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Social Media Personalities Gain Brand Partnerships for Rejecting Trends
Social Media Personalities Gain Brand Partnerships for Rejecting Trends
January 12, 2024  |  Retail

In the world of social media, influencers have been joined by deinfluencers. These emerging social media personalities are challenging the fast fashion movement and encouraging...

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Report: Shein’s Filing With Chinese Regulator Could Delay IPO Plans
Report: Shein’s Filing With Chinese Regulator Could Delay IPO Plans
January 12, 2024  |  IPO

Shein is reportedly seeking approval from a Chinese regulator to go public in the United States. The online fashion company, which is based in Singapore...

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 2024: The Year for Pay-by-Bank
 2024: The Year for Pay-by-Bank
January 12, 2024  |  Opinion

PYMNTS asked industry executives across the payments and digital commerce landscape to give us their take on the pivotal shifts, technological advancements and strategies that...

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CMOs See Big Benefits From AI-Driven Customer Insights
CMOs See Big Benefits From AI-Driven Customer Insights
January 12, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

CES 2024 was more than an occasion to introduce new gadgets, robots and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven product development. Turns out that marketers want to play...

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Data Sharing Seen as Key to Stopping Real-Time Payments Fraud
Data Sharing Seen as Key to Stopping Real-Time Payments Fraud
January 12, 2024  |  Security & Fraud

As instant payments become more widely used in the United States, the financial services ecosystem must gird for ever-more-brazen attacks from fraudsters. Nick Fleetwood, head...

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Lawyers Who Use AI Will Replace Those Who Don’t
Lawyers Who Use AI Will Replace Those Who Don’t
January 12, 2024  |  Artificial Intelligence

In the generative artificial intelligence era, every industry will likely reap new efficiencies. Unlike previous iterations of AI, which focused on predictive or discriminative inference,...

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Walmart Aims to Be an AI Concierge as Amazon Expands Buy With Prime
Walmart Aims to Be an AI Concierge as Amazon Expands Buy With Prime
January 12, 2024  |  Retail

From Walmart looking to be a personal shopping concierge to Amazon expanding its Buy with Prime to more platforms and leveraging tech to help consumers...

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Treasurers Look to Their Bankers to Co-Create Embedded Payments Solutions
Treasurers Look to Their Bankers to Co-Create Embedded Payments Solutions
January 12, 2024  |  Payment Methods

Debopama Sen, head of payments, Citi Services, and Biswarup Chatterjee, head of partnerships and innovation, Citi Services, told Karen Webster that when it comes to...

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CPGs Get Failing Grade on Digitizing Supply Chains, Say RELEX Co-Founder
CPGs Get Failing Grade on Digitizing Supply Chains, Say RELEX Co-Founder
January 12, 2024  |  Supply Chain

Like all chains, supply chains are only as strong as their weakest link.  Only, unlike most physical chains, identifying the weakest link in a complicated...

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