Waiting for Certainty: Why Most CFOs Are Holding Back on Crypto and Stablecoins

Waiting for Certainty: Why Most CFOs Are Holding Back on Crypto and Stablecoins
Waiting for Certainty: Why Most CFOs Are Holding Back on Crypto and Stablecoins
March 12, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Stablecoins and cryptocurrencies have become part of the mainstream business conversation but not part of the general plumbing. Banks are experimenting with crypto trading desks,...

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Consumer Wallet Reset: How Amazon Wins Discretionary Spend and Walmart Holds Necessities
Consumer Wallet Reset: How Amazon Wins Discretionary Spend and Walmart Holds Necessities
March 10, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Over the past few years, shoppers have been tightening their belts, spending less on retail shopping and more on essentials like rent and healthcare. That...

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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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Speed vs. Strategy: How Consumers Choose Between BNPL and Card Installments
Speed vs. Strategy: How Consumers Choose Between BNPL and Card Installments
March 06, 2026  |  BNPL

Consumers aren’t just choosing a Pay Later option.1 They’re selecting the precise payment method that fits their immediate financial goal at the time of purchase....

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AI Becomes a Daily Habit: The Consumer Shift From Trying Tools to Living With Them
AI Becomes a Daily Habit: The Consumer Shift From Trying Tools to Living With Them
March 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

On a recent Saturday morning, a typical American consumer we’ll call Maya had a familiar problem. She had a vacation flight to book, a household...

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Fraud, Identity and Data Integrity Emerge as Payments’ ‘Word of the Year’
Fraud, Identity and Data Integrity Emerge as Payments’ ‘Word of the Year’
March 03, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

In conversations with PYMNTS for the “Word of the Year” edition of the What’s Next in Payments series, senior leaders shared what may be becoming...

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Introducing the PYMNTS Consumer Expectations Index
Introducing the PYMNTS Consumer Expectations Index
March 02, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Consumer sentiment is often reduced to a single headline number, a pulse check on how Americans feel about the economy at a given moment. But...

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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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