July 20, 2026
Moonshot Halts New Kimi K3 Subscriptions as Demand Overwhelms Compute
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot temporarily paused new subscriptions to its new open-weight model, Kimi K3, due to capacity constraints. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
July 17, 2026
Study: Issuers Improve Returns by Solving the Next Customer Friction
The operating assumption in card issuing is that better technology should produce better economics. Card issuers have largely won the technology-access battle. Instant issuance, mobile wallet provisioning, real-time fraud controls...
July 17, 2026
From Asset to Everyday Money: Making Digital Currencies Spendable
Digital assets have moved beyond their origins as investment vehicles. Cryptocurrencies and stablecoins first gained attention as new asset classes, but now consumers, businesses and financial institutions (FIs) are asking...
July 16, 2026
Credit Cards Start Picking Up the AI Tab
Credit card rewards have always tracked what consumers value most. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
July 16, 2026
Antitrust Similarities and Differences Between Browser Competition and AI Competition
In both the 1990s browser competition and today’s generative AI competition, there was a first-mover disruption by an upstart (Netscape, OpenAI), which prompted an aggressive “code red” response by large...
July 15, 2026
Revolut Gets Preliminary UAE Crypto License Nod Weeks After Banking...
Revolut furthered its expansion strategy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by gaining in-principle approval to provide crypto services in the country. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
July 14, 2026
HP India, Resellers Fined After Watchdog Finds Bid-Rigging in Government...
India’s competition regulator has ordered HP India and a group of its channel partners to halt anti-competitive practices and pay financial penalties after concluding they manipulated bidding processes on the...
July 13, 2026
Smaller Card Issuers Can Out-Compete the Giants, New Study Finds
Customer lifetime value has long been treated as an output metric, a way to judge whether a card portfolio performed well after the fact. Increasingly, issuers are using it as...
July 09, 2026
Sony Gets Conditional OK for US-Based Stablecoin Bank
Sony Bank has received conditional approval to launch a U.S.-based stablecoin bank. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
Subscription merchants that fail to offer multiple ways for consumers to buy their products will see their sales take a hit, says Bean Box CEO Matthew Berk. Only giving consumers one way to buy and pay is a key driver of voluntary churn, especially in these times. Read the “Subscription Commerce Tracker®,” a collaboration with Vindicia, for more.
The features subscription providers offer can determine whether a subscriber stays loyal or jumps ship. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest decision guide, “The Retail Subscription Features That Make Top-Performing Merchants,” a collaboration with sticky.io and based on surveys of 2,011 consumers and 188 merchants, provides a comprehensive outline for how subscription providers can push their businesses to the top.