B2B Payments
Why Price Takes a Back Seat in Embedded Finance Deals
Thursday 26th March - 4:00 am
Embedded finance is increasingly central to how B2B companies buy and sell, but it only ...Velera Picks Longtime Exec Brian Caldarelli as CEO
Wednesday 25th March - 3:12 pm
Credit union service organization (CUSO) Velera is getting a new chief executive. President and CEO Chuck ...Meta Aims to Share AI Intelligence With Small Business Users
Wednesday 25th March - 2:27 pm
Meta is reportedly launching a program to support artificial intelligence (AI) adoption among small businesses. Meta ...Branch and Stripe Launch Digital Wallet for Worker Payouts
Wednesday 25th March - 9:00 am
Workforce payments platform Branch has launched an integration with financial services company Stripe. This collaboration, announced ...Amex Makes Its Biggest Commercial Bet in Years With ‘Business Membership’
Wednesday 25th March - 7:00 am
Watch more: Need to Know With American Express’ Raymond Joabar The corporate card has been a ...Worth Raises $30 Million to Streamline Small Business Onboarding and Underwriting
Tuesday 24th March - 8:44 pm
Worth raised $30 million in a Series A funding round for its platform that helps ...Braze Earnings Show AI Push and Enterprise Demand Gain Ground
Tuesday 24th March - 7:12 pm
Braze is using its latest earnings report to make a broader point about where customer ...Why Real-Time Cash Is Making Spreadsheet Treasury Obsolete
Tuesday 24th March - 6:49 pm
Cash, today more than ever, is the lifeblood of the enterprise. But paradoxically, many businesses ...Fed Watchdog Says Bank Merger Reviews Are Getting Slower
Tuesday 24th March - 4:50 pm
The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog has found that the central bank is taking longer to ...Apple Combines Business Offerings on Single Platform
Tuesday 24th March - 3:05 pm
Apple has introduced a platform that brings together several of its business offerings. Dubbed “Apple Business,” ...BMO Readies Tokenized Cash Capabilities for Institutional Clients
Tuesday 24th March - 1:43 pm
BMO plans to introduce new 24/7 tokenized cash capabilities that will allow its institutional clients ...CFOs Say AI Less of a Threat to Highly Skilled Workers
Tuesday 24th March - 12:01 pm
The past few weeks have seen numerous headlines about AI-related job cuts. However, new research shows ...Oracle Launches Tools to Help Enterprises Deploy AI Agents
Tuesday 24th March - 11:58 am
Oracle has introduced several new or updated features designed to help enterprises deploy artificial intelligence ...Proposed National AI Framework Would Test Banks’ AI Decision Models
Tuesday 24th March - 11:37 am
The debate over artificial intelligence policy has entered a new phase, as Washington moves toward ...Can Your Company’s Data Keep Up With Enterprise AI?
Tuesday 24th March - 11:11 am
For all the urgency surrounding artificial intelligence, many companies are still in Automation 1.0. While AI ...Capital One Backs a New Kind of Road Warrior Who Stays Longer
Tuesday 24th March - 4:03 am
Watch more: Live Roundtable With Capital One’s David Arons and Hotel Lobby Candle’s Lindsay Silberman For ...The Back Office Gets Smarter as AI Transforms Supplier Payments
Tuesday 24th March - 4:00 am
For years, accounts payable (AP) was judged by how little trouble it caused, but new ...Middle Market Firms Limit Crypto Use to Payments, Not Treasury
Monday 23rd March - 8:05 pm
Middle market firms have spent the past several years widening their use of faster payments, ...Treasury Gathers Industry and Regulators for AI Finance Talks
Monday 23rd March - 4:43 pm
The Treasury Department announced Monday (March 23) that a series of four roundtables dubbed the ...Bezos’s AI Manufacturing Gamble Could Change How Companies Get Fixed
Monday 23rd March - 4:29 pm
The history of artificial intelligence (AI) is a largely digital one. Even the generative and ...Capital One Software Enhances Tokenization Tool to Protect Sensitive Info
Monday 23rd March - 2:46 pm
