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December 30, 2015
Login To Drive

Is the future of auto sales in the online realm, or are there too many variables involved in those transactions to ever see traditional methods fully give way to new...


November 24, 2015
Retail, Payments Give Mutual Thanks

What can the payments industry learn from retail (and vice versa)? PYMNTS breaks that down -- plus explores the seasonal hiring boom’s effect on retail security, as well as the...


November 19, 2015
FTV Capital Predicts Year Of Payments Growth In 2016

The PYMNTS team caught up with experts in the payments field to ask them their views on industry trends, predictions for the coming year and what their ideal payments system...


November 09, 2015
Expectations Edition: Visa Meets, Jobs Beat And Square Manages

Life was famously compared to a box of chocolates 21 years ago on the grounds that one “never knows what they’re gonna get.” Which, as it turns out, is almost a perfectly...


November 03, 2015
Inventory: The Invisible Anchor On The US Economy

When it comes to the U.S. economy, fall 2015 by the numbers has been less than totally inspiring. Gross Domestic Product, the sum of all goods and services produced in...


October 27, 2015
EU Has Backed Startups To Tune Of $1.1B This Year

The European Commission has been active on the venture capital front, having invested as much as $1.1 billion into VC funds throughout the Continent thus far in 2015. VentureBeat reported...


October 09, 2015
Amid Complexity, SMBs Benefit From Outsourcing

Small and mid-sized business owners must grapple with getting employees paid on time, making sure benefits are in place, and navigating sometimes Byzantine tax laws. Paychex’s Andy Childs explains how...


September 28, 2015
The Incredible Mobile Payments Myth

MPD CEO Karen Webster says that everything that you’ve heard over the last several years about how successful mobile payments are at the physical point of sale is wrong. Starting...


September 22, 2015
Abuse Regulation and the Financial Sector in the Wake of...

Posted by Social Science Research Network Abuse Regulation and the Financial Sector in the Wake of the Financial Crisis Luis Silva Morais Sr. (University of Lisbon) & Lúcio Tomé Feteira...


The Rise of Instant Payroll and Early-Access Compensation

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.

The Employment Effect
Study Shows Digital Engagement of US Consumers Linked to Employment Status  Employed consumers use connected devices 80% more in their daily lives than unemployed consumers, and not just to shop and spend. For this edition of the “The ConnectedEconomy™ Monthly Report: The Employment Effect,” PYMNTS surveyed 3,212 consumers to discover how rising employment rates are accelerating the U.S. economy’s digital transformation.