{
  "id": 8206629,
  "title": "Issuers Race to Win Spending Before the Card Arrives",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/issuers-race-to-win-spending-before-the-card-arrives",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-18T08:00:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/digital-payments/2026/issuers-race-to-win-spending-before-the-card-arrives/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Waiting for a physical card to arrive is becoming less relevant to the moment when an issuer can start competing for a cardholder’s spending. PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Issuer Engagement Playbook,” produced in collaboration with Visa DPS, finds that 59% of U.S. card issuers now offer automated or real-time card issuance to digital wallets, up from 32% […] The post Issuers Race to Win Spending Before…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}