Future news and trends

FutureCard Offers Rewards for ‘Green Spending’
Credit Cards // November 02, 2021

“Green spending” startup Future has launched a new Visa card designed to demonstrate the connection between saving money and lowering a consumer’s carbon footprint. Announced Tuesday (Nov. 2), the Visa FutureCard is the first rewards card to offer 5% cash back on green spending, the...

Why Smart Cities Of The Future Won’t Be Built In A Day
Innovation // November 02, 2019

While smart cities have been in the public consciousness for a long time, we’ve been writing about them here at PYMNTS since at least 2015. Up until very recently, that conversation has been largely theoretical and conceptual. We had been talking about all of the...

When Predictions Go Right … And Not So Right
Innovation // January 01, 2019

Predicting the future is incredibly hard work. Nostradamus — routinely counted as one of history’s better prestidigitators — wrote 942 poetic quatrains of prophecy. Depending on how liberal one wants to be in connecting his texts to history, a generous reading says Nostradamus got it...

Amazon And The Art of (The Grocery) War
Amazon // June 19, 2017

Let me tell you a story about the art of the grocery store war, one that Amazon and supermarket Whole Foods just took to the next level. Chinese general and military strategist, Sun Tzu, was all about winning when the competition was fierce and the...

Quick Reads
Digital Fitness Company Future Raises $75M to Advertise, Add Trainers

February 03, 2022
Digital fitness company Future has raised $75 million in funding and will use it on advertising and on hiring more fitness trainers, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Feb. 3), adding that management is looking at expanding the company’s service into stress management and nutrition. The funding round comes as the fitness industry is adapting to changes, such […]

FutureCard Offers Rewards for ‘Green Spending’

November 02, 2021
“Green spending” startup Future has launched a new Visa card designed to demonstrate the connection between saving money and lowering a consumer’s carbon footprint. Announced Tuesday (Nov. 2), the Visa...

Jimmy Choo’s Co-Founder On Retail’s Future

May 24, 2017
The retail industry is no doubt undergoing a significant pivot in the way it conducts its business today. When it comes to retail, the mixture of online and in-store experiences...

After Election, FinTech Still Indecisive About Trump

November 10, 2016
The dust is settling on the American election. Admittedly a little slowly. And as the dust is settling – the questions are percolating, particularly in FinTech when the question of...