Payment innovations typically start by doing their best to answer three key questions. Can money move faster, more cheaply, with fewer human touches? The rise of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems, however, is moving those goalposts. As AI-driven systems begin to act with increasing autonomy,...
The 21st century enterprise is an increasingly porous one. Data flows more freely, decisions happen faster and the line between internal insight and external exposure is growing thinner. It’s because software is eating the world, as infamously predicted by the venture capital industry. Corporate tech...
Invoice-to-pay automation provider Edenred Pay has joined forces with business payments/cash management company Bottomline. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Jan. 14), will see the companies integrate Bottomline’s payment network Paymode into the Edenred Pay platform, extending the Edenred Pay Network to 800,000 vendors. “This partnership represents...
Digital payments in Latin America are transforming commercial transactions, as faster payment rails originally designed to broaden consumer access increasingly support business-to-business payments and deepen engagement with bank accounts. The region’s instant payments story has garnered the most digital and newspaper ink, with a focus on...
The B2B payments playbook has historically revolved around winning on cost. This made the landscape, in many ways, relatively transactional and adversarial. Buyers wanted the lowest cost per transaction; providers competed on price, volume discounts and reliability. Differentiation was thin, and switching costs, while operationally...
Financial technology company FIS has introduced its first agentic commerce offering. FIS says this new tool, announced Monday (Jan. 12), is the first to allow banks to “safely and securely” conduct commerce with artificial intelligence (AI) agents and card networks. “Financial services companies are integral...
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 Monday press release. “Australia represents a major milestone in Obol’s international expansion,” Obol Co-founder...
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 shift is the central takeaway from “B2B Platforms Expand Embedded Finance to Enhance Customer Experience,...
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 into the smallest possible moment where a human decides to pay. Agentic commerce, where...