Small Business Growth Monitor Q2 2025: From Headwinds to Hope on Main Street

Small Business Growth Monitor Q2 2025: From Headwinds to Hope on Main Street
Small Business Growth Monitor Q2 2025: From Headwinds to Hope on Main Street
August 12, 2025  |  PYMNTS Data Lab

Even amid broad economic uncertainty due to the Trump administration’s global trade agenda, many small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United States are now...

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Vendors and Vulnerabilities: The Cyberattack Squeeze on Mid-Market Firms
Vendors and Vulnerabilities: The Cyberattack Squeeze on Mid-Market Firms
August 11, 2025  |  Cybersecurity

Just last week, Google released a statement that its Threat Intelligence Group—the tech giant’s elite security unit—had discovered a massive security breach. A group known...

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Payments Leaders Swap Certainty for Scale, Speed and Resilience
Payments Leaders Swap Certainty for Scale, Speed and Resilience
August 05, 2025  |  Payments Innovation

Operational stability may never return to what it once was. The new North Star isn’t certainty; it’s capability. From Wall Street to Main Street, financial...

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From Experiment to Imperative: US Product Leaders Bet on Gen AI
From Experiment to Imperative: US Product Leaders Bet on Gen AI
August 04, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

A year ago, most chief product officers (CPOs) were still getting a feel for gen AI’s ability to create text, images, video and audio from...

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Tech on Tech: How the Technology Sector Is Powering Agentic AI Adoption
Tech on Tech: How the Technology Sector Is Powering Agentic AI Adoption
August 01, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

The trillion-dollar technology sector directly makes up an estimated 9% of the U.S. economy, indirectly even more as its innovations shape operational processes, products and...

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Generation AI: Why Gen Z Bets Big and Boomers Hold Back
Generation AI: Why Gen Z Bets Big and Boomers Hold Back
July 30, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

As generative AI (gen AI) transforms Americans’ personal and workplace routines, different generations are responding in different ways. Today, 57% of U.S. adults—approximately 149 million...

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The Adjustable-Rate Reckoning: How Homeownership Is Pushing Millions Paycheck to Paycheck
The Adjustable-Rate Reckoning: How Homeownership Is Pushing Millions Paycheck to Paycheck
July 28, 2025  |  BNPL

Homeownership has been a cornerstone of the American Dream ever since the New Deal introduced the 30-year mortgage following the Great Depression. What’s new is...

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The Two Faces of AI: Gen AI’s Triumph Meets Agentic AI’s Caution
The Two Faces of AI: Gen AI’s Triumph Meets Agentic AI’s Caution
July 25, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) has rapidly become an indispensable tool for chief financial officers at enterprise-level companies, delivering significant returns and earning profound trust...

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Tariff Turbulence: Product Leaders Shift Strategy to Blunt Fallout
Tariff Turbulence: Product Leaders Shift Strategy to Blunt Fallout
July 22, 2025  |  Legal & Regulation

Whether it’s a reported 7.4% increase in the price of toys at Walmart, or Best Buy warning it will “adjust prices as tariff-related inventory cost...

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