Capital One Software plans to equip its vaultless tokenization solution, Capital One Databolt, with new capabilities designed ...Xero Introduces New US CEO and New Bill Pay Offering
Monday 23rd March - 2:26 pm
Xero says U.S. small businesses can now manage and pay bills directly through its platform. The new ...Private Credit’s New Power Shift: From Making Loans to Funding Them
Monday 23rd March - 12:50 pm
Private credit is entering a phase where funding access depends on how loans are financed ...Nasdaq Teams With Talos on Tokenized Collateral Management
Monday 23rd March - 11:59 am
Nasdaq has launched a partnership with digital assets trading platform Talos. The collaboration will connect Talos’ ...Finance Teams Want More Than ERPs Can Give Accounts Receivables
Monday 23rd March - 4:02 am
Watch more: Need to Know With Billtrust’s Lee An Schommer Time waits for no one. Neither ...Why Companies Are Racing to Centralize Treasury Operations
Friday 20th March - 6:53 pm
One wouldn’t expect a chef to prepare a meal by scrounging around disconnected kitchens where ...Santander Brasil Taps B3 CEO Gilson Finkelsztain to Lead Next Phase of Growth
Friday 20th March - 3:29 pm
Banco Santander (Brasil) said Friday (March 20) that Gilson Finkelsztain, CEO of Brazilian stock exchange ...UBS Expands With New US National Bank Charter
Friday 20th March - 1:59 pm
UBS is set to offer a full range of banking products and services in the United ...Why CFOs Want Stablecoins Through Banks, Not Wallets
Friday 20th March - 11:56 am
The emerging model of treasury and payments optimization for adventurous CFOs isn’t crypto-native finance. It’s ...How 30 Million Workers Borrow From Tomorrow to Pay for Today
Friday 20th March - 4:00 am
Every payday, millions of American workers face some version of the same problem: The bill ...Amazon Buys Robot Maker RIVR to Win Last-Mile Delivery Race
Thursday 19th March - 9:50 pm
Amazon has acquired RIVR, a company that uses physical artificial intelligence and wheeled-legged robots to ...Goldman Sachs Replaces Big Annual Layoff With Targeted Rolling Cuts
Thursday 19th March - 8:56 pm
Goldman Sachs is set to begin a series of small layoffs that will continue through ...FedEx Earnings Point to a Leaner, More Competitive Logistics Industry
Thursday 19th March - 7:46 pm
In today’s period of global turmoil, the logistics sector is increasingly just trying to get ...Banking Regulators Move to Cut Capital Requirements
Thursday 19th March - 4:14 pm
The federal bank regulators are seeking comment on three proposals they said would streamline capital ...Paythru Partners With Visa on EV Fleet Payment Wallet
Thursday 19th March - 12:18 pm
Paythru, a payments orchestration platform focused on electric vehicles (EVs), has partnered with Visa to create a ...Banks Make Their Move in Cross-Border Payments
Thursday 19th March - 11:18 am
Cost-effective, streamlined and data-rich cross-border payments have long been the holy grail of global commerce. Stablecoins, ...PicPay Revenues Jump 85% as Financial Services Portfolio Expands
Thursday 19th March - 6:59 am
PicPay, the Brazilian digital payments firm, is increasingly leaning on artificial intelligence to manage its ...Tariff Stress Is Turning Inflation Into the CFOs Working Capital Test
Wednesday 18th March - 4:56 pm
The latest producer price data suggest that inflation is no longer being driven primarily by ...Elavon Picks BofA Vet Wally Mlynarski as CEO
Wednesday 18th March - 3:45 pm
U.S. Bank-owned payments processing company Elavon has named a new CEO. Wally Mlynarski has been tapped to serve as ...Companies See Inflation Inching Up to 2.1%, Atlanta Fed Says
Wednesday 18th March - 3:31 pm
Firms’ year-ahead inflation expectations increased by 0.2 percentage points to 2.1% in March, according to ...Microsoft, Google and Anthropic Channel Enterprise AI Use With Spreadsheets
Wednesday 18th March - 2:39 pm
Microsoft and Google are racing to embed artificial intelligence (AI) directly into their spreadsheet products, ...JPMorgan Payments and Mastercard Launch Virtual Card Partnership
Wednesday 18th March - 1:36 pm
