Generations Under Pressure: How Younger Consumers Are Coping With Higher Living Costs

Generations Under Pressure: How Younger Consumers Are Coping With Higher Living Costs
Generations Under Pressure: How Younger Consumers Are Coping With Higher Living Costs
February 18, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Cost-of-living pressures persist at a heightened level. In January, just over one in two U.S. adult consumers said they found it financially challenging to manage...

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The Trust Imperative in Embedded Finance
The Trust Imperative in Embedded Finance
February 17, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Embedded finance is not a single operating model. Instead, how payments, lending, investing and other financial functions are woven into a company’s digital ecosystem depends...

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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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Tax Refund Season Reveals the Reality of Paycheck-to-Paycheck America
Tax Refund Season Reveals the Reality of Paycheck-to-Paycheck America
February 13, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Financial strain is persistent across the United States, and the annual tax season—and refunds that come with it—aren’t likely to provide much relief. Roughly two-thirds...

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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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Consumers Stop Sampling AI and Start Relying on It
Consumers Stop Sampling AI and Start Relying on It
February 06, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The artificial intelligence story used to center on how many people have tried ChatGPT or asked Siri a question (sometimes about whether algorithms and robots...

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What Happens When CFOs Get Serious About Gen AI
What Happens When CFOs Get Serious About Gen AI
February 04, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Chief financial officers are moving rapidly from tentatively exploring generative artificial intelligence to managing it as a core element of finance operations. By the end...

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Pay Later Moves Into the Monthly Budget
Pay Later Moves Into the Monthly Budget
February 02, 2026  |  BNPL

For a growing number of consumers, newer deferred payment tools like installment plans on mainstream or private-label (store) cards and BNPL plans have moved beyond...

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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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