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Anthropic’s run-rate revenue has topped $19 billion, more than double the $9 billion it achieved about three months ago, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (March 3), citing unnamed sources. The artificial intelligence company’s ...

Payments/commerce technology Shift4 says it has completed its acquisition of Worldline’s North American subsidiaries. By purchasing Worldline’s Bambora North America business, Shift4 adds more than 140,000 merchants to its platform, the ...

Standard Chartered named JPMorgan Chase’s former blockchain unit leader to oversee its payments business. Naveen Mallela will become the bank’s global head of payments starting May 4, according to a Wednesday ...

Indian payments platform PhonePe reportedly hopes to go public at a valuation of $9 billion to $10.5 billion. This indicates that the Walmart-backed company will raise around $900 million to $1.05 ...

Watch more: Need to Know With North’s Suril Patel When merchants viewed payments solely through the lens of cost, they typically looked for as little cost as possible. But that one-dimensional calculus ...

Consumers are embracing instant payments, which offer them speed, security and peace of mind that their money is exactly where it needs to be, when it needs to be. Corporates, however, ...

The manufacturing sector saw more economic activity in February, marking the second consecutive month of growth and only the third month of growth in the past 40 months, the Institute ...

PayPal and transportation trade finance provider TCS Blockchain have launched a collaboration to enable carriers to use digital assets on blockchain rails to settle freight invoices. This solution will allow faster ...

Billtrust is turning to agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to help finance teams spot payment risks. The company, which makes B2B accounts receivable (AR) workflow and payment software, announced the launch of ...

Klarna’s flexible payment options will soon be available for purchases initiated by artificial intelligence (AI) agents at U.S. merchants that offer Klarna through Stripe. This capability will be enabled by Stripe’s Shared ...

Ripple Payments now allows customers to collect, hold, exchange and payout in both fiat and stablecoins. The platform also enables customers to provision named virtual accounts and wallets, automate collection flows, ...

Revolut debuted its first “ultra-premium” corporate card for customers in the United Kingdom, according to a Tuesday (March 3) press release. The company’s Titan card is designed to address concerns among ...

Amazon has introduced an artificial intelligence-powered feature for merchants who sell through its marketplace. Called the Canvas experience, it is now available at no additional cost to all sellers in ...

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 ...

As artificial intelligence systems begin to move from generating copy to executing business decisions, the advertising industry is attempting to build infrastructure before the disruption fully arrives. A new initiative called ...

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 ...