The Primax Fall 2025 Spending Report, a special edition of the Primax Payments Pulse, explores year-over-year, same-store financial institution comparisons and provides a view of consumer transactions and trends from July through September 2025. This special report also features a deep dive into the Travel sector, a discretionary spending category that has softened in 2025. The federal government shutdown has been in place since Oct. 1, impacting roughly 750,000 employees who are either furloughed or deemed “essential workers” required to work without pay. Some government reporting on job...