B2B Payments

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The job of the chief financial officer typically shifts in step with the macro environment. In yesteryear’s era, defined by cheap money, globalized supply chains and predictable demand curves, financial leadership ...

Watch: Why technology enables smarter merchant acquisition Merchant acquisition has become both an opportunity and a strategic pressure point for banks, sitting at the intersection of growth ambitions and regulatory accountability. In ...

OnePay, the consumer financial-technology platform backed by retail giant Walmart, appointed Patrick O’Connell as its new chief financial officer last week, according to a Thursday (Jan. 29) press release. O’Connell ...

FedEx said it will begin offering enterprise shippers access to new artificial intelligence-powered tools designed to improve post-purchase experiences, as businesses seek to strengthen customer engagement and operational efficiency after ...

When it comes to B2B payments, simple doesn’t exist. And it’s not for lack of trying. These transactions involve multiple stakeholders, negotiated terms, regulatory requirements and legacy systems that have been ...

Snowflake and OpenAI have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership aimed at embedding artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into Snowflake’s data platform, as enterprises push to move AI from experimentation into ...

The merger between Fifth Third Bancorp and Comerica Incorporated closed Monday (Feb. 2), forging an institution with roughly $294 billion in assets and signaling a reshaping how regional banks compete ...

QuickBooks will soon enable small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United States to offer their customers flexible payment options from Affirm. The capability will result from a new multiyear partnership ...

Corporate treasury is a game of anticipation. Teams forecast inflows and outflows, monitor balances and decide when to move idle cash into short-term yield or pull it back for operations. Artificial ...

U.S. Bank has introduced a Visa-backed credit card designed for small business owners. The U.S. Bank Business Shield Visa Card, announced Monday (Feb. 2) in a news release provided to PYMNTS. ...

The modern power grid works so well that most people never think about it. At least until it doesn’t. Lights turn on instantly, homes stay cool during heat waves and ...

The 21st century has flipped many longstanding business assumptions on their heads. Not the least of which is the traditional point of view that working capital is just a defensive ...

Even as policymakers continue to refine the rules of the road for stablecoins, earnings season offered a clearer view of how the payment networks are already moving from concept to ...

Payment processor Elavon, which is a U.S. Bank subsidiary, and Microsoft have teamed up to make it easier for businesses and professional service providers to securely send invoices and collect payments online. The companies collaborated ...

SoFi’s platform strategy was a centerpiece of fourth-quarter earnings on Friday (Jan. 30): Bring in members, persuade them to adopt multiple products, and let lending, payments and technology revenue compound. The ...

Digital financial services giant Nu received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a new national bank in the United States, according to ...

India’s Paytm is reportedly seeing a string of profitable quarters following some high-profile regulatory issues. Increasing sales and reduced costs have helped the FinTech rebound from those troubles, Bloomberg News reported ...

Card spending continued to climb in Mastercard’s fourth quarter, as the payments giant laid out a roadmap that reaches beyond plastic and taps agentic commerce and stablecoins as emerging rails ...

Two growth stories have traditionally defined cross-border commerce in the 21st century. The first is the unstoppable reach of the multinational corporate, the large enterprises that simply have no choice but ...

The cryptocurrency industry’s teenage years were tumultuous, to say the least. Crypto-native investors, builders and in-crowd stakeholders cycled through booms and busts, chased speculative manias and repeatedly clashed with regulators, all while ...