B2B Payments

When small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) fail, the postmortem can often fixate on a single cause. With corporate bankruptcies, including those for SMBs, hitting a 15-year high during 2025 according to ...

Obol will begin offering its artificial intelligence-driven cash flow management platform in Australia in February. The company began accepting pre-release sign-ups from Australian businesses Monday (Jan. 12), it said in a ...

“Your margin is my opportunity” was Jeff Bezos’s way of describing Amazon’s hunger for bloated profit pools. In 2026, the real question isn’t whether margins get attacked, but who gets ...

The “2025–2026 Growth Corporates Working Capital Index: North America Edition,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa, examines how middle-market companies across the United States and Canada are rethinking working capital ...

Ripple received permissions that allow it to scale Ripple Payments, its cross-border payment solution that uses digital assets, in the United Kingdom. The permissions include approval of Ripple’s electronic money institution ...

This January is crunch time for the Senate on cryptocurrency market regulation efforts. After years of fits and starts on Capitol Hill, including key wins like the stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act, two ...

Allianz plans to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) throughout its insurance business around the world with the help of Anthropic. The financial services provider and the AI startup have formed a global ...

In 2026, the Labor Economy becomes one of the most important sources of economic growth — not despite automation, but because of it. As intelligence scales, demand accelerates for human ...

B2B platforms are discovering that embedded finance is becoming less a feature add-on and more a structural lever for how they grow revenue, deepen customer relationships and compete at scale. That ...

Payments history shows a familiar pattern. Innovations begin as features, become expectations and eventually harden into infrastructure. Credit cards, ACH and online banking all followed this trajectory. Those former innovations can now ...

Snowflake plans to acquire Observe to deliver artificial intelligence-powered observability that is built on open standards and designed for the requirements of AI-driven enterprises. The companies signed a definitive agreement for ...

Insurance fraud has always been a cost of doing business. What has changed is the speed, scale and sophistication with which it can now be committed. Deepfakes, synthetic voice technology ...

A regulatory decision on Google’s largest ever acquisition could be weeks away. European competition regulators will decide by Feb. 10 whether to allow the company’s $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity provider Wiz, according ...

For years, checkout has been consumer commerce’s single gravitational center. Innovations from one-click purchasing, digital wallets, autofill, all the way to buy now, pay later have been designed to compress friction ...

HSBC reportedly agreed to pay 268 million euros (about $312.9 million) to French tax authorities to settle charges of tax fraud. French prosecutors alleged that between 2014 and 2019, the bank’s ...

In 2026, Buy Now, Pay Later stops being a checkout feature and becomes working capital for the modern middle class, replacing overdraft and late fees as the default way paycheck-to-paycheck ...

When suppliers know payments will arrive on time and exceptions will be resolved swiftly, trust grows. The reason? It’s because, historically, the accounts payable (AP) function for many enterprise buyers has ...

The most telling signal in the latest PYMNTS Intelligence research is not how fast embedded finance is spreading, but how decisively companies are stepping away from building it themselves.  That conclusion anchors “Buy, Don’t ...

KeyBank will reportedly pay $7.77 million to settle allegations that it sought forgiveness for fraudulent loans from the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The settlement involved nearly $6 million of Small ...

The users of FreshBooks’ small business management software can now access Kick’s automated bookkeeping capabilities. This offer results from a new strategic partnership of FreshBooks and Kick, which is a bookkeeping ...

Biller Genie raised $22 million in a Series B funding round to expand its cloud-based accounts receivable (AR) automation platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The company will use the ...

Most organizations have a blockchain blind spot. And it’s in the word itself. For years, “blockchain,” and “crypto,” have been treated as a singular proposition. Companies were assumed to be either ...

Payment technology firm Modulr is launching in the United States in partnership with FIS. This collaboration marks Modulr’s first step in bringing its real-time, API-first payment capability to one of the ...

Blockchain infrastructure company Fireblocks has acquired TRES Finance, a crypto accounting and financial reporting platform. The purchase, announced on the Fireblocks blog Wednesday (Jan. 7), is designed to address the growing ...

Payhawk is reportedly seeking new funding that could double its valuation to roughly $2 billion. The Bulgarian expense management startup is in discussions to raise more than $100 million, Bloomberg News ...

The mechanics of many merchants’ B2B payments have long been a source of frustration rather than transformation. Negotiating interchange, switching processors or steering customers toward cheaper rails were the primary levers ...

Revolut’s international expansion plans could reportedly take the FinTech to Turkey. The company is in discussions to acquire Turkish digital bank FUPS, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Jan. 7), citing unnamed sources. No decisions ...

Two words typically define and rule the enterprise treasury management space: discipline and predictability. Cash flows are forecasted, liabilities are denominated in stable currencies, and transparency is something produced quarterly, often ...

Artificial intelligence-powered tools and commerce platforms are expanding the reach of small retailers, pulling niche, mission-driven products into the mainstream without requiring massive headcount or capital. That shift is playing out ...

The entrenched volatility of the United States’ ever-shifting tariffs strategy has become part of the structure of the nation’s economy, with major implications for consumer spending. So have ambiguity and ...

By now, the consumerization trend of the B2B space is old news. But if the 2026 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is any indication, the tides of innovation ...

AUMOVIO selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider to help the company accelerate the development of autonomous vehicles. The integration of agentic and generative artificial intelligence capabilities into ...

Ripple’s GTreasury acquired Solvexia, a provider of no-code financial automation, data management and analytics solutions. The deal is designed to expand GTreasury’s platform to automate reconciliation and regulatory reporting across treasury, ...

Citi and global working capital technology platform CredAble partnered to launch a platform that digitizes trade finance and electronic invoice validation globally. With this partnership, Citi enhanced its digital trade loan journey by ...

How money moves determines the shape of most B2B relationships. Traditionally, suppliers have had to deal with the short end of the stick in the buyer-supplier dynamic, with larger buyers often ...

All technologies ultimately grow up and mature, to the point where their usefulness is all that remains of their initial buzz. That very cycle is playing out now across embedded ...

Hackers and cyber criminals no longer look like characters in science fiction movies like The Matrix. They don’t hide behind hoodies, green text or zero-day exploits. Instead, they increasingly look ...

Stord has acquired Shipwire, the artificial intelligence (AI) fulfillment subsidiary of CEVA Logistics, expanding its global logistics footprint and strengthening its technology platform as brands accelerate adoption of intelligent end-to-end ...

Experian made its commercial data information available through its Ascend platform. The move offers “in-depth, granular information on the borrowing and repayment history” of more than 8 million businesses in the ...

Latin America has captured an outsized share of global attention in recent weeks as geopolitics, elections and monetary pressures sharpen focus on emerging markets. Despite the volatility in the region, however, ...

It’s taken nearly 17 years, but cryptocurrency has officially gone corporate. The once-Wild-West of Web3 is targeting the back office. Putting an exclamation point on the momentum shift, the big four ...

Africa-focused payments technology company Flutterwave has acquired open banking infrastructure provider Mono. “The transaction deepens Flutterwave’s long-term commitment to building a connected, interoperable financial system for Africa and positions open banking as a core ...

Independent sales organizations (ISOs) helped build the modern payments business by doing the unglamorous work: knocking on doors, swapping out terminals and winning accounts on pricing. But that playbook is running ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is reportedly putting its operations in Argentina on hold. “Today we notified users in Argentina that, following a review of our local operations, we have made the decision ...

China’s government is reportedly seeing increased tax revenue from online vendors. That’s according to a report Sunday (Jan. 4) by the Financial Times (FT), which also noted the pressure the country’s ...