J.P. Morgan Payments and Mastercard have launched a new virtual card in Europe. The new offering is designed to ...How Healthcare CFOs Are Turning Operational Upgrades Into Financial Gains
Wednesday 18th March - 11:29 am
Healthcare CFOs today are walking a tightening wire. System and network margins are under structural ...Nvidia Debuts Platform for Enterprise AI Agents
Tuesday 17th March - 9:09 pm
Nvidia announced NemoClaw at its annual GTC conference, an enterprise-ready version of the viral artificial ...How Smarter B2B Onboarding With Digital Identities Drives Faster Time-to-Value
Tuesday 17th March - 6:36 pm
The most important moment in a B2B relationship doesn’t always happen in a sales call ...Prediction Market Kalshi Fights Arizona Criminal Charges
Tuesday 17th March - 5:38 pm
Prediction market Kalshi said Tuesday (March 17) that a lawsuit filed by the Arizona attorney ...PayPal Scales PYUSD Stablecoin to Reach 70 Countries
Tuesday 17th March - 3:27 pm
PayPal said it has expanded the availability of its dollar-backed stablecoin PayPal USD (PYUSD) and ...Visa Debuts Agentic Program to Help Banks Test AI Payments
Tuesday 17th March - 2:19 pm
Visa has launched Visa Agentic Ready, a program that gives banks a structured way to ...Mastercard Buys BVNK in $1.8 Billion Bet on Stablecoin Settlement
Tuesday 17th March - 1:48 pm
There’s a fundamental flaw in how many observers view the stablecoin boom. There’s an assumption that ...Alibaba Debuts Wukong AI Tool for Enterprise Clients
Tuesday 17th March - 11:29 am
Alibaba has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed for its enterprise customers. Wukong, announced by ...IRS Warns of Most Dangerous 2026 Tax Scams Targeting SMBs
Tuesday 17th March - 11:21 am
The “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams released by the IRS this year reads less ...SEC Enforcement Director Exits After 6 Months
Tuesday 17th March - 9:31 am
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking a new enforcement director. The regulator announced Monday (March 16) that Judge ...Mastercard Warns Credit Gap Is Holding Back Gen Z Small Businesses
Tuesday 17th March - 4:00 am
Watch more: Need to Know With Mastercard’s Mark Barnett The most digital generation in history is ...From Tokenized Oil to Treasuries: CFOs Map the Real-World Asset Boom
Monday 16th March - 5:24 pm
Blockchains don’t take bank holidays. It is a core promise of blockchain finance that has ...OpenAI Plans $10 Billion in Partnerships With PE Firms
Monday 16th March - 2:31 pm
OpenAI is reportedly looking to form partnerships with several private equity (PE) outfits. That’s according to ...Visa and Fiserv Streamline Merchant Payment Acceptance With New APIs
Monday 16th March - 12:45 pm
Visa has expanded its partnership with payments and financial technology provider Fiserv. The collaboration, announced in a news release Monday ...Alibaba Consolidates AI Divisions to Power the Agent Economy
Monday 16th March - 11:11 am
Alibaba has established a new business group dedicated to artificial intelligence. The new Alibaba Token Hub ...Trade Disruptions Tie Up Cash and Test CFO Playbooks
Monday 16th March - 10:59 am
The war in Iran is increasingly giving the freight sector a fright. As of Monday (March ...CFOs Turn Working Capital Into a Yield Strategy
Friday 13th March - 1:46 pm
For chief financial officers and treasurers, working capital is starting to look less like an ...FedEx Plans Agent Workforce in Over 50% of Workflows by 2028
Friday 13th March - 11:57 am
FedEx aims to have artificial intelligence agents participating in more than half of its core ...B2B’s Biggest Innovation Isn’t Technology. It’s the Buying Experience
Friday 13th March - 10:57 am
The B2B procurement experience once meant phone calls, email quotes and weeks of back-and-forth negotiations. The ...Platforms Let Workers Chase the Best Price for Their Time
Friday 13th March - 4:03 am
Explore more conversations like this on the PYMNTS Podcast page The structure of work is shifting as ...Fraud Defense Moves From the Back Office to the Codebase
Friday 13th March - 4:00 am
