April 19, 2024
CFOs’ Top 4 Concerns Reveal Importance of Controlling What’s Controllable
The concerns keeping CFOs awake at night help define their business strategies in the morning. And with the news this week that B2B credit card platform Pliant is planning to expand, while Mastercard...
April 19, 2024
Convenience Drives Non-Cash Users to Pay With Card
For consumers no longer carrying wallets full of cash, ease and convenience are top of mind, PYMNTS Intelligence reveals. By the Numbers The June 2023 PYMNTS Intelligence study “Consumer Inflation...
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
Brazil’s Click-and-Mortar™ Shoppers Underpin Pix and Instant Payments Growth
The rise of the Click-and-Mortar™ shopper in Brazil may give some tailwind to the use of Pix, the instant payment system that became operational in the country in late 2020....
April 19, 2024
German Agency Criticizes EY’s Audits of Wirecard
A German regulator has reportedly concluded that EY’s audit work and quality control regarding the now-defunct payments firm Wirecard was marked by “grave” and “repeated” violations of professional duties. The regulator, Apas,...
April 18, 2024
Mastercard Brings Commercial Cards to Digital Wallets
Continuing the industry’s migration of business payments and expense management to digital platforms, Mastercard announced today (April 18) that it is bringing its commercial cards to mobile wallets. The move comes in...
April 17, 2024
Amazon Licenses Just Walk Out Tech in Battle for Grocery...
Amazon is pushing sales of its Just Walk Out technology even as it pulls back on the checkout system in its own grocery stores, a move that comes as tech...
April 17, 2024
Possible Funding Thaw May Bring New Life to FinTech IPO...
Call it the thaw after the FinTech funding winter. Maybe. And for the FinTech IPO Index, there may be some reason for cheer — perhaps this year. Because if private...
April 17, 2024
From Trips to Tips: How Faster Payments Can Elevate Travel...
The hospitality and travel industries have endured a turbulent few years, with the pandemic bringing operations to a halt as travel restrictions led to declines in tourism and subsequent layoffs....