The best laid plans of mice and men, wrote the poet Robert Burns, oft go awry. Add businesses of all sizes to that roster, as planning is one thing, uncertainty’s another, and somewhere in the middle, reality rears its head. Uncertainty’s a fact of life,...
Firms’ year-ahead inflation expectations remained “relatively unchanged” in August, staying just above where they were before the pandemic, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said Wednesday (Aug. 21). On average, firms expect inflation of 2.2%, according to the Atlanta Fed’s Wednesday press release about its Business Inflation...
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has a new first vice president and chief operating officer. Cheryl Venable, who has been with the bank since 1991, will assume her new role Aug. 1, the Federal Reserve announced in a news release Thursday (June 27). Her...
The widespread adoption of person-to-person (P2P) payment apps and services has fueled a surge in credit-push payment volume, a trend that has been further accelerated by the recent introduction of real-time payments in the United States. As this payments landscape continues to evolve rapidly, fraudsters are...
January 15, 2025
The “foundation is forming” for stablecoins to become a universal payment method, Chris Colson, payments expert at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, wrote in a Monday (Jan. 13) blog post. “When I first heard about stablecoins, they were a niche tool for crypto traders seeking to avoid volatile price swings,” Colson wrote. “Today, stablecoins […]
August 21, 2024
Firms’ year-ahead inflation expectations remained “relatively unchanged” in August, staying just above where they were before the pandemic, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said Wednesday (Aug. 21). On average, firms...
July 01, 2024
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has a new first vice president and chief operating officer. Cheryl Venable, who has been with the bank since 1991, will assume her new...
October 15, 2023
Consumers have increasingly stopped carrying cash. Businesses are trying to get them to start. As The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday (Oct. 15), merchants are now offering discounts for paying for...
