B2B Payments

As banks and investment firms move more operations into cloud-based identity platforms, collaboration suites and SaaS ecosystems, attackers are no longer trying to breach the network. They’re logging in. A campaign ...

Every fraudulent customs declaration can eventually become a financial transaction. And as investigators connect invoices, ownership records and money flows across global supply chains, that is a connection that’s becoming ...

Five weeks into Takis Georgakopoulos’ tenure as CEO, Fiserv used the first quarterly report under its new leader to reset expectations for 2026. The payments and banking technology provider lowered ...

Priority Technology Holdings’ Payables segment led the company’s revenue growth in the second quarter, thanks to an increase in buyer-funded revenues, according to a presentation released Thursday (Aug. 6) in ...

Payments solutions platform Nayax is the latest FinTech seeking an American banking charter. The Israel-headquartered company announced Thursday (Aug. 6) that it had applied to the Connecticut Department of Banking to establish Nayax America Bank Inc., a ...

There are as many different business workflows as there are businesses. So why have most businesses been viewing AI as something monolithic? Most businesses, at least, outside of wholesale distribution. New ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York plan to launch a pilot survey of the U.S. private credit market. The organizations expect to launch ...

Payments/financial services technology company Fiserv has teamed with accounts receivable automation firm Stuut Technologies. With this collaboration, the companies will help eligible enterprise finance teams modernize manual and “fragmented” B2B receivables processes where available, ...

Proposed rulemaking by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. focuses on how payment stablecoin issuers should meet Bank Secrecy Act and sanctions obligations. During the comment period, which closed Tuesday (Aug. 4), ...

Mastercard launched a partnership with stablecoin infrastructure network Borderless.xyz, according to a Wednesday (Aug. 5) press release. The collaboration will examine how Mastercard Crypto Credential’s standards-based framework can support trusted interactions ...

Maximum emerged from stealth Monday (Aug. 3) and said it raised $30 million in a seed round to build an artificial intelligence (AI)-native operating system for banks. Maximum Founder Randy Fernando ...

Santander says the Federal Reserve has approved its acquisition of Webster Bank. The $12 billion deal for the Connecticut-based Webster is now expected to close Aug. 20, Santander said in a ...

Accounts payable has no shortage of automation. However, the July edition of the Business Payments Tracker® Series, a PYMNTS Intelligence collaboration with WEX, revealed that functionality alone cannot modernize payment operations. Businesses ...

Marqeta’s second-quarter earnings call Tuesday (Aug. 4) highlighted embedded finance, multinational issuing, stablecoins and commercial payments as the company’s primary strategic growth initiatives, even as overall growth is expected to ...

Thredd is helping Pliant expand its commercial credit/embedded finance platform to the U.S. As the issuer processing platform noted in a Tuesday (Aug. 4) news release, Pliant offers businesses in Europe physical and virtual credit ...

Wells Fargo reportedly hopes to launch tokenized deposits for corporate/commercial customers. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Aug. 4) from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which calls the offering the latest example of how ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-related developments could be driving around one-third of America’s economic growth. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Aug. 4) from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which pointed to three ...

Stablecoins make perfect sense on paper. It goes without saying that if you replace a chain of correspondent banks with a blockchain transaction, then cross-border payments should become faster, cheaper ...

Instant payments are no longer simply a payments product. They are becoming commercial banking infrastructure. That’s the case for financial institutions and their clients who are savvy to what real-time infrastructure ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Bretton AI’s Will Lawrence Every artificial intelligence (AI) tool a bank adds to solve one risk problem gives it another vendor to vet, another platform ...

Bill payment solution provider Paymentus posted record revenue in the second quarter as service providers sought to secure customer loyalty by providing a satisfying billing experience, Paymentus Founder and CEO ...

Banking-as-a-service has traditionally had sponsor banks for doing everything themselves: issuing accounts, holding deposits, processing payments and financing lending. But latest earnings from two sponsor-bank operators suggest some flexibility in the ...

