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The Five Nines of Uptime Are the Connected Economy’s New Currency
The Five Nines of Uptime Are the Connected Economy’s New Currency
December 26, 2025  |  Connected Economy

The story of digital transformation across the Connected Economy™ is becoming inextricably tied to expectations around uptime. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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What 2025 Taught CFOs About Cash, Control and Resilience
What 2025 Taught CFOs About Cash, Control and Resilience
December 26, 2025  |  CFO

The 2025 story of the office of the CFO was not one about finance becoming more powerful or automated, much less agentic. Get the Full...

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Inside the Technology Shifts That Reshaped Payments and Risk in 2025
Inside the Technology Shifts That Reshaped Payments and Risk in 2025
December 26, 2025  |  Payments Innovation

In 2025, payments, banking and commerce crossed a quiet but consequential threshold. Technologies that once promised efficiency or differentiation became nonnegotiable foundations, reshaping how money...

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Embedded Finance Becomes a Competitive Equalizer for Small Business
Embedded Finance Becomes a Competitive Equalizer for Small Business
December 26, 2025  |  SMBs

Embedded finance made its mark as a capability advantage for large retailers and digital-native platforms. By streamlining checkout, offering branded payment products and monetizing customer...

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Healthcare Costs Force One in Four Gen Z to Skip Care
Healthcare Costs Force One in Four Gen Z to Skip Care
December 26, 2025  |  Healthcare

For younger Americans, healthcare spending is becoming less about treating illness and more about managing financial risk at a stage of life when cash flow...

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Connected Tech Ownership Drives Changes in How Consumers Pay
Connected Tech Ownership Drives Changes in How Consumers Pay
December 26, 2025  |  Connected Economy

Consumers are not racing to add more devices, but the way those devices shape how people pay is changing steadily and in ways that matter...

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2025 Turned Uncertainty From Surprise Into Strategy
2025 Turned Uncertainty From Surprise Into Strategy
December 24, 2025  |  Economy

By year-end, one conclusion from PYMNTS Intelligence’s The Certainty Project series is hard to miss: Uncertainty rarely arrives as a single shock. Get the Full...

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Payments Leaders Get Candid: The Boundaries That Defined 2025
Payments Leaders Get Candid: The Boundaries That Defined 2025
December 24, 2025  |  Payments Innovation

If 2025 felt like the year the future stopped “arriving” and started showing up in production, you are not imagining it. In payments and commerce,...

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Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
December 24, 2025  |  Fraud Attack

The holiday shopping period compresses weeks of spending into days, multiplies the number of online interactions, and makes consumers and companies vulnerable to fraudsters. Get...

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