digital shift

eCommerce Grabs 17.9% of Overall Retail Sales in 2024’s Fourth Quarter  
eCommerce Grabs 17.9% of Overall Retail Sales in 2024’s Fourth Quarter  
February 19, 2025  |  eCommerce

The fourth quarter of 2024 capped a strong year for online retail sales, as holiday spending shifted to digital channels, capping a double-digit increase over...

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March Madness 2025 and Beyond: When AI Meets the Big Dance
March Madness 2025 and Beyond: When AI Meets the Big Dance
February 15, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

As the calendar flips to March, college basketball fans are gearing up for another exhilarating NCAA tournament. In the future, artificial intelligence and cutting-edge technology...

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Five Years Post-COVID, We’re Really Not Shopping (or Doing Much Else) Like It’s 2019
Five Years Post-COVID, We’re Really Not Shopping (or Doing Much Else) Like It’s 2019
January 22, 2025  |  eCommerce

Turns out, we can learn a lot of things about people by studying rats. When the scientific world wants to better understand human behavioral psychology,...

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It’s Chess, Not Checkers, for CFOs Tackling 2025’s Landscape
It’s Chess, Not Checkers, for CFOs Tackling 2025’s Landscape
January 20, 2025  |  B2B Payments

When it comes to the finance team of the future, spreadsheets and calculators aren’t cutting it anymore. Digital innovations are more prominently positioning the back...

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Mid-Market Companies Rewrote Rules of Working Capital in 2024
Mid-Market Companies Rewrote Rules of Working Capital in 2024
December 26, 2024  |  SMBs

A defining trend of the past quarter-century has been digital innovation’s impact in moving business operations from reactive to proactive. Working capital, the cash flow...

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Into the Nitty-Gritty: How, Why, and Where Automation Optimizes B2B Payments
Into the Nitty-Gritty: How, Why, and Where Automation Optimizes B2B Payments
December 18, 2024  |  B2B Payments

What many finance teams want for the holidays this year is an automated back office. As the calendar years’ worth of PYMNTS Intelligence studies have...

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FIS: B2B Success Should Be Measured in Transformations, Not Transactions
FIS: B2B Success Should Be Measured in Transformations, Not Transactions
December 17, 2024  |  Back-office

For years, the middle and back offices have operated in the shadows of their more glamorous counterparts — the front office and client-facing teams. But...

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AI Validates Trading Partners While Playing Role of B2B Fraud Fighter
AI Validates Trading Partners While Playing Role of B2B Fraud Fighter
December 16, 2024  |  B2B Payments

The paper check endures, perhaps bafflingly so, in the digital age. There are easier ways to pay, of course, but for commercial transactions, the paper...

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72% of Trucking Companies Expect Digital Payment Systems
72% of Trucking Companies Expect Digital Payment Systems
December 09, 2024  |  Shipping

The trucking industry is crucial to the national economy, transporting more than 72% of freight by weight. Outdated payment methods, however, hinder efficiency, prompting the...

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