Podcasts

The New York Times plans to put its top podcasts behind a paywall. The company is considering giving only subscribers access to new episodes of “Serial,” and allowing nonsubscribers to access ...

As streaming changes how consumers get their audio content, the BBC is expanding its subscription offerings around the world. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the United Kingdom public broadcasting company launched BBC ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken legal action against Matthew Motil, the host of “The Cash Flow King” podcast, for allegedly defrauding investors in an $11 million Ponzi scheme. Motil is ...

We’re a long way from the halcyon days of FinTech funding just a few years ago. Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim and Vera Equity Co-founder Jon Pomeranz told PYMNTS Karen Webster that ...

As inflation remains stubbornly in place and credit gets ever more expensive, credit unions may have a secret weapon. Scott Young, managing VP of Emerging Services at PSCU, told PYMNTS that ...

Following a years-long venture capital (VC) bull market that saw FinTech startups raise billions of dollars in funding, the challenging macroeconomic market has led to a sharpened focus on belt-tightening, ...

There’s a reason that business processes get the “consumer” treatment, not the other way around. And it isn’t just because the cart can’t drive the horse. As it relates to end-user purchasing ...

FinTechs are facing an existential crisis now that the age of easy access to capital is over. Investors — running the gamut from private venture capital firms to Wall Street activist ...

Digital wallets are helping to create a faster, more expedited checkout for consumers. As financial institutions (FIs) and tech companies battle for market share and compete to bring their offerings to ...

If Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim had to write a book about the FinTech bubble that burst in 2022, he’d call it “Crazy Money.” That nugget came up in a conversation between ...

3DS 1, 3DS 2.1, 3DS 2.2. These acronyms should be crowding merchants’ minds as fines loom this fall for those who are not in compliance with the latest version of the ...

Wessel Matthee, information security compliance manager at Entersekt, told PYMNTS that through the past few years, there’s been a shift in the ways in which fraudsters try to steal personally ...

If you granted one wish to virtually anyone doing business in the cryptocurrency world, and especially those involved in making payments and transferring money, they would likely ask for regulatory ...

In the darkest hours of the pandemic when stimulus money was being provided, COVID-19 tests and vaccinations were free to patients, but someone had to pay the bills. In most ...

Banks are accustomed to vying with FinTechs for customers, but increasingly, they’re partnering with them as a way to win new businesses and better serve their customers. Access to FinTechs’ technology ...

Is “fraudster” a title or job description of some kind? Perhaps it should be, because when shopping or sending money online, you’re never totally sure who’s on the other end. ...

To quote that old song: “To everything there is a season.” And payments, there are seasons for disputes.   In an interview with Karen Webster, Verifi CEO Sara Craven said that the summer ...

Even amid the great digital shift, some things haven’t changed. “Many people still love to hate passwords, and still have to wait for authentication requests that come through [via ...

In the last couple of decades, consumers’ preferences for cross-border payments have been shifting, and more and more people are demanding convenience, speed, security, and above all, value for money, ...

Customer acquisition costs aren’t less costly, and consumers have a universe of choices at their fingertips now. It’s time for businesses and consumers to get to know each other better ...

By and large, credit unions (CUs) are weathering the pandemic well, but nimble FinTechs and resourceful big banks want those loyal CU members as their own, making digital investment and ...

If you remember Internet 1.0, it looked like a pinball machine and wasn’t very smart, making search results an adventure that often ended in disappointment. Selling is much the same, ...

Facebook won’t be dabbling in podcasts anymore, a report from Bloomberg said Monday (May 2). The social media giant plans to remove podcasts altogether from the service as of June 3. The ...

Open banking is emerging across every market, but it’s doing so at different paces, for different reasons and in the face of different challenges. “I think the reason for the emergence ...

Declines are deadly during this critical phase of eCommerce growth, which is placing authorization optimization and authorization rates at the center of payments planning in 2022. As businesses become understandably obsessed ...

Roughly 70% of consumers have extremely or very high levels of trust in their financial institutions (FIs), which may lead one to wonder what’s going on with the other 30%. In ...

Credit unions (CUs) historically have been known for their service — the tellers who know you by name and the call-center staffers who will take the time to make sure ...

When accessing their digital financial accounts, customers want to have a choice of channels and devices to use. They also want to have a great user experience (UX), whether via ...

They’ve waited — and they’ve watched. Ava Kelly, chief product officer at i2c, told PYMNTS that banks, after observing digital upstarts, are now fully ready to embrace buy now, pay later ...

Fraud is always evolving, and financial institutions girding themselves against attacks often find themselves in the unenviable position of being, at most, one or two steps ahead of the bad ...

After two years of the pandemic — and the new way of living and working that came along with it, with no end in sight — more and more people ...

The pandemic has spotlighted a key urgency for financial institutions (FIs) of all types: investigating and investing in the connection between human and digital engagement while remaining focused on members’ ...

Your checkout experience may appear to be going smoothly. You’ve found what you’re looking for, you’ve clicked “pay” or tapped your credit card at the point-of-sale terminal. Your bank, meanwhile, ...

With the longstanding 3D Secure (3DS) version 1 being readied for retirement in October 2022, financial institutions (FIs) and merchants are preparing for a streamlined authentication process more aligned with ...

If the metaverse is a virtual world, will it need a virtual version of INTERPOL to police it for fraud and financial crimes? Like so many things about the nascent ...

Coming out of the pandemic, consumers are looking for a lot of digital-first experiences. When it comes to financial services, many are moving to FinTechs and downloading new apps that ...

The tech stack — that conglomeration of tech, codes, software and services that build websites or apps — can be a strategic advantage, not a cost center. Brandon Gell, CEO and ...

Subscription businesses know that if a payment is failing, it’s bad for them and bad for the customer, though many may not realize just how bad it actually might be. Beyond the ...

A primary challenge of the connected economy is continuously building out and then enhancing the billions of connections powering popular omnichannel experiences that shoppers, merchants, payments providers and technology partners ...

If you ask most credit unions to list their biggest competitive advantage that other financial players don’t have, you’d likely hear of their ability to meet members’ needs or to ...

With an estimated 29 million U.S. consumers having used buy now, pay later (BNPL) to complete their purchases in the last 12 months, merchants and brands are increasingly looking at ...

Passwords are, in a word, broken. We all know this — and yet we continue to use them almost reflexively. “Passwords provide a poor user experience in part because you need ...

The past year and a half has seen no shortage of technological transformations – and, increasingly, companies have set out to “make over” their accounts receivable (AR) operations through digitization. As ...

Amid the great digital shift, as more consumers embrace digital wallets and cards and shop at an ever-widening array of merchants, the transformation of online guest checkout options, including Click ...

It’s becoming ever more critical for fraud management and mitigation to be part of emerging technologies such as virtual cards, digital issuing, and buy now, pay later (BNPL) offerings. And it’s ...