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For decades, corporate treasury has been organized around a simple premise: Money moves slowly enough that decisions can wait. But real-time payment rails, always-on banking APIs, and continuous data flows ...

HSBC has appointed Jason Henderson as CEO for the United States, effective Tuesday (Dec. 9). Henderson has served as interim CEO since August and has been with the bank for nearly ...

Wells Fargo’s CEO said artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially influence company decisions on staffing levels. Speaking Tuesday (Dec. 9) at a Goldman Sachs-hosted conference, Charlie Scharf noted that his company has ...

Embedded banking provider ClearBank has launched a collaboration with foreign exchange (FX) and payments solutions company Finseta. The partnership, announced in a news release Tuesday (Dec. 9) is designed to deliver ...

Anthropic has teamed with consulting firm Accenture to help companies scale artificial intelligence (AI) projects. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Dec. 9), has resulted in the Accenture Anthropic Business Group, which will provide training to around 30,000 ...

Fifth Third Bank and Brex have partnered on a commercial card that will enable the bank’s commercial banking clients to access Brex’s intelligent finance platform. With access to the platform and ...

Safebooks has emerged from stealth and announced it raised $15 million in seed funding for its intelligent automation layer for quote-to-revenue finance operations. The Agentic Revenue Integrity (ARI) layer provides continuous ...

Watch more: Need to Know: Mastercard’s Marc Pettican Commercial card acceptance has been limited for years by myths and outdated assumptions. Acquirers have believed that commercial cards are too complex, too ...

Inflation expectations are steady, but households are not. The latest results from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released on Monday (Dec. 8th) show consumers believe prices will continue ...

Instant payouts are gaining traction as more recipients choose to receive money immediately. According to From Fast to Sticky: Why Instant Payouts Win Repeat Customers, a November 2025 PYMNTS Intelligence ...

Bank CEOs are reportedly scheduled to meet with senators from both parties on Thursday (Dec. 11) to discuss crypto market regulation. The CEOs of Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Bank of America ...

Food stores and retail establishments in New York are required to accept cash payments for in-person transactions after a bill was signed into law by the state’s governor. Governor Kathy Hochul ...

Finance leaders used to joke that accounts payable (AP) was where innovation went to die. Then, seemingly overnight, AP became one of the most aggressively optimized functions in the enterprise. A ...

Bank of America is introducing a retirement-focused digital platform for business owners and their workers. The new platform, announced Monday (Dec. 8), is designed to provide greater access to retirement plans ...

Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s money movement business, can now reach over 1.4 billion users of Weixin and WeChat. This capability is enabled by a collaboration of Mastercard Move with TenPay Global, Tencent’s ...

Stablecoins, once dismissed as crypto’s training wheels for traditional finance, have spent the past year pedaling into the financial mainstream. While they remain a relatively small, even puny, portion of global ...

Payments FinTech Airwallex has been valued at $8 billion after raising $330 million. The new funding, announced Monday (Dec. 8), will help finance the company’s ongoing growth in the U.S. and ...

Payment acceptance inside large suppliers has traditionally operated like a utility. As long as money showed up and could be matched to an invoice, the system was considered successful. But that ...

The 60 million workers who form the human infrastructure powering the U.S. economy are increasingly scraping just to get by. Yet this cohort, which PYMNTS Intelligence defines as earning under $25 an ...

Embedded capital FinTech Pipe is reportedly set to name a new chief executive. Luke Voiles, who became the company’s CEO in 2023, will be replaced by Pipe’s chief product officer Claurelle ...

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate Wednesday (Dec. 3) would enable the government to gather more data to better understand the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the workforce. The ...

At a moment when the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is dominated by headlines and the consumer race for viral features, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei delivered a counter-intuitive message at this ...

Payments infrastructure FinTech Stripe signed a definitive agreement to acquire Metronome, a usage-based billing platform for software companies. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison announced the agreement in a Tuesday (Dec. 2) post ...

Account analysis, a procedural chore tucked deep inside treasury operations, has traditionally been known mostly for producing dense monthly statements that few clients read and even fewer bankers enjoy explaining. Safe ...

Watch more: Live roundtable Verification systems built for yesterday’s fraud no longer work in today’s threat landscape. While firms could once assume that criminals needed skill, capital and patience to mount sophisticated ...

Companies may be chasing automation, but late payments and cash flow strain are pushing a deeper shift in how finance teams think about modern payables. The persistent drag of manual processing ...

Reported ransomware incidents and payments dropped in 2024 after law enforcement’s disruption of two high-profile ransomware groups, the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said Thursday (Dec. ...

SoFi Technologies is looking to fund additional business opportunities with an underwritten public offering of $1.5 billion of shares of its common stock. The digital financial services company also plans to ...

N3XT has launched as a fully blockchain-powered bank designed to enable clients to make instant, programmable B2B payments in U.S. dollars at any hour, on any day. The bank operates globally ...

Visa is attempting to help Syria build a digital payments ecosystem and integrate into the global digital economy. The company formed a partnership with the Central Bank of Syria and financial ...

Middle-market business-focused finance platform Flex raised $60 million in Series B funding. Flex’s annualized total payments volume has grown from $1 billion to $3 billion this year, according to a Thursday ...

The Clearing House says its three payment networks achieved record results in November. “The performance across the CHIPS, EPN, and RTP networks in November reflects the strong growth across all types of digital payments and the ...

Revolut opened a waitlist for what it called its first “ultra-premium” business card. Dubbed Titan, the card is designed for high-growth companies, the London-based FinTech’s Revolut Business arm said in a ...

Trade tariffs are only as effective as the oversight backing them. The tariff-heavy environment is fueling a surge in creative and illicit duty-evasion strategies. Last month, for example, the owner of an ...

Uruguay-based FinTech Prometeo on Thursday (Dec. 4) introduced Name Match, a new ownership-evaluation feature within its Bank Account Verification API designed to improve payment accuracy and reduce fraud for businesses ...

The great divide in American business has traditionally been defined by scale. The Fortune 500 enjoyed the advantages of large finance teams, sophisticated systems, and the operational resilience that comes ...

Modern professionals expect more from corporate card programs than ever before. As hybrid work takes hold and decentralized spending becomes the norm, professionals are pushing back on clunky programs that slow ...

The “2025 State of Fraud and Financial Crime in the United States” report, a PYMNTS Intelligence report commissioned by Block, reveals that the financial industry is navigating an increasingly sophisticated ...

The advertising and media industry has spent the past decade reinventing almost everything about how it reaches audiences. Except, remarkably, how it manages the money behind the work. Creative production ...

Business credit for large enterprises operates at arm’s length, guided by formal procurement flows and rigid financial controls. Everything is mediated through procurement teams, finance departments and policies. But small and ...

Digital commerce in Latin America has reached an inflection point as consumers move almost instinctively between browsing, buying and paying on mobile devices. Digital payments are displacing cash. For example, Pix, ...

Sports commerce and gaming platform Fanatics is formally entering the event-wagering sector with the launch of Fanatics Markets, a prediction market platform rolling out across 24 states this week, the ...

Global data and technology company Experian and United Kingdom RegTech firm CleverChain partnered to provide artificial intelligence-powered global due diligence intelligence to businesses that operate internationally. These due diligence reports, which ...

Payment acceptance doesn’t often get the same glamorous treatment as payment innovations do. But B2B firms know, or are coming to learn, that as the world goes digital and real-time, ...

Change doesn’t happen instantly, even when it comes to instant payments. Nearly a decade after The Clearing House launched the RTP® network, the United States’ first real-time payments network, the promise ...