For decades, B2B payments have been treated as back‑office plumbing—necessary, unglamorous and largely unchanged. Invoices pile up, checks linger and reconciliation remains stubbornly manual. The result isn’t just inefficiency; it’s an experience that quietly drags on both buyers and suppliers, with little upside for anyone....
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Boost Payment Solutions’ Rinku Sharma The gap between collecting data and extracting advantage from it has become one of the defining competitive fault lines in modern business. “Most companies are sitting on an enormous amount of data today,...
Ramp has added a fleet of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its procurement platform. The new agents can triage employee requests, source vendors, review contract terms and handle compliance checks, the company said in a Wednesday (April 29) press release. Because the platform runs on...
When U.S. importers logged into the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s (CBP) new tariff refund portal this week, the interface looked, at first glance, refreshingly modern. The portal is built to process up to $127 billion in tariff refunds the U.S. owes businesses, offering structured fields,...
Emerging mid-market growth is getting brake-checked, but not just by internal systems. Increasingly, it’s the financial infrastructure and product offerings supporting them. Findings in a new report, “The Emerging Middle Market: When Operational Complexity Grows Faster Than Financial Infrastructure,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and i2c, show that 46%...
B2B payments are becoming a data-rich world. That’s creating new challenges for data-poor businesses. As of Saturday (April 18), Visa’s Commercial Enhanced Data Program (CEDP) officially phased out its Level 2 interchange program, replacing the legacy incentive structures with a new interchange system that rewards...
Will the “A” in AR (accounts receivable) and AP (accounts payable) ever stand for “Agentic?” The future may not be as far off as some CFOs believe. On Friday (April 17), for example, billing and revenue automation platform Zenskar raised $15 million in new funding to...
Few phrases in corporate history have proven as durable as “no one ever got fired for buying IBM.” It is shorthand for something deeper: when stakes are high decision-makers often choose what protects their own position over what maximizes institutional value. That calculus has not...
The underlying rails powering corporate payments are improving everywhere. Real-time payment networks have proliferated, card use is scaling as the economics start to make more sense, APIs have standardized access to financial services, and account-to-account (A2A) transfers have even gained traction as a cost-efficient alternative....