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England’s competition watchdog is investigating three international hotel chains for their data-sharing practices.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced Monday (March 2) that it was looking into the suspected sharing of “competitively sensitive information” among Hilton, Marriott and IHG Hotels.
The three chains used the hotel data analytics tools STR from CoStar, which...
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Branch’s Matt Peterson
Sixty-eight percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. For years, financial experts blamed the individual. Too much discretionary spending, not enough discipline. Branch CFO Matt Peterson has a different theory, and data to back it up.
The problem isn’t what people are spending. It’s when they’re getting paid.
Rent is due...
Embedded payments are becoming a core feature of modern business platforms, weaving transactions directly into everyday operational workflows. As payments shift, however, fraud risk shifts with them. In embedded environments, threats can no longer be managed effectively through point solutions that activate only after a transaction is already in motion.
Instead, fraud prevention must move...
In cybersecurity, visibility has always been a prerequisite for control.
Today, the scale and stakes of what organizations can no longer see are approaching a tipping point.
The result is not simply greater complexity, but a growing inability for organizations to identify where their own infrastructure begins and ends.
“If you think about the blind spots very often for companies, it’s...
Small businesses are treating credit cards less like a backup and more like a flexible operating tool, and the way they use them is starting to look surprisingly consumer-like.
That is the throughline of “SMB Growth Monitor: How Firms Use and Choose Credit Cards” a PYMNTS Intelligence report based on a survey of 583 U.S. small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) fielded April 4 to April...
It was a big week in The Prompt Economy, with big moves from big companies making big claims. None were bigger than Samsung, which used its user conference to herald what it says is “The Beginning of Truly Agentic AI.”
To back that up Samsung says its Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event was designed around a simple idea: Agentic AI should feel less like a separate feature and more like a...
Retail investors are reportedly leaving the cryptocurrency sector, robbing the industry of a dependable driver.
That’s according to a report Sunday (March 1) from Bloomberg News, which says the speculative demand that once centered around crypto has shifted into stocks.
Since late 2024, retail investors have steadily shifted toward equities, a trend that sped up following the crypto...
Chinese device marker Honor has reportedly introduced a humanoid robot and “robot phone.”
The company demonstrated those products Sunday (March 1) at MWC Barcelona 2026, Bloomberg News reported, calling it Honor’s push to reestablish itself as an artificial intelligence-focused hardware company.
Spun off from Huawei in 2020, Honor began as a budget brand before moving into premium...
Last week, FedEx sued the federal government to recover the money it had paid in tariffs.
Now, the company is facing a tariff-related lawsuit of its own, the Associated Press reported Friday (Feb. 27).
The suit is one of at least two federal lawsuits — the other is against EssilorLuxottica, which makes Ray-Ban sunglasses — aiming to make sure consumers get a share of refunds...
Target is reportedly facing criticism from a group of investors unhappy with its management’s decisions.
That’s according to a report Friday (Feb. 27) from Reuters, which noted that this push is happening at a time when Target is struggling while rivals Walmart and Costco benefit from cost-conscious consumers.
Target’s profits are down 14% in the last five years, while its move away...