Making predictions is simply irresistible at this time of the year – this year in particular. Tuesday marked not only the end of a year, but the end of a decade. Not just any decade, but one that has seen unprecedented levels of innovation touch...
PYMNTS asked 30 payment executives to make a prediction about payments and commerce that they’d put in a time capsule to be unearthed at the end of 2020. Among the common themes to emerge: Change will come to the point of sale (POS), spurred by...
Welcome, valued PYMNTS readers, to the weekend. No doubt you worked hard, and chances are you put in more than 40 hours — probably significantly more. So it may amuse you that according to certain future-minded members of the U.S. Senate in the 1960s, your workweek...
Welcome to the first Monday of 2019. According to the Chinese calendar, 2019 is the “Year of the Pig” – which may not, at first blush, inspire much excitement for the 358 days ahead of us. It’s almost as bad as saying it’s the “Year...
January 02, 2018
A Goldman Sachs economist has joined the list of those concerned with the impact that cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, could have on the U.S. economy. In the report “10 Questions for 2018,” issued late Friday (Dec. 29), Jan Hatzius warned that financial imbalances within the credit market and cryptocurrencies could cast a shadow on the […]
March 31, 2017
Looks like losing billions of dollars is a snap. Literally. As Fortune Magazine reports, Snap, which went public last month and which has seen a spate of analyst coverage in...
