News

Retail
Amazon Cuts Back on Free Returns While Walmart Gives Away Free Memberships
April 28, 2023

For Amazon and Walmart customers, convenience is key for each step — everything from ordering to paying to receiving a delivery order or picking up goods — and few things are more convenient than free services. Amazon Prime and Walmart+ offer members free deliveries, free...

Retail
Merchants Offering Discounts and Support to Bed Bath & Beyond Customers
April 28, 2023

Merchants are working to gain business that used to go to Bed Bath & Beyond. The retailer that declared bankruptcy this week had 35 million customers and a 33% share of registry listings in 2022, and those customers are now looking to shop elsewhere, ModernRetail...

Banking
Silicon Valley Bank and FedNow Highlight Need for Reliable Payments Infrastructure
April 28, 2023

Banks and FinTechs are re-examining what needs to change after the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. As Form3 CEO Michael Mueller told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, “nothing ever moves very quickly in payments.” But the last 12 months, said Mueller, show us that some long-term trends are...

IPO
FinTech IPO Index Slides 5.4% Led by MoneyLion
April 27, 2023

The FinTech IPO Index slid 5.45%, even as earnings season has yet to fully hit home in the sector. MoneyLion shares sank 29.7% through the past five sessions. The company said that it would affect a 1-for-30 reverse stock split of its Class A common stock. In...

B2B Payments
B2B Payments Suffer as Nigeria Promotes Cashless Economy
April 27, 2023

The move to ban cash withdrawals from government accounts in Nigeria in an attempt to digitize its economy has been a “massive hindrance” to the growth of business-to-business (B2B) payments in the country, says Yele Oyekola, CEO and co-founder at Lagos-based B2B FinTech firm Duplo....

Delivery
Food Delivery Services Drive Adoption with Baby Boomers by Sweetening Discounts
April 27, 2023

As food aggregators see older consumers lag in adoption, discounts can help close the gap. By the Numbers Data from PYMNTS’ new exclusive report “Connected Dining: Third-Party Restaurant Aggregators Keep the Young and Affluent Engaged,” which draws from a survey of nearly 2,300 U.S. consumers...

Retail
Gen Z Shoppers Knowingly Buy Fakes to Save Money
April 27, 2023

Knowingly buying fakes is taking hold as a cost-cutting trend among younger shoppers. As the high price of luxury goods presents a barrier to purchase for many inflation-constrained shoppers, some Gen Z and millennial consumers have embraced buying fakes, or “dupes,” instead, as detailed in...

Payment Methods
Splitit Pledges ‘2-Second’ BNPL Checkout With SplititExpress
April 27, 2023

Buy now, pay later provider Splitit has unveiled what it calls a “super-fast” payment experience. Introduced Tuesday (April 25), SplititExpress lets buy now, pay later (BNPL) customers check out in under two seconds while supporting payments via Apple Pay and Google Pay. “By using cutting-edge technologies, our engineering...

Banking
JPMorgan Holds Firm on Plans to ‘Tokenize’ Traditional Finance
April 27, 2023

JPMorgan Chase is committed to tokenize traditional finance despite upheaval in the cryptocurrency sector. The bank’s digital asset program, Onyx, is already being used by Goldman Sachs, DBS Bank and BNP Paribas, and 15 other banks and broker dealers are looking to sign up for it,...