April 27, 2023
Hearings on Crypto’s Regulatory Gaps Do Little to Fill Them
Congress has rebranded cryptocurrency to “digital assets,” but still can’t chart a go-ahead future. As evidenced by two hearings held in tandem Thursday (April 27) by the Digital Assets, Financial...
April 27, 2023
UK Takes Aim at Problem Gambling With Proposed Regulation Updates
The last time the U.K. issued gambling regulations, the iPhone hadn’t been invented. Since then, advances in technology and an increase in betting among the public have rendered the country’s...
April 27, 2023
Alt Credit Models and Platforms Improve Financial Inclusion for Credit...
The traditional ways and means of scoring credit risk — and extending credit — are leaving significant swaths of consumers disenfranchised. And it’s the emergence of platforms, and alternative data...
April 27, 2023
From Payments Choice to Gateway Preference: Payments Orchestration 2.0 Helps...
With the rise of eCommerce bringing more retailers than shoppers could ever exhaust, consumer-facing businesses of all types fear cart abandonment above nearly everything else. Never has it been easier...
April 27, 2023
Meet the Credit Insecure: 80M US Consumers Who Lack Reliable...
Credit offers consumers the flexibility to buy cars and houses and access college educations, yet data shows that 31% of U.S. consumers — about 80 million individuals — are on...
April 26, 2023
As Fraud Rates Rise, Businesses’ Worst Threat May Be in...
Despite the increasingly sophisticated weapons fraudsters have on hand to execute their scams, business email compromise (BEC) attacks remain one of their most effective ploys. The FBI estimates U.S. businesses lost...
April 26, 2023
ConnexPay and Payouts Network Form Push-to-Card Partnership
Payments platform ConnexPay has teamed with the FinTech Payouts Network to enable Push-to-Card payouts. As the company notes in a Wednesday (April 26) news release, these payouts are triggered by...
April 26, 2023
Proposed Stablecoin Bill Would Give States Right To Regulate Crypto
Cryptocurrency’s go-ahead landscape is reaching a critical regulatory inflection point. And it may be stablecoins, the backbone of the cryptocurrency economy, that help chart a clear path forward. This, as Republican lawmakers...
Most eCommerce merchants miss a crucial piece of the security puzzle: Just 33% use screening mechanisms that can identify potential fraud as the cause of failed payments. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study, “The Role of Fraud Screening in Minimizing Failed Payments,” a collaboration with Nuvei, draws on insights from 300 executives about the efficacy of eCommerce screening mechanisms.