February 26, 2025
Raise Secures $63 Million to Build Blockchain-Backed Gift Card Program
Raise secured $63 million in a funding round to accelerate its efforts to bring gift cards and loyalty programs on-chain. The company will use the new capital to further develop...
February 26, 2025
Payment Data Is Back-Office Automation’s Hidden Gold Mine
In the world of B2B payments, the shift from paper-based payments to digital solutions is often framed as a move toward efficiency and cost reduction. But beneath the surface lies...
February 26, 2025
Payments Move From Checkbox to Strategic Differentiator for ISVs
To paraphrase a saying attributed to Charles Darwin, it’s those most responsive to change that ultimately survive. And from the 19th century Galapagos to the 21st-century global payments landscape, those...
February 25, 2025
‘PayPal 2.0’ Aims at AI-Powered Commerce and B2B Expansion
PayPal Holding’s senior management laid out a strategy at its annual Investor Day on Tuesday (Feb. 25) that will bolster omnichannel efforts under its “unified commerce” approach, as CEO Alex...
February 25, 2025
Expensify Opens Travel Management Tool to All Customers
Financial management app Expensify says its travel management tool is now available to all customers. The company first announced Expensify Travel last year, opening a waitlist to early select customers....
February 25, 2025
Ascenda and Galileo Partner on Card Loyalty Programs
Ascenda and Galileo Financial Technologies have partnered to help banks, FinTechs and other brands launch card loyalty programs. This collaboration brings together Ascenda’s loyalty and customer engagement solutions that facilitate...
February 24, 2025
What B2B Firms Can Learn From Big Tech’s Cybersecurity Initiatives
Decentralized digital identity solutions are becoming a cornerstone of cybersecurity. No one knows this better than some of the world’s biggest tech firms, like Microsoft and IBM, which are using...
February 24, 2025
Vistra and Airwallex Team on Embedded Finance to Boost Business...
Business services provider Vistra and financial platform Airwallex announced a partnership on the Vistra platform. Via the collaboration, Vistra will integrate Airwallex’s business account and embedded finance products into its...
February 24, 2025
JPMorgan Spending Additional $50 Billion on Private Credit Effort
JPMorgan Chase is reportedly earmarking another $50 billion for its direct lending efforts. It’s part of an effort by the banking titan to gain a greater foothold in the fast-growing private...
Business cards offer numerous benefits to small businesses over other financing, including easier qualification, significantly higher credit limits, and perks such as cash back, travel and mileage-earning rewards. The latest “B2B and Digital Payments Tracker®” explores why 63% of small business owners using cards as their primary startup funding attribute their success to this method of financing.
Real-time payments already account for at least 15% of B2B payments volume in the insurance, manufacturing and retail industries. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 500 executives across the retail, insurance, manufacturing and real estate sectors examines how these industries are using real time payments today and their plans for the future. Read more in “The State of Real-Time Payments,” a collaboration with The Clearing House.