Twenty-five states filed a lawsuit Monday (Aug. 3) asking the U.S. Court of International Trade to declare the Trump administration’s latest tariffs illegal, the Office of the New York State Attorney General said in a Monday press ...

Payments and treasury technologies have traditionally been positioned by the banks powering them as purely infrastructure. The same way baseball players need a field to play ball, the thinking went, ...

Amazon joined several of its fellow tech giants in the $3 trillion club, Reuters reported Monday (Aug. 3). The company’s market value exceeded that figure for the first time Monday after ...

Visa is set to acquire Israel-based fraud intelligence company BioCatch for $2.4 billion. The all-cash deal, announced Monday (Aug. 3) aims to complement Visa’s cyber, fraud, risk and security solutions and ...

Mastercard says it has completed its acquisition of cryptocurrency infrastructure platform BVNK. The deal is designed to help Mastercard offer more choice in “how people and businesses exchange value by enabling ...

Digital asset infrastructure company BitGo introduced BitGo Link, a way to connect institutional clients’ exchange accounts to its platform, according to a Monday (Aug. 3) news release. BitGo Link is a ...

AutoRek has expanded its artificial intelligence-powered reconciliation capabilities and its global presence by acquiring Grath. The acquisition adds Grath’s reconciliation and regulatory compliance software and infrastructure to AutoRek’s solutions that automate ...

For many small businesses, revenue growth starts with a tap on a smartphone screen, because that’s where most customers already are. This finding comes from “The SMB Growth Gap: What Leaders ...

Stablecoins change how liquidity is managed, not simply how payments move. And findings in the July 2026 edition of the Payments Innovation Tracker® Series, a PYMNTS Intelligence collaboration with Paymentology, reveal how that ...

Watch more: Digital Shift With Boost Payment Solutions’ Dean M Leavitt As PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster told a podcast audience for last year’s B2B event, nothing is boring about B2B payments ...

The Federal Reserve is seeking comment on a proposal that it said would modernize rules for mutual banking organizations and increase their flexibility to raise capital. The proposal would update rules that ...

Real-value testing (RVT) of tokenization of wholesale cross-border payments demonstrated an average time from payment initiation to settlement of about 80 seconds, according to a report by the Bank for ...

Artificial intelligence is making software vulnerabilities easier to find. That’s not necessarily making companies safer. AI-powered security systems can analyze enormous codebases, identify previously unknown flaws and generate findings at a ...

Bank of America plans to enhance its cybersecurity capabilities in the United Kingdom and globally by acquiring England-headquartered information security specialist MDSec Consulting Limited. The bank expects the transaction to be ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued to stop New York’s attempt to halt the operations of prediction market Kalshi, which was announced Friday (July 31). “Rather than seek reasoned ...

For years, the elevator pitch for B2B payments modernization was speed. Faster approvals. Faster settlement. Faster reconciliation. Faster access to working capital. However, moves from Mastercard and American Express point to ...

Assigning work to agents and agentic workflows requires clear rules and defined decision rights, Bottomline Global Head of Product Colin Swain writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Building the Agent-Ready Payments ...

Credit unions have a gift heading into the artificial intelligence era: Their business customers are telling them exactly what to build first. Research from PYMNTS Intelligence, with Velera, titled “The Practical ...

Western Union is sharpening its focus on digital and artificial intelligence as it faces unexpected headwinds, executives said Thursday (July 30). The company did not see the improvement in its Americas ...

American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) has launched an agentic integration in Anthropic’s artificial intelligence assistant, Claude, that enables both travelers and enterprise AI agents to book and manage ...

While Mastercard reported another quarter of double-digit revenue growth Thursday (July 30), executives devoted much of their second-quarter earnings discussion to explaining why agentic artificial intelligence could strengthen the economics ...

Pagaya Technologies’ second-quarter results demonstrated that an artificial intelligence (AI) lending network can generate sharply higher profits even as it earns less on each dollar moving through the system. “Our record ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Green Dot’s Renata Caine Embedded finance has been able to put financial products almost anywhere. The trend is now one of verticalization, according to Renata Caine, ...