Blockchain finance innovation focused so much on using technology to remove intermediaries that it hasn’t yet had time to ask many different questions. One of the more pressing ones, at least for the enterprise and institutional space, is: Once the intermediaries are gone, who takes...
French embedded invoice financing platform Aria has raised $283 million, much of it in debt. The company on Thursday (July 9) announced it had raised $8 million in a Series A extension and launched a $275 million debt facility to scale its capacity. Aria says the new...
The Federal Reserve confirmed this month that digital payments are winning the modernization battle against paper-based ones. For finance teams participating in the ecosystem’s ongoing transformation, however, that’s no longer the interesting part. Or even the challenging part. New U.S. payments data from the 2025...
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Sunlight’s Guy Ziv The consumer version of agentic commerce imagines an agent that knows what a person wants to buy. The B2B version has a bigger prize and a harder job. It has to know which invoice can be...
Cash visibility is largely a solved problem, at least for finance teams on the cutting edge. Dashboards, bank connectivity, treasury management systems and account rationalization projects now give chief financial officers a clear view of liquidity across the enterprise, even a global one. Usability is...
Real-time B2B payments may not be losing to skepticism. They are losing, for now, to payment systems that work just well enough. That is one of the more useful takeaways from the PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Ready and Willing: B2B Payments Are Headed for Real-Time Rails. Here’s...
In a winner-take-most market, firms typically want to be the ones winning and taking the most. Stable coins are shaping up to be exactly that kind of market. On Wednesday (July 1), Payward, the parent company behind the crypto platform Kraken, completed its acquisition of...
Businesses sent roughly 560 billion invoices in 2024. Fewer than a quarter were electronic. The rest were paper, or PDFs that may as well be paper, generated by one system, keyed into another, chased by phone, and settled weeks (months?) later by check. By the...
Median chief financial officer compensation in the S&P 500 reached $6 million in 2025, up from roughly $5.8 million in 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported June 22. At least seven chief financial officers were paid more than $100 million last year, with Tim McHugh,...