Throughout history, the number seven has held significant importance. There are seven days of the week, seven colors in a rainbow, the “lucky sevens” when playing the slots, and it is the number of things that experts say people can easily remember. It’s also the...
Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the restaurant segment now use instant payments more than other payment methods. PYMNTS Intelligence finds that 74% of businesses surveyed sent instant payments in the last year. Moreover, 40% identify an instant option as their most used form of...
It has been a wild ride for many companies that come under the heading ‘“FinTech.” Case in point: MoneyLion. Just a year ago the company was a neobank struggling under a $9 million loss for Q1 2023. Fast forward a year and the data-driven financial...
Many shoppers are no longer planning out their Mother’s Day gifts weeks in advance — they’re increasingly waiting for the last minute, expecting to have whatever they want still available. In an interview with PYMNTS, Jim McCann, founder and chairman at 1-800 Flowers.com, spoke to...
March 30, 2024
Baseball is back, and this year, more stadiums are tapping frictionless checkout to cut labor costs while meeting fans’ demand to spend as little time out of their seats as possible. Colorado Rockies’ Coors Field is expanding its use of Amazon’s Just Walk Out frictionless checkout technology, according to a March 21 news release. It’s also adding self-checkout kiosks from solution provider Tapin2. […]
March 26, 2024
Did the mobile device kill the bank branch? Not quite, but as the world moves increasingly toward digital rather than physical banking channels, the banking sector may have already crossed...
December 13, 2023
North America ranks second, behind Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), among the five regions analyzed in the “Growth Corporates Working Capital Index.” In the past 12 months, 71% of...
October 11, 2023
Brian Chesky says that Airbnb is broken and he’s going to fix it. New York City recently passed regulations that all but gave them the boot. Meanwhile, guests are griping —...
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 […]
