Tagged: spending

January 3, 2026 @ 1:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Many UK households faced a challenging festive season in 2025, with financial pressures forcing significant cutbacks. According to Vanquis Bank‘s Financial Wellbeing Index, one in five families earning less than £40,000 annually reduced their holiday spending, highlighting the ongoing struggle with escalating living expenses. Overall,… Read More

December 26, 2025 @ 3:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) SpendingPulse has unveiled that savvy consumers and e-commerce are fueling U.S. holiday retail sales growth by 3.9% year over year. Getting a strong early start, consumers have now seemingly embraced convenience and connection through the season, blending online and in-store purchases and… Read More

December 9, 2025 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

If Australians redirected around 10% of overall household spending from big businesses to small businesses, it could potentially mean $76 billion more in the hands of small retailers according to the latest analysis by small business platform Xero. This new figure highlights the seemingly immense… Read More

November 27, 2025 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Xero, the global small business platform, has found that shifting only 10% of spending from bigger to smaller businesses could potentially mean $11 billion more in the hands of small businesses. Xero economists have analyzed 2024 New Zealand household consumption data and “excluded spending unlikely… Read More

November 25, 2025 @ 7:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

More consumers intend to make purchases during the upcoming Black Friday-Cyber Monday week, however, a report from Deloitte noted that increasing cost pressures and financial constraints are expected to bring spending down by a lot this year. Key takeaways from the extensive Deloitte report are… Read More

November 19, 2025 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ramp, the financial operations platform, is now reportedly valued at $32B following a $300 million primary financing round as well as an employee tender offer. According to the announcement from Ramp, Lightspeed Venture Partners has led the financing, with ongoing support from existing investors: Founders… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 12:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Apptio are working cooperatively with PPL Corporation, a U.S. energy firm offering electricity and natural gas to more than 3.6 million customers in the U.S., in order to transform how the company prioritizes and manages technology spending—all in support of “delivering… Read More

November 9, 2025 @ 1:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Changes to interest rates may potentially have less of an impact on household spending than previously thought or forecasted, according to an update from Australia’s Commbank, which also noted that this means the reserve bank might have to lift or cut rates by more in… Read More

October 23, 2025 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Every business-related decision is ultimately a spend decision, according to an update from Zip. If we look more closely at spend, then we can get a snapshot of what matters most: the priorities, risks, as well as strategies that could shape the future. Zip’s ‘State… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 1:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brex, a self-described intelligent finance platform, has announced that it is collaborating with Oracle, becoming the fintech issuer that has been embedded within Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Leveraging Oracle’s integration with Mastercard, Brex will now enable Oracle’s global, embedded B2B payments solution… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 4:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent report highlights fintech startup Ramp‘s seemingly aggressive push to disrupt American Express‘ current dominance in the $2 trillion U.S. corporate and small-business credit card sector. Founded in 2019 by Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh, Fintech firm Ramp has scaled to $1 billion in… Read More

September 11, 2025 @ 9:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brex, the self-described intelligent finance platform, announced a partnership with DoorDash for Business, which is described as DoorDash’s solution for workplace meals and employee perks, in order to “provide DashPass membership to US-based Brex cardholder.” Through this colla, employers who offer Brex cards “to their… Read More

July 20, 2025 @ 5:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has recently announced significant updates that underscore its role in financial markets, investment accessibility, and economic analysis. From marking 30 years of transforming the investment landscape with CommSec to collaborating on a digital currency project with the Reserve Bank… Read More

July 13, 2025 @ 12:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In today’s fast-paced global economy, businesses face mounting pressure to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and maintain tight control over finances. Payhawk, a spend management platform, is focused on this transformation, offering innovative solutions that empower companies to manage corporate spending effectively. Recent insights from Payhawk’s blog highlight… Read More

July 3, 2025 @ 1:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the UAE gears up for another season of Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS), new data from Checkout.com reveals a sharp increase in digital spending during last year’s campaign, with signals pointing to even greater momentum this summer. The number of daily digital transactions in the… Read More

May 21, 2025 @ 1:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brex and Zip, a “procurement orchestration platform,” have announced Brex for Zip – a solution that integrates Brex’s global card capabilities directly into Zip’s procurement workflows. This partnership delivers end-to-end spend orchestration that “eliminates the traditional disconnect between procurement requests and payment execution.” This enables enterprises… Read More

May 2, 2025 @ 12:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CIBC announced its “no annual fee” CIBC Adapta Mastercard, which is reportedly the first credit card in Canada that automatically “determines the cardholder’s top three spend categories each month based on where they spend the most, and rewards them with 50% more points on those… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Just a few days prior to US President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, financial technology firm Ramp had released a detailed blog post titled “The Efficiency Formula,” outlining strategies to curb wasteful government spending. The 4,000-word blog post, authored by Ramp’s CEO and a key investor,… Read More

April 17, 2025 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Fintech Wise (LON: WISE), the global technology company building (what it claims to be) the best way to move and manage the world’s money, recently unveiled the launch of ‘Spend with Others’, a feature that has reportedly been designed to simplify shared spending for… Read More

April 14, 2025 @ 9:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The CommBank Household Spending Insights (HSI) Index rose 0.9 per cent in March, buoyed by a lift in recreation and hospitality spending off the back of Melbourne Grand Prix and the return of the winter football codes. Modest gains were seen across all 12 spending… Read More