Companies may be chasing automation, but late payments and cash flow strain are pushing a deeper shift in how finance teams think about modern payables. The persistent drag of manual processing is creating unexpected momentum for virtual cards, which could reshape B2B payments. The PYMNTS...
Revolut opened a waitlist for what it called its first “ultra-premium” business card. Dubbed Titan, the card is designed for high-growth companies, the London-based FinTech’s Revolut Business arm said in a Thursday (Dec. 4) press release provided to PYMNTS. It combines spend management and travel...
Trade tariffs are only as effective as the oversight backing them. The tariff-heavy environment is fueling a surge in creative and illicit duty-evasion strategies. Last month, for example, the owner of an Indonesian jewelry company, USB Gold, and two employees were charged with taking part...
Payment acceptance doesn’t often get the same glamorous treatment as payment innovations do. But B2B firms know, or are coming to learn, that as the world goes digital and real-time, B2B payment innovations and their acceptance mechanisms are becoming intimately intertwined. Historically, suppliers implemented payment...
The innovation curve in B2B payments used to be measured in decades. Not years. But the key words here are “used to be.” As 2025 enters its final month, the distance between B2B payments innovation and enterprise adoption has collapsed, thanks in large part to...
The consumerization of B2B payments has become a driving force in the industry. At its center sits the transition of embedded finance from experiment to maturity. “It used to be sort of a theme or a dream … and now a few years into it,...
Finance orchestration platform Payhawk has joined forces with Spain-based eInvoicing company Invopop. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Nov. 25), expands Payhawk’s eInvoicing capabilities throughout Europe, letting finance teams receive, validate, approve and pay structured electronic invoices directly within the platform, without additional systems or integrations. As Payhawk notes in a...
Traditionally, compliance has been shorthand for constraint. However, that’s never been the case across embedded finance, particularly across its promise to empower B2B platforms to offer payments, lending, insurance and treasury services directly inside their workflows. B2B firms usually navigate a fragmented landscape. Unlike consumer...
For decades, the mechanics of business payments barely changed. Wires, ACH batches and card networks moved money from point A to point B with only modest variations in speed and supporting information. The real differentiator across this historical ecosystem was financial strategy: how companies managed...