The evolution of digital payments has often followed a predictable pattern. As transactions become faster and ...Wonderful Raises $150 Million to Help Enterprises Deploy AI Agents
Thursday 12th March - 8:15 pm
Enterprise artificial intelligence agent platform Wonderful raised $150 million in a Series B funding round ...Proprietary Data Shields Software Leaders From AI Disruption, S&P Says
Thursday 12th March - 7:31 pm
S&P Global Ratings said artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to impact software companies on a ...Earnings Show AI Lending Platforms Scaling Originations
Thursday 12th March - 6:53 pm
Earnings season. drawing to close, has offered up a detailed look at how artificial intelligence ...CFOs Become the Source of Truth as Data Sprawls Across B2B
Thursday 12th March - 2:10 pm
As software eats the business world, workflows across B2B are becoming data problems for chief ...Mastercard Gives Hong Kong Banks X-Border Payments Help for SMBs
Thursday 12th March - 12:39 pm
Mastercard began rolling out a suite of solutions designed to help banks support the cross-border ...Anthropic Hopes to Sell Enterprise Tech to PE Firms’ Clients
Thursday 12th March - 11:38 am
Anthropic reportedly wants to sell its Claude technology to private equity (PE) firms’ clients. The artificial ...New Freightos CEO Pablo Pinillos Targets Q4 Financial Break Even
Thursday 12th March - 10:50 am
International freight industry platform Freightos appointed its chief financial officer and interim CEO, Pablo Pinillos, ...White House Warns of Lengthy Tariff Refund Timeline
Thursday 12th March - 8:23 am
The White House is warning that businesses seeking tariff refunds may face a long wait. As the ...Bank of America Targets the $600 Billion Accounts Receivable Problem
Thursday 12th March - 4:03 am
Watch more: Need to Know With Bank of America’s Andy Murphy Staring down an operating landscape ...Introducing the ‘Know Your Agent’ Framework for the Age of Agentic Commerce
Thursday 12th March - 4:00 am
As digital commerce becomes increasingly automated, enterprises face a new identity challenge: distinguishing legitimate AI ...54% of B2B Platforms Report Revenue Gains From Embedded Finance
Thursday 12th March - 4:00 am
A growing number of B2B platforms are discovering that financial services built directly into their ...Cash Forecasting Leaves the Monthly Meeting and Enters Real Time
Thursday 12th March - 4:00 am
Middle-market firms have been navigating uneven demand, higher borrowing costs and persistent supply-side volatility. According ...Mastercard Moves to Normalize Crypto Inside Its Payments Ecosystem
Wednesday 11th March - 5:32 pmThe blockchain technology underpinning cryptocurrency is increasingly becoming divorced from the volatility and speculation of ...Wells Fargo Files Trademark for ‘WFUSD’
Wednesday 11th March - 2:04 pm
Wells Fargo has filed a trademark application for “WFUSD,” a new digital asset-centric platform. WFUSD would provide ...Supply Chains Are Learning to Think and Act on Their Own
Wednesday 11th March - 1:46 pm
The supply chain is undergoing a structural transformation that goes well beyond the automation wave ...How CFOs Convert Payments Data Into Growth Signals Using AI
Wednesday 11th March - 11:36 am
B2B is sitting atop a goldmine of operational exhaust in the form of payment data, ...Ford Pro Virtual Assistant Simplifies Commercial Fleet Management
Wednesday 11th March - 11:22 am
Ford now offers fleet managers a virtual assistant that can perform tasks such as reporting ...Thredd and Cross River Team to Help FinTechs Get Sponsor Bank Access
Wednesday 11th March - 10:42 am
Thredd is working with Cross River Bank to help international FinTechs enter the U.S. The collaboration makes Thredd one ...Virtual Cards Target Europe’s Business Payments Bottleneck
Wednesday 11th March - 4:03 am
Watch more: Need to Know With Boost Payment Solutions’ Rene Stynen At first glance, Europe appears ...Embedded Finance Now Has to Survive the CFO Audit
Wednesday 11th March - 4:00 am
Embedded finance has matured past its land-grab era. What once began as a race to ...Can Crypto’s Open Network Dreams Survive Going Corporate?
