Payments

Global crypto card payment volume reached $1.5 billion per month in August, up from about $100 million per month in January 2023, Artemis said in a report released Thursday (Jan. 15). These ...

Pay.com has expanded the number of options offered by its payment orchestration platform by adding Paysafe as a recommended acquirer for card transactions for online merchants. The platform also integrated Paysafe’s Skrill and Neteller digital ...

Some of the world’s largest banks posted their final earnings for the 2025 fiscal year this week. The most surprising narrative from firms like Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, BNY, ...

The China-backed cross-border payments platform Project mBridge is reportedly set to erode the dominance of the dollar in some corridors, sectors and use cases. The platform has processed 4,047 transactions with a total ...

Tokenization, and specifically, tokenized deposits, has seen growth in concrete use cases inside the banking system. Rather than replacing deposits or payment rails, banks are exploring tokenized deposits as a way ...

The 21st century enterprise is an increasingly porous one. Data flows more freely, decisions happen faster and the line between internal insight and external exposure is growing thinner. It’s because software ...

The latest earnings from Goldman Sachs, released Thursday (Jan. 15), highlight a firm increasingly defined by digital engagement, artificial intelligence and automation, even as management signaled a decisive shift away ...

Payments infrastructure FinTech company Stripe has completed its acquisition of billing company Metronome. “We believe the shift toward usage-based models will be a defining feature of the next decade for our ...

The volatility wrought by tariffs is no longer a background risk but a daily operational reality, forcing companies to make strategic decisions with incomplete data and shifting economic signals. As ...

Providers of stablecoin-linked payment cards are reportedly driving the demand for Visa’s stablecoin settlement. The company’s stablecoin settlement volumes have risen to an annualized run rate of $4.5 billion, Reuters reported Wednesday (Jan. 14), ...

Healthcare procurement is dull by design. Buy what’s needed, stock a little extra, pay the bills later, repeat. Cost control meant negotiating harder with suppliers, not rethinking the system itself. It ...

Bank of America’s fourth-quarter results underscored how deeply digital engagement, automation and artificial intelligence are now embedded in the company’s operating model against a backdrop where consumer spending settles into ...

Shipping tech company Bluspark Global reportedly resolved security issues in its shipping and supply chain platform Bluvoyix. The company did so after being notified of the vulnerabilities by security researcher Eaton ...

Wells Fargo is seeing early results of its efforts to grow after the Federal Reserve removed an asset cap it imposed on the bank in 2018 after an account-opening scandal. The ...

Invoice-to-pay automation provider Edenred Pay has joined forces with business payments/cash management company Bottomline. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Jan. 14), will see the companies integrate Bottomline’s payment network Paymode into the ...

Last year saw merger and acquisition (M&A) deals climb to an almost record high. That, in turn, led to record revenues for Citigroup, according to fourth-quarter 2025 earnings results reported by ...

Indiana-based Citizens State Bank will leverage MANTL’s omnichannel account opening products as it works to transform its retail and business deposit account opening experience. The bank plans to start with MANTL’s ...

While investment banking and wealth management traditionally take the financial services spotlight, the infrastructure layer of global finance is becoming increasingly central to banks’ growth strategies. While Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser ...

Amazon is reportedly seeking reduced prices from its suppliers as it deals with tariffs. The eCommerce giant has asked for discounts from suppliers of up to 30%, the Financial Times (FT) ...

Card programs have become tools in modern payments, enabling banks, FinTechs and non-financial brands to extend financial services, deepen customer relationships and unlock new revenue streams. However, as their reach expands, ...

For years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been pitched to finance leaders as a faster way to do what they already do: close the books, reconcile accounts, forecast cash, and manage ...

Global financial services company BNY is focusing on digital assets and other new products and solutions as one of its four strategic priorities. The other strategic priorities are serving its clients as ...

Amazon says it is bringing its “Just Walk Out” checkout technology to temporary retail locations. The company on Tuesday (Jan. 13) announced the debut of the latest iteration of its radio ...

JPMorgan Chase’s fourth-quarter 2025 earnings results, released before the market opened Tuesday (Jan. 13), reflect a bank preparing to spend more through 2026, with technology, artificial intelligence and payments infrastructure ...

PayPal says it is expanding its years-long partnership with Deutsche Bank. This effort is designed to provide “enhanced payment solutions” throughout the U.S., Europe and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, PayPal said ...

U.S. Bancorp plans to accelerate the growth of its capital markets business by acquiring BTIG. The planned acquisition of BTIG, a financial services firm specializing in investment banking, institutional sales and ...

Despite concerns about taxes and supply chains, American small business owners are optimistic about 2026. That’s according to the latest monthly findings from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), released Tuesday (Jan. 13) and ...

HSBC has launched a United Arab Emirates (UAE) asset management business that it said will play a key role in its Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT) wealth franchise. The ...

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol marks a shift in how the company wants transactions to happen online. Instead of sending users from search results to merchant websites, Google is beginning to ...

Digital payments in Latin America are transforming commercial transactions, as faster payment rails originally designed to broaden consumer access increasingly support business-to-business payments and deepen engagement with bank accounts. The region’s instant ...

The B2B payments playbook has historically revolved around winning on cost. This made the landscape, in many ways, relatively transactional and adversarial. Buyers wanted the lowest cost per transaction; providers competed ...

Samsung, payments acceptance solutions provider Ingenico and payments technology firm Talus have joined forces. The partnership is designed to bring a “modern mobile business operating solution to the North American marketplace,” ...

Financial technology company FIS has introduced its first agentic commerce offering. FIS says this new tool, announced Monday (Jan. 12), is the first to allow banks to “safely and securely” conduct ...

Global digital payments provider Checkout.com secured approval for a Georgia bank charter. The approval for its Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank (MALPB) charter from the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance ...

When small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) fail, the postmortem can often fixate on a single cause. With corporate bankruptcies, including those for SMBs, hitting a 15-year high during 2025 according to ...

Obol will begin offering its artificial intelligence-driven cash flow management platform in Australia in February. The company began accepting pre-release sign-ups from Australian businesses Monday (Jan. 12), it said in a ...

“Your margin is my opportunity” was Jeff Bezos’s way of describing Amazon’s hunger for bloated profit pools. In 2026, the real question isn’t whether margins get attacked, but who gets ...

The “2025–2026 Growth Corporates Working Capital Index: North America Edition,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa, examines how middle-market companies across the United States and Canada are rethinking working capital ...

The CFO’s mandate has traditionally been to optimize within existing systems. Finance chiefs manage costs, allocate capital, forecast with increasing precision and ensure their company delivers predictable performance quarter after ...

The U.S. Treasury is investigating what it calls “rampant benefits fraud” in Minnesota. As part of this effort, the department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has notified some businesses that they ...

The stablecoin pitch has always been a digital token that maintains a stable value, usually pegged to a fiat currency, while inheriting the speed, programmability and global reach of blockchains. What ...

Ripple received permissions that allow it to scale Ripple Payments, its cross-border payment solution that uses digital assets, in the United Kingdom. The permissions include approval of Ripple’s electronic money institution ...

This January is crunch time for the Senate on cryptocurrency market regulation efforts. After years of fits and starts on Capitol Hill, including key wins like the stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act, two ...

Allianz plans to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) throughout its insurance business around the world with the help of Anthropic. The financial services provider and the AI startup have formed a global ...

In 2026, the Labor Economy becomes one of the most important sources of economic growth — not despite automation, but because of it. As intelligence scales, demand accelerates for human ...