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The Hidden Cost of Checkout Gaps: What 56 Million Abandoned Carts Mean for U.S. Merchants and How Agentic AI is Changing What Comes Next
22+ hour, 50+ min ago (164+ words) PYMNTS.com The Hidden Cost of Checkout Gaps: What 56 Million Abandoned Carts Mean for U.S. Merchants and How Agentic AI is Changing What Comes Next They’ve picked the product and are ready to pay. Then their preferred digital wallet is missing,…...
Visa Direct Targets Cross-Border Trade???s SMB Payment Gap
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (1021+ words) SMBs can now reach customers, suppliers and workers globally without having the treasury staff that larger companies use to manage cross-border payments. Legacy cross-border rails can leave smaller businesses waiting days for payments while dealing with limited traceability, intermediary fees…...
Healthcare AI Adoption Runs Into a Global Regulatory Patchwork
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (591+ words) Participants in a Tuesday (Sept. 8) webinar hosted by the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative warned that conflicting rules governing data use, infrastructure and cross-border transfers could impede clinical trials, pharmaceutical research and the development of tools intended to improve patient…...
PYMNTS Launches BNN With Paulette Rowe???s New???Fired Up??? Podcast
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (649+ words) PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster said companies cannot wait for AI technology to settle before testing where it could improve the business. Employees’ personal use of AI has already been influencing how the technology enters the workplace, sometimes ahead of formal…...
CFOs Keep Payment Complexity From Eating Into Margins
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (319+ words) Middle market CFOs are getting themselves stuck by doing what they think is the right thing. And that “right thing” is typically still treating finance modernization as a technology upgrade. Traditional ERPs are very good at producing a financial record....
45% of SMBs Want to Reduce Cash Use
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (139+ words) Small businesses that rely heavily on cash could offer banks a receptive audience for business credit cards, provided those cards solve everyday problems with costs and cash flow. That’s the opportunity identified in “Ready for Change: Why Nearly Half of…...
AI Takes the First Step in Shopping While Consumers Keep the Buy Button
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (733+ words) Nearly 50 million U.S. adults begin retail product research with AI, and 39 million have moved away from the channel where they started. AI changed at least one purchase decision for 83% of retail researchers who used it, including the price, brand, product or…...
Splitit and Jack Henry Team to Help Banks Compete With BNPL
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (248+ words) Bank-linked installment payments company Splitit launched integrations with two Jack Henry platforms, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 9) press release. The platforms include Jack Henry’s SilverLake core banking platform and Banno Digital Platform through the Jack Henry Fintech Integration Network (FIN),…...
62% of Businesses Make ERP Integration the Top AP Test
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (206+ words) For accounts payable software buyers, the quality of the connections now carries more weight than the size of the price tag. That shift runs through “Who Decides Now,” the July edition of the Business Payments Tracker from PYMNTS Intelligence and…...
Banks Turn Card Replacement Into a Single AI Workflow
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (406+ words) Banks have spent the past several years asking whether artificial intelligence can make better decisions. The more important question is becoming whether their infrastructure can execute those decisions. While 52% of banks have piloted agentic AI, just 16% have fully deployed production…...