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India is pressing ahead with a controversial competition law that allows regulators to calculate penalties based on a company’s worldwide revenue, a move that could significantly raise the financial stakes ...

India’s antitrust regulator has told a court that calculating penalties based on a company’s worldwide revenue is necessary to effectively deter misconduct by large multinational corporations, according to Reuters. The stance was ...

Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI has reportedly been cleared to proceed to court. The multi-billionaire convinced a judge Wednesday (Jan. 7) to permit a jury trial on his claim that the AI startup had violated ...

Colorado lender National Bank Holdings (NBH) Corporation has finalized its acquisition of Texas-based Vista Bank. The $377 million deal, announced Wednesday (Jan. 7), is designed to increase NBH’s footprint in three ...

India’s competition regulator has concluded that some of the country’s largest steel producers, including Tata Steel, JSW Steel and state-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), breached antitrust rules by ...

South Korea’s government announced Tuesday that it will significantly increase financial penalties for companies found colluding to fix prices or engaging in other unfair trade practices, part of a broader ...

Apple is scaling back the Vision Pro after weak sales. For the payments ecosystem, it is a sign that “spatial computing” will remain a niche channel for shopping, identity and ...

For all of cryptocurrency’s volatility, stablecoins made steady progress in 2025. And by any measure, be it transaction volumes, regulatory milestones, partnerships, acquisitions, integrations or use cases, stablecoins progressed into the ...

For cryptocurrency markets, 2025 was a year that went full circle. Digital assets are ending the year with nearly all of their gains over the past 12 months having been erased ...

Who could’ve predicted the run that prediction markets have had in 2025? These novel platforms, which let participants trade contracts tied to the outcomes of real-world events, entered a decisive phase ...

Rising prices are reshaping not just household budgets but the financial relationship between generations. Younger and older consumers in the United States are responding to the same pressures in different ways, ...

Federal regulators are reportedly seeking information about Instacart’s artificial intelligence (AI) pricing tool. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sent the grocery delivery platform a civil investigative demand asking about its ...

Airbnb is reportedly testing a service that lets guests order groceries from Instacart. The house-sharing company will offer “kitchen stocking” as part of a three-month pilot program starting Jan. 5, Bloomberg ...

DoorDash is expanding its partnership with grocery chain Kroger to 2,700 new stores. The updated collaboration kicks off Oct. 1 and will cover deliveries of fresh foods, essential items and Kroger’s ...

On Tuesday (May 13), we may see what could arguably be the calm before a stormy sea of inflation driven by volatile tariffs. The Consumer Price Index inflation reading from the ...

Instacart has teamed with two point-of-sale (POS) providers to promote smart cart usage. The grocery technology company announced Monday (Jan. 13) new partnerships with Dumac Business Systems, a POS solutions provider ...

Inflation is at a multiyear low, according to July’s Consumer Price Index from the U.S. Department of Labor. Inflation has broken through an important psychological barrier, so to speak. The Federal ...

With order volumes increasing, Deliveroo sees opportunities from its loyalty program and grocery business. The U.K.-based delivery service on Thursday (Aug. 8) released earnings for the first half of 2024 showing ...

With ongoing financial challenges affecting consumers very differently depending on their financial standing, Kroger is seeing its initiative to improve its private-label offerings prove key to getting more budget-strapped shoppers ...

Pay later plans — those arrangements enabling consumers to cover purchases over a set period of time — are not only a popular way to shop; they have increasingly become ...

Walmart has launched an agentic commerce partnership with Google. The collaboration, announced Sunday (Jan. 11), is built around Google’s new Universal Commerce Protocol and pairs Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) tool ...

Walmart-backed FinTech OnePay is now reportedly a $4 billion company. OnePay reached that valuation, up from $2.5 billion in 2024, after repurchasing shares from employees, Bloomberg News reported Friday (Jan. 9), ...

The Super Bowl has always been a game. It’s also a retail ecosystem with shoulder pads. For one Sunday (and increasingly, for a full week), the NFL turns fandom into an add-to-cart ...

Saks Global is reportedly weighing two competing offers of bankruptcy financing packages as it prepares to file for bankruptcy. The company, which owns Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus, is looking ...

Amazon reportedly plans to open a big-box store comparable to a Walmart or Target location in a Chicago suburb. The 229,000-square-foot facility would sell groceries, general merchandise and prepared foods, Bloomberg ...

Fiserv has launched a new analytics capability designed to help merchants and their marketing partners better understand in-store customers. The new Unknown Shopper solution transforms payment data into actionable insights by ...

In 2026, online and digitally-influenced retail finally surpasses brick-and-mortar sales in the categories that matter most to modern retail. This moment has been years in the making, obscured less by ...

Microsoft has announced several agentic artificial intelligence (AI) solutions designed for retailers. These solutions power automation in functions such as merchandising, marketing, store operations and fulfillment, the company said in a ...

Walmart has launched a digital destination designed to help customers access health and wellness services and products. The new Better Care Services offers access to third-party providers for urgent care and ...

The holiday shopping spree has come to a close. And while returns are no doubt occupying a fair amount of time at the world’s two biggest retailers, a relatively quiet ...

The stablecoin pitch has always been a digital token that maintains a stable value, usually pegged to a fiat currency, while inheriting the speed, programmability and global reach of blockchains. What ...

Ripple received permissions that allow it to scale Ripple Payments, its cross-border payment solution that uses digital assets, in the United Kingdom. The permissions include approval of Ripple’s electronic money institution ...

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 ...