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New Data Shines Light on the $1.35T Race to Move Money Faster
Faster Payments // April 29, 2026

“The Power of Now: Moving Money at the Speed of Life,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa Direct, examines why payout speed has evolved into a business issue. Across healthcare, insurance and investment platforms, many organizations still depend on checks, ACH and other slower...

LendingClub’s Scott Sanborn Saw ‘Happen Bank’ Coming a Decade Ago
Digital Banking // April 28, 2026

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Visa Says Payouts Should Move at the Speed of Need
Real-Time Payments // April 27, 2026

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Love, Lust and Loose Screws: The Weekender’s 10 Best AI Movies of the Past 20...
The Weekender // April 25, 2026

Few technologies generate as much cocktail-party anxiety — and screenplay fuel — as artificial intelligence. Hollywood, naturally, got there first. For the past two decades, movies about AI have doubled as dispatches from the human condition: loneliness, vanity, convenience, grief and the recurring belief that...

Interviews & Exclusives
Why Small Businesses Don’t Use Business Credit Cards  

July 21, 2025
Small businesses run on big decisions—but when it comes to credit card usage, many are blending business and personal finance in ways that reveal shortcomings in today’s financial products. That’s one of the key discoveries in “SMB Growth Monitor: How Firms Use and Choose Credit Cards,” which uncovers how SMB credit behaviors vary by business […]

Banks Navigate Digital Asset Boom, Regulatory Shift Amid Economic Headwinds

May 26, 2025
We’re not quite at the halfway point of the year — that will come June 30 — but the long weekend offers time to pause and reflect on some significant...

Trump Exec Order Puts Paper Checks on Borrowed Time, but Data Hurdles Loom Large

March 31, 2025
By now, President Donald Trump’s executive order to modernize how the federal government handles treasury disbursements is old news. The move, dubbed by some as “#KillTheCheck,” aims to address rising...

PagBrasil’s Compliance-First Approach Fast-Tracks Payment License

February 17, 2025
The need for speed and digital tools has become essential to the Latin American banking experience. Case in point: As detailed in PYMNTS’ recent exclusive sweep of 11 countries’ digital...

Quick Reads
Visa Study Shows 83 Percent Of Consumers Want New, IoT Ways To Pay

June 07, 2017
Picture a car that’s smart enough to know it’s running low on gas and prompts the driver to stop at the nearest gas station. There, a pump is activated as the car approaches. After the fill-up, the driver simply pulls away. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited […]