B2B Payments

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Stablecoins have struggled to gain traction in everyday corporate finance. The obstacle is not the technology itself. It is the way most companies are built to move money. Trying to fit ...

Squarefi emerged from stealth Tuesday (March 10) and announced its stablecoin-based financial infrastructure for global business payments. This infrastructure is currently serving FinTechs and global platforms, and it has reached $250 million ...

Priority Technology Holdings saw growth across its three segments in the fourth quarter as customers sought the payments and treasury solutions delivered by its connected commerce engine, Priority Chairman and ...

Merchant payments provider Citcon said it has formed a money movement-focused collaboration with Visa Direct. The partnership is designed to extend access to push payment capabilities in both U.S. domestic and ...

Commerce software firm Mirakl has joined forces with J.P. Morgan Payments. This collaboration, announced Tuesday (March 10) will combine Mirakl’s Nexus agentic commerce solution J.P. Morgan Payments’ infrastructure to power transactions as artificial intelligence (AI) agents ...

Even small improvements in payments behavior can materially affect working capital. At a time when capital efficiency has become paramount, companies are starting to pay closer attention to the trillions of ...

Mastercard has introduced an agentic AI offering designed to help small businesses. The company’s Virtual C-Suite, announced Tuesday (March 10), is a collection of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that serve as a “digital executive” ...

Watch more: Office of the CFO With Ben Ellis of Visa Commercial Solutions Picture a manufacturing company with $4 million sitting in accounts receivable, another $2 million tied up in supplier ...

The U.S. Treasury thinks that the current problem with crypto is its opacity, not its existence. A new policy report released to Congress from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday (March ...

Travelsoft Pay will leverage Mastercard’s Wholesale Program (MWP) to simplify B2B payments across the travel ecosystem. This collaboration will provide payments infrastructure that is secure, scalable and travel-native, the companies said ...

Anthropic has launched a marketplace for enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) tools, allowing companies with existing spending commitments to apply a portion of those funds toward Claude-powered applications built by third-party ...

The new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) startups is beginning to look very different from the one that defined the past two years. Instead of racing to build larger, large-scale models, ...

Anthropic sued the Department of Defense Monday (March 9) to block it from placing a supply chain risk designation on the artificial intelligence (AI) company, Reuters reported Monday. The company filed the lawsuit ...

First came the tariffs and their unpredictability, now come the refunds. As covered here last week, Judge Richard Eaton at the Court of International Trade ordered the U.S. Customs and Border ...

Small business-focused platform Affiniti launched a financing agreement with Column bank, according to a Monday (March 9) press release. The agreement will see Column provide financing to boost the growth of ...

Stablecoin payment platform KAST says it has raised $80 million in new funding. The company’s Series A round, announced Monday (March 9), will allow KAST to expand its product, designed to ease cross-border money movement ...

Real-time payments in North America are moving decisively from expansion to execution. Instant payment systems across the United States, Canada and Mexico are scaling, modernizing and broadening their reach. But ...

The month-end close remains one of the most labor-intensive processes in finance. It is the ritual sprint that follows every reporting period. Spreadsheets proliferate, data is pulled from multiple systems, discrepancies ...

Stripe has introduced new artificial intelligence (AI)-focused metering and billing capabilities inside Stripe Billing, giving software companies infrastructure to charge for AI consumption the way cloud providers charge for compute: ...

Global logistics company Maersk said Friday (March 6) that it has it has temporarily suspended some of its shipping services in the Middle East due to the conflict with Iran. Maersk has suspended its services that connect the ...

Cash retains a stubborn presence in small- and mid-sized businesses, but business credit cards are beginning to erode that dominance by addressing the operational pressures that keep firms tied to ...

OpenAI has released a new artificial intelligence model that it said is designed for professional work and is its most capable and efficient frontier model for that sort of work. The ...

Silverflow, a Dutch payment processing firm, announced on Thursday (March 5) that it had secured $40 million in Series B funding in an investment round led by Picus Capital. Several other ...

People tend to gravitate toward what’s easy and familiar. Businesses typically do the same. This reality creates an uncomfortable truth for small- to medium-sized business (SMB): if it’s even slightly inconvenient ...

A new Swift payments framework for retail transactions will begin its rollout by the end of June. The framework is designed to bring greater speed, affordability and predictability to cross-border retail ...

Every time an AI agent makes a purchase, three questions hang over the transaction. Did the consumer actually authorize this? Did the agent follow instructions exactly? And if something goes ...

Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are telling credit card issuers something they need to hear: Rewards don’t seem to be working. Or at least, they’re not very effective at enticing ...

The construction industry builds skylines, bridges and critical infrastructure, yet its own critical financial infrastructure often runs on outdated payment practices. Findings in the February 2026 edition of the B2B and ...

The U.S. government must begin refunding the $130 billion it collected in tariffs that were later determined by the Supreme Court to be illegal, a federal trade court judge ruled ...

Anthropic’s run-rate revenue has topped $19 billion, more than double the $9 billion it achieved about three months ago, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (March 3), citing unnamed sources. The artificial intelligence company’s ...

Payments/commerce technology Shift4 says it has completed its acquisition of Worldline’s North American subsidiaries. By purchasing Worldline’s Bambora North America business, Shift4 adds more than 140,000 merchants to its platform, the ...

Kraken says its digital asset bank has been granted a Federal Reserve master account. This approval, announced by the crypto exchange Wednesday (March 4), means that Kraken Financial is the first bank of its kind given ...

Standard Chartered named JPMorgan Chase’s former blockchain unit leader to oversee its payments business. Naveen Mallela will become the bank’s global head of payments starting May 4, according to a Wednesday ...

The “Growth Corporates Working Capital Index 2025–2026: Research Report Data Book” is a PYMNTS Intelligence report commissioned by Visa. The report examines how Growth Corporates are rethinking working capital management ...