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Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s money movement business, can now reach over 1.4 billion users of Weixin and WeChat. This capability is enabled by a collaboration of Mastercard Move with TenPay Global, Tencent’s ...

Stablecoins, once dismissed as crypto’s training wheels for traditional finance, have spent the past year pedaling into the financial mainstream. While they remain a relatively small, even puny, portion of global ...

Payments FinTech Airwallex has been valued at $8 billion after raising $330 million. The new funding, announced Monday (Dec. 8), will help finance the company’s ongoing growth in the U.S. and ...

Payment acceptance inside large suppliers has traditionally operated like a utility. As long as money showed up and could be matched to an invoice, the system was considered successful. But that ...

The 60 million workers who form the human infrastructure powering the U.S. economy are increasingly scraping just to get by. Yet this cohort, which PYMNTS Intelligence defines as earning under $25 an ...

Embedded capital FinTech Pipe is reportedly set to name a new chief executive. Luke Voiles, who became the company’s CEO in 2023, will be replaced by Pipe’s chief product officer Claurelle ...

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate Wednesday (Dec. 3) would enable the government to gather more data to better understand the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the workforce. The ...

At a moment when the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is dominated by headlines and the consumer race for viral features, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei delivered a counter-intuitive message at this ...

Payments infrastructure FinTech Stripe signed a definitive agreement to acquire Metronome, a usage-based billing platform for software companies. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison announced the agreement in a Tuesday (Dec. 2) post ...

Account analysis, a procedural chore tucked deep inside treasury operations, has traditionally been known mostly for producing dense monthly statements that few clients read and even fewer bankers enjoy explaining. Safe ...

Watch more: Live roundtable Verification systems built for yesterday’s fraud no longer work in today’s threat landscape. While firms could once assume that criminals needed skill, capital and patience to mount sophisticated ...

Companies may be chasing automation, but late payments and cash flow strain are pushing a deeper shift in how finance teams think about modern payables. The persistent drag of manual processing ...

Reported ransomware incidents and payments dropped in 2024 after law enforcement’s disruption of two high-profile ransomware groups, the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said Thursday (Dec. ...

SoFi Technologies is looking to fund additional business opportunities with an underwritten public offering of $1.5 billion of shares of its common stock. The digital financial services company also plans to ...

N3XT has launched as a fully blockchain-powered bank designed to enable clients to make instant, programmable B2B payments in U.S. dollars at any hour, on any day. The bank operates globally ...

Visa is attempting to help Syria build a digital payments ecosystem and integrate into the global digital economy. The company formed a partnership with the Central Bank of Syria and financial ...

Middle-market business-focused finance platform Flex raised $60 million in Series B funding. Flex’s annualized total payments volume has grown from $1 billion to $3 billion this year, according to a Thursday ...

The Clearing House says its three payment networks achieved record results in November. “The performance across the CHIPS, EPN, and RTP networks in November reflects the strong growth across all types of digital payments and the ...

Revolut opened a waitlist for what it called its first “ultra-premium” business card. Dubbed Titan, the card is designed for high-growth companies, the London-based FinTech’s Revolut Business arm said in a ...

Trade tariffs are only as effective as the oversight backing them. The tariff-heavy environment is fueling a surge in creative and illicit duty-evasion strategies. Last month, for example, the owner of an ...

Uruguay-based FinTech Prometeo on Thursday (Dec. 4) introduced Name Match, a new ownership-evaluation feature within its Bank Account Verification API designed to improve payment accuracy and reduce fraud for businesses ...

The great divide in American business has traditionally been defined by scale. The Fortune 500 enjoyed the advantages of large finance teams, sophisticated systems, and the operational resilience that comes ...

Modern professionals expect more from corporate card programs than ever before. As hybrid work takes hold and decentralized spending becomes the norm, professionals are pushing back on clunky programs that slow ...

The “2025 State of Fraud and Financial Crime in the United States” report, a PYMNTS Intelligence report commissioned by Block, reveals that the financial industry is navigating an increasingly sophisticated ...

The advertising and media industry has spent the past decade reinventing almost everything about how it reaches audiences. Except, remarkably, how it manages the money behind the work. Creative production ...

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 ...

Digital commerce in Latin America has reached an inflection point as consumers move almost instinctively between browsing, buying and paying on mobile devices. Digital payments are displacing cash. For example, Pix, ...

Sports commerce and gaming platform Fanatics is formally entering the event-wagering sector with the launch of Fanatics Markets, a prediction market platform rolling out across 24 states this week, the ...

Global data and technology company Experian and United Kingdom RegTech firm CleverChain partnered to provide artificial intelligence-powered global due diligence intelligence to businesses that operate internationally. These due diligence reports, which ...

Payment acceptance doesn’t often get the same glamorous treatment as payment innovations do. But B2B firms know, or are coming to learn, that as the world goes digital and real-time, ...

Change doesn’t happen instantly, even when it comes to instant payments. Nearly a decade after The Clearing House launched the RTP® network, the United States’ first real-time payments network, the promise ...

Merchants chasing global growth are learning that cross-border sales succeed only when payments feel as local as possible. That is the new message emerging from the latest Payments Optimization Tracker, ...

Travel is an experiential sector where every detail matters. A small surprise can either spoil or enhance the experience. This has put pressure on payments innovation. As global travel continues to ...

Colombian FinTech MOVii said Tuesday (Dec. 2) that it has begun its international expansion by establishing operations in Peru. The company aims to capture at least 8% of the payment processing ...

Kalshi raised $1 billion in a Series E funding round to expand its prediction market platform. The company will use the new capital to accelerate consumer adoption, integrate more brokerages, add ...

Cross-border payments are easier said than done. Particularly for multinational businesses or mid-size firms looking to expand overseas. The reality is that cash routed across borders still travels through a ...

Tonkean has acquired Cinch to grow its procurement and finance offerings as well as its presence in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The transaction brings together Tonkean’s process and agentic ...

As companies experiment with agentic AI, some are discovering that real transformation starts when planning becomes dynamic. The World Economic Forum says global supply chains now operate under “perpetual volatility,” ...

Crypto exchange Kraken is set to acquire tokenized assets platform Backed Finance. The deal, announced in a news release Tuesday (Dec. 2), follows a collaboration between the companies called xStocks, their ...

CFOs are getting tired of managing for surprises. They want to manage for strategy, instead. But there is a foundational problem hidden beneath this expanding mandate. Most finance teams still lack ...

Ten of Europe’s biggest banks have formed a company to launch a euro-pegged stablecoin. The new venture, dubbed Qivalis, is a joint effort by BNP Paribas, Banca Sella, CaixaBank, Danske Bank, DekaBank, ING, KBC, Raiffeisen Bank International, SEB, and UniCredit, the ...

Digital bank/pay-later provider Klarna is launching a new tap-to-pay feature. The new contactless payment offering is rolling out in 14 European markets, the Swedish FinTech announced in a Tuesday (Dec. 2) news release. “With more ...

Consolidation reshapes industries of every size, from manufacturing to retail to digital markets. For the past several years, Big Tech has become the most visible battleground for debates over market power ...

Banks have long treated account analysis as routine maintenance, yet new data shows it has become a decisive factor in revenue integrity and client trust. The shift is clear in ...

For most of the past decade, the cloud landscape has resembled a giant, digital land grab. Hyperscalers fought for enterprise workloads one contract at a time, while the largest providers, with ...