Fraud losses and payment failures are getting harder to recover after settlement and middle market firms are responding by moving verification and identity checks earlier...
“The Schedule Shock: How Unstable Hours Turn Paychecks Into Guesswork” is the May 2026 edition of the Wage to Wallet Index, a PYMNTS Intelligence and...
Consumers are preparing for higher costs before those costs fully hit their wallets. PYMNTS Intelligence found that 58% of consumers expect economic forces to hurt...
Financing as a mechanism to close a transaction, but newer evidence suggests installments may be influencing whether the transaction happens at all. In PYMNTS Intelligence’s...
“AI at the FI: Inside Credit Unions’ Demand-Execution Gap” examines how consumers, small businesses, credit unions and FinTechs are approaching the next wave of AI-powered...
Cue the “2001: A Space Odyssey” theme: Human lives have always been shaped by new technology. You can track it (pardon the pun) from railroads...
A collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Mastercard, “The Cross-Border Opportunity: What Global Sourcing by US SMBs Means for Payment Providers” examines how U.S. small- to medium-sized...
The competition among card issuers is no longer centered only on rewards rates or promotional offers. Increasingly, it is about whether an issuer can become...
A collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Trulioo, “Built or Bought: How KYC/KYB Ownership Shapes Risk, Cost and Growth” examines how companies’ choices about identity verification...