Payments Intelligence

Global Wallet Use Rises Nearly 30 Percent In-Store Since 2022

Global Wallet Use Rises Nearly 30 Percent In-Store Since 2022
Global Wallet Use Rises Nearly 30 Percent In-Store Since 2022
December 12, 2025  |  Mobile Wallets

An analysis of mobile wallet adoption across 11 major economies shows that the most consequential shift in digital payments is unfolding not in headline growth...

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Cash Forecasting Frequency Is Becoming a New Corporate Fault Line
Cash Forecasting Frequency Is Becoming a New Corporate Fault Line
December 11, 2025  |  Business

The business landscape can be a battlefield. In the zero-sum, winner-takes-most landscape of commerce, companies have traditionally competed on product innovation, customer experience and cost...

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61% of Gaming Winners Shift to Instant Payouts
61% of Gaming Winners Shift to Instant Payouts
December 11, 2025  |  Money Mobility

A new PYMNTS Intelligence report suggests that the most meaningful trend in instant payments is not how fast money moves but how recipient behavior is...

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FinTechs Lift Credit Union Partnerships by 19%
FinTechs Lift Credit Union Partnerships by 19%
December 10, 2025  |  Credit Unions

FinTechs’ surge toward credit unions offers a clearer view of how technology firms are reshaping their growth strategies as competition from large banks intensifies. Get...

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Instant Payments Shift Fraud Liability Into Real Time
Instant Payments Shift Fraud Liability Into Real Time
December 09, 2025  |  Fraud Prevention

Beyond the victims and the billions of dollars in losses, the rise of AI-driven fraud means banks, FinTechs and payment providers must think about risk,...

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Black Friday’s Big Traffic Shake-Up: Amazon Surges, Walmart Slips, Target Splits
Black Friday’s Big Traffic Shake-Up: Amazon Surges, Walmart Slips, Target Splits
December 09, 2025  |  Retail

Retail’s triple crown of Walmart, Amazon and Target saw major shifts in who shopped this year’s Black Friday sales—and not all the changes were identical....

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High-Income Households Lift Installment Adoption by 57%
High-Income Households Lift Installment Adoption by 57%
December 09, 2025  |  Consumer Insights

Consumers are reshaping how they use credit, and PYMNTS Intelligence data shows that installment plans are becoming a central tool for managing cash flow in...

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Banks Face Fraud Spike As Scams Stress Legacy Systems
Banks Face Fraud Spike As Scams Stress Legacy Systems
December 04, 2025  |  Fraud Prevention

The “2025 State of Fraud and Financial Crime in the United States” report, a PYMNTS Intelligence report commissioned by Block, reveals that the financial industry...

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Late Payments Push Media Agencies Into a Cash Crunch
Late Payments Push Media Agencies Into a Cash Crunch
December 04, 2025  |  Back-office

The advertising and media industry has spent the past decade reinventing almost everything about how it reaches audiences. Except, remarkably, how it manages the money...

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