B2B Payments

B2B CFOs sit at the increasingly complex intersection of treasury, technology, vendor management and enterprise risk. But that’s not all that finance leaders are tasked with overseeing above the balance ...

The Treasury Department is reportedly planning talks with insurance regulators about the private credit market. The talks between the Treasury and domestic and international insurance regulators are being prompted by concerns about liquidity, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming sales across the B2B ecosystem, but not the way companies think. While CEOs talk about AI’s impact across automated outreach, predictive pipelines and agents that can ...

Plaid’s chief financial officer says the financial data network is not racing to go public. Preparations for the initial public offering (IPO) are ongoing, but Seun Sodipo told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ...

Innovative technologies often rarely succeed in the way their earliest advocates predicted. And findings in “Waiting for Certainty: Why Most CFOs Are Holding Back on Crypto and Stablecoins,” the latest installment of ...

Within the corporate realm, treasury is expected to anticipate, allocate and act, turning liquidity into a managed input. That transition toward proactive management is forcing finance leaders to reconsider a ...

Goldman Sachs wants U.K. small businesses to embrace artificial intelligence. The banking giant held a gathering last week in Birmingham to instruct small businesses on the dangers of ignoring AI, Bloomberg ...

Square is now extending credit to more sellers after improving its underwriting models to assess the creditworthiness of those with non-standard revenue patterns. The new underwriting models enable the company to ...

Mastercard is reportedly looking to divest much of the real-time payments business it acquired from Denmark’s Nets Group in 2019, marking a significant strategic pivot away from certain European instant ...

A finding from a new PYMNTS security report suggests that the technology expanding fraud risk in business payments may also hold its most promising solution. The report, “Embedding Security: Designing Fraud ...

The Home Depot has made two more moves in its effort to add to the products and services it offers Pro customers. The home improvement retailer’s subsidiary SRS Distribution entered into ...

The upcoming changes driven by artificial intelligence (AI) played a role in the decision of Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey to step down from his role, Quincey told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” ...

Insurers Corebridge and Equitable have launched a merger valuing the combined company at $22 billion. The deal, announced Thursday (March 26), creates a retirement, life, wealth and investment company with $1.5 ...

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is exploring the use of blockchain technology and tokenization to enable real-time or near real-time settlement and extended trading hours, Chief Product Officer Jon ...

Public listings have long been the preferred exit for FinTechs seeking new avenues to raise capital and, arguably, to enhance their visibility and reputations. And especially for payments firms, trading platforms ...

The collapse of default trust on the internet is becoming operational, measurable, and increasingly expensive. Businesses have the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) to thank for that. But for mid-market and ...

Small businesses may be sending a clear signal to card issuers: stop selling access and start selling usefulness. A new PYMNTS Intelligence report suggests many small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) ...

Embedded finance is increasingly central to how B2B companies buy and sell, but it only works as well as the bank or FinTech behind it. New PYMNTS Intelligence research finds ...

Bank of America has formed a new team within its investment bank that is focused on helping private equity firms exit their investments, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (March 25). The new Private ...

The traditional framing around stablecoins has been one centered on infrastructure. Reserves, regulation and the mechanics of maintaining a one-to-one peg with fiat currency have been the name of the ...

Credit union service organization (CUSO) Velera is getting a new chief executive. President and CEO Chuck Fagan will step down as the group’s head Sept. 30 of this year, with Chief ...

Meta is reportedly launching a program to support artificial intelligence (AI) adoption among small businesses. Meta Small Business is aimed at the more than 250 million small businesses around the world ...

Ripple is reportedly testing stablecoin-powered trade finance with the help of Singapore’s central bank. The company told Coindesk Wednesday (March 25) that it is taking part in BLOOM, a Monetary Authority ...

Workforce payments platform Branch has launched an integration with financial services company Stripe. This collaboration, announced Wednesday (March 25), is designed to make it easier for companies to launch a digital ...

Watch more: Need to Know With American Express’ Raymond Joabar The corporate card has been a remarkably stable product for decades. It processes, tracks and reconciles. It earns points. It carries ...

Banks and credit unions are opening millions of new accounts, yet too many fail to become active relationships. As FinTechs deliver instant funding and immediate usability, traditional financial institutions (FIs) ...

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have spent decades navigating a banking system that never quite fit their needs, placed between consumer and commercial segments and rarely the focal point of ...

One message is coming through clearly from corporate finance leaders: AI is not just a tool for cutting tasks, it is starting to reshape what work itself looks like inside ...

Worth raised $30 million in a Series A funding round for its platform that helps financial institutions, FinTechs and payment providers onboard and underwrite small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The company ...

Cash, today more than ever, is the lifeblood of the enterprise. But paradoxically, many businesses treat cash like it’s still mostly paper. Even in 2026, today’s treasury teams rely on fragmented ...

The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog has found that the central bank is taking longer to approve bank mergers and acquisitions than it did four years ago, despite launching a dedicated ...

Apple has introduced a platform that brings together several of its business offerings. Dubbed “Apple Business,” the platform will be launched April 14 in more than 200 countries and regions, the ...

BMO plans to introduce new 24/7 tokenized cash capabilities that will allow its institutional clients to move value more easily and securely. To offer these capabilities, BMO will leverage CME Group’s permissioned ...

The past few weeks have seen numerous headlines about AI-related job cuts. However, new research shows that America’s chief financial officers (CFOs) expect that artificial intelligence (AI) will lead their companies ...

Oracle has introduced several new or updated features designed to help enterprises deploy artificial intelligence agents. The company’s new Fusion Agentic Applications are built into Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and are ...

The debate over artificial intelligence policy has entered a new phase, as Washington moves toward a national framework that seeks to unify a fragmented regulatory landscape and establish clearer expectations ...

For all the urgency surrounding artificial intelligence, many companies are still in Automation 1.0. While AI as a buzzword has become shorthand for progress, inside most organizations, what is labeled “AI” ...

Watch more: Live Roundtable With Capital One’s David Arons and Hotel Lobby Candle’s Lindsay Silberman For many executives and entrepreneurs, the traditional business trip once followed a predictable pattern. Travelers arrived ...

For years, accounts payable (AP) was judged by how little trouble it caused, but new data suggests it may now be creating room for faster payments, better supplier experiences and ...

Middle market firms have spent the past several years widening their use of faster payments, embedded finance tools and data-driven treasury systems, yet digital assets remain outside that progression rather ...

The Treasury Department announced Monday (March 23) that a series of four roundtables dubbed the “AI Innovation Series” will bring together financial institutions, technology firms, regulators and specialized experts to ...

The history of artificial intelligence (AI) is a largely digital one. Even the generative and agentic AI boom has remained, for the most part, confined to text, code and media ...

Capital One Software plans to equip its vaultless tokenization solution, Capital One Databolt, with new capabilities designed to enable enterprises to leverage their unstructured data for artificial intelligence (AI) while keeping sensitive ...

Xero says U.S. small businesses can now manage and pay bills directly through its platform. The new offering stems from Xero’s purchase of Melio last year and integration of its bill payments technology into ...

Private credit is entering a phase where funding access depends on how loans are financed after origination. Market signals show capital flowing to structured credit even as liquidity stress emerges ...