Visa Launches Agentic Payments Pilot With BILL and Billtrust

Visa Launches Agentic Payments Pilot With BILL and Billtrust
Visa Launches Agentic Payments Pilot With BILL and Billtrust
October 20, 2026  |  Partnerships

Visa has launched an agentic payments partnership with accounts payable and receivable solutions providers BILL and Billtrust. The collaboration is the first live pilot to allow artificial intelligence (AI)...

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Nacha Says Faster Payment Demand Drives 37% Surge in Same Day ACH Volume
Nacha Says Faster Payment Demand Drives 37% Surge in Same Day ACH Volume
October 20, 2026  |  Payment Methods

Same Day ACH saw year-over-year increases of about 37% in volume and 32% in value in the third quarter as it met user demand for...

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OpenAI Racing to Raise $30 Billion Ahead of Anthropic Listing
OpenAI Racing to Raise $30 Billion Ahead of Anthropic Listing
October 20, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI is reportedly rushing to lockdown investors before chief competitor Anthropic goes public next month. That’s according to a report Monday (Oct. 19) by Reuters,...

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Cross River Plans to Buy Accrue to Merge Payments With Loyalty
Cross River Plans to Buy Accrue to Merge Payments With Loyalty
October 20, 2026  |  Acquiring

Cross River Bank plans to add branded wallet, stored value and loyalty rewards technology to its regulated financial infrastructure by acquiring FinTech company Accrue, Cross River said...

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Axya’s $12 Million Bet on Fixing Procurement’s Broken Data
Axya’s $12 Million Bet on Fixing Procurement’s Broken Data
October 20, 2026  |  B2B Payments

Watch more: Digital Shift With Félix Bélisle-Dockrill of Axya A supplier promises to deliver parts on the 18th of the month. The shipment gets pushed...

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Banks’ Growing Fraud Tech Stacks Create an Integration Challenge
Banks’ Growing Fraud Tech Stacks Create an Integration Challenge
October 20, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Banks have plenty of fraud technology, but getting all of it to work as a cohesive line of defense is becoming a problem. The PYMNTS...

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At 12, Apple Pay Has Yet to Break the Card Habit In-Store
At 12, Apple Pay Has Yet to Break the Card Habit In-Store
October 20, 2026  |  Digital Payments

Your phone can handle the checkout. Your hand may still reach for the same old card. Twelve years after Apple Pay arrived, mobile wallets are...

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21% of Financially Stressed Grocery Shoppers Use Digital Wallets
21% of Financially Stressed Grocery Shoppers Use Digital Wallets
October 20, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Grocery shoppers under financial pressure are spending more per purchase, giving retailers an opportunity to help households manage bigger bills with more flexible ways to...

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Ramp Seeks National Trust Bank Charter for Digital Asset Custody
Ramp Seeks National Trust Bank Charter for Digital Asset Custody
October 19, 2026  |  Bank Regulation

Finance platform Ramp aims to form a national trust bank that would offer fiduciary investment management and custody of digital assets, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 19) post on...

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