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Rising prices are reshaping not just household budgets but the financial relationship between generations.
Younger and older consumers in the United States are responding to the same pressures in different ways, according to the November edition of PYMNTS Intelligence’s Generational Pulse Report, “Economic Pressures Split the Generations as Each Rethinks the Basics.”
The report, based...
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The systems behind the scenes of payments modernization are complex, and so are the teams that design and support them. For Green Dot, the force that keeps those parts aligned is not a technology layer but an insight engine that often goes unnoticed.
Green Dot operates both as a direct-to-consumer brand and as an embedded finance platform for...
Retailers are no longer treating embedded finance as a checkout enhancement. The data show it is becoming a tool for control over customer relationships, compliance exposure and operational tempo across the retail stack.
That is the central takeaway from “Retailers Expand Embedded Finance to Unlock Control and Customization,” a November 2025 PYMNTS Intelligence report produced in...
The December 2025 update of the “Wage to Wallet Index” reveals an economy that is no longer moving in a single direction, but splitting along a decisive fault line shaped by liquidity access, income timing and perceived opportunity. Produced in collaboration with WorkWhile and Ingo Payments, the report finds that while topline consumer sentiment has improved, this progress is uneven and...
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...