Payments Innovation

Payments Innovation
U.S. Bank Avvance Offers Embedded Financing Options in New Portal
October 21, 2025

U.S. Bank Avvance launched a new developer portal that enables its partner financial institutions and FinTechs to provide their customers with embedded financing options. With the new API-driven integration options offered through the portal, institutions can embed point-of-sale financing into their platforms and tailor it...

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Embedded Finance Crosses the Tipping Point
October 21, 2025

Embedded finance is no longer a trend. It’s the next competitive frontier. A new PYMNTS Intelligence report produced in collaboration with Green Dot reveals that nearly every major company has already embedded financial services into their platforms to deepen customer engagement, strengthen loyalty and accelerate...

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YouTube Star MrBeast Seeks Trademark for Financial Services
October 17, 2025

MrBeast may be preparing to lend his name to a range of financial services. The YouTube star, whose real name is James Donaldson, filed an application to trademark “MrBeast Financial.” Filed Monday (Oct. 13) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the application seeks the...

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PYMNTS Turns Research Into a Real-Time Data Lab for Decision Makers
October 15, 2025

PYMNTS announced Wednesday (Oct. 15) the launch of the PYMNTS Intelligence Data Lab, a new platform that gives executives direct access to the proprietary research and data that power PYMNTS’ Trendscapes reports. PYMNTS Trendscapes are a series of 11 reports that benchmark consumer, business and...

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Firms Tap Orchestration to Tame Chaos of Too Many Payment Options
October 14, 2025

Watch more: Need to Know: Priority, Sean Kiewiet Modern commerce has never offered customers more ways to pay or get paid. From cards, ACH, wires, real-time payments, wallets, cryptocurrency and cross-border rails, the menu keeps expanding. For merchants and platforms, that optionality is a competitive...

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Stax Marks Switchover to ‘Full-Stack’ Payments Processor
October 07, 2025

Payment technology provider Stax Payments said in a Tuesday (Oct. 7) news release that it is now a “full-stack, end-to-end payments processor.” The company reached the milestone with the launch of Stax Processing, ushering in “a new era for the company, defined by greater autonomy,...

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Top Payments Leaders on Why Trust Is the New Currency in Real-Time Money
October 07, 2025

If 2025 has taught the payments and digital economy anything, it’s that volatility is now a feature, not a bug. Trade routes were replotted, consumer confidence wobbled, artificial intelligence left pilot, and new rails moved to production. As we step into Q4, the headlines aren’t...

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Making Lifetime Value the Daily Metric for Modern Payments
October 02, 2025

Watch more: Live roundtable The future of payments is not being built on shiny apps or clever interfaces. Instead, it is being built on reliability, scale and data. It is also being measured by how those building blocks are used to design products that deepen...

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HSBC Adds Real-Time Liquidity Tool for Treasurers
September 30, 2025

HSBC launched a cash concentration solution that enables clients to optimize liquidity globally and in real time and gain greater flexibility and control over cash resources. The On-Demand Cash Concentration (ODCC) solution is integrated into HSBC’s digital platforms and works via their self-service portal, the...