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Summer is over. Time for PYMNTS to look back on the season’s best quotes from PYMNTS Intelligence and our news and feature stories.
“They have white labeled premium products or materials for highly purchased categories like athletic wear. They also have established exclusive partnerships with athletic companies to carry products on online storefronts like Nike. This has enabled Amazon...
Multiple industries including cloud, chips, data storage, semiconductor manufacturing, data centers and servers are seeing revenue gains from artificial intelligence (AI), cementing its role as an economic driver.
The main catalyst is increasing enterprise adoption of AI. A 2025 PYMNTS Intelligence report shows that 9 in 10 chief financial officers (CFOs) see “very positive ROI” from...
On paper, earning $75,000 to $100,000 a year should place a household squarely in the American middle class.
By historic standards, this income range signaled relative stability. Think: homeownership, college savings and maybe even a summer vacation. Yet today, a startling number of people in this bracket are living paycheck to paycheck, their financial security more precarious than...
Digital banking. The phrase means different things to different consumers, but for the PYMNTS app provider rankings, digital banking includes the apps that enable them to plan, spend and track their money within the same ecosystem. You would expect SoFi’s page to do well here, and you would be right.
SoFi topped our August rankings for digital finance apps, posting a three point gain...
Headed into the Labor Day weekend, the CE 100 Index managed to post a 0.5% gain, in contrast to the slides seen across all broader benchmarks such as the Nasdaq and the S...
For banks, the difference between saying “yes” and “no” to a small business loan often has less to do with risk appetite than with the quality of data in front of them.
Real-time, third-party information is becoming the single most important factor in whether the smallest firms gain access to credit.
The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Keeping Score: Why Data Quality Determines Lending...
As inflation, interest-rate swings and economic uncertainty converge, banks and credit unions (CUs) have demonstrated notable resilience. They are continuing to innovate digitally, enhance risk controls and evolve service models to meet shifting consumer and business needs.
Fall is settling in, financial institutions (FIs) large and small have the opportunity to help customers grapple...
The rise of bitcoin has reportedly been good for the luxury travel sector.
As the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (Aug. 31), a growing number of private jet and high-end cruise operators have begun taking cryptocurrency payments as they see a number of customers enjoying new digital asset wealth.
“Tremendous” demand from wealthy younger travelers has led Flexjet-owned FXAIR to...
Is the cryptocurrency market so bad that it’s about to become good?
Crypto analyst and macroeconomist Alex Krüger made that argument Saturday (Aug. 30) in a post on X.
In comments flagged by CoinDesk, Krüger argued that “most crypto charts now look so broken and bearish that it’s bullish.” He contended that when price movements seem this severe, the panic has usually progressed enough...
Sports gambling has DraftKings. Political junkies have PredictIt. And now the world’s nerdiest corner — the artificial intelligence (AI) scene — has its own set of bettors, where people wager actual money on whether Google’s Gemini will dunk on OpenAI’s GPT-5 this month.
Forget fantasy football, this is fantasy machine learning.
People are placing their bets on markets like Kalshi,...