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...
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...
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...
The UAE shopper has little patience for yesterday’s checkout. A phone can serve as a storefront, research assistant and wallet before a merchant’s website has...
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:...
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...
Adding payment processors is relatively easy. Getting substantially better payment performance from the resulting network appears to be much harder. That distinction stands out in...
Merchants have plenty of ways to target shoppers with promotions. Their problem is getting the right offer in front of the right customer while there...
Fast-growing middle-market companies aren’t always losing opportunities because lenders said no. Many are losing them because available credit can’t move quickly enough to become useful....