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The rapid rise of real-time payments is transforming the way consumers and businesses move money, offering unprecedented speed and convenience. Nevertheless, a significant disconnect remains: While most financial institutions (FIs) now support the ability to receive real-time payments, far fewer have enabled customers to send funds instantly. This imbalance limits the full potential of real-time...
The future of B2B payments is getting closer than it looks.
As young generations take on more influence in procurement and finance, the demand for intuitive, tech-forward experiences is beginning to accelerate. From virtual card acceptance to embedded accounts payable/accounts receivable (AP/AR) automation, the B2B payments space, worth an estimated $120 trillion annually, is being asked to...
While the trend toward mobile-first shopping is global, the U.K. presents a unique dynamic: consumers are actively using mobile for purchases and engagement, yet the country ranks last among eight surveyed nations in overall digital shopping engagement.
This presents both challenges and significant opportunities for financial services professionals supporting merchants and for merchants...
America’s mid-sized firms, with annual revenues ranging from $1 billion to $5 billion, are often the backbone of their communities.
Yet in the modern era of global uncertainty and geopolitical tension, they have been left bearing the brunt of a new wave of tariff pressures and supply chain volatility.
The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Enterprise Reset: Navigating Tariffs, Supply Chain Shifts...
To thrive in today’s fragmented retail landscape, small and medium-sized businesses must close the digital divide and embrace unified commerce strategies.
It’s a good summary of PYMNTS’ new 2025 Global Digital Shopping Index: SMB Edition, which surveyed 18,468 consumers and 3,464 merchants across eight countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia,...
No longer secondary considerations, the speed and efficiency of receiving non-recurring, or ad hoc, disbursements are becoming critical factors influencing an SMB’s operational stability and competitive position.
The payments landscape for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United States is undergoing a significant transformation, largely propelled by the increasing adoption of...
Alibaba’s instant commerce platform has reportedly crossed the 40-million-daily-orders mark within a month of launch.
As Reuters noted in a report Monday (May 26) on this milestone, the platform brings merchants from the eCommerce giant’s food delivery arm Ele.me onto its main domestic shopping app, Taobao, making deliveries within 60 minutes.
The report added that this is part of a larger push...
How bad has Singapore’s scamming problem gotten? Authorities are considering corporal punishment for offenders.
“We believe in caning as a strong deterrent,” Loretta Yuen, chair of the fraud committee at the Association of Banks in Singapore, said in an interview with the Financial Times (FT) Sunday (May 26). “It’s a deterrent, but there is also a sense of revenge to it.”
In the last two years,...
America’s consumer protection watchdog has switched its position on removing medical debt from credit reports.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) earlier this year finalized a rule that would have kept medical debt from people’s credit history.
The regulator noted at the time that 15 million Americans would have benefited from the change, wiping $49 billion in debt from their...