B2B Payments

Stablecoins seem to have found their winning enterprise narrative. Having evolved past their history as crypto-native instruments, stablecoins are instead becoming programmable financial primitives embedded within institutional workflows. At least that’s ...

Bad actors love a good opportunity. And the enterprise cybersecurity landscape has given them several in just the past few days. A cluster of seemingly unrelated incidents ranging from exposed enterprise ...

Watch more: Gig Workers Want Real-Time Pay for Real-Time Costs The expansion of the gig economy has coincided with a fundamental change in how workers think about income, as wages are ...

Shopify is making some of its B2B features available to merchants on all of its plans. These features were previously available only to merchants on the Shopify Plus plan, but they are now being rolled ...

Crypto going corporate is shining a spotlight on the sector’s more technical components. The growing institutional embrace of blockchain finance is prompting some Fortune Global 500 companies to get into the ...

A growing share of small businesses are not leaving credit unions yet, but they are preparing to. That is the underlying signal in the PYMNTS Intelligence and Velera report, “Credit Union ...

Sellers using Amazon’s shipping services will be required to pay a fuel and logistics-related surcharge, the company said in a Thursday (April 2) post on Amazon Seller Central. The surcharge will amount to 3.5% and will be calculated on ...

Operating under a nation’s laws doesn’t mean that a business is necessarily complying with them. Innovation, after all, can often outpace regulation. The digital asset sector is well aware of this ...

The U.S. Treasury will meet with insurance regulators to discuss the private credit industry. Those meetings will kick off next month and involve domestic and international insurance regulators, the department said in a Wednesday ...

The first few months of 2026 have been marked by a period of corporate retrenchment. CFOs are increasingly tightening budgets, shrinking headcounts and targeting greater operational efficiency. Morgan Stanley announced last ...

Companies that spent years building up bitcoin treasuries are now reportedly exiting the market. As Coindesk reported Thursday (April 2), publicly-traded companies were once viewed as long-term bitcoin holders, but are now increasingly ...

The back office has always been the part of the enterprise that nobody glamorizes, and everybody depends on. Payroll runs. Taxes get filed. Compliance boxes get checked. And then the ...

SoFi is expanding its blockchain efforts with the debut of its Big Business Banking tool. The new offering is designed to let businesses manage fiat and cryptocurrency banking from a “single, nationally ...

Real-time payments are moving from a technical upgrade to altering how money is actually experienced, managed and valued across the economy. The expansion of real-time rails is beginning to alter expectations ...

Proposed changes to federal banking regulators’ capital rules would encourage access to small business credit, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said Tuesday (March 31). In remarks delivered at a Consumer Bankers Association event in San Diego, ...

Stablecoins are increasingly being viewed by corporate finance teams as less a disruption than an addition. They are infrastructure, plumbing, pipes, a new rail and so on and so forth. On Wednesday ...

Ripple has introduced what it calls the first treasury management system with native digital asset capabilities. The system, dubbed Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury, rolled out Wednesday (April 1) within ...

The New York Fed has named Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors’ Federal Advisory Council. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced Fraser’s appointment on Tuesday (March 31), ...

In the wake of sweeping layoffs, Block‘s Jack Dorsey sees AI replacing corporate middle managers. Dorsey, the financial services/tech company’s co-founder and CEO, put forth this idea Tuesday (March 31) in ...

Retail runs on inventory management. And inventory management increasingly runs on artificial intelligence. Historically, retail forecasting and replenishment have been constrained by lagging indicators and siloed systems, forcing teams to make ...

“The Preference Match Imperative: Aligning Payout Delivery With Recipient Expectations,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and Ingo Payments collaboration, examines a simple yet increasingly important issue in modern disbursements: whether people receive ...

Stampli has debuted a tool to help organizations glean more insights from their invoice data. Stampli Deep Finance, announced by the finance operations platform Tuesday (March 31), analyzes invoice data to uncover things like ...

