Because of the huge number of emails sent daily – by some estimates, 3.7 billion people send around 269 billion emails every...
There is a new normal in the workforce: a younger generation of professionals that prioritize flexibility and technology. Giving rise to the...
When it comes to regulatory compliance, no corporate is an island. An organization may have the resources to stay on top of...
Despite putting up another earnings beat in Q2 2019, there were reasons for Facebook to worry — apart from its financial results,...
On a global stage, one size does not fit all when it comes to payments. In an interview with PYMNTS, Deirdre Ives, CEO...
Product integration delays sent PayPal shares into a slump with growth forecasts below estimates — a top line hiccup, according to management...
The world of B2B payments can be a somewhat lopsided place to navigate — a reality incredibly apparent in looking at the...
In banking, “too big to fail” has become shorthand for financial firms of scale and reach so significant that any operational or...
The apparel industry is famous, or perhaps more appropriately infamous, for its high and growing level of environmental impact. Globally, consumers purchased 60...
As digital sales continue to skyrocket and a new rewards program takes hold, Chipotle Mexican Grill beat analysts’ expectations for second-quarter earnings....
The profile of augmented reality (AR) keeps rising in retail, and the latest evidence of the technology’s promise and popularity comes from...
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.”...
The consensus was mixed among analysts as to what to expect out of Discover Financial when its Q2 earnings hit the wires yesterday...
While commercial real-time payments became available in the U.S. back in 2017, they haven’t yet hit ubiquity. By the end of 2018,...
The victory of Boris Johnson in the U.K.’s Conservative Party leadership contest is only the latest geopolitical event sparking concerns among analysts...
Despite corporates’ retention of paper checks, businesses want accounts payable (AP) automation. The latest B2B Payments Automation Innovation Playbook, a collaboration between...
Big Tech vs. big banks. Battling. Conventional wisdom seems to hold that challenger banks will eat traditional financial institutions’ collective lunch in...
If the last mile of eCommerce lies with logistics — getting goods where they need to go — the “last mile” in...
So far, 2019 has been a year of mergers, refashioning the roster of big (and getting bigger) payments solution providers, bringing myriad...
Visa posted fiscal third quarter results that showed a rebound in cross border transactions, and continued gains in payments volumes overall. Management...
Improvements to its Android offering continued to pay dividends for Snapchat operator Snap in the second quarter of 2019, according to the...
Among the main stories in payments in recent months has been the increasing push to reform federal banking laws so that legal...
Slowly but steadily, healthcare is becoming more mobile about payments, and that trend – a very long time in coming – appears...
Home services may be the next frontier in real estate — and possibly, a bit less dependent on new transactions. As noted...
Uber has already set many of the high standards for payments that are basically becoming table stakes — that is, the expectation...
Entrepreneurs sometimes start companies to overcome personal culinary challenges: Coconut Whisk CEO and Founder Bella Lam, for instance, discovered it was difficult...
One might assume the hardest part of building a product to disrupt the traditional sunscreen industry would be actually formulating a new...
The platform economy is being transformed by an increased demand for faster payments bolstered by mobile usage, according to the latest Payments...
It’s been a wild couple of weeks – or months – for Facebook. Amid privacy concerns, Senate hearings and Libra drama, it’s...
Cash flow management can be a conundrum for any business, large or small. But when SMB suppliers land a contract with a...
China’s banking regulator is introducing stricter requirements on banks and insurance institutions that provide supply chain financial solutions in an effort to...
There may be extensions to Strong Customer Authentication's (SCA) rollout this fall — and there may not. And, there may be exemptions...
The fundamental unit of trust in any transaction lies in identity — namely, ensuring that the person who shows up to transact...
Call it groupthink, on a grand scale, to the tune of billions of dollars. Call it FOMO. But then again, YOLO. So...
The best joy is often fleeting. So go some views of philosophy, religion and psychology. We at PYMNTS don’t mean to burden...
Sometimes, when an idea – especially one that has long stewed in popular imagination – makes serious and well-funded moves toward becoming...
Retail trends and innovation can come from unlikely places, and that seems to be the case now when it comes to pets...
While it often slips past unnoticed, toilet paper can actually be something of an environmental catastrophe. The major mass-market producers – Procter...
Much of the excitement surrounding automated retail — aka cashierless retail — has been driven by Amazon Go, but the enthusiasm for...
Symantec has discovered vulnerabilities in two popular messaging and media apps, WhatsApp and Telegram, which can be hijacked to commit payments fraud. ...
They’re slow. They’re cumbersome and expensive. They open the door for fraud. For all their drawbacks, why do paper checks persist in...
Providing onboarding services in the Latin American market is both an exciting opportunity and a challenging one. The level of opportunity arising...
While we cannot accurately say that the two days Facebook’s David Marcus were the worst two days a Facebook executive has ever...
A couple of months ago, I decided to give spinning a try. I’m a runner, not a biker, but wanted to see...
It can never be said that Elon Musk has a problem thinking big. That can be seen from his early days as one...
We hope you had a great week, and that you didn’t miss any important news from the world of payments and commerce. The...
Most weeks, the tale of Amazon and Walmart’s ongoing battle for the larger share of the consumer’s whole paycheck is a fairly...
American Express posted results that largely met expectations for the second quarter, based on continued card spending and loan growth. In terms...
Buying a bicycle shouldn’t be an overly challenging task for a consumer, but often shapes up to be one, particularly if one...
In the gig economy, early payment—not just ease or speed—can be a differentiator. According to Pay Advances: The Gig Economy’s New Normal, employers...