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Saudi Arabia is rapidly emerging as the world’s new benchmark in mobile-first shopping, driven by a surge of female shoppers and merchants eager to bridge the gap between physical and digital storefronts.
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The “2025 Global Digital Shopping Index: Saudi Arabia Edition,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa Acceptance Solutions collaboration, reveals that Saudi consumers engage...
Gen Z is often typecast as a different species, a pervasively anxious one that never knew daily life without the internet, thrift shops, and consumes social media voraciously.
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But in many ways, these consumers, roughly 28 years old or younger, are just like the rest of us. Steeped in a digital-first mindset, they just have different tools and plans to get what most...
BNPL partnerships help banks and merchants meet the needs of consumers and navigate regulations, Splitit CEO Nandan Sheth writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Halftime 2025: Charting the Future of Payments.”
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The first half of 2025 has brought much-needed clarity to the payments landscape. With consolidation moves like Global Payments/Worldpay and FIS/Issuer Solutions, it’s...
Adobe said Monday (July 7) that during Amazon’s Prime Day sales event that runs from Tuesday (July 8) through Friday (July 11), it expects the amount of traffic to all U.S. retailers that comes from generative artificial intelligence (AI) chat services and browsers to leap 3,200% year over year.
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“And while AI-driven traffic remains modest compared to other channels such...
Looking for a travel-related business that’s actually booming during the year of COVID-19? It’s out on the water, in rented boats of every shape and size from kayaks to luxury yachts.
“We had our drop-off in April, and then come May we saw a very quick rebound, Bryan Petro, chief operating officer of boat rental and charter marketplace GetMyBoat, told PYMNTS. “From April [to August], we are...
In China, crypto over-the-counter (OTC) traders are being arrested in an attempt to crack down on illegal transactions, according to a report from CoinDesk.
Prominent OTC trader Zhao Dong, of crypto lending platform RenrenBit, was held up by police in the city of Hangzhou, the report says. Zhao has a prominent status among the community, and rumors online began to circulate. One poster relayed...
Two innovators approached a well-heeled investor asking for money. Their sales pitch was very convincing. They told this investor that their innovation was so incredibly cutting-edge that only the hopelessly uninformed would fail to recognize its value. The innovators said that they had picked him because he was smart and forward-thinking enough to see the potential. The investor, who prided...