mere plumbing. It is the difference between operating at the edge of the financial system and being wired into its core, ...

Healthcare is not typically filed under “payments innovation.” But across 2025, PYMNTS’ reporting treated the sector less like a purely clinical domain and more like a sprawling, regulated marketplace where the ...

The story of enterprise transformation in 2025 wasn’t just about technology but about who was making the decisions. Not all companies are moving at the same speed or with the same ...

Watch more: Live Roundtable: AWS and Form3’s Mark Smith and Mark Fieldhouse The cloud hasn’t just modernized payments. It’s made them programmable. The institutions embracing that shift are accelerating faster than anyone ...

The innovation curve in B2B payments used to be measured in decades. Not years. But the key words here are “used to be.” As 2025 enters its final month, the distance ...

Thanksgiving invites a pause, a chance to acknowledge progress in a year that has been unpredictable for consumers and businesses. Across the payments, banking and FinTech sectors, 2025 delivered real advances ...

Professionals in payments, FinTech and the digital economy already face crowded calendars and a nonstop flow of industry information. Conferences often promise insight but often deliver conversations heavy on sales and ...

Watch more: How B2B Innovation Drives the Smart Economy While 2024 may have been governed by the economic and strategic priorities of the chief financial officer, 2025 is putting greater accountability ...

The volume and scale of startup funding this week indicates that even with broader macro concerns, investors continue to deploy capital into artificial intelligence (AI) products that solve immediate business ...

A bipartisan group of United States senators introduced a bill Thursday (Jan. 8) that would extend the National Quantum Initiative (NQI) by five years and expand its activities. The NQI was ...

Limitations of large language models have become harder to ignore as their adoption spreads into regulated and safety-critical environments. Hallucinations, weak causal reasoning and opaque decision paths have made many ...

Retail media networks are moving from the margins of advertising strategy to the center of how brands and retailers compete, as data and media increasingly converge to shape consumer experiences ...

Artificial intelligence’s most visible applications might arguably be chatbots and customer service experiments. However, AI is steadily finding inroads into the operational core of financial services, reshaping how banks analyze information, ...

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will replace them at their jobs. But OpenAI’s chief economist said AI will soon help people with the jobs they do at home. Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji ...

Gaming company Razer is reportedly in the midst of an expansive revamp based around artificial intelligence. As part of the realignment, the company is rolling out new products for consumers and ...

Meta is pushing back the worldwide launch of its smartglasses amid steep U.S. demand. “Meta Ray-Ban Display is a first-of-its-kind product with extremely limited inventory,” the company wrote on its blog ...

Smart rings are reportedly going from niche gadgets to mainstream health/wellness products. The category is on pace for a 49% increase in shipments for 2025, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Jan. 5), ...

OpenAI is reportedly improving its audio artificial intelligence (AI) models because it expects users of future personal AI devices to communicate with them through voice commands rather than via a ...

A new presidential administration in the United States and a new executive commission in the European Union transformed technology regulation in 2025. They each had different views from their predecessors on ...