2025 Turned Uncertainty From Surprise Into Strategy
By year-end, one conclusion from PYMNTS Intelligence’s The Certainty Project series is hard to miss: Uncertainty rarely arrives as a single shock.
It compounds, as we saw this year, jumpi...
Payments Leaders Get Candid: The Boundaries That Defined 2025
If 2025 felt like the year the future stopped “arriving” and started showing up in production, you are not imagining it. In payments and commerce, the most important shifts rarely announce themsel...
Retail Closes the Holiday Season Leaner and More Focused
Retail in 2025 was defined less by a single breakthrough than by a set of pressures that forced retailers to get practical. Consumers kept shopping. But they did it with a sharper pencil, trading down...