Watch more: Your Payments Got Smarter. Did Your Infrastructure? Faster payments compress the time available to catch a bad transaction, reconcile an exception or determine whether the party moving money is who it claims to be. Speedier payments put more pressure on infrastructure that customers...
Grace Hopper, the Yale PhD in math, computer pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral, liked to tell audiences that “it’s much easier to apologize than to get permission.” She didn’t invent the idea or the saying, but she made it famous. Silicon Valley has...
If something strange is happening in your neighborhood this Halloween, you might want to call the librarian. Concord Public Library in New Hampshire is encouraging patrons to borrow a ghost detector or thermal imaging camera as part of its October Halloween programming. Alongside crafts and a...
Remember travel agents? Not the AI kind. The real people kind. For anyone under the age of 30, here’s how it worked. You walked into a little storefront with a poster of a Caribbean island in the window and sat across the desk from someone...
July 25, 2026
Spain took home the trophy. The digital economy took everything else: our attention, our sleep, our snack budgets and, apparently, our remaining sense of distance. Uber data supplied to PYMNTS says one fan treated a 266-mile ride from Arlington to Houston as perfectly normal match-day transportation, while another logged trips at 10 venues in all […]
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...
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...
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...
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. Or a device that’s affixed to the side of a trash can that can […]
