Robinhood, a FinTech focused on online stock brokerage for those not expertly versed in that subject, has attracted much praise and activity — but with that, a regulatory probe from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into alleged poor management of the app, Bloomberg reported....
It goes by many names. “Instant credit.” “Point-of-sale (POS) lending.” And the moniker perhaps best-known — “buy now, pay later” — attends this dynamic corner of commerce, as reflected in PYMNTS latest Provider Ranking of Alternative Credit Apps. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
Smartphone sales around the world dropped 20.4 percent in the second quarter, research and advisory firm Gartner said in a Tuesday (Aug. 25) press release. Global sales to end users arrived at 295 million units as the pandemic kept affecting the worldwide mobile phone sector....
Unemployment has always been a leading economic indicator, and by many accounts, the economy is in for a couple of years of recessionary behavior. Thank goodness for gigs. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
TikTok, in its lawsuit challenging a ban by the President Donald Trump administration, revealed its monthly users have grown almost 800 percent since January 2018, CNBC reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
Indian conglomerate Tata Group is launching a new app purported to bring together the country’s disparate sales sector to offer a range of consumer goods in a “super app,” the Financial Times (FT) reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
TikTok users who are worried that the lip-syncing and dancing video app will disappear in November can probably relax. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our...
It’s a time of shakeups, as we know, what with COVID-19 and its attendant weirding of markets and brands. We’re tracking big changes in the latest PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps, where an intense rivalry for America’s digital shopping dollars is breaking out big-time....
“Investing in stocks was never this easy,” India’s Paytm Money boasted in a blog post. The FinTech company said that adding stock trading to its platform will unlock “immense growth potential.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
