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Importers in the United States are anticipating favorable deals as they negotiate their ocean shipping contracts for 2026, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (Feb. 26).
Shipping specialists said supply is exceeding demand when it comes to container space, causing importers to lobby for 10% to 15% reductions to their contract rates, according to the report.
Early 2026 cargo...
Apple is reportedly talking with banks and card networks to launch Apple Pay in India.
The company is holding discussions with Indian lenders ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank with plans to introduce its digital wallet in the world’s most populous country in the middle of the year, Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Feb. 26), citing sources familiar with the matter.
In addition, Apple...
In March 2020, government officials and epidemiologists were telling Americans to brace for a two-month shutdown. PYMNTS Intelligence went into the field and asked 1,923 consumers directly what they thought. They said five months. In May 2020, the experts said recovery would come by fall. Consumers said February 2021. In December 2020, when officials were projecting a return to...
Here is the question nobody in polite payments circles wants to ask out loud: Do the card networks need stablecoins—or do stablecoins need the card networks?
It sounds almost impertinent. Stablecoins were supposed to be the insurgents. Peer-to-peer. Borderless. Frictionless. The whole point was to route around the Mastercards of the world. To build a payments layer that didn’t require...
From Amazon to dentist offices to Uber, companies that aren’t banks are the new face of financial services. Embedded finance offers credit, buy now, pay later, card installment plans, payments and insurance for everything from Prada handbags and veneers to Uber driver wages. With three parties in that marriage, banks, FinTechs and nonbank companies, who’s on the hook when something goes wrong...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Trulioo’s Vicky Bindra
Speed is becoming the name of the game across financial services, FinTech and digital commerce.
However, behind faster onboarding, faster payments and faster approvals hides a lurking threat. As fraud networks grow more sophisticated and digital ecosystems become more interconnected, velocity without visibility is...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With FIS’ Mladen Vladic
Innovation in payments has historically followed a bottom-up adoption curve.
Niche players test, incumbents wait, standards emerge, and scale follows.
Agentic commerce, a model in which software agents act on behalf of consumers to search for products, evaluate options, negotiate terms and complete transactions within...
Financial stress is no longer just shaping what Americans buy. It is reshaping how they pay.
That was the central insight of “Consumer Financial Stress Is Changing the Rules of Shopping and Payments,” a January PYMNTS Intelligence Data Book. The report found that while overall participation in grocery and retail categories remains steady, persistent cash flow gaps are driving changes...
Sezzle is accelerating its super app plans in 2026 after seeing growing engagement with its existing offerings in 2025, the company said in a Wednesday (Feb. 25) press release.
During the fourth quarter, the company’s digital payment platform saw its gross merchandise value (GMV) increase by 35.3% year over year to reach a new quarterly high of $1.2 billion, according to the release....
Nvidia reported $68 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, up 73% from a year earlier, as demand for accelerated computing continued to expand across cloud providers, model builders, enterprises and sovereign customers. Data center revenue rose 75% to $62 billion, increasing 22% from the previous quarter. The company said the shift toward generative and agentic artificial intelligence is now driving...