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Watch more: Wage to Wallet: WorkWhile’s Alan Armen
The consumer still drives the U.S. economy, but a new Wage to Wallet Index report suggests that a growing share of that spending depends on platforms workers turn to when wages wobble. Those in the Labor Economy, which is hourly workers earning $40,000 to $50,000 a year, typically spend most of what they earn, so wage volatility does...
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...
YouTube has reportedly begun letting creators on its platform get paid in PayPal’s stablecoin.
So far, this feature only applies to U.S. users, May Zabaneh, PayPal’s head of crypto, told Fortune in a report published Friday (Dec. 12).
A spokesperson for YouTube parent Google confirmed that the site has added payouts for creators in PayPal’s stablecoin but declined to comment otherwise...
Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to ban state-level AI regulations.
“For banks, payments firms and FinTechs leaning on AI for fraud detection, credit decisioning and customer-facing chatbots, the message is straightforward: the White House is seeking one federal playbook, not a patchwork of state requirements,” PYMNTS wrote.
But making that order a...
PNC Financial Services has gotten regulatory approval to complete its acquisition of Colorado-based FirstBank.
The $4.1 billion deal has now received the go-ahead from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Colorado Division of Banking, PNC said in a Friday (Dec. 12) news release.
“Final regulatory approval of...