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Healthcare Costs Push Consumer Confidence Down 9 Points
Healthcare Costs Push Consumer Confidence Down 9 Points
July 30, 2026  |  Healthcare

Healthcare costs are squeezing consumer confidence from both ends of the age spectrum. Baby boomers and seniors in the United States face steep routine bills,...

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How the Top 17% of Card Issuers Build High Customer Lifetime Value
How the Top 17% of Card Issuers Build High Customer Lifetime Value
July 30, 2026  |  Credit Cards

Seventeen percent of card issuers have reached the high customer lifetime value (CLTV) tier. What sets them apart isn’t the number of capabilities they’ve deployed,...

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Real-Time Payments Move Into More Markets and More Workflows
Real-Time Payments Move Into More Markets and More Workflows
July 30, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Real-time payments are no longer waiting for a killer app. From Pix becoming an everyday payment method in Brazil to RTP and FedNow moving deeper...

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Visa Direct Modernizes Government Payouts Stuck in Check Era
Visa Direct Modernizes Government Payouts Stuck in Check Era
July 29, 2026  |  Disbursements

Watch more: Visa Direct With Visa’s Curtis Webb The card infrastructure to pay constituents is already in place. The banks are ready. Your debit card...

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When the Tech Stack Becomes the Tech Problem
When the Tech Stack Becomes the Tech Problem
July 29, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Digital transformation is usually presented as a ladder. Companies begin with a few foundational capabilities, add more sophisticated tools over time and become incrementally more...

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Age and Income Miss the Real Divide in Financial Health
Age and Income Miss the Real Divide in Financial Health
July 29, 2026  |  Consumer Finance

Two consumers can share a generation, an income bracket and many of the same expenses while occupying markedly different financial positions. That is one of...

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33% of US Consumers Use Credit Card Installments
33% of US Consumers Use Credit Card Installments
July 29, 2026  |  Credit Cards

Buy now, pay later was supposed to take business away from credit cards. Instead, credit cards appear to be taking a page from BNPL. PYMNTS...

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Thredd’s McCarthy Says Payments Will Govern the Agentic Enterprise
Thredd’s McCarthy Says Payments Will Govern the Agentic Enterprise
July 29, 2026  |  Opinion

The agentic enterprise won’t be defined by how much autonomy it hands to AI, but by how well it governs that autonomy, Thredd CEO Jim...

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Hospitals Can’t Outsource AI Accountability
Hospitals Can’t Outsource AI Accountability
July 29, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: TechReg With Alaap Shah of Epstein Becker Green Healthcare organizations spent the first phase of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom asking whether the...

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