April 01, 2015
Apple Taps Tappy For Board To Ignite Apple Pay
His company sold out and he lost his million-dollar signing deal. It seemed as though glamour days for Tappy — the big blue eyed, eccentric mobile payment muppet — were...
March 06, 2015
JPMC Just Squeaks By Fed’s Stress Test
JPMorgan Chase, which has been fighting to keep from getting smaller in the face of new capital requirements, passed the first round of the Federal Reserve’s 2015 stress tests —...
February 16, 2015
EU: Germany wants to push the EU/Mercosur trade agreement with...
Germany is looking to push the EU/Mercosur trade agreement. On monday Minister Steinmeier said. “In Germany the administration of Chancellor Merkel is very much interested in speeding the EU/Mercosur trade...
February 13, 2015
2015 Consumer Spending Expected To Pick Up After Slow Start
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that seasonally adjusted retail sales were down 0.8 percent in January month-to-month, while unadjusted sales were up 3.3 percent unadjusted year over year, as...
February 02, 2015
MasterCard CEO Touts Security Features of Apple Pay, MasterPass
Higher consumer spending helped MasterCard to a strong fourth quarter earnings Friday (Jan. 30), posting a better-than-anticipated profit increase of 29 percent to $801 million, year over year. Quarterly results also...
January 19, 2015
2015 Retail Sales Will Rise 4.5 Percent, Kantar Says
The outlook for the retail industry in 2015 looks bright, with lower gasoline prices and decreasing unemployment boding well for consumer spending, Kantar Retail is predicting. Kantar expects retail sales...
January 09, 2015
J.C. Penney Closing Doors On 40 Stores in 2015
The month after Christmas was a mixed bag for retailer J.C. Penney. While it reported that its holiday sales were better than expected in December, the company also announced Thursday...
December 01, 2014
Consumers Plan To Open Their Wallets This Holiday
With the personal savings rate at its highest in nearly two years, climbing from 4.8% in March to 5.6% in September, Americans aren’t fighting the urge to spend. But the...
November 28, 2014
140 Million To Shop Today
Ready or not Black Friday is here. Be prepared for high traffic numbers, both on the road and in the e-Commerce space as an estimated 140 million consumers will be...
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.
