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Consumers and businesses expect payments to be fast, seamless and secure, Visa Commercial Solutions SVP, Global Head of Commercial Product Gloria Colgan writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Halftime 2025: ...

Watch more: Martini Puts a Real-Time AI Corporate Credit Risk Model in Everyone’s Hand Martini.ai isn’t just a clever name; it’s the model that could rewrite how corporate credit risk is ...

It’s a familiar story in finance: new asset class emerges, technologists overpromise, regulators hesitate, and suddenly someone in the CFO’s office has to take a meeting about it. Compared to ...

Sovos and Tungsten Automation have partnered on a compliant accounts payable (AP) solution that is designed to streamline the procure-to-pay and compliance lifecycle. The combination of the Tungsten Automation Platform and ...

Papaya Global and Worksome have partnered to help businesses of all sizes manage and pay freelancers, contractors and gig workers globally. The collaboration brings together Papaya’s platform that helps enterprises pay ...

The Financial Stability Board, a global financial watchdog, is calling for greater oversight of the multitrillion-dollar shadow banking sector. The FSB issued a report Wednesday (July 9) on the growth of ...

Clarity AI has acquired ecolytiq to expand the capabilities of its artificial intelligence-powered platform that helps individuals and organizations make more sustainable choices in their consumption and investments. Ecolytiq’s platform, which ...

FinTech Ant International is weighing stablecoin license applications in several countries. Ant Global Manager of Platform Tech Kelvin Li said at a conference in Singapore Wednesday (July 9) that Ant — ...

The high-stakes world of healthcare procurement is also a high-cost one. In just the past decade, manual processes, opaque supplier relationships and spreadsheet-based inventory tracking have gone from harmless inefficiencies ...

When one thinks about hospitality innovation, it’s easy to picture smart rooms, contactless check‑in or artificial intelligence (AI)‑powered concierges. What often goes unnoticed is the labyrinth beneath the surface: invoice‑processing teams ...

BNPL partnerships help banks and merchants meet the needs of consumers and navigate regulations, Splitit CEO Nandan Sheth writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Halftime 2025: Charting the Future of Payments.”   The first ...

Würk has integrated DailyPay’s On-Demand Pay product into its payroll, human resources (HR) and compliance platform for highly regulated industries like cannabis and gaming. This integration allows the users of Würk’s ...

The most taxing problem facing America’s small businesses? Taxes. That’s according to the latest findings from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) optimism index, released Tuesday (July 8). The organization’s monthly report showed a ...

Worldpay is expanding its Worldpay for Platforms offering to meet rising embedded finance demand. The expansion, announced Tuesday (July 8), brings Worldpay for Platforms to Canada and the U.K. and deepens ...

Watch more: Latin America’s Digital Wallet Surge Forces Banks to Expand Financial Inclusion Latin America, long perceived as a region where cash was king and financial innovation moved at a deliberate ...

The way people use technology is changing, creating a complex situation for banks and retailers. Even though more devices are connected, many people are happy with the basic technology they have. ...

America’s often-overlooked engine of commerce, the middle-market business landscape, is shifting its innovation experiments down the priority list. The biggest reason? Trade policies, geopolitical scuffles and economic volatility are, and ...

B2B companies want a simple, secure, consumer-like digital payments experience, Greg Castro, president of PayTrace by North, writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Halftime 2025: Charting the Future of Payments.”   PayTrace ...

Cross-border transactions have historically been the Achilles’ heel of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). While digital tools and eCommerce platforms have lowered barriers to finding international customers and suppliers, sending and ...

Australian payments company Monoov has teamed with payroll firms Payroo and SuperAPI. The partnership, announced Monday (July 7), is centered around a one-click payroll and superannuation solution, designed to update “antiquated ...

The transaction limits tied to real-time payments have been marching steadily higher. For banks using the instant payments rails, the stage has been set for a summer surge in higher dollar-value ...

eCommerce logistics platform HIVED has raised $42 million in new funding. The U.K.-based company said its Series B round, announced Monday (July 7), will allow it to scale nationwide as it ...

