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The company has been beefing up its BNPL capabilities ever since its exclusivity period with Affirm ended earlier this year

The brands built on their previous BNPL partnerships, bringing Affirm’s product to Amazon Pay to grow the buy button’s reach

Its TPV grew 9% YoY, down from 23% a year ago. PayPal hopes to reinvigorate growth with cost restructuring and innovation efforts.

This highlights the popularity of the credit card’s investment feature and should continue to bring in more cardholders

Will Elon Musk’s Twitter flourish or falter? Despite the current chaos, some see potential for significant changes.

Key stat: By 2028, in-store retail media spend will reach over $1 billion but will make up less than 1% of total omnichannel retail media ad spending.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss if ‘Just Walk Out’ technology will ever catch on at scale, how different generations respond to self-checkout, and what the next iteration of in-store payments will look like. Listen to the conversation with our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analysts Sky Canaves and David Morris.

Credit cards will remain the most popular retail payment method in the US through next year, with total credit card transaction value reaching $3.843 trillion in 2025, per our forecast.

After a slight dip in 2022, US retail ecommerce sales growth will accelerate each year through 2027, according to our forecast. By that point, ecommerce sales will reach $1.736 trillion and make up one-fifth of total retail sales.

The Big Tech firm’s financial ecosystem boasts a larger user base, but FIs offer different value propositions.

It’s getting harder for apps to grow their user bases.

Overall retail spending will rise 4.5% to $1.328 trillion for the 2023 holiday season.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss the most important parts of the EU's new AI Act, what's missing, and how these rules could shape US regulation. "In Other News," we talk about what nefarious GPTs can get up to and a card-linked buy now, pay later (BNPL) offering. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Carina Perkins and Yory Wurmser.

The 2022 holiday season’s solid retail sales gains were mostly attributable to inflation, but they nevertheless paint a cautiously optimistic picture for the 2023 holiday season.

Meta wants to transform WhatsApp into a super app: It is rolling out the ability to search businesses by category, browse their catalogs, and buy without leaving the app.

Mobile commerce is driving a growing share of retail ecommerce orders: That puts the onus on retailers to create well-designed, easy-to-use experiences for their mobile websites and apps

The mega-retailers want to offer the instant payments rail as an alternative to fee-laden cards

Record-high debt and record-high card interest rates are leading to missed payments

The real-time payments system could create a loss of interchange revenue and other challenges—but that’s not stopping them from signing up for it

New travel features will help Amazon better compete in the co-brand space and rack up volume.