Новости за 03.04.2024

As sports teams look to the rise of digital platforms to drive engagement and spending, the Tennessee Titans are the latest to announce a long-term strategy for their retail arm’s omnichannel growth. The NFL team shared Monday (April 1) that it entered a long-term exclusive partnership with digital sports gear platform Fanatics to operate its merchandise sellers both in […]

Synovus, a bank with branches in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee, has launched a new B2B payment solution that gives its commercial banking clients a choice of several different payment types when initiating accounts payable (AP) payments. The new Accelerate Pay solution is designed to let payees choose how they want to get […]

From Netflix and Spotify to Amazon Prime, it’s increasingly common for consumers to maintain multiple subscriptions. However, juggling these subscriptions across a web of apps can be challenging, especially when each platform has its own terms and conditions, potentially resulting in unexpected charges, even after a subscription has been canceled.  It’s a challenge Visa’s new Subscription […]

Change happens slowly, and then all at once. And often, the biggest changes are the easiest to miss — particularly as they are happening all around you. Call it the eye of the storm phenomenon. This, as Microsoft and Quantinuum say that they’ve reached a new quantum computing milestone. That’s because, from enhancing security to optimizing transaction processing, […]

After years of strong sales growth, Ulta Beauty is warning of a slow period ahead. The retailer’s chief executive said Wednesday (April 3) that he expects moderate mid-single digit sales growth, sending the company’s stock tumbling. “What we’ve seen so far is a slowdown in the total category across price points and segments. That’s a bit earlier and […]

Zip has added new enterprise capabilities to its intake and procurement orchestration platform and intake-to-pay suite. This new suite of capabilities called Zip Premier is designed to help businesses manage compliance, strengthen integrations with other tools and scale faster, the company said in a Wednesday (April 3) press release. “Developed alongside our largest enterprise customers, […]

FinTech infrastructure firm Brim Financial has raised $85 million in a Series C funding round. “This funding will accelerate Brim’s growth and fuel our international expansion,” Rasha Katabi, CEO and founder of Brim Financial, said in a news release Wednesday (April 3). She added that the funding will help Brim “continue to execute on our robust product roadmap, focus on […]

Uber is expanding its Phoenix-based partnership with autonomous vehicle company Waymo. The company announced Wednesday (April 3) that it is now offering Uber Eats deliveries in the Arizona capital via Waymo vehicles. “Starting today in Phoenix, Uber Eats consumers in Tempe, Mesa, and Chandler may have their orders delivered by an autonomous vehicle,” Uber said in a news release. […]

Integration technology provider PortX launched a partnership with data privacy firm eXate. The collaboration is designed to strengthen financial data security and regulatory compliance across the banking sector, with an emphasis on enhancing data protection for financial institutions’ data ecosystems, according to a Wednesday (April 3) press release. The partnership will see PortX integrate eXate’s data protection platform into its […]

Since 2019, PYMNTS Intelligence has closely tracked the battle between the U.S.’s two top retailers, Walmart and Amazon, and each quarter we share our findings in our “Whole Paycheck Report.”  As is made clear by the title of our most recent report, “New Consumer Spend Data Finds Amazon Way Ahead of Walmart,” Amazon overpowered Walmart […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is eliminating hundreds of roles in two of its organizations as it focuses on other areas. The job cuts will impact several hundred roles in the company’s Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) organization and a few hundred in its Physical Stores Technology team, an AWS spokesperson told PYMNTS Wednesday (April […]

Debt financing platform Scayl has raised $108 million to lend to other European FinTech lenders. Billing itself as a “Fintech for Fintech Lenders,” Scayl said it helps clients fund their loan books with more speed and flexibility than working with banks or credit funds, the Swedish company said in a news release provided to PYMNTS Wednesday (April […]

Tokenization is gaining momentum on the global stage, and with commercial applications. The Bank for International Settlements announced Wednesday (April 3) that it is working in tandem with seven central banks — including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — to test tokenization in a bid to improve cross-border payments. In addition, Project Agorá, as the initiative is known, will […]

Klarna has launched a new web page that shares data on its buy now, pay later (BNPL) offerings, including their repayment rates, late fee rates and consumer age demographics. This new Wikipink page aims to encourage transparency in the credit industry and drive dialogue on personal finance at a time when credit providers are facing growing scrutiny, the […]

ADP’s latest employment report shows a jump in raises for people switching jobs. While year-over-year pay increases last month for people who stayed at their jobs were flat after months of continued slowing, gains for people changing jobs jumped “dramatically” to 10%, the second straight monthly increase, according to a Wednesday (April 3) press release. “March was surprising […]

As economic pressures continue to constrain consumers’ spending power, Shipt is seeing on-demand delivery shoppers turn to deals and concentrate their engagement around peak times. In an interview with PYMNTS, Katie Stratton, chief growth officer at the Target-owned on-demand delivery aggregator, spoke to how consumers’ shopping habits have changed in the last year. “People crave […]

Spryker expanded its App Composition Platform to include Stripe as a global payment services provider (PSP). With the Stripe integration, enterprises using the platform can expand into new regions and facilitate business with customers around the world, Spryker said in a Wednesday (April 3) press release. “The ability to quickly implement a state-of-the-art payment option like Stripe in new regions with […]

Some of the sports betting world’s biggest players have reportedly turned their sights on Brazil. Companies such as DraftKings and MGM Resorts International are exploring entry into Latin America’s largest economy and its new, and regulated, online gambling market, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (April 3). The report noted that Brazil — with a population of around 200 million — has emerged […]

The legal dust-up between PayPal and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) over digital wallets has notched a win in PayPal’s favor. As reported this week, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that the CFPB “had no rational justification” for placing digital wallets under the rule’s “short-form” fee disclosure requirements. Per the ruling, and […]

FourKites and BuyCo partnered to offer a container shipping management solution that provides Fortune 500 shippers with visibility across inland and ocean shipments. With the integrated offering created by this collaboration, shippers can manage initial planning and booking, documentation and tendering and gain real-time transportation visibility, the companies said in a Wednesday (April 3) press release. “Ocean shipping is […]

Foreign exchange brand Travelex says it has launched its online click-and-collect service in Hong Kong. The new offering, announced Wednesday (April 3), lets customers purchase their travel cash in advance online, reserving more than 30 currencies, including the U.S. dollar, the British pound, the Japanese Yen and Thailand’s baht. From there, orders can be collected from five […]

Last year was the worst year for venture capital funding since 2016. So far, 2024 isn’t shaping up to be much better. Venture firms raised $30.4 billion from foundations, university endowments and other institutional investors in the first quarter of the year, a decline from 2023, the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (April 3). The struggle […]

Chase is reportedly getting deeper into the world of retail media. The banking giant’s new Chase Media Solutions unit will let advertisers target Chase customers with discounts and deals related to their spending history, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday (April 3). As the report notes, this puts Chase in the company of a range of businesses […]

BlaBlaCar has raised $108 million in credit as it awaits a better IPO market. CEO Nicolas Brusson told Bloomberg News — in an interview published Wednesday (April 3) — that the French carpooling company enjoyed its first profitable year in 2023 following a “pretty rough” pandemic, with net sales up 29% and 80 million passengers […]

Shadi Saifan, vice president of engineering at NCR Voyix, told PYMNTS in an interview that bridging the gap between the promise of open banking and making that promise a reality is easier said than done, especially in the United States. He noted that in Europe, regulators and governments have played the prime role in advancing open […]