B2B Payments

Watch more: Need to Know With Mastercard’s Mark Barnett The most digital generation in history is running a surprising share of its businesses the old-fashioned way: with cash in hand. “The fact ...

OpenAI is reportedly looking to form partnerships with several private equity (PE) outfits. That’s according to a report Monday (March 16) from Reuters, which says these arrangements, with the likes of TPG, Advent International, Bain Capital and Brookfield ...

Visa has expanded its partnership with payments and financial technology provider Fiserv. The collaboration, announced in a news release Monday (March 16), introduces what Visa calls a “unified, API driven acceptance layer” aimed at simplifying ...

Alibaba has established a new business group dedicated to artificial intelligence. The new Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) Business Group is led by Alibaba Group CEO Eddie Wu, the company said in ...

The war in Iran is increasingly giving the freight sector a fright. As of Monday (March 16), the geopolitical risks of the Middle East engagement have already reshaped global trade patterns around air ...

For chief financial officers and treasurers, working capital is starting to look less like an operating metric and more like an investment decision. What used to be managed mainly as a ...

FedEx aims to have artificial intelligence agents participating in more than half of its core operational workflows by 2028, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday (March 13). “Every employee and every ...

The B2B procurement experience once meant phone calls, email quotes and weeks of back-and-forth negotiations. The process was often slow, opaque and heavily dependent on relationships. Procurement teams contacted vendors, requested ...

Explore more conversations like this on the PYMNTS Podcast page The structure of work is shifting as digital platforms connect workers with opportunities in ways that resemble markets more than traditional employment. ...

Enterprise artificial intelligence agent platform Wonderful raised $150 million in a Series B funding round to accelerate its global expansion. The round valued the company at $2 billion, it said in ...

S&P Global Ratings said artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to impact software companies on a case-by-case basis rather than causing a sector-wide decline in credit ratings, Bloomberg reported Thursday (March 12). The ...

Earnings season. drawing to close, has offered up a detailed look at how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping credit underwriting. In recent weeks, FinTech lenders reported that automated underwriting systems, with ...

As software eats the business world, workflows across B2B are becoming data problems for chief financial officers. The shift reflects the broader truth about modern business that, as software eats the ...

The head of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) is warning against friction in cross-border payments. Andrew Bailey, who leads the risk watchdog, said in a speech Thursday (March 12) that governments ...

Mastercard began rolling out a suite of solutions designed to help banks support the cross-border payment needs of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the Asia-Pacific region. The new Mastercard Global ...

International freight industry platform Freightos appointed its chief financial officer and interim CEO, Pablo Pinillos, as its CEO and a member of the board of directors, effective Monday (March 16). The ...

FinTech Wizz Financial achieved a company milestone for cross-border transactions, according to a Thursday (March 12) press release. Wizz completed its first stablecoin-powered cross-border remittance and treasury transaction originating from the ...

The White House is warning that businesses seeking tariff refunds may face a long wait. As the New York Times (NYT) reported Thursday (March 12), the administration has said in court that it could ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Bank of America’s Andy Murphy Staring down an operating landscape defined by supply chain disruptions, inflation volatility and geopolitical uncertainty, finance leaders have grown accustomed ...

As digital commerce becomes increasingly automated, enterprises face a new identity challenge: distinguishing legitimate AI agents acting on behalf of customers from malicious bots designed to exploit digital systems. “How Enterprises ...

A growing number of B2B platforms are discovering that financial services built directly into their software are becoming a powerful engine for growth. The finding comes from “B2B Platforms Expand Embedded Finance ...

Middle-market firms have been navigating uneven demand, higher borrowing costs and persistent supply-side volatility. According to Visa’s Growth Corporates Working Capital Index 2025 to 2026, done in collaboration with PYMNTS ...

The blockchain technology underpinning cryptocurrency is increasingly becoming divorced from the volatility and speculation of crypto markets themselves. In turn, it’s finding a new role as financial infrastructure. The latest sign of ...

Wells Fargo has filed a trademark application for “WFUSD,” a new digital asset-centric platform. WFUSD would provide services “featuring software for tokenization of assets” and “cryptocurrency payments processing” and would “execute trades ...

The supply chain is undergoing a structural transformation that goes well beyond the automation wave of the past decade. Across distribution centers, planning systems and logistics networks spanning dozens of ...

B2B is sitting atop a goldmine of operational exhaust in the form of payment data, and it’s mostly concentrated in the finance function. Every invoice issued, payment received, and purchase order ...

Ford now offers fleet managers a virtual assistant that can perform tasks such as reporting on the condition of company vehicles and scheduling service. The new Ford Pro AI is available ...

Thredd is working with Cross River Bank to help international FinTechs enter the U.S. The collaboration makes Thredd one of Cross River’s strategic processing partners outside of the bank’s own stack, the companies said ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Boost Payment Solutions’ Rene Stynen At first glance, Europe appears to have solved one of modern finance’s most stubborn problems: moving money. Compared with the United ...

Embedded finance has matured past its land-grab era. What once began as a race to bolt payments, lending and insurance into digital platforms is now confronting a new reality of ...

The reality of financial blockchain adoption is turning out to be a very different story than the permissionless approach the digital asset space was built atop philosophically. Institutions including JPMorgan Chase, ...

Stablecoins have struggled to gain traction in everyday corporate finance. The obstacle is not the technology itself. It is the way most companies are built to move money. Trying to fit ...

Squarefi emerged from stealth Tuesday (March 10) and announced its stablecoin-based financial infrastructure for global business payments. This infrastructure is currently serving FinTechs and global platforms, and it has reached $250 million ...

Priority Technology Holdings saw growth across its three segments in the fourth quarter as customers sought the payments and treasury solutions delivered by its connected commerce engine, Priority Chairman and ...

Merchant payments provider Citcon said it has formed a money movement-focused collaboration with Visa Direct. The partnership is designed to extend access to push payment capabilities in both U.S. domestic and ...

Commerce software firm Mirakl has joined forces with J.P. Morgan Payments. This collaboration, announced Tuesday (March 10) will combine Mirakl’s Nexus agentic commerce solution J.P. Morgan Payments’ infrastructure to power transactions as artificial intelligence (AI) agents ...

Even small improvements in payments behavior can materially affect working capital. At a time when capital efficiency has become paramount, companies are starting to pay closer attention to the trillions of ...

Mastercard has introduced an agentic AI offering designed to help small businesses. The company’s Virtual C-Suite, announced Tuesday (March 10), is a collection of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that serve as a “digital executive” ...

Artificial intelligence is often feared for automating work. Yet as companies move from experimentation to the deployment of AI workflows, new job categories are emerging. Across the AI industry, startups ...

Watch more: Office of the CFO With Ben Ellis of Visa Commercial Solutions Picture a manufacturing company with $4 million sitting in accounts receivable, another $2 million tied up in supplier ...

The U.S. Treasury thinks that the current problem with crypto is its opacity, not its existence. A new policy report released to Congress from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday (March ...

Travelsoft Pay will leverage Mastercard’s Wholesale Program (MWP) to simplify B2B payments across the travel ecosystem. This collaboration will provide payments infrastructure that is secure, scalable and travel-native, the companies said ...

Anthropic has launched a marketplace for enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) tools, allowing companies with existing spending commitments to apply a portion of those funds toward Claude-powered applications built by third-party ...

The new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) startups is beginning to look very different from the one that defined the past two years. Instead of racing to build larger, large-scale models, ...

Anthropic sued the Department of Defense Monday (March 9) to block it from placing a supply chain risk designation on the artificial intelligence (AI) company, Reuters reported Monday. The company filed the lawsuit ...