Getnet, Santander’s global merchant payments platform, now enables merchants to accept payments initiated by artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The company’s new infrastructure can handle payments initiated by merchants’ own AI agents or by those operating through conversational platforms, Getnet said in a Tuesday (June 9) press release. Getnet’s solution is...
The chief financial officer’s advantage in 2026 is not access to cheaper capital. It’s the ability to extract more value from capital already sitting inside the business. The companies doing that most effectively are converting cash nearly 20 days faster than their peers, according to...
Operational stability is a business goal. It is not a business strategy; merely the outcome of a successful one. And the latest PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Ready and Willing: B2B Payments Are Headed for Real-Time Rails. Here’s How They’re Getting There,” a collaboration with The Clearing House,...
Government tech procurement has mostly come down to price, performance and who could land the contract fastest. The EU just signaled that era is ending. With its new Tech Sovereignty Package unveiled on Tuesday (June 2), the European Commission is repositioning procurement as an instrument...
Two years ago, ERP modernization was still easy to postpone. Many companies even delayed them repeatedly, wary of cost overruns, operational disruption, and the sheer complexity of replacing deeply embedded systems. Today, ERP systems sit at the center of how companies manage navigational poles, such...
The United Kingdom’s newest payments legislation has little to do with checkout buttons, digital wallets or card networks. Instead, it targets getting paid on time, a problem that businesses have complained about for decades. The Commercial Payments Bill introduced in Parliament late last month may...
Airwallex has added a billing solution to its global payments and financial offerings. The new Airwallex Billing includes tools for invoicing, subscription management and usage-based billing, allowing users to adopt the ones that are relevant to them today and add other billing models as needed, the company said in a...
The most important innovations across B2B payments are, counterintuitively, the least visible to end users. After all, while consumers tend to notice things like payment speed immediately, enterprises care just as deeply about what happens before and after the transaction. As the Thursday (May 28)...
Digital transformation and now artificial intelligence were supposed to make enterprise buying resemble consumer commerce: frictionless, automated and self-directed. That prediction turned out to be correct, but only for half of the B2B sector. The buyers. Procurement teams are using AI tools to compress entire...