April 22, 2024
Hackers Were in Change Healthcare System 9 Days Before Ransomware...
Hackers were reportedly in the networks of UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare unit for days before launching their ransomware strike. They gained entry to the networks on Feb. 12, using compromised...
April 22, 2024
AR and VR Have Potential to Reshape Wearable Tech Landscape
Frequently integrated into wearable devices such as smart glasses and headsets, extended reality (XR) technology — encompassing augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) — is unlocking new...
April 22, 2024
Albertsons: Digital Rewards Keep Shoppers Spending
As ongoing financial challenges have grocery shoppers more cautious about their purchasing, many are seeking out digital rewards. In its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2023 financial results, Albertsons Companies shared that...
April 22, 2024
Tink Teams With Splitwise to Offer Pay-by-Bank
Visa-owned payments platform Tink has launched an open banking partnership with expense-sharing app Splitwise. The collaboration, announced Monday (April 22), brings Pay by Bank to Splitwise users, letting them make direct...
April 22, 2024
Bite CEO: Self-Service Kiosks Meet Shopper Demand for Click-and-Mortar™ Retail
Consumers are demanding eCommerce-like convenience from their in-store journeys, and retailers are rising to the occasion with self-service technologies. In an interview with PYMNTS, Brandon Barton, CEO of self-service kiosk provider...
April 22, 2024
Levi’s Finds D2C Business Provides Greater Consumer Trend Insights
Levi Strauss has found that selling through its own stores gives it greater insights into consumer trends. The company’s D2C channels also allow it to test new products before making them available to...
April 21, 2024
Critical Decision: COFECE and the Future of E-commerce Competition in...
By Mariana Camacho Ordonez1 Mexico’s Federal Commission of Economic Competition (“COFECE”) faces a critical moment regarding the ratification of its Investigating Authority’s findings on potential barriers to competition in...
April 19, 2024
This Week in B2B: Lending Innovations, AI and Digital Payments
The B2B landscape is on the cusp of the next era in payments innovation. As PYMNTS readers already know, this new and exciting era is being driven by an ongoing...
April 19, 2024
Report: ShipBob Planning to Launch IPO With $4 Billion Valuation
ShipBob is reportedly planning to launch its initial public offering (IPO) as soon as late 2024. The listing could value the eCommerce fulfillment service provider at about $4 billion, Bloomberg...
The U.S., U.K. and Europe are intensifying their efforts to develop and deploy the policies and infrastructure necessary to advance the use cases and real time payments volume of their domestic networks. This month’s “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores the progress and future developments of real-time payments across these regions.
Despite the tremendous growth in Click-and-Mortar™ shopping in Brazil over the last three years, the country’s retailers don’t offer 39% of the features that consumers want. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study, the “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: Brazil Edition” commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, draws on insights from 2,200 consumers and 622 merchants to reveal what Brazil’s merchants need to know to drive consumer satisfaction and loyalty.