PYMNTS
PYMNTS is a business and technology news outlet focused on the intersection of payments, commerce, banking, and financial innovation.
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Building the Foundation for Digital Money (opens the original)
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Digital assets have moved beyond experimentation as customer demand, institutional investment and production deployments accelerate. Banks must now rethink how they approach money movement and financial services as new competitive alternatives emerge. Technology is no longer the primary barrier to adoption. Banks now face the harder task of integrating digital money into existing operating models while maintaining governance, interoperability and customer trust. Modern banking platforms are enab
Banks Rethink Identity Checks as AI Fakes Voices and Faces | PYMNTS.com (opens the original)
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The next generation of payment fraud doesn’t seem very suspicious. In fact, it already sounds like a familiar customer, types at a perfectly ordinary pace and navigates a banking application without triggering a single behavioral warning. Findings in the September 2026 edition of the Payments Innovation Tracker® Series, a PYMNTS Intelligence report done in collaboration with Paymentology, highlight that the industry is confronting a shift from isolated fraudulent transactions toward persistent i
As AI Assistants Fight Over Shoppers, Infrastructure Gets Paid Either Way. | PYMNTS.com (opens the original)
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In April 1956, a trucking executive named Malcom McLean loaded 58 metal boxes onto a converted tanker in Newark and sent it to Houston. Nobody threw confetti. The longshoremen hated it. But the math was hard to argue with. Loading a ship by hand cost about $5.86 a ton. Loading it with McLean’s boxes cost 16 cents. The part of the story that matters here came a decade later. McLean owned the patents on the corner fittings that let the box stack and lock onto trucks, trains and ships. He could’ve
A Half Point Can Reveal the Real Cost of a Debit Upgrade | PYMNTS.com (opens the original)
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A debit processor migration can look successful on a project plan and still create problems at the checkout counter. That’s one of the central findings in “The Hidden P&L of Legacy Debit: What Processor Migration Actually Costs, Saves and Breaks,” a June 2026 report from PYMNTS Intelligence and Galileo. The report finds that outdated debit infrastructure can create costs well beyond processor fees, including false declines, manual exception work, fraud losses and slower product launches. Modern
OpenTable Reports Diners Reached Through AI Tools Spend 20% More | PYMNTS.com (opens the original)
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Integrations of OpenTable’s restaurant technology with artificial intelligence models drove 17 times more seated diners year over year for restaurant operators, the company said in an Aug. 26 press release. The diners brought in by those model integrations spent on average 20% more than those reached through other channels, according to the release. OpenTable’s integrations include Google’s Search, Maps and Gemini; OpenAI’s ChatGPT; Microsoft’s Copilot; Perplexity; and Amazon’s Alexa+ AI assista
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