Tuesday 10th March - 7:28 pm
The reality of financial blockchain adoption is turning out to be a very different story ...Aon May Have Found Stablecoins’ First Serious Office Job
Tuesday 10th March - 4:56 pm
Stablecoins have struggled to gain traction in everyday corporate finance. The obstacle is not the ...SquareFi Launches Stablecoin Infrastructure for Cross-Border B2B Payments
Tuesday 10th March - 4:18 pm
Squarefi emerged from stealth Tuesday (March 10) and announced its stablecoin-based financial infrastructure for global business ...Priority’s Unified Commerce Strategy Drives Growth Across All Business Segments
Tuesday 10th March - 2:34 pm
Priority Technology Holdings saw growth across its three segments in the fourth quarter as customers ...J.P. Morgan Payments and Mirakl Strike Up Agentic Commerce Pact
Tuesday 10th March - 11:48 am
Commerce software firm Mirakl has joined forces with J.P. Morgan Payments. This collaboration, announced Tuesday (March 10) will combine Mirakl’s Nexus ...CFOs Tackle B2B Payments Delinquency by Using Data and AI
Tuesday 10th March - 10:58 am
Even small improvements in payments behavior can materially affect working capital. At a time when capital ...Mastercard Offers Small Businesses Insights From Virtual CFO
Tuesday 10th March - 10:43 am
Mastercard has introduced an agentic AI offering designed to help small businesses. The company’s Virtual C-Suite, announced Tuesday (March ...Forward-Deployed Engineers Emerge as One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Jobs
Tuesday 10th March - 9:00 am
Artificial intelligence is often feared for automating work. Yet as companies move from experimentation to ...Visa Says AI Cuts CFO Cash Flow Uncertainty From 68% to 17%
Tuesday 10th March - 4:00 am
Watch more: Office of the CFO With Ben Ellis of Visa Commercial Solutions Picture a manufacturing ...New Treasury Report Pushes AI, Digital Identity to Strengthen Crypto Oversight
Monday 9th March - 7:39 pm
The U.S. Treasury thinks that the current problem with crypto is its opacity, not its ...Travelsoft Pay Taps Mastercard Virtual Card Numbers to Simplify B2B Payments
Monday 9th March - 7:33 pm
Travelsoft Pay will leverage Mastercard’s Wholesale Program (MWP) to simplify B2B payments across the travel ...Anthropic Challenges SaaS Giants With Claude Marketplace
Monday 9th March - 6:53 pm
Anthropic has launched a marketplace for enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) tools, allowing companies with existing ...Investors Bet on AI’s Operational Last Mile
Monday 9th March - 2:26 pm
The new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) startups is beginning to look very different from ...Anthropic Sues US Government Over Supply Chain Risk Designation
Monday 9th March - 1:37 pm
Anthropic sued the Department of Defense Monday (March 9) to block it from placing a supply chain ...Tariff Refund Claims Could Expose Major Supplier Enablement Gaps
Monday 9th March - 11:23 am
First came the tariffs and their unpredictability, now come the refunds. As covered here last week, ...Affiniti Teams With Column to Scale SMB Card Offering
Monday 9th March - 9:46 am
Small business-focused platform Affiniti launched a financing agreement with Column bank, according to a Monday ...KAST Raises $80 Million to Expand Stablecoin Payment Platform
Monday 9th March - 8:25 am
Stablecoin payment platform KAST says it has raised $80 million in new funding. The company’s Series A round, announced Monday ...
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