Chief financial officers are recognizing the need to upskill their workforce to ensure their teams can effectively harness artificial intelligence (AI). According to a June 2025 PYMNTS Intelligence report, “The Agentic ...

Mastercard is expanding its small business platform with a new offer from Fiserv’s Clover. As part of this partnership, the company is offering the first 1,000 small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) ...

Freightos and Seko Logistics are expanding their partnership to improve the speed and accuracy of multimodal shipments worldwide. Seko is scaling its use of Freightos’ 7LFreight and WebCargo forwarder solutions, ...

Mastercard has teamed with self-service payment portal Pay4You on a spend management solution for European companies. The collaboration, announced Monday (July 7), employs Mastercard’s Virtual Card Network (VCN) technology, and is designed to guarantee card acceptance, ...

Brazil has become a global leader in mobile shopping adoption, with its consumers consistently demonstrating high engagement in digital commerce activities. The 2025 Global Digital Shopping Index: Brazil edition, commissioned ...

While real-time networks like The Clearing House’s RTP® network have surpassed 1 billion transactions, a critical gap persists. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Real-Time Leap: Closing the Gap Between Receiving and ...

As firms consolidate and specialize, they need innovative payment solutions, Maverick Payments VP of Product Justin Downey writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Halftime 2025: Charting the Future of Payments.”   The ...

Telehealth has cemented itself as a standard delivery channel in U.S. healthcare, especially among young generations. However, while care has gone digital, payment systems largely have not. For providers, this growing ...

Despite widespread digital transformation efforts across industries, a new report reveals that many businesses, particularly small- to medium-sized firms, continue to grapple with the costly and pervasive inefficiencies inherent in ...

Real-time payments are emerging as the modern standard for transactions that are not only fast and efficient but also convenient. By cutting down transaction times from days or hours to mere ...

Qonto, a finance management solution for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and freelancers, has submitted a banking license application with France’s banking supervisor, the ACPR. If a license is granted, it ...

Ramp has launched new, enhanced corporate cards for expense management that integrate with leading accounting platforms and eliminate manual expense workflows. The new cards feature spending controls that can be customized by ...

A boom in the use of dollar-backed stablecoins could destabilize the global payment system, Amundi Asset Management Group Chief Investment Officer Vincent Mortier told Reuters in a report posted Thursday ...

The battle between Amazon and Walmart is hardly recognizable today relative to 10 years ago. As artificial intelligence (AI) and automation become the invisible infrastructure underpinning global commerce, the Amazon-Walmart rivalry, ...

Real-time payments are expanding as financial institutions (FIs), FinTechs and central banks introduce new solutions to meet growing demand. Innovations in North America, Europe and Latin America are making instant ...

Recent data underscores a durable trend: Consumers expect and demand instant access to their money, particularly for larger sums, and exhibit clear preferences for where this money lands — primarily ...

AI-powered platforms can eliminate friction and prevent fraud in accounts payable systems, Edenred Pay General Manager Alex Hoffmann writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Halftime 2025: Charting the Future of ...

Campfire raised $35 million in a Series A funding round to continue building its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that is designed to support companies from startup ...

Tailor raised $22 million in a Series A funding round to support its headless enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform designed for retail businesses. The company will use the new funding to ...

Ripple reportedly filed an application for a national banking license Wednesday (July 2) with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). A national trust bank charter would place Ripple’s ...

Frictionless commerce has increasingly been the holy grail of online and in-store commerce. Embedded payments, integrated into platforms, are visible, and require a moment of click-through and interaction. Invisible payments happen ...

Accounts payable automation firm DASH and compliance solutions provider S4i Systems have agreed to merge. The combination, announced in a Wednesday (July 2) news release, forms SMRTR, which offers automation and compliance services to manufacturing and food ...

London-headquartered payments firm Wise reportedly filed an application to create a national trust bank in the United States. The application was filed June 16 with the U.S. Office of the Comptroller ...