Real Estate and Fraud: Identity Verification for the Most Important Transaction of Your Life

Real Estate and Fraud: Identity Verification for the Most Important Transaction of Your Life
Real Estate and Fraud: Identity Verification for the Most Important Transaction of Your Life
May 08, 2024  |  Fraud Prevention

The dream of a new home can become a nightmare if fraud is involved. Yet the real estate sector has the second-highest fraud rate of...

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Payments Executives Say These Nine Innovations Will Shape Q2 2024
Payments Executives Say These Nine Innovations Will Shape Q2 2024
May 06, 2024  |  Payments Innovation

Today’s operating landscape is dynamic, and at its center sits the immutable power of payments. The end of last year brought forth several macroeconomic uncertainties,...

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12 Charts Tell the Story of Instant Payments
12 Charts Tell the Story of Instant Payments
May 02, 2024  |  Real-Time Payments

Instant payments have taken center stage more and more in recent years, with the FedNow® Service launching less than a year ago. Analyzing these developments...

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Main Street Businesses Are Outperforming the US Economy
Main Street Businesses Are Outperforming the US Economy
May 01, 2024  |  PYMNTS Data Lab

PYMNTS Intelligence frequently looks at the landscape of the small businesses that populate U.S. Main Streets, as they offer a way to gauge the health...

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67% of Successful Small Business Merchants Embrace Social Commerce
67% of Successful Small Business Merchants Embrace Social Commerce
April 29, 2024  |  PYMNTS Data Lab

Periodically, PYMNTS Intelligence takes the pulse of the U.S. economy by looking exclusively at what is going on with the small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs)...

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Why 60 Percent of Gen Z’s Live Paycheck to Paycheck
Why 60 Percent of Gen Z’s Live Paycheck to Paycheck
April 22, 2024  |  Consumer Finance

Inflation has dropped from its peak of 9.1% in July 2022 to 3.5% as of March 2024.1 This percentage rate has gone up in the...

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Optimizing AR to Mitigate Uncertainty for Middle-Market Businesses
Optimizing AR to Mitigate Uncertainty for Middle-Market Businesses
April 17, 2024  |  CFO

Accounts receivable (AR) management for middle-market businesses is a manual balancing act between efficiency and security. Efficiency prioritizes streamlining invoice processing and collection to accelerate...

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Main Street Small Business Growth Exceeds GDP for First Time in Two Years
Main Street Small Business Growth Exceeds GDP for First Time in Two Years
April 11, 2024  |  PYMNTS Data Lab

The small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) on Main Street, USA, are showing their grit. Revenues for more than half of these SMBs are growing faster...

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Payments Execs Debate Banking’s Transformative Future
Payments Execs Debate Banking’s Transformative Future
April 01, 2024  |  Banking

On the face of it, the question “What is a bank?” was once a simple one to answer. Banks are the places you go to...

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