For small businesses, access to credit is, in many cases, available. The problem is that many of the products offered do not reflect how those businesses operate. PYMNTS Intelligence, in tandem ...

Visa and financial operations platform Ramp are introducing artificial intelligence (AI) agents that automate corporate bill pay, reduce manual work, curb spend and unlock savings, the companies said in a Tuesday (March ...

Commercial payments firm Convera and blockchain-based enterprise solution provider Ripple have teamed up to offer crypto-enabled payment and treasury solutions for businesses. This collaboration will make cross-border payments faster and more reliable, especially in corridors ...

Last April, President Donald Trump declared “Liberation Day” in imposing new tariffs. Nearly one year later, many American businesses are feeling anything but liberated, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (March ...

Foreign exchange (FX) startup OpenFX has raised $94 million in a new funding round. The company’s Series A round, announced Tuesday (March 31), comes as it works to use stablecoins for ...

The globalization of commerce is an umbrella term defined by the movement of goods, capital and talent. But a fourth dimension is increasingly reshaping the terrain: data. Unlike containers or currencies, data ...

Cross River Bank parent company CRB Group raised $50 million to continue expanding its embedded finance capabilities. The company will use the new funding to scale its crypto capabilities, accelerate its artificial ...

JPMorgan Chase has launched a program aimed at boosting economic opportunity around the U.S. The “American Dream Initiative” will focus on six areas, with an early emphasis on small businesses, the banking ...

Consumer expectations have a pesky way of hardening into demands. And those demands have habit of shaping entire sectors. For FedEx, the demand-led transformation of shipping and logistics is not simply ...

Business payments are poised for modernization as the entrenched position of cash and checks will be whittled down by digital, flexibility methods of small business payments. The February PYMNTS Intelligence report ...

B2B CFOs sit at the increasingly complex intersection of treasury, technology, vendor management and enterprise risk. But that’s not all that finance leaders are tasked with overseeing above the balance ...

The Treasury Department is reportedly planning talks with insurance regulators about the private credit market. The talks between the Treasury and domestic and international insurance regulators are being prompted by concerns about liquidity, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming sales across the B2B ecosystem, but not the way companies think. While CEOs talk about AI’s impact across automated outreach, predictive pipelines and agents that can ...

Plaid’s chief financial officer says the financial data network is not racing to go public. Preparations for the initial public offering (IPO) are ongoing, but Seun Sodipo told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ...

As more Americans earn income outside traditional employment, payouts have quietly replaced paychecks. And it’s against this backdrop that the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Beyond Speed: The Case for Instant Payout Adoption ...

Innovative technologies often rarely succeed in the way their earliest advocates predicted. And findings in “Waiting for Certainty: Why Most CFOs Are Holding Back on Crypto and Stablecoins,” the latest installment of ...

Within the corporate realm, treasury is expected to anticipate, allocate and act, turning liquidity into a managed input. That transition toward proactive management is forcing finance leaders to reconsider a ...

Goldman Sachs wants U.K. small businesses to embrace artificial intelligence. The banking giant held a gathering last week in Birmingham to instruct small businesses on the dangers of ignoring AI, Bloomberg ...

Square is now extending credit to more sellers after improving its underwriting models to assess the creditworthiness of those with non-standard revenue patterns. The new underwriting models enable the company to ...

Mastercard is reportedly looking to divest much of the real-time payments business it acquired from Denmark’s Nets Group in 2019, marking a significant strategic pivot away from certain European instant ...

A finding from a new PYMNTS security report suggests that the technology expanding fraud risk in business payments may also hold its most promising solution. The report, “Embedding Security: Designing Fraud ...

The Home Depot has made two more moves in its effort to add to the products and services it offers Pro customers. The home improvement retailer’s subsidiary SRS Distribution entered into ...

The upcoming changes driven by artificial intelligence (AI) played a role in the decision of Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey to step down from his role, Quincey told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” ...