Google Pay Adds Faster Checkout Tools for Android Apps
Google now enables developers to enhance Android checkout by leveraging users’ stored credentials, including payment and address, from Google Wallet. The company has done so by bringing Express checkout with Google Pay for Android native apps, according to a...
Checkout Is Becoming a Compounding Customer Growth Engine
Checkout has long been treated as the final step in the customer journey. Today, it is proving to be something more consequential: a primary driver of growth, loyalty and long-term competitive advantage. The stakes have never been higher. As commerce evolves...
Closing the Loop: What to Do After a Design Critique Ends
Summary: Most designers invest in running critiques but skip the followup. That missing step is often why feedback culture breaks down. Design critiques generate feedback. But feedback is valuable only if someone closes the loop on it: telling people what...
Retail Tech Startup Radar Secures $170 Million Funding Round
The company raised $170 million in Series B financing co-led by Gideon Strategic Partners and Nimble Partners, with participation from Align Ventures. Founded in 2013 by Spencer Hewett, a former Peter Thiel fellowship recipient, Radar utilizes ceiling-mounted...
Payments are essential, but they are not where the transaction is won
The ‘commoditization’ of PSPs There is a persistent narrative in the market that payment optimization can significantly increase conversion. In reality, the impact is often modest, and many PSPs give you exactly the same thing. Improvements in authorization...
AI Shopping Agents Put New Pressure on Payments Companies
Delegation is the name of the game for the next phase of digital commerce. New PYMNTS Intelligence research in the April 2026 Payments Innovation Tracker® Series, a collaboration with Paymentology, finds 48% of consumers are at least somewhat interested in...
AI Shopping Makes Context the New Payments Currency
Payments are no longer defined by moving money alone. They are defined by the quality, speed and intelligence of the data surrounding each transaction. A new report from PYMNTS Intelligence and FIS finds issuer processing is evolving from what was traditionally...
Declining fraud rates don’t mean declining fraud risk
When fraud attack rates fall, the instinct is to celebrate. One might think fewer attacks means better defenses and better outcomes. But a close look at recent fraud trend data tells a more complicated story, and fraud teams that read the headline number...
Mother’s Day, but Make It Platinum
Mother’s Day is the annual moment when otherwise rational adults look into the maw of modern commerce and ask a spiritually revealing question: Is brunch enough? Usually, yes. But at the far edge of the digital economy, Mother’s Day has quietly become a...