2025 Turned Uncertainty From Surprise Into Strategy
By year-end, one conclusion from PYMNTS Intelligence’s The Certainty Project series is hard to miss: Uncertainty rarely arrives as a single shock.
It compounds, as we saw this year, jumpi...
Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
The holiday shopping period compresses weeks of spending into days, multiplies the number of online interactions, and makes consumers and companies vulnerable to fraudsters.
That anxiety is...
Retail Closes the Holiday Season Leaner and More Focused
Retail in 2025 was defined less by a single breakthrough than by a set of pressures that forced retailers to get practical. Consumers kept shopping. But they did it with a sharper pencil, trading down...
