May 26, 2017
The CFPB Sizzle, Patent Trolls Fizzle And Millennials Face A...
The CFPB managed to have an encouraging-looking day in court this week — while patent trolling most certainly did not. And millennials faced critiques for their brunch choices — and...
May 23, 2017
Americans Are Borrowing Like It’s 2008 … Sort Of
It took almost a full decade, but Americans’ debt level has reached a new all-time high, surpassing the $12.68 trillion peak it reached in the fall of 2008 — the...
May 22, 2017
Fed Finds Slight Boost to Americans’ Economic Well Being
Americans felt slightly better about their financial lives last year as measured against the year before, but as noted in a Federal Reserve study released last week, adults with no...
May 22, 2017
Robots Poised To Take Over Retail
Automation has hit the manufacturing industry hard, costing the industry millions of factory jobs — yet it has the potential to hit retail even harder. According to a new study by...
May 15, 2017
US Consumer Sentiment Up Again In May
Despite all the political rancor going on in the U.S., consumer sentiment among consumers increased in May based on preliminary data from the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index. According...
May 13, 2017
Need A Mother’s Day Gift? Try A Lease
This year, Americans will spend over $23 billion telling their moms just how much they mean to them for Mother’s Day this year. Flowers, as always, will be the leading...
May 10, 2017
Baby Boomers vs. Millennials: Which Generation Has More Entrepreneurs?
Starting a new business can be a long, arduous and daunting road for anyone in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing society. One of the biggest hurdles to starting a new business,...
May 09, 2017
sweetFrog: The Sweeter Side Of Innovation
Most people did not consider 2009 an ideal time to start any kind of small business — the credit markets had more or less squeezed shut, a staggering number of...
May 05, 2017
Hiring Pace Quickens in April, Unemployment Slips Again
The economy seemed to rebound from some anemic numbers put up earlier this year, as the Labor Department stated on Friday that non-farm payrolls were up by 211,000 in April...
With 96% of corporates that offer earned wage access saying it helps attract new talent, and 75% of millennials saying that it would influence their acceptance of a job offer, it’s obvious why almost two-thirds of employers see earned wage access as a low-cost tool for employee recruitment and retention. PYMNTS examines the trend in the latest issue of the “Money Mobility Tracker®,” a collaboration with Ingo Money.
