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 31) press release. These agents will provide Ramp customers with greater payment flexibility and more...
Embedded finance is increasingly central to how B2B companies buy and sell, but it only works as well as the bank or FinTech behind it. New PYMNTS Intelligence research finds that trust and security are the deciding factors in who a B2B firm chooses to...
Cash, today more than ever, is the lifeblood of the enterprise. But paradoxically, many businesses treat cash like it’s still mostly paper. Even in 2026, today’s treasury teams rely on fragmented spreadsheets, delayed bank reporting, and static dashboards that provide a backward-looking view of liquidity...
BMO plans to introduce new 24/7 tokenized cash capabilities that will allow its institutional clients to move value more easily and securely. To offer these capabilities, BMO will leverage CME Group’s permissioned network on Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL), the bank said in a Tuesday (March 24) press release. This collaboration will...
Xero says U.S. small businesses can now manage and pay bills directly through its platform. The new offering stems from Xero’s purchase of Melio last year and integration of its bill payments technology into its platform, the company said in a Monday (March 23) new release. It also makes...
One wouldn’t expect a chef to prepare a meal by scrounging around disconnected kitchens where the ingredients were stored without labels. But, in many ways, that’s the task that businesses are unwittingly setting their treasury and finance teams out on. After all, while at its...
The B2B procurement experience once meant phone calls, email quotes and weeks of back-and-forth negotiations. The process was often slow, opaque and heavily dependent on relationships. Procurement teams contacted vendors, requested quotes, negotiated pricing and worked through a sales representative to complete the purchase. For...
Earnings season. drawing to close, has offered up a detailed look at how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping credit underwriting. In recent weeks, FinTech lenders reported that automated underwriting systems, with AI in the mix, are enabling them to process large numbers of applications and...
As software eats the business world, workflows across B2B are becoming data problems for chief financial officers. The shift reflects the broader truth about modern business that, as software eats the world, it also eats the workflow. Things that used to live inside their own...