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Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has reportedly fired its chief financial officer. The dismissal of Stephanie Lemmerman, Coindesk reported Tuesday (Feb. 10) comes as Kraken is getting ready for its initial public offering (IPO) on the U.S. market. The ...

Mastercard and eCommerce enabler Bosta are partnering to support small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Egypt by introducing a dedicated discount program for Mastercard Business cardholders. The program will provide these ...

Square has brought its conversational artificial intelligence (AI) assistant to the U.K. Square AI, which is embedded into the Square platform, is designed to help businesses make clever and faster decisions using ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Priority’s Brendan Kirsch On a sold-out Friday night, a modern sports venue becomes a small city. Tens of thousands of people arrive within a narrow time ...

MrBeast is deepening his involvement in the financial services sector. Beast Industries, a creator-based platform founded and led by the YouTube creator and entrepreneur, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, announced in a Monday (Feb. ...

Logistics company Gather AI has raised $40 million in new funding. The company’s Series B funding round, announced Monday (Feb. 9), is designed to help businesses use physical AI to get ...

Households’ perceptions of inflation and the labor market improved slightly in January, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday (Feb. 9). When considering inflation, households’ short-term expectations improved while ...

The idea of a bank-issued digital asset was once an oxymoron. Today, it’s one that’s gaining momentum. On Friday (Feb. 6), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) clarified that national trust banks ...

Toyota’s next CEO isn’t an engineer, a product visionary or a car guy. He’s a numbers guy. An operations specialist. The automaker announced Friday (Feb. 6) that its current chief financial officer, ...

The Middle East is proving itself as fertile ground for FinTech investment and innovation. The region combines high smartphone penetration, young demographics and state-backed modernization of payment rails. Governments across the ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) clarified Friday (Feb. 6) that national trust banks may issue payment stablecoins. The agency did so by reissuing CFTC Staff Letter 25-40, which was originally ...

Is Europe too reliant on international payments companies such as Visa and Mastercard? The head of the European Payments Initiative (EPI) thinks so, according to a Monday (Feb. 9) interview with ...

“FinTechs Tap Embedded Payments to Deepen Customer Relationships” finds that embedded finance has become a competitive differentiator, enabling FinTechs to weave payments and other financial functions directly into their digital ...

Banks are reportedly shortening the marketing period for European-based initial public offerings (IPOs). This change to the IPO space comes amid ongoing upheaval in global equity markets during President Donald Trump’s ...

Goldman Sachs is deploying autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents built with Anthropic’s Claude model to automate core accounting, compliance and operational finance functions, according to a Friday (Feb. 6) report ...

Enterprise software has spent the past decade promising transformation while mostly delivering optimization. But artificial intelligence is now coming for the “mission critical” workflows of businesses and their back offices.  And ...

New tax laws around research and capital investment reduced Amazon’s U.S. corporate income taxes by more than half in 2025, even as the company’s profits rose, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday (Feb. ...

The cryptocurrency market’s familiar boom-and-bust cycle has entered another pronounced downswing. Capital is leaving digital assets at a pace not seen since the depths of the last crypto winter, institutional ...

Wage growth for middle-income households showed some weakness in January, while that of lower- and higher-income households remained steady, the Bank of America Institute said Thursday (Feb. 5). Middle-income households’ after-tax ...

Watch more: The Digital Shift With Citi’s Biswarup Chatterjee As blockchain infrastructure inches closer to the core of global finance, a consequential debate is taking shape inside banks and among institutional ...

For many small businesses, the most important payment is no longer the one they expect. It is the one they do not. That is the central insight of “Immediate Impact: How ...

Businesses and their accountants continued to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) agents and other digital tools in the quarter ended Dec. 31, BILL executives said Thursday (Feb. 5) during the company’s ...

B2B payments innovation tends to scale in lockstep with supplier acceptance. For years, that dynamic slowed the progress of corporate back offices. Buyers were reluctant to push new payment methods if ...

For WEX Inc., the latest quarter highlighted a shift in momentum across its portfolio, with the corporate payments segment carrying more of the company’s growth as mobility markets remained uneven. Fourth-quarter ...

OpenAI now offers both a platform and the services of human engineers to help enterprises use artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The new platform, Frontier, helps enterprises build, deploy and manage AI agents, the company said in a Thursday (Feb. ...

Michael Burry, the investor immortalized for calling the U.S. housing collapse, has made a career of being early, lonely and often uncomfortably right. His latest target is the orange-pilled bitcoin evangelists ...

American Express (AmEx) has debuted its Flexible Payment Option (FPO) for small businesses. The new offering, announced in a Thursday (Feb. 5) news release emailed to PYMNTS, is aimed at giving businesses ...

Visa has launched a new platform designed to help small business owners access capital, reach customers and adopt modern business tools. The Visa & Main platform will continue adding resources, programming ...

Agentic artificial intelligence is gaining momentum across banking and commerce, and payments networks are among the leaders. Case in point: Mastercard announced Jan. 27 the Mastercard Agent Suite, a set of ...

Watch more: Office of the CFO With Smarsh Ian Goodkind CFOs have traditionally been tasked with keeping things in their place. For years, that has kept CFOs mostly in place themselves, ...

Instant payments have moved from novelty to norm, reshaping how consumers expect to receive money across payroll, insurance, rewards and platform disbursements. Nearly three in four consumers have now received ...

When Alphabet outlined plans on its fourth quarter earnings call Wednesday (Feb. 4) to invest between $175 billion and $185 billion in capital expenditures during 2026, the range seemed to ...

Revolut Business has launched a merchant acquiring product in Australia. The product integrates account-to-account, online and in-person payments within a core business account, enabling businesses to manage their entire payments operation from ...

The House Financial Services Committee convened Wednesday (Feb. 4) for a marathon session on financial sector stability lasting roughly five hours, characterized by sharp ideological divides and procedural maneuvering. And while ...

Adding crypto into the finance stack has traditionally had the flair of a younger business. On Tuesday (Feb. 3), the startup incubator Y Combinator (YC) codified that impression, announcing that its ...

Equifax used its cloud and artificial intelligence resources to help drive innovation and efficiencies across its operations in 2025, Equifax CEO Mark Begor said Wednesday (Feb. 4) during a fourth-quarter ...

Software as a service once promised a steady rhythm of recurring subscriptions, predictable upgrades and incremental productivity gains. That rhythm has been thrown off kilter as artificial intelligence begins to alter ...

Mastercard launched a portfolio of fleet management solutions in the Asia-Pacific region. Mastercard Fleet: Next Gen is designed for fleets of all sizes and brings together payments, data and controls, the ...

Explore more conversations like this on the PYMNTS Podcast page Technology has altered the basic assumption of payday, which has typically been every two weeks or twice a month. In an economy where ...

Sam Altman rarely describes the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in narrow terms. When asked where the technology ultimately leads, he moved quickly beyond software, portraying AI as a force ...

Digital payments network One Inc launched a new protocol designed to accelerate the integration of its payment systems and improve data management through artificial intelligence. The company’s new Model Context Protocol ...

Truist Financial launched a new integrated receivables platform, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 3) press release. The platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate the matching of payments to ...

Socure announced the launch of SocureGov RiskOS, a comprehensive new platform designed to assist government agencies in modernizing their digital identity infrastructure, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 3) press release. The ...

Crypto’s Wild West used to have a cowboy problem. For much of the sector’s nascent history there were too many gunslingers and not enough sheriffs, with the digital asset space ...

PayPal sprang a surprise on investors Tuesday morning (Feb. 3), unveiling a CEO change during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call. PayPal said it has named Enrique Lores to lead the next ...