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PayPay reportedly hopes to raise up to $1.1 billion when it goes public. That’s according to a report Tuesday (March 3) from Bloomberg News, which says it would be the largest ever initial public ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Ameris Bank’s Keith Flynn In an economy where timing is everything, even incremental acceleration can reshape the entire financial rhythm of a business. Many companies are ...

Embedded finance has shifted from a differentiator to a baseline capability across the FinTech sector. Every financial technology firm surveyed reports offering at least one embedded finance feature, as we’ve ...

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) ended 2025 sharpening their demand and reliance on platform-based working capital. Earnings disclosures indicate that those balances grew meaningfully year over year across major commerce ...

Pluvo raised $5 million in a seed round to scale its artificial intelligence-native financial analysis platform for finance teams. The company’s platform delivers analysis that chief financial officers and financial planning ...

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Branch’s Matt Peterson Sixty-eight percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. For years, financial experts blamed the individual. Too much discretionary spending, not enough discipline. Branch ...

Visa completed its acquisition of Argentina-based companies Prisma and Newpay, eight days after announcing that it planned to do so. The company said Feb. 19 that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the firms and ...

A bill introduced in the Senate Thursday (Feb. 26) would strengthen the role of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) in improving capital access and economic development in ...

Dots raised $8.9 million in a Series A funding round to continue expanding the capabilities of its global payouts platform for marketplaces and service-based businesses. The round brings the total amount ...

January’s Producer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics came in hotter than expected. For businesses navigating tariff swings and fragile global supply chains, rising service margins signal that ...

Trade finance has a dirty secret. While containers can be tracked in real time across the world’s oceans, the documentation required to release those goods often moves at the speed ...

Barclays is looking to build a blockchain platform that could handle stablecoin payments and tokenized deposits, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. 27), citing unnamed sources. The bank has sent a request for ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Paymentus’ Nicole Haskins The FinTech landscape has overindexed on innovation. But in an operational landscape defined by automation, predictive analytics, and invisible payments, the ...

Nearly one-third of millennials depend on transactional payouts from gig work and tips as their main source of income, replacing traditional paychecks with a piecemeal approach to earning that demands ...

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments With Mastercard’s Mark Barnett Strategic narratives in payments can come with some loaded words. Artificial intelligence, institutional blockchain and real-time rails are routinely positioned as the ...

Einride, a developer of digital, electric and autonomous freight solutions, raised $113 million in private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing to support a proposed business combination it announced in ...

The Brink’s Company plans to acquire NCR Atleos in a cash and stock transaction valued at $6.6 billion, creating a “leading financial technology infrastructure company,” the firms said in a Thursday (Feb. 26) press release. The companies ...

It’s not quite clear when and if American businesses will receive refunds on tariff payments. But assuming they go through, supply chain management firm Flexport said Thursday (Feb. 26) it has ...

Labor marketplace WorkWhile has named a new CEO as it expands into “worker-focused” financial services. Simon Khalaf, former chief executive of Marqeta and a longtime WorkWhile board member, will now lead ...

At least 1,800 companies have filed lawsuits seeking refunds on U.S. tariff payments, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday (Feb. 25). Many of the suits came before last week’s Supreme Court ...

Brazil’s Nubank saw profits jump 50% as it expanded its Latin American customer base. The digital bank, which operates in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia and plans to enter the U.S., reported quarterly earnings Wednesday (Feb. ...

From Amazon to dentist offices to Uber, companies that aren’t banks are the new face of financial services. Embedded finance offers credit, buy now, pay later, card installment plans, payments ...

Chime’s fourth quarter 2025 results centered on linked trends: heavier use of the Chime Card for spending and continued growth in members treating the platform as their primary financial relationship. “Over ...

FinTech Stripe has spent much of its operational history making it easier for merchants to plug into the financial system. Now, it is trying to redesign the system itself. According to ...

Tether Investments said it aims to promote the use of stablecoin payments by making a strategic investment in Whop, an internet market designed to help users launch businesses and accept ...

Interoperability in crypto payments has long been discussed as a technical aspiration. Over the past several months, it has started to look more like a commercial necessity. As stablecoins and digital ...

Home improvement company Lowe’s saw growth in its Pro, online and Home Services businesses in the fourth quarter while the do-it-yourself business remained muted. Consumers remained reluctant to make significant investments ...

Updating the banking core has traditionally been viewed as akin to docking a cruise ship, with modernization serving as shorthand for incrementalism. Digitize the front end, bolt middleware onto aging ...

Citigroup has assembled a team focused on helping the bank win more business advising and lending to investors and companies involved in the build-out of data centers, computing and other ...

Paypal has formed a partnership with Rainforest, an embedded payment provider focused on software platforms. The collaboration will see the companies launch an embedded payment integration to help software platforms move more processing volume away ...

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments With Boost’s Dean M. Leavitt When weighing the adoption of digital B2B payments, enterprise CFOs once had to squint out across the innovation horizon. No ...

Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are approaching a practical turning point in how they pay. Cash and checks still play an outsized role in day-to-day operations, especially for supplier and ...

Small businesses are not just borrowing to survive. They are using credit cards as operating systems, and they are willing to pay for features that make day-to-day cash flow easier ...

Mercado Libre’s application of artificial intelligence across its online commerce ecosystem added revenue and enhanced efficiency in the fourth quarter, the company said Tuesday (Feb. 24). Mercado Libre Chief Financial Officer ...

Tuesday (Feb. 24) marked a potentially seismic day in the payments industry. Rumors of Stripe’s interest in PayPal emerged after hours on Tuesday, initially reported by the likes of Bloomberg, with ...

There’s an unavoidable paradox at the heart of stablecoins’ growth story. The tokenized assets promise to modernize money by making dollars programmable, portable and instantaneous, yet their most compelling advantage ...

Enterprise software contracts were built for tools. Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is forcing lawyers and procurement teams to rethink them for AI systems. For two decades, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) agreements revolved around ...

Anthropic’s Claude is moving into the human resources, design and investment banking fields, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Feb. 24). The artificial intelligence startup announced the expansions of its chatbot Tuesday during ...

The latest quarterly earnings report from Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), released Tuesday (Feb. 24) offered a snapshot of how banks are allocating technology budgets amid competitive pressure and regulatory ...

Cross-border payment FinTech Payoneer applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to open a digital bank, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 24) press release. PAYO Digital Bank, N.A., ...

Accounting-focused artificial intelligence (AI) startup Basis has raised $100 million in new funding. The company’s Series B round, announced Tuesday (Feb. 24), was led by Accel and Google Ventures and values ...

India-based cross-border payments company Xflow raised $16.6 million in new funding. “This milestone strengthens our mission to simplify cross-border payments for Indian exporters,” the company said in announcing its Series A ...

Home Depot is learning to grow even when housing does not. The retailer on Tuesday (Feb. 24) reported fourth-quarter 2025 adjusted earnings per share of $2.72, comfortably ahead of Wall Street’s ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Visa’s Chavi Jafa Nearly half of growth corporates across Asia Pacific, companies with revenues between $50 million and $1 billion, say they don’t use working ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With The Clearing House’s Sal Karakaplan A single word rarely captures the trajectory of an entire industry. Yet during periods of structural change, language often ...