A lot changes in just a few months. Through the past few weeks, several banks have failed. Businesses have been roiled by concerns about their cash, about being able to access funds when needed. Inflation, of course, has been running rampant, lending an extra sense...
PYMNTS asked business leaders for their take on how to plan for the rest of 2023 and what they are telling their teams to focus on. Mesh Payments CFO Anna King says CFOs don’t have the luxury of assuming the current company spend is the best...
The move to streamline and speed domestic and cross-border payments is rooted in better data exchange. The financial services industry has been readying itself, and in some cases has found itself less-than-ready, to embrace ISO 20022, the global messaging standard that structures payments data, automates...
Netherlands-based multinational grocer Ahold Delhaize said digital and omnichannel engagement and store modernization efforts are paying off, particularly for its U.S. brands. Reporting first quarter 2023 earnings on Wednesday (May 10) Ahold Delhaize President and CEO Frans Muller discussed trends impacting the grocery giant, telling...
For the online car platforms, the path towards profitability is a bumpy one … … and the macro pressures are hardly in the rearview mirror. Earnings commentary from some of the major players in the space show that revenues have fallen as the retailers have...
Petal has raised new funding and spun off its Prism Data unit. The spinoff results in two independent FinTech companies that leverage open banking data to expand access to financial services for consumers without accurate credit scores, Petal said in a Wednesday (May 10) press...
Sports technology firm Sportradar is using artificial intelligence (AI) for real-time sports data analysis. Officials from the Swiss company discussed the potential of AI to boost liquidity trading in real-time analysis of deep sports data, during an earnings call Wednesday (May 10). The issue came...
New needs and emergent market realities are a driving force behind the evolution of payments. Nowhere is that truer than across business-to-business (B2B) transactions, where removing legacy frictions along the payments journey is rapidly emerging as a key competitive differentiator. After all, speed to revenue...
The CFPB is warning banks against reopening closed customer accounts to drive fees. In a circular published Wednesday (May 10), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it had received consumer complaints that their banks have reopened accounts they had taken steps to close, charging them...