Featured News

PYMNTS.com original reporting, in-depth interviews, deep dives, and data analysis.

Facebook-Gate: Rethinking How Apps Treat User Profile Data
Facebook-Gate: Rethinking How Apps Treat User Profile Data
April 06, 2018  |  Facebook

When it was discovered that Facebook had allowed its users’ profile data – and that of their social networks – to fall into third-party hands,...

READ MORE >
Meet Ben, An AI-Powered Bitcoin Friend
Meet Ben, An AI-Powered Bitcoin Friend
April 06, 2018  |  Bitcoin

Much has been written about buying bitcoin in specific, and cryptocurrency in general. Whether it’s investing or gambling, whether it’s a good idea or immoral...

READ MORE >
Free Alexa: How Voice Challenge Winners Go Beyond The Echo Cylinder
Free Alexa: How Voice Challenge Winners Go Beyond The Echo Cylinder
April 05, 2018  |  Alexa Voice Challenge

Voice skills: They’re the user interface that everyone’s talking about (and to). Amazon’s Alexa has tens of thousands of them, some more useful than others....

READ MORE >
Managing ATM Fleets, With A Glance At The Future
Managing ATM Fleets, With A Glance At The Future
April 05, 2018  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Card-free cash access, voice commands and credit cards issued at the ATM? Not so far-fetched, as Cardtronics and TDECU executives told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster on...

READ MORE >
 Beyond Panera’s Loaves And Phishes, Beware The Scammers In Your Inbox
 Beyond Panera’s Loaves And Phishes, Beware The Scammers In Your Inbox
April 05, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Panera and Saks grab the headlines. But amid data leaks the lures for the bad guys go far beyond the credit card number. Names, addresses...

READ MORE >
Another Cloudless Day: IntraNext Software Saves Call Centers From Migrating
Another Cloudless Day: IntraNext Software Saves Call Centers From Migrating
April 04, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Everyone talks about moving to the cloud, and doing so can certainly deliver benefits in a contact center environment. It creates ease of scalability and...

READ MORE >
Petal CEO: Using Cashflow — Not FICO — To Issue Credit Cards
Petal CEO: Using Cashflow — Not FICO — To Issue Credit Cards
April 04, 2018  |  Financial Inclusion

For the 47 percent of Americans with prime credit scores, getting and using a credit card isn’t much of a problem. Get the Full Story...

READ MORE >
Tilr CEO: Why Algorithms Make The Best Recruiters
Tilr CEO: Why Algorithms Make The Best Recruiters
April 04, 2018  |  Matchmakers

The art and science of using the internet as a tool to recruit employees hasn’t just fundamentally changed once in the last 15 or so...

READ MORE >
Beyond Mobile Banking, Giving (Alexa’s) Voice to Financial Lives, Naturally
Beyond Mobile Banking, Giving (Alexa’s) Voice to Financial Lives, Naturally
April 03, 2018  |  Alexa

How to bring mobile banking to the realm of the spoken word – beyond the mere recitation of account data? Beyond call and response? Fiserv...

READ MORE >