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PicPay Takes Its Credit Strategy to Wall Street With US IPO
Mobile Wallets // February 02, 2026

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SAP Product Chief Says Data Foundations, Not Storefronts, Now Define Retail Success
artificial intelligence // January 12, 2026

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How the Back Office Took Center Stage in 2025
Back-office // December 31, 2025

If you work in banking, payments, FinTech or the digital economy, you’ve felt it all year: The back office is no longer backstage. Payments, identity, onboarding and fraud were once dismissed as “plumbing.” Now they’re the user experience, the margin story and the brand promise,...

Executives Say AI Redefines Value and the Payments Competitive Landscape
Connected Economy // December 29, 2025

Karen Webster describes Monday Conversation as a window into “interesting companies doing interesting things.” In 2025, the most useful interviews for banking, payments and FinTech leaders were often the ones that barely mentioned payments at all. They were about what sits beneath the transaction: workflow,...

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TrueCar’s $227 Million Reckoning — and the Founder Betting He Can Fix What He Broke

February 09, 2026
“I think [our] arrogance and disruption got us into trouble,” Scott Painter tells PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree […]

PicPay Takes Its Credit Strategy to Wall Street With US IPO

February 02, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation with PicPay’s Eduardo Chedid Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

SAP Product Chief Says Data Foundations, Not Storefronts, Now Define Retail Success

January 12, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation with SAP CX’s Balaji Balasubramanian Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

How the Back Office Took Center Stage in 2025

December 31, 2025
If you work in banking, payments, FinTech or the digital economy, you’ve felt it all year: The back office is no longer backstage. Payments, identity, onboarding and fraud were once...