May 08, 2025
Shop Pay Grows 57% in Q1 as Shopify Says Wait...

Macro uncertainty abounds, but Shopify’s first-quarter earnings results showed double-digit growth in gross merchandise volumes (GMV) and a continued movement toward streamlined checkout online and further inroads made in offline...

May 08, 2025
How Forward-Flow Funding Is Transforming Small Business Lending

In the evolving world of FinTech, where algorithm-driven underwriting and alternative data are becoming the norm, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are constantly seeking for new ways to access working...

May 08, 2025
From Nice-to-Have to Nonnegotiable: How AI Is Redefining the Office...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the new electricity powering financial operations, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the office of the CFO. “It’s no longer a nice-to-have,” Steve...

May 07, 2025
Sezzle CEO Touts New Product Momentum and Enterprise Focus; Raises...

Fresh off Tuesday’s announcement that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) would not treat buy now, pay later (BNPL) companies like credit card networks, Sezzle’s first quarter 2025 results highlight...

May 07, 2025
Consumers Took on More Debt in March, Reversing Previous Paydowns

It looks like the paydowns on debt, for most U.S. households, were just a temporary lull. Last month, PYMNTS reported that consumers had cut down at least a bit on...

May 07, 2025
CFOs Move From Ledgers to Leaders as Back Offices Become...

First comes disruption, then comes transformation. That’s something enterprise CFOs and treasurers are finding out in real time. At the heart of this transformation is real-time data’s impact across the...

May 07, 2025
Mastercard Launches UK-Based Open Banking Pact With Cardstream

Mastercard has teamed with British FinTech Cardstream to promote open banking payments. The partnership will allow Cardstream to bolster its Payment Facilitation-as-a-Service (PFaaS) platform and allow customers to offer open banking payments to...

May 07, 2025
Balance Debuts Tool to Simplify Real-Time B2B Payments

B2B commerce infrastructure platform Balance has introduced a new real-time payments tool. Instant Bank Connection is designed to simplify ACH setup for buyers and speed payments to merchants, the company said in...

May 07, 2025
Coinbase Debuts Protocol Allowing AI to Make Web Purchases With...

Coinbase introduced a way to streamline internet-native stablecoin payments. The cryptocurrency exchange’s x402 is an open standard that employs the original HTTP “402 Payment Required” status code to embed stablecoin...