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Watch more: SMBs and Unified Commerce — Playing Big in a Mobile-First World
Consumer expectations for fluidity between online, mobile and physical storefronts are at an all-time high. But it’s time they all come together.
Unified commerce offers small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) an unprecedented opportunity to elevate their commercial prospects, said Authorize.net Senior Director...
Watch more: Agentic AI Needs Strong Verification to Unlock Safe, Scalable Commerce
For merchants, the coming wave of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) represents both a revenue opportunity and a rising fraud risk.
Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping assistants—algorithms executing purchases on behalf of consumers—are already starting to interact with checkout systems. But...
Watch more: Concora Credit Exec on Giving Credit Infrastructure a Data-Driven Overhaul
When federal agencies dial back funding for statistical programs, or when traditional credit bureau files run thin, where do banks and FinTechs turn for insights?
Increasingly, the answer lies in alternative data.
“We use a wide variety of credit bureau data as well as alternative data in making our...
Property managers today face a financial and operational balancing act that grows more complex by the month. Turbulent economic conditions and inflation are placing significant pressure on teams already stretched thin. Against this backdrop, accounts payable (AP) often becomes a bottleneck. Manual, error-prone processes can quickly snowball into late payments, cash flow disruptions and even...
Consumers expect money to move at digital speed.
Whether it’s a payroll deposit, an insurance payout or a merchant refund, waiting days for money now feels out of step with everyday life.
That expectation is reshaping how banks and credit unions approach instant payments. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Doubling Down: The Growing Case for Multi-Rail Real-Time Payments,” a collaboration...
When it comes to connected technology, consumers don’t move in lockstep.
Instead, they fall into three distinct camps that reveal not only what devices they own, but how they live, shop and pay.
The PYMNTS Intelligence report “How People Pay: Consumer Preference for Connected Technology” shows that the number of connected devices in households in the United States has been rising....
Five Below’s second quarter results spotlighted a resilient consumer, as comparable sales surged 12.4% year over year. Management noted during commentary with analysts that transactions and ticket sizes both increased, up a respective 8.7% and 3.4%.
The earnings results indicated that consolidated net sales were 23.7% higher to about $1 billion.
Investors sent the stock up by 1.5% in...
The City of Baltimore lost over $803,000 when a fraudster diverted two of the city’s electronic fund transfer (ETF) payments intended for a vendor to another bank account.
One payment valued at over $721,000 was retrieved by the city, while the other one valued at over $803,000 has not been recovered, the Office of the Inspector General of the City of Baltimore said in an investigative...
Few companies in history have experienced a revenue trajectory as dramatic as Nvidia’s over the past two years.
The latest numbers from its second quarter 2026 earnings, shared Wednesday (Aug. 27), underscore not just the resilience of its business model but also the volatility of operating at the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI), data infrastructure, and global trade policy...
Auditoria.AI said Wednesday (Aug. 27) that it enhanced its intelligent applications for corporate finance during the first half of the year by adding a new artificial intelligence (AI) agent and by forming new enterprise resource planning (ERP) partnerships.
“The first half of 2025 has been a defining period for Auditoria,” Rohit Gupta, CEO and co-founder of Auditoria.AI, said in a...