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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 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builds skylines, bridges and critical infrastructure, yet its own critical financial infrastructure often runs on outdated payment practices.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 ...

Tuesday (Feb. 24) marked a potentially seismic day in the payments industry. Rumors of Stripe’s interest in PayPal emerged after hours on Tuesday, initially reported by the likes of Bloomberg, with ...

PayPal Holdings has met with banks at a time when it is seeing unsolicited interest from would-be buyers, Bloomberg reported Monday (Feb. 23), citing unnamed sources. The company is drawing takeover ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Updating the banking core has traditionally been viewed as akin to docking a cruise ship, with modernization serving as shorthand for incrementalism. Digitize the front end, bolt middleware onto aging ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With The Clearing House’s Sal Karakaplan A single word rarely captures the trajectory of an entire industry. Yet during periods of structural change, language often ...

Uber has debuted Autonomous Solutions, a suite of services and capabilities designed for autonomous vehicles. These capabilities have already begun helping partners build and commercialize autonomous vehicles (AVs) in markets worldwide, Uber ...

For the last two years, enterprise artificial intelligence has been stuck in the assistant phase, a world of smarter emails and faster document summaries that boosted individual productivity but left ...

Logistics is moving from a game of scale to one of smarts. As global trade shifts under the weight of ongoing uncertainty and geopolitical strain, knowing where goods are, what condition ...