April 19, 2024
Why the World’s Biggest Buyer Relies on Online B2B Marketplaces
Digitization is increasingly revolutionizing the B2B landscape with streamlined procurement processes, and even better payments workflows. Don’t believe it? Look no further than the U.S. government, the world’s single largest...
April 19, 2024
Amazon and Walmart Race to Integrate Commerce and Content
As shopping and entertainment become increasingly intertwined, Amazon and Walmart are looking for new ways to drive sales via content. On Tuesday (April 16), Amazon Live announced a new interactive, shoppable channel called FAST Channel on Prime...
April 18, 2024
Grubhub Deepens Grocery Offering With Mercato Partnership
Grubhub is expanding its grocery presence via a partnership with online marketplace Mercato. The collaboration, announced Thursday (April 18), will bring Mercato’s inventory from more than 950 independent grocery stores nationwide to the Grubhub...
April 18, 2024
Nearly 40% of Millennials Rely on Retail Subscriptions for Shopping
Retail subscriptions represent a massive growth opportunity for eCommerce merchants. PYMNTS Intelligence data reveals that more and more consumers are choosing to take advantage of the convenience that online retail...
April 18, 2024
WorldFirst Launches Cross-Border Payment Solution for B2B Trade
Digital payments platform WorldFirst has debuted a solution to help small businesses speed cross-border payments. WorldTrade, announced Thursday (April 18), is aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that procure products from suppliers based...
April 18, 2024
Why Europe Must End Its 30-Year Digital Winter to Ensure...
In the last 30 years, Europe — defined here as the EU plus the U.K., Norway and Switzerland — has created few leading digital businesses compared to the U.S. and...
April 17, 2024
Walmart Adds Third-Party Sellers’ Tires to Installation-Eligible Program
Shoppers can now order tires from third-party sellers on Walmart Marketplace and schedule an appointment to have those tires installed at a Walmart Auto Care Center at the same time. The tires...
April 17, 2024
Gen Z’s Digital Dynamics: Wallets Lead, Connected Devices Lag
Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, represents a cohort deeply intertwined with digital technologies. “They are described as the first digitally native generation — a generation that has lived...
April 17, 2024
Fed’s Beige Book Cites Weak Discretionary Spending
Eight times each year the Fed publishes what’s known as the Beige Book — a qualitative take from each of the 12 federal bank districts. The assessments cover everything from...
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.