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Tighter Budgets Push Grocery Shoppers Online

Tighter Budgets Push Grocery Shoppers Online
Tighter Budgets Push Grocery Shoppers Online
October 02, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Consumers under financial pressure are buying bigger baskets and choosing value-focused merchants, giving retailers an opportunity to help shoppers make each purchase go further. That’s...

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Banks’ Blockchain Bet Comes Down to Moving the Money
Banks’ Blockchain Bet Comes Down to Moving the Money
October 01, 2026  |  Blockchain

Wall Street’s embrace of digital assets has reached the point where saying a bank is “doing blockchain” reveals almost nothing about what it can actually...

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Amazon and Walmart Want Merchants’ Software Budgets
Amazon and Walmart Want Merchants’ Software Budgets
October 01, 2026  |  Retail

The retail landscape used to have four primary levers: share of shoppers, share of sellers, share of advertising dollars and share of wallet. However, artificial...

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PhonePe and Revolut Test the Price of Going Global
PhonePe and Revolut Test the Price of Going Global
October 01, 2026  |  Digital Payments

Digital platforms spread technology and product development across millions of customers, a model that makes adding another market attractive. However, international expansion brings more local...

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Exclusive: Branch Launches High Yield Savings for Workers Whose Pay Changes Every Week
Exclusive: Branch Launches High Yield Savings for Workers Whose Pay Changes Every Week
October 01, 2026  |  Payroll

Watch more: Need to Know With Branch’s Atif Siddiqi For workers with unpredictable pay, the problem with saving isn’t necessarily deciding to do it. It...

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Visa Direct Panel Maps Path to Faster Government Payments
Visa Direct Panel Maps Path to Faster Government Payments
October 01, 2026  |  Disbursements

Watch more: Government Disbursements Need to Move at the Speed of Need For a household waiting on food assistance or disaster relief, a payment that...

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53% of In-House Identity Teams Report KYA Incidents or Losses
53% of In-House Identity Teams Report KYA Incidents or Losses
October 01, 2026  |  Digital Identity

Companies that keep digital identity verification in-house face a pronounced exposure to adversarial bots and agents: 53% report know-your-agent (KYA) related incidents or losses, compared...

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Consumers Trust Their Jobs as Savings Run Thin
Consumers Trust Their Jobs as Savings Run Thin
October 01, 2026  |  Consumer Finance

Consumers may still feel secure about their jobs, but a thinner savings cushion is changing the financial environment in which they manage their money. This...

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