Payments

Geography is becoming as important as strategy in how well companies manage working capital. Different regions are improving efficiency in different ways and seeing different results. The latest 2025/26 Growth Corporates Working ...

When one thinks of fast payments, manufacturing isn’t the first sector to come to mind. It’s the same for simple payments and healthcare; or not meeting their customers’ needs and ...

Predictions of a cashless world have circulated for decades, yet physical money continues to anchor daily commerce across much of the globe. Visa’s 2026 outlook highlighted just how large that footprint ...

Revenue platform Sequence has secured $20 million in new funding. The company says its Series A round, announced Tuesday (Dec. 16), will allow it to continue what it calls the work ...

Cryptocurrency industry leaders and lobbyists are reportedly meeting with Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and other lawmakers Wednesday (Dec. 17) to discuss the crypto market structure bill. Scott and the ...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) plans to make its last-mile delivery service available to shippers of all sizes. After offering a limited number of very large customers delivery service direct from its 18,000 delivery destination units ...

Google Pay launched a digital credit card designed for everyday transactional use in India. The new Flex by Google Pay is built on India’s RuPay payment network, powered by the country’s ...

It may seem counterintuitive, but forward-thinking businesses spend much of their time thinking about the “right now.” Sector leaders and chief financial officers don’t have time to wait around for grand ...

Freightos founder and CEO Zvi Schreiber has decided to step down from his role as CEO to pursue other entrepreneurial interests. Schreiber will leave the role Jan. 31, 2026, but will ...

Construction timelines depend on precision, coordination and confidence, but slow payments continue to undermine all three. Across the industry, contractors report that late disbursements are far more damaging than weather ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: i2c’s John Bresnahan Businesses are finally (and finely) honing their 21st-century competitive edges. The result? Advancement across the marketplace today is becoming increasingly dependent on operating ...

An attack that begins with a trusted vendor rather than a masked hacker is becoming one of the most persistent risks facing medium-sized companies in the United States. That is the ...

Real-time money movement is rapidly moving toward always-on status. The Federal Reserve has laid out a path to expand the operating days of its largest wholesale settlement rails, pushing final ...

The threats snowballed in 2025. Cyberattacks stopped being episodic crises and instead became a persistent condition of doing business. A persistent and costly condition. So much so that one of the ...

Mastercard partnered with regional FinTech Ottu to expand access to local and global payment methods across four Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, including Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. The collaboration brings ...

BBVA said it has formed a strategic partnership with OpenAI to embed generative artificial intelligence (AI) directly into the bank’s core operations, moving beyond pilot programs and positioning AI as ...

Citi formed a data and analytics pact with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). The collaboration is designed to “deploy LSEG’s data, analytics and workflow solutions at enterprise scale” while bolstering ...

Mastercard and LoanPro plan to launch a program that will enable lenders to deliver installment loans through virtual and physical cards. The Loan on Card program is set to launch in ...

U.K. digital bank Monzo says it is set to acquire British mortgage broker Habito. The company says the deal, announced Tuesday (Dec. 16), will make Monzo the first U.K. bank to ...

Watch more: Digital Shift: Conduit’s Kirill Gertman Six months is an eternity in crypto. It’s also becoming one in stablecoins, where the last half-year has pushed the market from a single, ...

Faster payments are no longer held back by technology or regulation. They are held back by perception. That is the central tension explored in Reality Check: Fact vs. Fiction in Real-Time Payments ...

MassPay has integrated Visa Direct with its global payout orchestration platform to enable faster payouts to cards, bank accounts and digital wallets. By enabling MassPay to offer direct integration with Visa’s global network, the ...

German digital bank N26 has chosen a chief executive amid new regulatory sanctions. Mike Dargan, currently group executive board member for UBS, will become N26’s new CEO starting in April 2026, ...

Money movement and financial services are underpinned by a timeless question: who is trusted to keep the books, and at what cost? Digital assets and blockchain have for years tried to ...

Temu has launched an app that enables Shopify merchants to list products on Temu’s marketplace directly from their Shopify accounts. The app allows these merchants to access Temu’s Local Seller Program ...

PayPal said it is ready to venture deeper into small business lending. The company applied to the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to create PayPal ...

Nvidia has acquired SchedMD and said it will continue to distribute that company’s open-source Slurm software. Slurm, a workload management system for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), is used ...

Digital wallets, compliance tooling and payment innovations are helping chief financial officers move from checkers to chess with their cross-border strategies. As money and data move faster across digital platforms, and ...

Watch more: Wage to Wallet: WorkWhile’s Alan Armen The consumer still drives the U.S. economy, but a new Wage to Wallet Index™ report suggests that a growing share of that spending ...

A new PYMNTS Intelligence report shows that tariffs are no longer a temporary policy shift. They are now a structural force shaping how America’s middle-market CFOs rethink investment, budgeting and ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: Boost Payment Solutions’ Rinku Sharma When payments infrastructure makes the news, it’s usually because something has gone wrong. But the resilience of payments infrastructure, the ...

Embedded finance is transforming not just how transactions happen but where financial relationships begin. What once sat at the edge of apps and platforms is now embedded directly into the ...

Enterprise artificial intelligence is entering a new phase as companies that spent the past two years experimenting with large language models are now moving those systems into live environments. It’s ...

Crypto just got chartered. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Friday (Dec. 12) conditionally approved applications for new national bank trust charters to five applicants from the ...

Across the Middle East, governments, banks and global payments firms are treating digital payments as foundational infrastructure for future economic activity. The focus is not limited to consumer convenience or ...

For business-to-business (B2B) platforms, embedded finance has moved from a niche add-on to a core engine for revenue growth, loyalty and operational efficiency. However, there is a clear divide between platforms ...

JPMorgan has successfully arranged a U.S. commercial paper issuance on the Solana blockchain. The issuance, performed for Galaxy Digital Holdings and purchased by Coinbase and Franklin Templeton, marks one of the ...

Dutch financial services provider Mollie is acquiring UK bank payment company GoCardless. The deal, announced Thursday (Dec. 11), is designed to create a single provider of card payments, local methods and ...

Migrating payment systems to post-quantum cryptography is feasible but requires further testing and preparation, according to a report released Thursday (Dec. 11) by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The report ...

The business landscape can be a battlefield. In the zero-sum, winner-takes-most landscape of commerce, companies have traditionally competed on product innovation, customer experience and cost discipline. But, a quarter century into ...

England’s Starling Bank is reportedly considering the acquisition of another British lender. That’s according to a report Thursday (Dec. 11) from the Financial Times (FT), which characterizes this effort as an overhaul to the digital ...

Bank of America is touting a new milestone for its CashPro Forecasting solution. During 2025, this tool helped more than 3,000 companies save upwards of 250,000 hours, the banking giant announced Thursday (Dec. 11). According ...

Vertical software companies have built thriving businesses by deeply understanding niche industries. Education technology platforms, for example, manage enrollment, tuition schedules and financial aid. Healthcare systems coordinate scheduling, billing codes and ...

Global logistics has become defined by a fundamental paradox: Like many of the world’s critical commercial functions, the sector is caught between two worlds, the analog past and digital future. Global ...

B2B commerce platform AppDirect has acquired vCom, an IT lifecycle management provider for midsize companies. The closure of the $100 million deal, announced Wednesday (Dec. 10), will see vCom’s offerings embedded ...