As the calendar turns, chief financial officers are once again sketching out New Year’s resolutions. Unlike the personal pledges to exercise more or read less email, however, these commitments are shaped by a clear view of cash and striking the appropriate balance between opportunity and...
Payments are no longer defined by when money is expected to arrive, but by when it actually does arrive. Across banking and enterprise finance, real-time settlement is shifting payments away from batch cycles and toward continuous availability. For chief financial officers (CFOs), that shift is...
When leaders outside of finance think of treasury management … they typically don’t. For much of its history, the enterprise treasury function has been taken at face value as something operational, essential and largely invisible. But, as 2025 proved, that mindset is coming to an...
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) has launched Mastercard‘s mobile-first virtual card number (VCN) solution for businesses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The VCN platform enables enterprises and government entities to issue and manage virtual corporate cards and integrate them into mobile wallets, Mastercard said in a Monday (Dec. 22) press release....
The biggest change in payments and commerce over the past five years has been the speed at which technology moves, and the speed at which it’s being adopted. As artificial intelligence (AI), real-time payments, and global commerce converge, financial functionality will become even more deeply...
It’s a turbulent landscape out there for B2B enterprises. And B2B platforms have a front-row seat to the environment. Persistent inflation in services and inputs, supply chains uncertainty, higher-for-longer interest rates and growing geopolitical risk are all putting pressure on both buyers and suppliers. For...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: Boost Payment Solutions’ Rinku Sharma When payments infrastructure makes the news, it’s usually because something has gone wrong. But the resilience of payments infrastructure, the quiet engine of foundational work that keeps B2B payments systems running, might just have...
For business-to-business (B2B) platforms, embedded finance has moved from a niche add-on to a core engine for revenue growth, loyalty and operational efficiency. However, there is a clear divide between platforms that have embraced embedded finance as a strategic lever and those that remain hesitant...
Bank of America is touting a new milestone for its CashPro Forecasting solution. During 2025, this tool helped more than 3,000 companies save upwards of 250,000 hours, the banking giant announced Thursday (Dec. 11). According to a news release provided to PYMNTS, the tool automates what is typically...