The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is modernizing its ability to detect financial misconduct. That normally wouldn’t be news, except that so many U.S. companies haven’t modernized their own ability to perform financial workflows. The agency’s fiscal 2026 enforcement results, released Tuesday (Nov. 10), reported...
The opportunity of stablecoin settlement lies in the fact that money no longer needs to wait for banks to open. Visa’s Thursday (Nov. 12) stablecoin expansion, through a partnership with Anchorage Digital supporting Western Union’s USDPT token, brings that opportunity into focus. The arrangement will...
Business payments have a bookkeeping problem that’s been keeping them manual for centuries. Millennia, even. In 2026, after one company approves an invoice, someone often must authenticate into a supplier portal, enter payment credentials and complete the transaction. Even two digitally native, forward-thinking CFOs doing...
FinTechs are using cross-border acquisitions to add a service to payment relationships merchants already have. For a lender, that means buying a provider whose payment option is already on a retailer’s checkout page. For a processor, it means buying the accounts and payout services businesses...
Citizens Bank has introduced a digital platform designed for its commercial banking clients. Citizens Treasury Intelligence includes “multi-bank cash visibility, analytics, forecasting and workflow tools” designed to help customers manage liquidity, the bank said in a Monday (Nov. 9) news release. “The platform shows where...
The Huntington National Bank launched a treasury management platform that brings together treasury operations distributed across banks, enterprise resource planning systems and FinTech providers, the company said in a Thursday (Nov. 5) press release. Developed in collaboration with Kyriba, a FinTech focused on liquidity performance,...
Wall Street is getting ready to modernize post-trade plumbing and experiment with tokenized real-world assets. But does that mean the corporate order book is moving onto the blockchain? The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday (Nov. 3) cleared the way for perpetual futures tied to...
Watch more: Need to Know With Tungsten Automation’s Peter Hantman The buyer-supplier network has always had a gap between its promise and its payoff. The buyer picks the platform. The supplier may pay to participate. In return, the supplier gets the buyer’s invoice format, the...
Watch more: Need to Know With Bottomline’s Katie Elliott A familiar email conversation can give a fraudulent payment request all the credibility it needs. A fraudster inside a business email account can study invoices, approval limits and payment timing, then join an existing conversation with...