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Credit Union Card Loyalty Pays Off in Deposits
Credit Union Card Loyalty Pays Off in Deposits
September 03, 2026  |  Credit Unions

Credit unions typically treat card usage as a payment metric. More transactions produce more interchange revenue, more engagement and a greater return on the cost...

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Debit Dominates as Low-Income Consumers Guard Cash Flow
Debit Dominates as Low-Income Consumers Guard Cash Flow
September 03, 2026  |  Economy

For merchants selling to low-wage consumers, the competition isn’t simply over who offers the lowest price. It’s over whether the purchase can clear a tight...

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Digital Sales Give Small Businesses a Map for Growth
Digital Sales Give Small Businesses a Map for Growth
September 03, 2026  |  SMBs

Digital channels gave small and medium-sized businesses more than reach in 2025. They gave those companies a measurable growth edge: Digital-led SMBs were 14 percentage...

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The CFPB Could Get a New Boss Called Congress
The CFPB Could Get a New Boss Called Congress
September 02, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

House Republicans are proposing a rewrite of the statutory framework that governs how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau makes rules, supervises financial institutions and brings...

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Interoperability Now Drives Asia-Pacific’s Real-Time Payments Agenda
Interoperability Now Drives Asia-Pacific’s Real-Time Payments Agenda
September 02, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Real-time payments in Asia-Pacific are entering a new phase. After years of building domestic instant payment rails, countries across the region are now connecting those...

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Spreedly Sees Good Bots Becoming an Agentic Commerce Channel
Spreedly Sees Good Bots Becoming an Agentic Commerce Channel
September 02, 2026  |  eCommerce

Watch more: Digital Shift With Spreedly’s Adam Hiatt Bots are bad. That, at least, has been digital commerce’s operating assumption since the category’s inception. Automated...

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56% of Consumers Have Faced a False Payment Decline
56% of Consumers Have Faced a False Payment Decline
September 02, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Merchants may have more revenue to gain from approving good customers than from tightening fraud controls another turn. That opportunity runs through “The Performance Gap:...

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CFOs Forecast Better When Finance Sees More
CFOs Forecast Better When Finance Sees More
September 02, 2026  |  Back-office

The competitive advantage today isn’t forecasting tomorrow’s cash more accurately. It’s having less of today’s cash left to forecast. Data in the August 2026 edition...

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How 23% of Merchants Captured Retail’s Next Agentic Commerce Advantage
How 23% of Merchants Captured Retail’s Next Agentic Commerce Advantage
September 02, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence agents are poised to influence discovery, payment choice and transactions. But only 23% of merchants can clearly identify both AI-driven traffic and purchases...

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