Payments

The most expensive fraud control is becoming the one that works perfectly, just a few seconds too late. Two developments from Washington this week, one from the U.S. Treasury Department and ...

Watch more: How Payments Turn AI Into Action Every swipe, ACH transfer or virtual card transaction carries clues about who is spending, where money is moving, what is being bought and whether ...

Property and home insurers have the best billing and payment scores of any industry PYMNTS Intelligence studied this year. They also have one in four policyholders ready to switch, and ...

Chase is expanding its payroll service to help business clients dealing with cash flow pressures. The new offering, announced Wednesday (Oct. 7), brings Chase Payroll alongside the banking and payment activities ...

U.S. Bank introduced a service called Project 360, designed to help customers protect their privacy, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 7) press release. Project 360 lets users monitor credit activity, identify ...

The corporate finance provider landscape has traditionally been defined by a simple truth. However sophisticated enterprise resource planning (ERP) became, eventually someone still had to go to the bank to ...

Watch more: Stopping B2B Fraud Before AI Moves the Money Artificial intelligence is breaking the economics of the traditional accounts payable fraud model. Attackers can scale cheaply, but finance teams cannot ...

An open standard that defines how personal agents interact with businesses is being developed by Sierra, Meta, Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, Stripe and Walmart, Sierra Co-Founders Bret Taylor and Clay ...

There is more work to be done in modernizing the bank regulatory and supervision framework, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle W. Bowman said Tuesday (Oct. 6). In a speech delivered at the Community Banking Research ...

FedEx Dataworks, the insights and intelligence subsidiary of FedEx Corp., and Stripe plan to leverage their respective platforms to expand access to financing for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a mainstream consumer technology. But paying for it remains a much narrower habit. The consumers who do spend heavily on AI, however, are opening their ...

Anchorage Digital has acquired payments company Routable in a bid to extend its rails to the world’s biggest companies. Founded in 2017, Routable helps businesses onboard payees, automate compliance, and orchestrate ...

Stablecoins have spent the past year and a half acquiring nearly everything an emerging payments technology is supposed to need to go mainstream. Clearer regulation, check; more institutional backing, check; ...

Global supply chain pressures inched up in September, reaching their highest level since the recent peak seen in May, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Global Supply ...

Rain is the latest digital asset company seeking to launch a national trust bank. The stablecoin payments infrastructure company announced Monday (Oct. 5) that it has applied to the Office of ...

The biggest financial risk from an artificial intelligence agent won’t come from it making numbers up. It will likely come from an agent that does exactly what it has permission ...

AI may be ready to shop. Consumers are still deciding how much freedom they want to give it. “Holiday Retail’s AI Test Starts With Who Gets to Hit Buy” was produced by ...

October. Some readers mark it on the calendar for the return of autumn and chilly temperatures. Others get ready for the full dose of sports that comes with the NFL ...

The monthly, weekly or even annual bill is among the interactions a service provider is virtually guaranteed to have with a customer again and again. Yet consumers give the experience ...

Money movement infrastructure company Modern Treasury says it wants to establish a national trust bank. The company announced Monday (Oct. 5) that it had applied to the Office of the Comptroller ...

Consumer artificial intelligence (AI) agents are getting the keys to inboxes, browsers and payment accounts. Meta’s Muse, launched Sept. 8, can send emails, fill out forms and pay at checkout ...

Artificial intelligence is being harnessed to tackle the document review that determines whether a transaction moves forward, one of the most manual parts of trade finance. Software has long been able ...

Conventional wisdom says large corporations should dominate cross-border payments. They have global banks, treasury teams, negotiated FX rates, sophisticated treasury management system (TMS) platforms and local accounts. But the 2026 payments ...

Companies are reportedly finding it increasingly difficult to forecast their AI spending. That’s according to a report Monday (Oct. 5) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which cites one recent study showing that ...

Invoice lifecycle management Basware has completed its acquisition of payment fraud prevention platform Trustpair. “The acquisition extends Basware’s invoice lifecycle management capabilities all the way to the payment itself,” the company said in a ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Spreedly’s Nick Daley Selling in another country can force a merchant to find out how much growth its payments infrastructure can actually support. New markets bring ...

Payments infrastructure firm OpenPayd is reportedly setting the stage to go public in the U.S. The U.K. company expects to list on the Nasdaq by the year’s end as it prepares ...

China has reportedly closed almost 25% of its banks amid increased oversight of smaller lenders. The world’s second largest economy shuttered a record 670-plus banks in 2025, the Financial Times (FT) ...

Stablecoins are technically capable of eliminating one of global manufacturing’s oldest financial inefficiencies. The simple, persistent, and compounding friction of money that spends too much time traveling. But turning a three-day ...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency rated three banks “outstanding” and 10 “satisfactory” in its latest list of banks examined for Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) compliance, the OCC ...

Governments’ attitudes toward Anthropic and artificial intelligence could affect its business as well as its customers, partners and other commercial relationships, the AI startup said in its IPO prospectus, Reuters ...

Twenty-seven nations are likely to come up with 27 different definitions of vendor risk. The European Union’s member nations are finding that out in real time. And while the long-standing debate ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Billtrust’s Dave Ruda The finance technology playbook was once relatively straightforward. CFOs built out their department tech stacks by putting one piece of software ...

BMO and Mastercard have launched a new embedded commercial payments capability that can be integrated into participating enterprise software platforms in Canada and the United States, BMO said in a ...

The biggest mistake merchants could make in agentic commerce may be waiting for one protocol to win. There probably won’t be one. The emerging infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven shopping is ...

Wall Street’s embrace of digital assets has reached the point where saying a bank is “doing blockchain” reveals almost nothing about what it can actually do on-chain. One bank may be ...

Fifth Third Bank has introduced a new offering aimed at startups and growth companies. Fifth Third Innovation Banking, announced in a news release Thursday (Oct. 1), combines the bank’s Newline embedded banking platform with ...

New York and Wyoming agreed to coordinate their oversight of entities engaged in virtual currency and digital asset activities in the two states, according to a Thursday (Oct. 1) press ...

Enterprises are spending heavily to make software capable of acting autonomously across increasingly valuable company systems. But the return on that investment depends on giving those systems authority. And authority creates ...

Watch more: Government Disbursements Need to Move at the Speed of Need For a household waiting on food assistance or disaster relief, a payment that is somewhere between the government and ...

A shorter cash cycle should feel like a victory lap. For many CFOs, it now comes with a longer list of risks. PYMNTS Intelligence, in collaboration with J.P.Morgan, examines how U.S. ...

Stripe plans to strengthen its support for platforms by acquiring Parafin, an embedded financial products platform, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 30) press release. Parafin provides platforms with credit ...

The biggest obstacle to agentic payments isn’t teaching artificial intelligence how to buy something. It’s giving software permission to spend money without giving it permission to make expensive mistakes. Corporate procurement ...

UPS has introduced a suite of supply chain solutions aimed at addressing risk, uncertainty and logistical obstacles. The company’s Secure Commerce offering, announced Wednesday (Sept. 30), is designed to offer “data-driven intelligence,” actionable ...

Tungsten Automation has introduced the accounts payable automation engine for its invoice-to-pay platform. The workflow automation company’s new InvoiceAgility+ is designed to use agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to provide end-to-end invoice-to-pay automation, ...