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Mexico is evolving into a mobile-first consumer market, a shift that presents opportunities for financial services and merchants to optimize cross-channel shopping.
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The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The 2025 Global Digital Shopping Index: Mexico Edition” revealed that as consumers increasingly use mobile devices for nearly half their purchases, they are demanding...
Global expansion for eCommerce merchants, while offering vast opportunity, remains a complex arena where payment failures and consumer preferences can quickly derail international sales, according to a new report.
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The “Payments Optimization: Powering Global eCommerce Growth” report, part of the Payments Optimization Tracker Series produced by PYMNTS Intelligence with...
Industry mergers, technology and economic challenges are driving change in the payments space, EVP Group President, FIS Automated Finance Seamus Smith writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Halftime 2025: Charting the Future of Payments.”
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The major mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2025, including Global Payments acquiring Worldpay and FIS acquiring Global...
America’s Credit Unions called on Congress to reform the Dodd-Frank Act and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which was created by the act.
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In a Monday (July 14) letter addressed to Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., the trade association said the act and the CFPB have practiced “regulatory overreach.”
Hill and Waters are the...
Albertsons Companies saw growing engagement with its digital platforms during the last quarter.
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The food and drug retailer’s digital sales increased 25% during the quarter ended June 14, outpacing its 2.8% increase in identical sales, Albertsons said in a Tuesday (June 15) earnings release. It also saw a 14% increase in its loyalty program membership.
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Google is expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities in Search by rolling out a new, free feature that lets it call local businesses on the user’s behalf to do things like check pricing and make reservations.
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The agentic AI tool, which is being rolled out in 45 U.S. states, is designed to help users accomplish tasks faster by eliminating the need for them to...
Mobile cybersecurity company Lookout is reportedly warning travelers to China that their mobile phones could be seized and their data could be extracted from those devices by the country’s authorities.
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Chinese authorities are using new malware that enables them to extract data from devices to which they have physical access, TechCrunch reported Wednesday (July 16),...
Small business platform Xero has joined forces with financial data network Plaid.
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This partnership is aimed at ultimately tripling the number of high-quality bank feeds available to customers in the U.S., the companies said in a news release Wednesday (July 16).
“For the many small businesses that form the backbone of local economies, access to community-focused...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) agent marketplace aimed at simplifying how businesses find, deploy and manage these autonomous bots.
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Announced at the AWS Summit New York City on Wednesday (July 16), “AI Agents and Tools” is a new category in the AWS Marketplace. It debuts with more than 900 agents and related support on tap from...
The number of data breaches in the United States is on track to reach a record high in 2025, with financial services being the “most breached industry,” according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
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Overall, there were 1,732 publicly reported data breaches in the first half of the year, the ITRC said in a Wednesday (July 16) press release. That’s 10% more than...