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Generation Mobile: Even Boomers Are Shifting Away From Plastic Cards
Generation Mobile: Even Boomers Are Shifting Away From Plastic Cards
June 06, 2025  |  Mobile Wallets

Forget your plastic cards for a moment. A quiet revolution is happening in how we pay for everything from dinner to electronics, and it’s being...

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FinTech IPO Index Starts June Up 0.8% as Robinhood Surges on UK Expansion
FinTech IPO Index Starts June Up 0.8% as Robinhood Surges on UK Expansion
June 06, 2025  |  Fintech Investments

The first few trading days of the last month of the quarter marked a muted but positive start for the FinTech IPO Index, which tacked...

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Walmart and Amazon Chase Agentic AI, Robotic Warehouses and Customer Loyalty
Walmart and Amazon Chase Agentic AI, Robotic Warehouses and Customer Loyalty
June 06, 2025  |  Retail

Retailers like Amazon and Walmart don’t just battle for consumer spend in brick-and-mortar or online. They battle everywhere, all the time. Get the Full Story...

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Why 99% of Cross-Border Consumers Insist on Local Payment Methods
Why 99% of Cross-Border Consumers Insist on Local Payment Methods
June 06, 2025  |  Cross-border Payments

Despite the widespread adoption of digital technologies, merchants are finding that cross-border payment complexities continue to pose hurdles to capturing international sales opportunities. Get the...

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Circle Is America’s First Publicly Traded Stablecoin Issuer. Now What?
Circle Is America’s First Publicly Traded Stablecoin Issuer. Now What?
June 05, 2025  |  Cryptocurrency

Stablecoins have gone public in the U.S. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

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New Congressional Bill Takes Aim at $335M in Small Business Lending Fraud
New Congressional Bill Takes Aim at $335M in Small Business Lending Fraud
June 05, 2025  |  Loans

As tariffs loomed this spring, PYMNTS Intelligence found that obtaining financing was (and is) a difficult endeavor for smaller firms, which power the U.S. economy....

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Vertical SaaS Platforms Find Path to Profits With Partners, Says Stax CEO
Vertical SaaS Platforms Find Path to Profits With Partners, Says Stax CEO
June 05, 2025  |  Partnerships

Partnerships have always greased the gears of commerce, but in the payments business, where technology evolves by the week and margins hinge on fractions of...

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The Future of Bank Compliance? There’s an AI Agent for That
The Future of Bank Compliance? There’s an AI Agent for That
June 05, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Against a backdrop of rising financial complexity, ballooning regulatory risk and exploding customer expectations, trimming compliance bloat has become a new battleground for innovation. Get...

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Banks Bet on Virtual Cards as the New Credit Battleground
Banks Bet on Virtual Cards as the New Credit Battleground
June 05, 2025  |  Digital Payments

When Apple Pay launched in 2014, it promised a future free of plastic. Over a decade later, the ripples of that revolution are still unfolding...

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