The following Deep Dive examines how the 2008 financial meltdown paved the way for existing AML/KYC practices, and how FIs can work...
Of the scores of innovations and updates to consumer lending seen and written about over the last decade or so, speed is...
What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. New technology often...
On Friday (Feb. 1), the government reported job numbers that blew away expectations. Data from the BLS and ADP, triangulated against the...
Rumor has it, there is some sort of football competition happening in Atlanta this weekend. We are mostly kidding about that. As PYMNTS is Boston-based,...
Deal or no deal? No, not the game show, because in the case of “no deal,” it seems like no one wins....
The Amazon Marketplace stands as one of the most successful efforts of the eCommerce operator, and now changes are looming to the...
Earnings, earnings everywhere, and so what do the numbers tell us? Across eCommerce, across payments giants, across social media, the last several...
In India, the new eCommerce rules have taken shape, and are now official — with none of the delay that retailing giants...
What good is an AI-powered insight if core banking systems do not know how to act on it in real time? In...
Commercial cards remain merely a small fraction of the massive B2B transaction pool in the U.S., yet adoption is steadily climbing at...
Ongoing investigations into the £40 million (nearly $52.4 million USD) fraud that felled Patisserie Valerie have found that fake invoices were involved....
After missing revenue expectations for the last two quarters, Amazon managed to beat the Street this time around, announcing recording-breaking holiday sales figures...
Mastercard results released on Thursday (Jan. 31) morning showed continued gains in processed transactions, tied in part to holiday spending during the...
The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle, the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer...
Mastercard results released Thursday morning (Jan. 31) showed continued gains in processed transactions, tied in part to holiday spending during the quarter...
Beauty is a big and booming global business. According to some estimates, the size of the global beauty and personal care products...
With Amazon reporting its earnings tomorrow, the hanging question is whether Q4 will avoid the disappointments that rocked the company’s stock price...
How can firms with global ambitions balance a smooth authentication process with rigorous AML efforts? In the inaugural edition of the AML/KYC...
Financial messaging service SWIFT said this past week that it has fashioned a partnership with R3, a blockchain startup. The partnership will integrate the...
NACHA recently released new figures on ACH network volume, revealing earlier this week that Same-Day ACH volume grew 46 percent between Q4...
In the quickly developing world of voice-controlled artificial intelligence, the car is shaping up to be the newest battleground. It is territory...
Alibaba Group Holding posted mixed results for the period that ended in December, slightly missing top line expectations while beating bottom line...
Investors, analysts and industry observers will parse Mastercard results on the heels of the payment giant’s earnings release Thursday morning to gain...
Supply chain management is essential for any company, but in the healthcare field, it can literally mean the difference between life and...
For cryptos to be used in the real world to buy and sell things — what a concept! — might academics succeed...
It’s all about the ecosystem, not the iPhones. If there was one takeaway from the earnings call yesterday (Jan. 29) with Apple CEO Tim Cook,...
In Q4, eBay saw deceleration into the end of the year, in part, on macro headwinds internationally as buyer volumes slowed, but...
A good time was had by all on PayPal earnings day in 2018 as the digital payments network managed to beat Wall...
As earnings season winds on, might Grubhub prove tasty for investors, with earnings a springboard for outsized gains moving ahead? As Barron’s...
Investors and analysts will have their eyes on Visa’s growth across cross-border transactions and card spend in its fiscal first quarter, a...
Student debt in America has grown to staggering proportions. By the end of 2018, 44 million Americans collectively held $1.5 trillion in...
Efforts in the Middle East by banks and other financial institutions to embrace FinTech are on the rise. As reported from Daily...
All eyes are on Cupertino, 24 hours almost to the minute before Apple’s earnings will be reported. Apple faces a very different...
Amazon wants to get more exclusive — and it wants other companies to help with that effort by developing product lines meant...
Earnings season marks a scorecard of sorts, a regularly scheduled progress report on top and bottom lines and, in payments, a seemingly...
Will the ban on the credit card surcharge automatically lead to significantly higher prices when consumers opt for the plastic (via card...
The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously wrote that “Into each life some rain must fall,” a reminder that not every day can...
In November 2018, Mobeewave announced that it had closed a big Series B round. Led by NewAlpha Asset Management, Mastercard and Forestay Capital,...
You can’t have trust without some type of trusted authority, and any type of authority is fragile without a reasonable level of...
Barring any reprieve, Feb. 1 marks a sea change for India’s eCommerce sector. New rules may hobble giants like Amazon and Flipkart from...
“Hype” is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as “to promote or publicize (a product or idea) intensively, often exaggerating its importance or benefits.”...
Get ready for even more fake grandchildren when it comes to payments fraud. That’s one of the sad facts of life as...
Corporate fraud – from within the company, and from without – continues to make headlines and headway, with the past week having...
Here’s another headache for Apple, which is already dealing with weakening iPhone sales: Its hold on Chinese mobile consumers looks set to...
Inflation may keep on truckin’ — literally. As has been reported across any number of media outlets on Friday (Jan. 25), Walmart...
One day, your hospital room — yes, the whole room — might be brought to you by Amazon. The eCommerce operator, continuing...
Bidding wars can be a breathtaking sight on Wall Street. One firm sets the bar, with an offer to buy a targeted...
Despite raising over $125 million in venture funding from the likes of Greycroft, ACME Ventures (formerly known as Sherpa Capital), Menlo Ventures,...
Small FIs and major retailers say the Federal Reserve can pave the way to provide a ubiquitous, real-time payments (RTP) system. However,...