Independent sales organizations (ISOs) helped build the modern payments business by doing the unglamorous work: knocking on doors, swapping out terminals and winning accounts on pricing. But that playbook is running out of road. Merchants now expect processors to act as strategic partners, offering guidance...
A New Year brings new beginnings. For the B2B freight and logistics landscape, those new beginnings have been simmering in the background ever since President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, in combination with other macro factors, worked to upend the old assumptions underpinning much of the...
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 businesses think about cash flow, settlement certainty and liquidity timing. Recent PYMNTS reporting shows CFOs...
It used to be that as the world changed, B2B payments remained the same. But that era is ending, and the pace of B2B transformation is accelerating. B2B payments have evolved slowly because incentives were misaligned. Buyers prioritized cash control over speed, suppliers tolerated delays...
As the calendar turns, chief financial officers are once again sketching out New Year’s resolutions. Unlike the personal pledges to exercise more or read less email, however, these commitments are shaped by a clear view of cash and striking the appropriate balance between opportunity and...
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 batch cycles and toward continuous availability. For chief financial officers (CFOs), that shift is...
When leaders outside of finance think of treasury management … they typically don’t. For much of its history, the enterprise treasury function has been taken at face value as something operational, essential and largely invisible. But, as 2025 proved, that mindset is coming to an...
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) has launched Mastercard‘s mobile-first virtual card number (VCN) solution for businesses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The VCN platform enables enterprises and government entities to issue and manage virtual corporate cards and integrate them into mobile wallets, Mastercard said in a Monday (Dec. 22) press release....
The biggest change in payments and commerce over the past five years has been the speed at which technology moves, and the speed at which it’s being adopted. As artificial intelligence (AI), real-time payments, and global commerce converge, financial functionality will become even more deeply...