Payments

Watch more: Need to Know With Capital One’s Nat Hewett Small business spending continues to underpin broad economic activity, but the systems that support that spending have room for improvement. Many owners ...

Banks are increasingly chasing a new kind of relationship with their enterprise clients. As BNY stressed to investors during its Thursday (April 16) first quarter 2026 earnings call, instead of simply ...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a consent order against Chicago-based The Federal Savings Bank on April 2, requiring the bank to correct alleged deceptive acts or practices. The OCC said in a Thursday ...

Following a cyberattack, Drift Protocol is relaunching with Tether’s USDT stablecoin as its settlement layer. The cryptocurrency exchange, which had previously used Circle’s USDC as its settlement layer, announced the reboot ...

The global payments system is entering a messy middle phase where innovation is abundant, coordination is scarce and geopolitics are reshaping the rules in real-time. The scale alone underscores the stakes. ...

American Express is set to acquire Hyper, an agentic expense management company. The deal, announced Thursday (April 16), is designed to add to American Express’ artificial intelligence expertise across its commercial ...

Anthropic is reportedly ready to begin offering its Mythos AI model to British banks. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup is expanding “Project Glasswing,” which offers select organizations early access to the AI, ...

Confidence in AI depends on strong governance and explainability, WEX Chief Risk and Compliance Officer Annie Drew writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “AI Runs Payments. Governance Decides What Happens ...

Synchrony is launching a three-part interview series aimed at a central challenge facing small businesses: how to grow sales without putting more pressure on margins or adding friction for customers. Titled ...

Bank of America’s first-quarter results, released Wednesday (April 15), show U.S. consumer spending holding steady against macro volatility, with more than $1 trillion in consumer flows moving through the bank’s ...

The Treasury Department has been holding one-on-one meetings with private credit leaders for months and is now asking for written responses to its requests for data, Punchbowl News reported Wednesday (April 15), citing unnamed ...

In today’s interconnected financial system, digital vulnerabilities do not remain localized. They propagate. Fraudsters now operate with the speed, scale and coordination of multinational enterprises, leveraging emerging technologies and regulatory ...

Anthropic has reportedly begun charging enterprise customers based on their levels of AI use. That’s according to a report Tuesday (April 14) from The Information, which characterizes the change as the latest sign of ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Paysafe’s Rob Gatto  Payments are crucial to businesses’ bottom lines. But despite their importance, the bottom line is traditionally where payments have fallen on the ...

A Court of International Trade judge said Tuesday (April 14) that the U.S. government expects to begin processing claims for refunds from tariffs on Monday (April 20), The Wall Street ...

Latin America’s digital economy is advancing at a steady pace, yet much of the region’s commercial activity still operates beyond formal financial channels, leaving payments firms to contend with a ...

The underlying rails powering corporate payments are improving everywhere. Real-time payment networks have proliferated, card use is scaling as the economics start to make more sense, APIs have standardized access ...

Banking is becoming less about transactions and more about systems. Payments are becoming less about movement and more about orchestration. And the role of CFO is evolving accordingly. At least, that ...

Oracle Financial Services has introduced new embedded AI capabilities and agents for the banking world. The new offerings, announced Tuesday (April 14), are designed to offer financial institutions and corporate banks ...

The “C” in “CFO” might as well have stood for “Constraints” for much of the finance function’s history. Nowhere has that been more true than in corporate treasury, where timing ...

Small business optimism dipped below its 52-year average for the first time in a year in March, driven by the Iran war and the subsequent surge in oil prices, the ...

Embedded finance firm Synctera has acquired compliance startup Cable. The deal, announced Tuesday (April 14), is designed to complement Synctera’s offerings in compliance areas such as know your customer (KYC). “What Cable offers sits on the other ...

Instacart says it has acquired Colombia-based grocery technology firm Instaleap. The deal, announced Tuesday (April 14), is designed to promote Instacart’s global expansion while adding to its technological capabilities. “We see a meaningful opportunity to expand ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Mastercard’s Mark Barnett Small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) know best that growth doesn’t happen in a straight line. But that message hasn’t always translated into how ...

Private equity firm STG plans to enable the development of an artificial intelligence (AI)-native less-than-truckload (LTL) solution with its acquisition of freight management software provider Carrier Logistics Inc. (CLI). STG’s investment in ...

Goldman Sachs kicked off the earnings season on Monday (April 13) with conviction: private credit is still worth the risk, even as the market makes that bet riskier. In a call ...

PayPal is bringing Brazil’s Pix payment system to its small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers. “With Pix now available through PayPal Complete Payments, small businesses can offer Brazil’s most widely used payment method ...

Watch more: Need to Know With WEX’s Eric Frankovic Embedded payments are altering how money moves through digital commerce, but the same design that removes friction for users also opens new ...

What started as a convenience play in consumer apps is becoming something much bigger in business: a way for platforms to turn payments, credit and cash flow tools into part ...

Anthropic is reportedly catching up to rival OpenAI as more businesses adopt its tools. Close to a third of American businesses paid for the company’s artificial intelligence offerings last month, the ...

Walmart’s marketplace is playing a key role in its efforts to grow its general merchandise business, Walmart Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey said Wednesday (April 8). Speaking at the JPMorgan 12th Annual ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Mastercard’s Raj Seshadri The opportunity for progress in B2B payments has never been hard to spot. Trillions of dollars still move through processes built on ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Billtrust’s Dave Ruda What is relied upon can often get taken for granted. That’s the position the accounts receivable (AR) function has traditionally found itself ...

Early-stage venture firm Collide Capital has raised an oversubscribed $95 million Fund II that will back FinTech, supply chain and “future of work” companies. This capital raise brings Collide’s total assets ...

Oracle is accelerating its push into agentic artificial intelligence, unveiling new capabilities across financial crime compliance, human resources, customer experience, finance and supply chain applications as competition intensifies around AI-driven ...

The enterprise software landscape has sold finance leaders a simple promise: better automation would come from smarter machines. Optical character recognition would read invoices more accurately, machine learning models would classify ...

Walmart-backed OnePay is making a push beyond consumer finance and into the workplace, striking a new partnership with Workday that puts its financial tools directly inside employer benefit systems. The move ...

The days of treating digital adoption like a point solution are over for treasury teams. Instead, digital transformation increasingly signals a deeper structural shift in how companies, and particularly their ...

Credit union service organization (CUSO) Velera has expanded its Fintech Engagement Program to include FinTech partners that will offer credit unions discounted pricing, waived fees or other exclusive benefits. Velera announced ...

PayPal now enables users of the global visual communication platform Canva to accept payments directly from their digital or printed designs. This capability is provided by the integration of PayPal Payment Links into Canva, ...

Few industries have fates as entwined with their regulatory guardrails as crypto. After all, few industries are as unregulated as crypto has traditionally been. At least in the U.S. But as ...

The Treasury Department has proposed a rule that would require permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs) to adhere to anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions compliance obligations. The proposal was included in a joint proposed rule issued Wednesday (April 8) ...

The greatest enemy of operational uncertainty is the enterprise technology that promises to streamline, optimize and automate it away. Most organizations, as a result, believe they have a firm grasp on ...

Every few years, a new threat makes enterprise software look fragile. Cloud computing was supposed to kill it. Mobile was supposed to bypass it. It survived both. Now, artificial intelligence ...

Finance platform BILL has announced an expansion to its Supplier Payments Plus offering. The new capabilities extend the tool’s ability to automate and “intelligently orchestrate payments and cash application for enterprise ...