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A new PYMNTS Intelligence report shows that tariffs are no longer a temporary policy shift. They are now a structural force shaping how America’s middle-market CFOs rethink investment, budgeting and growth plans for 2026.
“Revising the Roadmap: How Tariffs Are Transforming CFOs’ Strategic Planning” analyzes how 60 CFOs are recalibrating strategies as trade policy uncertainty...
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Michael J. Hsu
Moving between the public and private sectors in banking and financial services is rarely straightforward. The objectives may overlap, but the perspectives can often shift, especially for those who have spent decades focused on protecting the financial system and are now stepping closer to the early-stage companies looking to innovate...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: Boost Payment Solutions’ Rinku Sharma
When payments infrastructure makes the news, it’s usually because something has gone wrong.
But the resilience of payments infrastructure, the quiet engine of foundational work that keeps B2B payments systems running, might just have been the headline story of the past year, no matter the ongoing drumbeat of AI...
If your house were robbed or your car vandalized, you wouldn’t hesitate to report the crime to the police. So why do so few victims of financial scams report the incidents to their financial institutions?
Definitions of fraud are wide-ranging, but most center on scams involving monetary losses. Consumers reported to the Federal Trade Commission that they lost more than $12.5 billion to...
Standards. Protocols. Alliances. It was a big week as usual in the Prompt Economy with several announcements that show cooperation among some of the power players that will make agentic AI’s infrastructure the commerce and communication engine of the future.
The biggest one came from Block, which has joined with Anthropic and OpenAI to launch the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), an open...
Workflow automation platform ServiceNow is reportedly in advanced discussions to purchase cybersecurity startup Armis.
The deal, which could be worth up to $7 billion, could be announced in the coming days and comes in the wake of Armis’ preparations for an initial public offering (IPO), Bloomberg News reported Sunday (Dec. 14), citing sources familiar with the situation.
PYMNTS has...
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...