i2c News and Reports

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: i2c’s John Bresnahan Businesses are finally (and finely) honing their 21st-century competitive edges. The result? Advancement across the marketplace today is becoming increasingly dependent on operating ...

Business credit for large enterprises operates at arm’s length, guided by formal procurement flows and rigid financial controls. Everything is mediated through procurement teams, finance departments and policies. But small and ...

Credit cards remain central to how consumers navigate everyday financial demands, especially when prices, income cycles and needs do not always align. The latest PYMNTS Intelligence research, done in collaboration ...

Watch more: The SMB Fast Lane: Big Credit Needs, Bigger Growth Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) rely on credit as a safety net and catalyst for growth. They need cards that match ...

For many consumers, smart credit use is more than convenience, it’s a way to unlock financial opportunity. As shown in “Consumer Credit Economy: Strategy vs. Spontaneity — Navigating the Great ...

For small and mid-sized companies, credit has evolved from a safety net into a growth engine, and what businesses want from it is changing fast. The November 2025 “SMB Growth ...

In financial services, milliseconds can make or break both transactions and relationships. The tension between speed, security and customer experience has long been the defining paradox of digital payments and ...

Watch more: WNIP: i2C, Matthew Pearce The fraud landscape in payments is evolving faster than many financial institutions can adapt. For Matthew Pearce, vice president of Fraud Risk Management and Dispute Operations ...

Global financial technology company i2c Inc. announced in a Wednesday (Oct. 22) press release that it achieved certification from Visa for global enablement of Click to Pay. According to the ...

Watch more: Need to Know: i2c, Matthew Pearce The fraud landscape is changing faster than ever — and increasingly, the bad actors are using artificial intelligence. As deepfakes, synthetic identities and ...

Watch more: What’s Next: i2c, Seth Perlman When it comes to the future of payments, the stakes are high and unforgiving. Consumers expect services to be available around the clock, fraudsters are ...

Watch more: The Credit Race: Closing the Perception Gap to Win Credit remains an essential tool for consumers managing both everyday spending and big-ticket plans. But getting the right card in ...

What if the biggest risk to your credit portfolio isn’t economic, but psychological? “Consumer Credit Economy: Strategy vs. Spontaneity—Navigating the Great Credit Divide,” a new report from PYMNTS Intelligence in ...

Watch more: Fueling Payments Innovation with Traditional and Alternative Data Power In the payments industry, data isn’t just a tool; it’s the bloodstream of operations. From credit risk models to customer loyalty ...

In the complex world of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), financial and operational agility is often the key to survival and success. Against this backdrop, credit cards are emerging as ...

Forget the bells and whistles — for a significant portion of small to medium-sized businesses, the ultimate credit card perk isn’t points or airport lounge access, but simply a higher ...

Generation Z and millennial consumers are rewriting the rules of engagement when it comes to credit cards. Unlike previous generations who may have stuck with one or two financial institutions for ...

Watch more: i2c: Client Engagement and ‘Thoughtful Acceleration’ Key to Navigating Uncertainty In times of uncertainty, there’s often only one acceptable direction for businesses: forward. “Money must keep flowing,” David Durovy, senior ...

Watch more: i2c: It Takes Capital Plus Context to Rethink SMB Lending Strategies When it comes to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the conversation around financial empowerment is overdue for an ...

Small businesses run on big decisions—but when it comes to credit card usage, many are blending business and personal finance in ways that reveal shortcomings in today’s financial products. That’s ...

Technology is swiftly transforming the payments industry, but true disruption is a long game, i2c founder and CEO Amir Wain writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Halftime 2025: Charting the Future ...

Watch more: Banks and Credit Unions Battle for Digital Wallet Dominance as Gen Z Demands Instant Control Banks and credit unions have long chased “top-of-wallet” bragging rights, but as consumers swap ...

The payments industry stands at a crucial crossroads as we reach the midpoint of 2025, where the strategic decisions made now will define the trajectory for businesses and consumers alike ...

Watch more: Agentic AI Is Redrawing the Org Chart for Smarter Businesses The business world watched generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) advance in 2024, as it churned out human-like text, code and ...

For decades, credit cards have remained remarkably unchanged in their core functionalities: swipe, spend, earn points. But what was once revolutionary may have now reached a saturation point. Nearly every major ...

When it comes to tech innovations, flash can often overshadow function. Yet when it comes to payments and banking, artificial intelligence is starting to prove that it doesn’t need to ...

In an age where consumer expectations evolve at the speed of a TikTok trend, financial institutions and payment providers face an increasingly complex question: how do they build systems, strategies ...

Nearly 8 in 10 U.S. consumers with credit cards have multiple cards. For issuers, this makes “top of wallet” status — being a consumer’s favorite way to pay — crucial ...

Banking/payment solutions provider i2c has teamed with Bulgarian FinTech Access Finance. The collaboration, announced in a news release Monday (April 7), will help Access introduce the next phase of its Juzt ...

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) has become more than a buzzword in a very short period of time. One reason for its progress into legitimacy is its real potential to redefine how ...

For credit unions, the move toward becoming “smarter” digital financial service providers entails embracing several strategic and technological shifts.  David Durovy, senior vice president of transformation at i2c, told PYMNTS that ...

Financial services software provider Finastra has launched a collaboration with banking/payment solutions firm i2c. The partnership, announced Wednesday (March 5), is aimed at bringing payment issuance solutions to North American banks ...

 When it comes to FinTechs, change and transformation are often the only constants. That makes the question of what it means to be a FinTech in 2025 more than a theoretical ...

Banking and payments technology provider i2c said Wednesday (Feb. 26) that it signed on to be one of the first issuing processing partners for the recently announced Mastercard One Credential, ...

Across the financial services landscape, digital transformation has changed everything. This fundamental and technological shift has led to an ongoing recalibration of the relationships small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have with ...

Technology plays a vital role in enabling innovation in banking and payments, i2c Global Head of Product Seth Perlman writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “The Innovation Mindset: How to ...

For banks and credit unions looking to modernize, the timing has never been better. “Banks want to offer more competitive products, increase profitability and, critically, own the customer experience — especially ...

Innovation is no longer optional; it’s a necessity. Change is constant, spurred by technological advancements, shifting consumer expectations and global challenges. The financial services industry must embrace a new mindset to ...

As we wrap up 2024, PYMNTS’ “What’s Next in Payments” series has provided insights from industry leaders on the current and future state of play for banking, payments and the ...