Disbursements

Global professional services firm Aon said Monday (March 9) that it collaborated with Coinbase and Paxos to complete a stablecoin insurance premium payment. Aon worked with Coinbase and Paxos to settle ...

Real-time payments in North America are moving decisively from expansion to execution. Instant payment systems across the United States, Canada and Mexico are scaling, modernizing and broadening their reach. But ...

In the wake of natural disasters, the speed of financial recovery is often as critical as the initial emergency response. Historically, victims of hurricanes, wildfires, and floods have had to ...

A growing body of evidence suggests that businesses may be looking in the wrong place for payment fraud risk. That was the central finding of PYMNTS Intelligence’s January Money Mobility Tracker®, ...

There is a young woman in Chicago who earns money five different ways before noon on a Tuesday. She drives a rideshare app in the morning, drops a delivery on ...

Consumers are embracing instant payments, which offer them speed, security and peace of mind that their money is exactly where it needs to be, when it needs to be. Corporates, however, ...

Dots raised $8.9 million in a Series A funding round to continue expanding the capabilities of its global payouts platform for marketplaces and service-based businesses. The round brings the total amount ...

Nearly one-third of millennials depend on transactional payouts from gig work and tips as their main source of income, replacing traditional paychecks with a piecemeal approach to earning that demands ...

FinTech Stripe has spent much of its operational history making it easier for merchants to plug into the financial system. Now, it is trying to redesign the system itself. According to ...

The Clearing House (TCH) says its instant payment system has achieved two new records. The organization’s RTP® Network recently marked single-day records for both payment volume and value, The Clearing House ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With The Clearing House’s Sal Karakaplan A single word rarely captures the trajectory of an entire industry. Yet during periods of structural change, language often ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Serena Smith of i2c  As the payments industry moves deeper into 2026, executives are confronting a widening gap between innovation and coherence. New rails ...

Embedded finance platform Jaris expanded its partnership with payments firm Paysafe, according to a Thursday (Feb. 19) press release. The collaboration makes Jaris’ instant payouts solution available to the tens of ...

For more than two decades, financial technology companies have been racing to expand a financing model invented by General Motors over a century ago. The model established in‑house finance arms ...

Earnings season rarely yields a single organizing narrative, yet the most recent cycle has revealed a narrative tied to cards: Issuance is increasingly positioned as embedded infrastructure. Across investor materials and ...

The four horsemen of construction project delays typically appear as rain-soaked jobsites, supply shortages, labor gaps or permitting snags. However, the latest Money Mobility Tracker®, a PYMNTS Intelligence collaboration with Ingo ...

Money mobility solutions provider Ingo Payments partnered with money transfer FinTech Elektra USA. The collaboration is designed to let Elektra’s customers in the United States, members of the Hispanic community in ...

For many small businesses, cash flow is no longer a background concern. It is the defining constraint shaping daily operations and long-term viability. Delayed receivables are becoming more common and ...

Instant payments have moved from novelty to norm, reshaping how consumers expect to receive money across payroll, insurance, rewards and platform disbursements. Nearly three in four consumers have now received ...

American workers drive spending, and rely on timely payments, Ingo Payments CEO Drew Edwards writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off.” Ingo Payments was born ...

Instant payments adoption continues to rise, but fraud concerns remain a powerful brake on momentum. As artificial intelligence drives more sophisticated attacks, businesses and financial institutions (FIs) are reassessing how ...

The so-called “modern” paper check has been around for centuries. Before the United States ever gained its independence, the Bank of England in 1717 was using pre-printed forms. Fast forward over ...

With policyholders facing more choices, more transparency and fewer switching barriers, insurers are discovering that retention is no longer protected by inertia but earned through performance at the most emotional ...

As consumers grow accustomed to instant digital interactions in nearly every aspect of their lives, the timing of when money arrives is no longer a back-office detail. It is a ...

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 ...

Liquidity stress in the U.S. economy is no longer a background condition. Instead, it is the mechanism reshaping how different segments experience work, confidence and financial progress. That was the core insight ...

Payments history shows a familiar pattern. Innovations begin as features, become expectations and eventually harden into infrastructure. Credit cards, ACH and online banking all followed this trajectory. Those former innovations can now ...

Payment technology firm Modulr is launching in the United States in partnership with FIS. This collaboration marks Modulr’s first step in bringing its real-time, API-first payment capability to one of the ...

Latin America has captured an outsized share of global attention in recent weeks as geopolitics, elections and monetary pressures sharpen focus on emerging markets. Despite the volatility in the region, however, ...

PYMNTS Intelligence has long spotlighted the value that real-time payments bring to consumer disbursements and emergency use cases. Beyond those use cases, faster funding is steadily becoming part of how ...

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 ...

In 2025, payments, banking and commerce crossed a quiet but consequential threshold. Technologies that once promised efficiency or differentiation became nonnegotiable foundations, reshaping how money moves, how risk is managed ...

Watch more: Need to Know: i2c’s Marjorie Tart Real-time payments are becoming a baseline expectation in a digital economy where consumers and businesses want money to move instantly, predictably and transparently, ...

Instant payouts are no longer just about speed. They are reshaping how companies and consumers define an ongoing financial relationship. That is the central finding of “Beyond Speed: The Case for ...

When times get tough, payments need to get easier. That was the case in 2025 for cross-border payments. In a year marked by geopolitical uncertainty, supply-chain reconfiguration and persistent pressure on ...

Bitso Business’s stablecoin-powered payments platform is on track to process $82 billion in annualized total payment volume (TPV) this year. The company has also seen growth in local real-time payments in ...

Predictions of a cashless world have circulated for decades, yet physical money continues to anchor daily commerce across much of the globe. Visa’s 2026 outlook highlighted just how large that footprint ...

Construction timelines depend on precision, coordination and confidence, but slow payments continue to undermine all three. Across the industry, contractors report that late disbursements are far more damaging than weather ...

Faster payments are no longer held back by technology or regulation. They are held back by perception. That is the central tension explored in Reality Check: Fact vs. Fiction in Real-Time Payments ...

A new PYMNTS Intelligence report suggests that the most meaningful trend in instant payments is not how fast money moves but how recipient behavior is reshaping the economics of payouts ...

Finance leaders used to joke that accounts payable (AP) was where innovation went to die. Then, seemingly overnight, AP became one of the most aggressively optimized functions in the enterprise. A ...

The Clearing House says its three payment networks achieved record results in November. “The performance across the CHIPS, EPN, and RTP networks in November reflects the strong growth across all types of digital payments and the ...

Cumbuca, a Y Combinator-backed FinTech, is betting that global payment players want into Brazil faster than the licensing process allows. In a Wednesday (Dec. 3) news release, the company said it ...

Change doesn’t happen instantly, even when it comes to instant payments. Nearly a decade after The Clearing House launched the RTP® network, the United States’ first real-time payments network, the promise ...

Many companies have spent the past decade refining customer experiences, yet one component still moves slowly: how fast people can access their money. PYMNTS Intelligence data indicate that while businesses continue ...