September 17, 2015
US Consumer Prices Dip Again Amid Fed Decision
Consumer prices in the United States dropped in August, for the first time since January of this year, as gasoline prices fell, The Wall Street Journal said Wednesday (Sept. 16)....
September 07, 2015
Brazil: Uber hurts employment – Rousseff
Brazillian president Dilma Rousseff offered harsh criticism of taxi-finding app Uber, saying that this online service has helped feed rising unemployment. However, she has said that each city will have...
August 25, 2015
The New Technology Of Financial Inclusion In Africa
Mobile money by any other form factor may not smell as sweet. Older devices can make access to even basic mobile money services a challenge. Mozido’s acquisition of NettCash in...
August 17, 2015
What Gives? Sales Up, But Consumer Sentiment Down
U.S. consumer confidence dipped slightly in August, according to preliminary results from the University of Michigan’s Survey of Consumers index of sentiment. The index dipped to a score of 92.9 in August, which was down...
August 08, 2015
Politics’ Unexpected Effects On Retail
On Thursday night, millions of Americans tuned in to watch something that might on the face of it seem surprising: the first televised debate between 10 of the 2016 GOP presidential...
June 22, 2015
Why Uber Doesn’t Want Its Drivers To Be Employees
Are Uber drivers employees of Uber? Or are they independent contractors? That’s the debate that sparked a California case, which caused the Labor Commissioner of California to rule that specific...
June 15, 2015
LearnUp’s Fix For Real World Commerce
The on-hand staff can either be a physical retailer’s greatest asset or their biggest liability – depending on the skill set of the sales associate. At best, knowledgeable people readily...
May 13, 2015
May Showers Bring $639M And Credit Sesame Funding Fever
Consumers often know less about their credit than they should. According to the American Bankers Association, only 42 percent of Americans are aware of what their FICO score is. And...
April 08, 2015
Consumer Credit Climbed In February
Despite wintry weather, U.S. consumer borrowing in February blew past economists’ expectations with an increase of $15.5 billion, thanks to a big jump in non-credit-card loans, according to a monthly...
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.
