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Why Payments Innovators Say Simplicity Is Their New KPI

Complexity is a hallmark of business, especially when it comes to money movement. Funds flow between senders and receivers in the blink of an eye. When they move across borders and currencies, there are several touch points in the mix. Ten executives told PYMNTS why simplicity is a new key...

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The Great Paper Escape: Transforming Accounts Payable for the Digital Age

Paper checks continue to dominate the accounts payable (AP) landscape — a costly reality when digital payments innovation pulses through every artery of commerce. AP departments across industries remain mired in paper-based, legacy payments that erode business relationships. Suppliers increasingly demand buyer partners that ensure frictionless, timely payments. For AP...

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How 10 Payments Executives ‘Do’ Digital in the Post-Pandemic Age

More than four years ago, the great digital shift — already in motion — began to accelerate at warp speed. The pandemic forced us all indoors. We lived life online, making purchases, waiting out supply chain snarls, paying online and working from home. The world sheltered in place, with digital conduits the...

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Businesses at Risk: The High Cost of Manual AR Processes and What to Do About It

The speed of business today demands agility, yet outdated accounts receivable (AR) processes remain a stubborn bottleneck for many organizations. Increasingly, the complexity and volume of invoices threaten to overwhelm manual systems, leaving businesses even more vulnerable to inefficiencies and lost revenue. In the face of these challenges, AR automation...

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Debit Cards In Digital Wallets Gaining Ground Across Sectors

As consumers leverage digital wallets in greater numbers, businesses across sectors must understand the latest trends to compete. One such trend is that debit cards have become the primary payment method digital wallet users ultimately leverage. This prevalence suggests that many users like digital wallets’ convenience but value the discipline...

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GenAI and Voice Assistants: Adoption and Trust Across Generations

When they arrived on the scene, voice assistants seemed like sci-fi made real. Once hailed as revolutionary, they are now seeing a downshift in consumer enthusiasm. The share of U.S. consumers using voice assistants has sat at 60% this year. This ambivalence is evident across generations. Declining trust and satisfaction...

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Using GenAI Strategically Is Riskier, but It Pays Off

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) holds immense potential for transforming how organizations deploy technology to improve operational efficiency and drive innovation. Still, many firms fail to fully leverage the technology’s capabilities. For example, half of surveyed chief marketing officers (CMOs) use GenAI for routine tasks like drafting emails and visualizing data....

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Why More Restaurants Need to Bite Into Digital Transformation

Today’s restaurant customers crave the convenience of contactless payments, and opportunities abound to provide them. However, the comfort of conventional payment methods, coupled with the challenges of staffing shortages and broader macroeconomic factors, is impacting adoption rates, leaving some restaurants at risk of losing diners to more innovative competitors. Newer...

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Automation or Information? Reducing Uncertainty in a Changing Business Landscape

According to PYMNTS Intelligence’s recent Certainty Report, one-third of middle-market companies in the United States operate in a highly uncertain environment. Uncertainty is problematic for businesses because it hinders their ability to make informed decisions, plan effectively and achieve their objectives. Uncertainty also involves risk, as firms may face unexpected...

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How The World Does Digital: A Global Benchmark Of Consumer Digital Transformation

Eleven countries. Sixty thousand consumers that represent 800 million digital lives comprising 50% of the global GDP. “How The World Does Digital is a landmark study that tracks digital transformation across 40 different activities showing how consumers work, live, pay, have fun, stay well and more. This report — delivered now for the third year by PYMNTS Intelligence — is an unparalleled snapshot of the digital innovation that is critical to understanding the evolution of the global digital landscape.

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Core Strength: FIs Must Modernize to Meet the FinTech Challenge

Banks are increasingly aware of the competitive threat posed by digital-native FinTechs, which are quickly gaining market share with innovative digital offerings. Until 2024, only a minority of bankers saw this threat as significant, but that share rose to a majority this year, with 60% of bank executives now seeing...

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Progress and Protection: Balancing Convenience and Security in Digital Banking

Digital transformation continues to fundamentally reshape the financial industry, promising unparalleled convenience through advancements such as artificial intelligence (AI), open banking and real-time payments. It also opens doors to both emerging and evolving types of fraud. Indeed, delivering the seamless, innovative digital banking experiences consumers demand is challenging enough, but...

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Payments Executives Say These Nine Innovations Will Shape Q2 2024

Today’s operating landscape is dynamic, and at its center sits the immutable power of payments. The end of last year brought forth several macroeconomic uncertainties, from geopolitical risks to potential economic softening, but these anticipated challenges, and companies’ responses to them, have increasingly unfolded against a backdrop — and in...

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What 23 Payments Executives Shared About Tomorrow’s Most Promising Innovations

Only experts and insiders can truly know what the next great payments innovations will be. That’s why PYMNTS sat down and asked nearly two dozen of them about the payment trends and themes that they, and their organizations, have been tracking to date, plus what exciting ecosystem transformations they’re looking...

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Insuring Generation Next: Meeting the Digital Expectations of Younger Insurance Consumers

Generation Z and millennial consumers have complex needs when it comes to insurance purchasing, saying they prefer to buy online but still expect to obtain in-person advice from an insurance professional due to a lack of confidence in their knowledge. The latest “B2B and Digital Payments Tracker®,” a collaboration with American Express, examines how insurers must walk a fine line between digital agility and cultivating relationships to attract and retain a new generation of policyholders.

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