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Payment startups might be better off cutting costs and scaling back expansion plans until the funding climate improves.

The two networks are edging closer to joining the UPI, which would open up a massive market opportunity.

The firm is reportedly in talks over a sale. We discuss why it could be an attractive acquisition and how likely a buyout is.

The firm completed big down rounds, branched out with new products, and battled intensifying BNPL competition.

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

Emirati paytech Tabby secured $58M in a sign of investor confidence in the region鈥檚 BNPL market potential.

Weixin users can receive remittances from Tencent鈥檚 global partners directly to their wallets.

Profits slid 63% YoY in the three months ending in June as the government clamped down on the firm. Overseas Alipay expansion may help reinvigorate growth.

On today鈥檚 podcast episode, we take a deeper dive into lesser-known areas of Amazon鈥檚 business. First, we examine the initiatives at play for the company's TV and voice businesses. Then, we discuss Amazon's ambitions around 鈥渏ust walk out鈥� and smart payment technology. Tune in to the conversation with our analysts Grace Broadbent, David Morris, and Yory Wurmser.

With the success of retail media playing out under the looming shadow of third-party cookie deprecation, retailers are well positioned to make a case for the value of their data for non-endemic brands.

Although every app category will gain users in 2023, the average smartphone owner will install and open fewer individual apps as consumers settle on their favorites.

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.

An extended returns policy is the No. 1 experience-based reward that US adults would be most interested in receiving from brands, per Ebbo鈥檚 October 2023 survey.

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.

It鈥檚 getting harder for apps to grow their user bases.

S digital out-of-home (DOOH) will make up 31.4% of out-of-home (OOH) ad spend this year, showing recovery after a pandemic dip, according to our forecast.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss if 鈥楯ust Walk Out鈥� 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.

Key stat: Generative AI adoption will climb to 77.8 million users in the two years following the November 2022 release of ChatGPT, more than doubling the adoption rate of both tablets and smartphones, according to our forecast.

Fiserv鈥檚 Tap to Pay on iPhone rollout and ACI鈥檚 expansion into larger merchants open up a big growth opportunity for these providers

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.