August 20, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. ET Consumer lenders closely monitor the cost of accepting payments, often focusing on transaction fees and processor invoices. But what if those costs represent only a small fraction of what it actually takes to get paid? New research from PayNearMe introducing the Payment Experience Gap found that transaction fees […]

For some time now, AFSA has made a simple point about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s public complaint database. A complaint is a claim, not a finding. When the Bureau publishes an unverified narrative, it presents one side of a story that no one has checked, then invites the public to treat it as fact. […]

On its face, Thursday’s inflation report was good news. Wholesale prices were flat from June to July (economists expected a 0.2 percent increase), and the year-over-year rise in the Producer Price Index slowed to 4.7 percent, down sharply from 5.5 percent in June. After a spring and summer of resurgent inflation, any cooling is welcome. The […]