The Data Point

More Than Half of Banks Plan to Outsource Fraud Detection 
More Than Half of Banks Plan to Outsource Fraud Detection 
February 13, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

The cost of fraud at U.S. financial institutions is rising, but the deeper threat may be what it does to customer relationships and brand reputation....

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70% of Consumers Say Yes to AI Agents for Shopping
70% of Consumers Say Yes to AI Agents for Shopping
February 11, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

The most revealing signal in the latest PYMNTS Intelligence research is not that consumers are experimenting with agentic AI. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Nearly 3 in 4 Premium Cardholders Used a Card-Linked Offer in the Past Year
Nearly 3 in 4 Premium Cardholders Used a Card-Linked Offer in the Past Year
February 10, 2026  |  Credit Cards

Consumers who pay the most for their credit cards turn out to be the ones least likely to ignore them. Just 3.9% of premium cardholders...

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Digital Banks Win With Younger and Lower-Income Consumers
Digital Banks Win With Younger and Lower-Income Consumers
February 09, 2026  |  Digital-First Banking

Digital bank users are not simply early adopters of new payment methods. They represent a distinct slice of the U.S. banking population, shaped by age, income, education and daily...

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Two-Thirds of Cardholders View Issuers More Positively After Credit Limit Increases
Two-Thirds of Cardholders View Issuers More Positively After Credit Limit Increases
February 05, 2026  |  Credit Cards

Nearly three-quarters of credit cardholders who requested a limit increase and were denied turned to installment plans as an alternative source of credit, revealing how...

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75% of Tech Firms Say They Are Extremely Familiar With AI Agents
75% of Tech Firms Say They Are Extremely Familiar With AI Agents
February 03, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

The next phase of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is not arriving evenly across the economy. It is taking shape first inside the technology sector itself,...

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Mobile Wallet Usage Soars, Even as Apple Pay Leaves Spend on the Table
Mobile Wallet Usage Soars, Even as Apple Pay Leaves Spend on the Table
February 02, 2026  |  Mobile Wallets

Apple Pay usage has doubled in physical stores over the past year, yet the mobile wallet still processes only 1 in 10 eligible transactions and...

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Digital Wallet Use Still Lags in the Physical Store
Digital Wallet Use Still Lags in the Physical Store
January 30, 2026  |  Payment Methods

Online shopping has stopped being a young person’s game, and the data now points to a broader shift: where consumers shop is increasingly tied to...

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26% Seek New Credit Cards to Build or Improve Credit Scores
26% Seek New Credit Cards to Build or Improve Credit Scores
January 26, 2026  |  Credit Cards

A growing share of Americans are making credit decisions before they ever fill out an application, and many of those decisions are based on assumptions...

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