Sections
2017
-
RetailWalmart Announces Most Popular Items Bought Online In Each State For 2017
Wondering what consumers in your home state are buying on Walmart.com? The company has revealed the year’s 20 most popular online items...
-
RetailThe Conversations That Defined The Reinvention Of Retail In 2017
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” There are many great ways to begin a book –...
-
Alternative FinancesThe Wild Ride In Alternative Financing In 2017
A decade ago, the world of financial services saw what was perhaps its greatest sea change in a generation — in 2007,...
-
Karen Webster52 Mondays, 52 Conversations, 52 Ways Of Looking At Payments
No year in payments is exactly alike – perhaps conversation is the only constant. 2017 was epic, from Amazon to bitcoin to...
-
RetailRetail Sets Records For Store Closures
It was a record-breaking year in retail, according to reports — but not the good kind. More store closings have been announced this...
-
EconomyLabor Market Heats Up, But Whither Services Sector?
The U.S. labor market in 2017 is getting a bit tighter. And at the same time, the services sector is slowing bit,...
-
MobileSamsung Still The Mobile Phone Leader In Q2
Samsung Electronics remained the leader in terms of global mobile smartphone shipments during Q2 2017. That’s according to market research firm Canalys,...
-
RetailUnder Armour Cautiously Plans Future Amid Slumping Sales
The earnings numbers are in for Under Armour, and it’s not exactly what the sports apparel retailer was hoping for. This week, Under...
-
Amazon CommerceSmall Businesses Sold More Than 2 Billion Items On Amazon In First Half Of 2017
Amazon announced that small businesses (SMBs) and entrepreneurs sold more than two billion items to shoppers on the site — resulting in...
-
Payment MethodsCiti Lays Out Plans To Focus On Digital Services In First Investor Meeting In Years
Citi, in its first investor meeting since the 2008 recession Tuesday (July 25), announced plans to focus on digital services in the...
-
RetailChina’s Online Retail Sees Big Boost in 2017
All over the world, the retail industry is seeing a major transformation. As more people turn to the online arena to purchase...
-
InvestmentsMobile Investments To Reach 1B Trades With Acorns
The financial services space has many players in the field moving money throughout the stock exchange. Like a well-oiled machine, stocks are...
-
Stock IndexCapital One’s Stock Gets 5 Percent Boost
Capital One’s Q2 earnings are in and have beat Wall Street analysts’ expectations. While analysts polled by Reuters expected Capital One’s earnings...
-
RetailBank Of America Latest To Lower iPhone Shipments Forecast
Apple has seen Bank of America Merrill Lynch join a growing list of Wall Street firms that are lowering their shipment forecasts...
-
RetailDiebold Shares Plunge On Lowered Sales Guidance
Diebold Nixdorf shares plunged 23 percent on Wednesday, hit by reduced revenue guidance that spooked investors. The ATM and financial services company...
-
Payment MethodsBiometric Mobile Payments Set To Explode In 2017
Mobile payments using biometrics to authenticate the user is forecasted to reach close to $2 billion in 2017, up from $600 million...
-
RetailMore Retail Bankruptcies Expected In 2017
The retail sector has been suffering a lot of pain this year, with bankruptcies already happening at a record pace and more...
-
EarningsMastercard CEO Counts 85M Global Masterpass-Enabled Accounts
Card issuer Mastercard posted results Tuesday morning that bested analyst estimates, buoyed by increased spending by consumers globally, driven across both debit...
-
EarningsWestern Union Results Buoyed By Digital
Western Union posted results that were mixed, topping the quarter’s estimates slightly on the top line while missing on the bottom line,...
-
InnovationInnovation Project Has Arrived
The big day has finally arrived — no thanks to Mother Nature, who decided to throw a disruption of her own at the...
-
Security & FraudYahoo Reports Another Major Data Breach … Again
The data breach news keeps getting worse for Yahoo. According to Reuters, Yahoo said that in the past two years nearly 32...
-
Mobile CommerceGlobal Mobile Economy Shows No Signs Of Slowdown
The mobile money market is continuing to not only grow, but also have an increasing impact on lives, economies and innovation. This...
-
RetailDepartment Store Outlook Grim For 2017
It looks like more bad news for the U.S. department store sector. After a subpar holiday shopping season, research firm Moody’s announced...
-
RetailEmail, Social Media King For Retail Marketers
While most retail marketers have similar goals in 2017 in terms of enhancing consumer engagement and increasing sales, the online realm of...
- Chatbots
Chatbot Tracker: Implementing Chatbots in 2017
Heading into the new year, most everyone, retailers included, is looking within to enhance our lives and businesses from knowledge already ascertained...
-
InternationalPayU CEO: What To Watch In 2017
It’s not so much the what, but the where. That’s how PayU CEO Laurent Le Moal framed his predictions for 2017 in...
-
Karen WebsterGetting Ready For 2017? Not Before You Read This
Every Monday, this column space is dedicated to the musings of Karen Webster and her take on all things payments, commerce and...
-
Payment MethodsPYMNTS’ 2017 New Year’s Resolutions
Au revoir, 2016! It’s been nice knowing you. For Auld Lang Syne and all that. As PYMNTS puts away our party noisemakers...
-
B2B PaymentsConsortia Key To Blockchain’s Success, Says Deloitte
Deloitte has been an early embracer of blockchain technology, and 2016 was a busy year for the consulting firm in the space....
-
B2B PaymentsTreasurers Watching FinTech Innovation To Get An Upgrade
Capital One’s Treasury Management Group is already looking ahead to how corporate treasurers will face the most modern of challenges in 2017....
-
B2B PaymentsSMEs To Ring In 2017 With Regulation On Their Minds
Analysts are peering into the minds of small business owners to find out how they plan to enter the new year. The...
- Retail
Nine eCommerce Retail Trends For 2017
2017 looks like it’s shaping up to be a solid year. Between consumer confidence trending upward and more people spending — and racking up some debt — retailers...
- Blockchain
Blockchain Tracker: Will 2017 Be The Year Of Regulation?
With its original focus on cryptocurrency, blockchain technology made strides, expansions and evolutions this year. “In 2016, we saw a diversification of...
- Retail
Holiday Consumer Confidence Up, But What About In 2017?
When consumer confidence is up around the holidays, spending is up, and retailers are happy. So, with less than a week left...
- Blockchain / Distributed Ledger
Blockchain Headed More Mainstream, IBM Says
Could 2016 be “The Year of the Blockchain?” Some research says it could indeed be. IBM said, by this time next year,...
