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Firms’ year-ahead inflation expectations increased by 0.2 percentage points to 2.1% in March, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s March Business Inflation Expectations (BIE) Survey. That figure is up ...

Crypto’s goal of replacing fiat has never been able to overcome certain roadblocks. Many of them are operational, not ideological. Stablecoin adoption, for example, has been limited as a standalone system ...

J.P. Morgan Payments and Mastercard have launched a new virtual card in Europe. The new offering is designed to support traditional accounts payable needs in industries such as insurance, healthcare, travel and commercial real estate, ...

Healthcare CFOs today are walking a tightening wire. System and network margins are under structural pressures, policy risk is rising across the industry and clouding long-term planning, all while the ...

The most important moment in a B2B relationship doesn’t always happen in a sales call or a product demo, or even when the payment clears. It can happen a few ...

Prediction market Kalshi said Tuesday (March 17) that a lawsuit filed by the Arizona attorney general is meritless and that the company looks forward to fighting them in court. The company’s ...

PayPal said it has expanded the availability of its dollar-backed stablecoin PayPal USD (PYUSD) and now offers it in 70 markets worldwide. PYUSD is available to users in their PayPal accounts ...

Visa has launched Visa Agentic Ready, a program that gives banks a structured way to test payments made by AI agents on behalf of consumers. Announced in a Tuesday (March ...

There’s a fundamental flaw in how many observers view the stablecoin boom. There’s an assumption that the ability of stablecoins to improve settlement is equivalent to replacing the payments experience. The ...

Alibaba has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed for its enterprise customers. Wukong, announced by the Chinese tech giant Tuesday (March 17), is available as a standalone desktop application or ...

The “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams released by the IRS this year reads less like a seasonal advisory and more like a snapshot of a rapidly professionalizing fraud economy. The ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking a new enforcement director. The regulator announced Monday (March 16) that Judge Margaret Ryan had stepped down as director of the Division of Enforcement. Principal Deputy Director Sam ...

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 ...

Indian digital payments provider PhonePe has paused its plans to go public. The Walmart-backed company cited geopolitical conflicts and market upheaval as reasons for delaying its initial public offering (IPO), according ...

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. ...

The evolution of digital payments has often followed a predictable pattern. As transactions become faster and more seamless, new layers of infrastructure emerge to support them. Cloud computing, for example, enabled scalable ...

“Travel Firms Embrace Embedded Wallets to Boost Revenue and Conversion” is a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Marqeta. This data brief explores how embedded finance is reshaping the economics of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watch more: Digital Shift With Flagright’s Madhu Nadig Scale is fast becoming a central challenge in financial crime compliance. As digital payments expand and real-time transactions accelerate, the number of alerts generated ...

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, ...