B2B Payments

Lending platform Slope has teamed with Amazon to offer financing to the eCommerce giant’s merchants. The program, open to eligible Amazon sellers in the U.S., is designed to offer these merchants ...

Citi formed a data and analytics pact with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). The collaboration is designed to “deploy LSEG’s data, analytics and workflow solutions at enterprise scale” while bolstering ...

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Faster payments are no longer held back by technology or regulation. They are held back by perception. That is the central tension explored in Reality Check: Fact vs. Fiction in Real-Time Payments ...

Blockchain’s founding principles centered on being “trustless”: A system where cryptography and consensus replaced intermediaries, regulators and centralized control. While that framing resonated in crypto-native circles, it rang alarm bells ...

MassPay has integrated Visa Direct with its global payout orchestration platform to enable faster payouts to cards, bank accounts and digital wallets. By enabling MassPay to offer direct integration with Visa’s global network, the ...

German digital bank N26 has chosen a chief executive amid new regulatory sanctions. Mike Dargan, currently group executive board member for UBS, will become N26’s new CEO starting in April 2026, ...

Money movement and financial services are underpinned by a timeless question: who is trusted to keep the books, and at what cost? Digital assets and blockchain have for years tried to ...

Temu has launched an app that enables Shopify merchants to list products on Temu’s marketplace directly from their Shopify accounts. The app allows these merchants to access Temu’s Local Seller Program ...

PayPal said it is ready to venture deeper into small business lending. The company applied to the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to create PayPal ...

Nvidia has acquired SchedMD and said it will continue to distribute that company’s open-source Slurm software. Slurm, a workload management system for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), is used ...

Digital wallets, compliance tooling and payment innovations are helping chief financial officers move from checkers to chess with their cross-border strategies. As money and data move faster across digital platforms, and ...

Watch more: Wage to Wallet: WorkWhile’s Alan Armen The consumer still drives the U.S. economy, but a new Wage to Wallet Index™ report suggests that a growing share of that spending ...

A new PYMNTS Intelligence report shows that tariffs are no longer a temporary policy shift. They are now a structural force shaping how America’s middle-market CFOs rethink investment, budgeting and ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: Boost Payment Solutions’ Rinku Sharma When payments infrastructure makes the news, it’s usually because something has gone wrong. But the resilience of payments infrastructure, the ...

Switzerland-based AMINA Bank has integrated Ripple Payments to reduce the friction between blockchain and traditional banking rails and enable the bank’s clients to move funds seamlessly. This integration makes AMINA Bank, ...

Embedded finance is transforming not just how transactions happen but where financial relationships begin. What once sat at the edge of apps and platforms is now embedded directly into the ...

Enterprise artificial intelligence is entering a new phase as companies that spent the past two years experimenting with large language models are now moving those systems into live environments. It’s ...

Crypto just got chartered. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Friday (Dec. 12) conditionally approved applications for new national bank trust charters to five applicants from the ...

Across the Middle East, governments, banks and global payments firms are treating digital payments as foundational infrastructure for future economic activity. The focus is not limited to consumer convenience or ...

Brazil’s Pix real-time payments network already moves more money than cards or cash in Latin America’s largest economy. Now, the same digital rails that let Brazilians scan a QR code ...

For business-to-business (B2B) platforms, embedded finance has moved from a niche add-on to a core engine for revenue growth, loyalty and operational efficiency. However, there is a clear divide between platforms ...

JPMorgan has successfully arranged a U.S. commercial paper issuance on the Solana blockchain. The issuance, performed for Galaxy Digital Holdings and purchased by Coinbase and Franklin Templeton, marks one of the ...

Dutch financial services provider Mollie is acquiring UK bank payment company GoCardless. The deal, announced Thursday (Dec. 11), is designed to create a single provider of card payments, local methods and ...

The business landscape can be a battlefield. In the zero-sum, winner-takes-most landscape of commerce, companies have traditionally competed on product innovation, customer experience and cost discipline. But, a quarter century into ...

England’s Starling Bank is reportedly considering the acquisition of another British lender. That’s according to a report Thursday (Dec. 11) from the Financial Times (FT), which characterizes this effort as an overhaul to the digital ...

Ant International, HSBC and Swift say they have tested a new cross-border payment solution. The initiative involved the cross-border transfer of tokenized deposits using ISO 20022 messaging standards, with the help of Swift’s global messaging ...

Bank of America is touting a new milestone for its CashPro Forecasting solution. During 2025, this tool helped more than 3,000 companies save upwards of 250,000 hours, the banking giant announced Thursday (Dec. 11). According ...

Vertical software companies have built thriving businesses by deeply understanding niche industries. Education technology platforms, for example, manage enrollment, tuition schedules and financial aid. Healthcare systems coordinate scheduling, billing codes and ...

Global logistics has become defined by a fundamental paradox: Like many of the world’s critical commercial functions, the sector is caught between two worlds, the analog past and digital future. Global ...

B2B commerce platform AppDirect has acquired vCom, an IT lifecycle management provider for midsize companies. The closure of the $100 million deal, announced Wednesday (Dec. 10), will see vCom’s offerings embedded ...

The Treasury Department reportedly aims to give its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) the ability to veto other regulators’ findings that a bank has violated the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). With ...

Check usage continues to decline each year as consumers and businesses shift toward digital tools. At the same time, significant numbers of users still depend on checks for convenience, record ...

Watch more: How the Emerging Enterprise Business Is Accelerating Time to Cash The pace at which emerging enterprises convert sales into cash has become a defining measure of resilience and competitiveness. ...

Lumanu has extended its payments and compliance platform for the global creative economy to deliver real-time payments to creators and contractors in more than 195 countries and territories. The company did ...

BNY Mellon announced Monday (Dec. 8) that the bank will integrate Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise into its enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) platform Eliza, further expanding the bank’s use of agentic ...

For decades, corporate treasury has been organized around a simple premise: Money moves slowly enough that decisions can wait. But real-time payment rails, always-on banking APIs, and continuous data flows ...

The era of artificial intelligence (AI) experimentation in business is officially over. A new report from OpenAI, “The state of enterprise AI 2025,” released Monday (Dec. 8), doesn’t just chronicle growth; ...

HSBC has appointed Jason Henderson as CEO for the United States, effective Tuesday (Dec. 9). Henderson has served as interim CEO since August and has been with the bank for nearly ...

Wells Fargo’s CEO said artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially influence company decisions on staffing levels. Speaking Tuesday (Dec. 9) at a Goldman Sachs-hosted conference, Charlie Scharf noted that his company has ...

Embedded banking provider ClearBank has launched a collaboration with foreign exchange (FX) and payments solutions company Finseta. The partnership, announced in a news release Tuesday (Dec. 9) is designed to deliver ...

Anthropic has teamed with consulting firm Accenture to help companies scale artificial intelligence (AI) projects. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Dec. 9), has resulted in the Accenture Anthropic Business Group, which will provide training to around 30,000 ...

Fifth Third Bank and Brex have partnered on a commercial card that will enable the bank’s commercial banking clients to access Brex’s intelligent finance platform. With access to the platform and ...

Safebooks has emerged from stealth and announced it raised $15 million in seed funding for its intelligent automation layer for quote-to-revenue finance operations. The Agentic Revenue Integrity (ARI) layer provides continuous ...

Watch more: Need to Know: Mastercard’s Marc Pettican Commercial card acceptance has been limited for years by myths and outdated assumptions. Acquirers have believed that commercial cards are too complex, too ...