A debit processor migration can look successful on a project plan and still create problems at the checkout counter. That’s one of the central findings in “The Hidden P&L of Legacy Debit: What Processor Migration Actually Costs, Saves and Breaks,” a June 2026 report from PYMNTS Intelligence...
Fraud budgets are moving in two different directions. Fifty-one percent of global eCommerce merchants expect spending on fraud-management staff to remain flat or decline, while 63% plan to increase investment in fraud-management technology. The numbers frame fraud orchestration as an operating-efficiency question as well as...
For small businesses, knowing where a customer came from appears to be nearly as valuable as winning the customer in the first place. That’s the clearest takeaway from “The SMB Growth Gap: What Leaders Track That Others Miss,” an installment of the SMB Growth Monitor...
Credit card installment plans are turning the biggest promise of buy now, pay later (BNPL) into an advantage for the card industry. A PYMNTS Intelligence report, “The Pay Later Data Shift: Credit Card Installments Take the Lead,” finds consumers used card installment plans at more...
October 02, 2026
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 a central finding of “The New Checkout: Crimped Consumers Lean Into Online Retail and Digital Wallets,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report based on a survey of 2,108 U.S. adults. The research […]
September 30, 2026
A debit processor migration can look successful on a project plan and still create problems at the checkout counter. That’s one of the central findings in “The Hidden P&L of Legacy...
September 25, 2026
Fraud budgets are moving in two different directions. Fifty-one percent of global eCommerce merchants expect spending on fraud-management staff to remain flat or decline, while 63% plan to increase investment...
September 21, 2026
For small businesses, knowing where a customer came from appears to be nearly as valuable as winning the customer in the first place. That’s the clearest takeaway from “The SMB...
