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FIS Sees $42 Billion Opportunity in Offers Consumers Never Receive

FIS Sees $42 Billion Opportunity in Offers Consumers Never Receive
FIS Sees $42 Billion Opportunity in Offers Consumers Never Receive
July 15, 2026  |  Loyalty & Rewards

Watch more: Need to Know | FIS | Mladen Vladic The next contest for cardholder loyalty may depend less on rewards programs than on whether...

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44 Million Subprime Consumers Create a New Market for Payments Providers
44 Million Subprime Consumers Create a New Market for Payments Providers
July 15, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

For young subprime consumers, the clearest sign of financial pressure may show up not at the checkout counter, but at the doctor’s office. The PYMNTS...

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Earned Wage Access Reaches Workers but Fails to Win Them
Earned Wage Access Reaches Workers but Fails to Win Them
July 15, 2026  |  Payroll

On-demand pay was supposed to address a straightforward mismatch. Employees earn money every day, but traditional payroll systems release it every one or two weeks....

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78% of CFOs Say Payment Blind Spots Increase Customer Friction
78% of CFOs Say Payment Blind Spots Increase Customer Friction
July 15, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

The best fraud prevention stops bad transactions and lets good ones move faster. But new findings in the June 2026 edition of The 2026 Certainty...

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A Mobile Wallet Can’t Tell a Privacy Guard From a Fraudster. That’s the Problem.
A Mobile Wallet Can’t Tell a Privacy Guard From a Fraudster. That’s the Problem.
July 14, 2026  |  Mobile Payments

Fraudsters and privacy-conscious consumers have one thing in common. Neither wants to be easily found. For years, that overlap didn’t matter much. Privacy-minded consumers wanted...

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53% of Financially Strained Consumers Cut Nonessential Spending 
53% of Financially Strained Consumers Cut Nonessential Spending 
July 14, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Consumers are still spending, but many are doing it with less room for error. That’s the central finding from “The Inflation Mirage: What Rising Spending Hides About...

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The Grocery Run No Longer Belongs to One Retailer
The Grocery Run No Longer Belongs to One Retailer
July 14, 2026  |  Retail

A weekly grocery run seems like the perfect opportunity to fill a shopping cart with everything else a household needs. New data suggests consumers increasingly...

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EarnIn Adds Jobs Platform as Wage Access Draws Scrutiny
EarnIn Adds Jobs Platform as Wage Access Draws Scrutiny
July 13, 2026  |  Payroll

Watch more: Monday Conversation With EarnIn’s Ram Palaniappan A platform that sells access to wages needs customers who have wages. That is the commercial logic...

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