The United States economy is steadily reemerging from the COVID-19 pandemic-induced shutdown. Businesses are reopening to a different reality than the one that existed just three months ago, however. Firms are adopting new safety policies concerning everything from sanitation to public occupancy limits. Many of...
Regional bank holding company Huntington is now using the RTP network, meaning it now has a new real-time payments option to help people get money nearly instantly, according to a press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
Two of the nation’s largest automakers are paying suppliers upfront to help small cash-strapped suppliers survive shutdowns caused by COVID-19. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
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...
