Beyond Cash: What Drives SMB Payment Change
Beyond Cash: What Drives SMB Payment Change
March 13, 2026  |  PYMNTS Data Lab

Small and medium-sized businesses are still relying heavily on cash and checks, but PYMNTS Intelligence data shows that many are ready for something better. What...

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The Millennial Money Squeeze: Data Shows Rising Cost Pressures
The Millennial Money Squeeze: Data Shows Rising Cost Pressures
March 06, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Millennials, born between 1981 and 1996 and now age 30–45, are navigating a cost-of-living environment that has ceased spiking and cooling to stay persistently high....

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Tax Refunds and the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumer
Tax Refunds and the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumer
February 27, 2026  |  Consumer Finance

About two-thirds of American consumers live paycheck to paycheck. Roughly one-quarter struggle to pay their monthly bills for housing, utilities and groceries. In that setting, tax...

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Split the Bill, Run the Budget: How BNPL Is Rewriting Consumer Spending
Split the Bill, Run the Budget: How BNPL Is Rewriting Consumer Spending
February 20, 2026  |  BNPL

Credit cards are the workhorse of the Pay Later ecosystem, but buy now, pay later and credit card installment plans are gaining ground, moving from...

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CFOs Take Control of Enterprise Gen AI
CFOs Take Control of Enterprise Gen AI
February 13, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Enterprise use of generative artificial intelligence has moved past experimentation and into daily finance operations. Using data from the February edition of The Enterprise AI...

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How Macroeconomic Uncertainty Is Squeezing Profits and Wrecking Targets
How Macroeconomic Uncertainty Is Squeezing Profits and Wrecking Targets
February 06, 2026  |  Business

Business uncertainty is shifting in unexpected ways. Goods-producing firms now face higher uncertainty than service companies, reversing a pattern from just a year ago. The...

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One Shock Away: The Fragile Math of the American Paycheck
One Shock Away: The Fragile Math of the American Paycheck
January 30, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Living paycheck to paycheck has become a defining feature of the U.S. consumer economy, not because households prefer it, but because financial cushions are thin...

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Agentic AI Breaks Out of the Lab and Into the Org Chart
Agentic AI Breaks Out of the Lab and Into the Org Chart
January 23, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from experimentation to execution inside large enterprises. New PYMNTS Intelligence data from the latest CAIO Report shows that firms have...

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Consumer Financial Stress Is Changing the Rules of Shopping and Payments
Consumer Financial Stress Is Changing the Rules of Shopping and Payments
January 16, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Rising financial pressure is no longer just a background condition for many United States consumers. It is actively reshaping where they shop, how they pay...

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