Payments

The term “real time” is becoming to corporate finance what “AI-powered” became to enterprise software: Ubiquitous enough to sound meaningful, but elastic enough to mean almost anything. But real-time finance isn’t ...

The most important benchmark for the next phase of enterprise artificial intelligence isn’t arising around the model’s intelligence. Instead, the most important benchmark is around a model’s data retention policies. That ...

Small business-focused, artificial intelligence-native benefits brokerage Corridor launched with $25 million in funding, according to a Monday (Sept. 21) press release. The funding is aimed at remedying what Corridor described in ...

Coinbase said it is expanding access to primary financial markets by bringing initial public offering (IPO) allocations to retail traders in the U.S. Starting with Oura’s IPO this week, eligible customers ...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said in a bulletin released Monday (Sept. 21) that it updated the structure and references of the OCC Cybersecurity Supervision Work ...

The cryptocurrency industry spent years citing U.S. regulatory clarity as the prerequisite for its next phase of growth. This past week showed the industry may have had the sequence backward. On ...

Payments and banking solution provider Priority Technology Holdings has agreed to be taken private by an investor group led by the company’s chairman and CEO, Thomas Priore, the company said ...

Issuers can invest in faster, more precise credit decisions, but those improvements alone may not persuade customers to change how they pay. Cardholders need to see a benefit they can ...

Citigroup’s CEO says artificial intelligence-related security concerns have led to a wave of cyber defense fixes in the business world. “There is a race to defend and shore up all of ...

FinTech company Avant filed an application to establish an insured national bank called Avant Bank, N.A., the company said in a Friday (Sept. 18) press release. Avant filed the application for ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a proposal to regulate crypto asset transactions and crypto asset markets, according to a pending regulatory ...

The paper check has spent years as the punchline of B2B payments modernization. The next legacy format is already sitting in the accounts payable inbox. It’s the PDF. The PDF invoice ...

OpenAI has launched an artificial intelligence foundation designed to be used by law firms and legal technology companies to build AI products and workflows, the company said in a Thursday ...

Insurers are in the predictability business. Artificial intelligence is an unpredictable technology. For CFOs and CISOs and their cyber insurance partners, that uncomfortable juxtaposition is becoming harder to ignore as ...

CFOs have typically solved payments problems by buying more payments technology. A new rail for faster settlement, another provider for cross-border payments. Fraud software, treasury platforms, AP automation, virtual card capabilities, ...

Amazon said artificial intelligence labs should ensure models are safe and fully tested before releasing them but did not call for the industry to slow down, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. ...

Plaid and digital identity wallet ID.me launched a benefits payments partnership, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. The collaboration is designed to combine ID.me’s wallet with Plaid’s financial account ...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) board of directors voted Thursday (Sept. 17) to approve a proposed rule that it said would make the agency’s review of bank merger transactions ...

Business payments firm Bottomline introduced a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to improve payment messaging, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. Global Pay Connect is aimed at helping “financial institutions ...

S&P Global is acquiring blockchain security company OpenZeppelin as it looks to expand its risk assessment business to on-chain financial products, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. “The transaction ...

The Federal Reserve just made corporate cash strategic again. The Fed on Wednesday (Sept. 16) raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point, bringing the federal funds target range ...

Watch more: Digital Shift With Flagright’s Chris Phillips Financial institutions have spent years stalking the risks and opportunities that artificial intelligence brings to their security-critical space. Then came AI agents. These agents ...

Bank of America’s digital platform for treasury tasks, CashPro App, was used by European companies to approve more than 100 billion euros (about $115 billion) in payments in the first ...

American Express launched a new high-yield Business Savings account as part of its strategy to add integrated financial solutions to Amex Business membership, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. ...

Revolut and the Federal Reserve are in the news this week after suffering two banking infrastructure compromises. However, the most interesting thing about the separate incidents isn’t what happened; it’s ...

Circle has introduced Arc, a blockchain designed for financial markets, real-time money movement and agentic economic activity. Arc launches with integration into Circle’s platform, including the USDC stablecoin, the company said in ...

For six years, India’s United Payments Interface (UPI) has been free for everyone involved, but that’s reportedly about to change. Reuters reported Wednesday (Sept. 16) that India is set to begin charging merchants a ...

OpenAI is reportedly weighing a funding round at a $1.2 trillion valuation before going public. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup has held early discussions with investors about a private funding round ...

Money can trade in seconds, yet investors may still wait days to receive it. That gap can make a fast digital platform feel surprisingly slow at the exact moment a ...

Treasury may raise longstanding bank reporting thresholds and take into account how long financial institutions have known their customers, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told lawmakers Tuesday (Sept. 15). House Financial Services ...

Revolut continued its global expansion by securing a bank license in Colombia, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 15) press release. The license to operate (licencia de funcionamiento) from the ...

Nike’s upcoming removal from the S&P 100 is easy to read as a corporate fall-from-grace story. It may be more useful to read it as a retail one. After nearly 18 ...

Online financial services company Enova has withdrawn its bank regulatory applications related to the proposed acquisition of Grasshopper Bancorp, saying in a Monday (Sept. 14) press release that the process ...

Payments companies already know how to authenticate machines. API keys, tokens, certificates and digital credentials can establish that a request came from an authorized system. But identifying a machine like an ...

Financial operations platform Ramp says it has officially launched in the U.K. The expansion is Ramp’s first major move beyond North America following its announcement in July that it had expanded into Canada, ...

Small businesses are putting a premium on predictability. Across more than 6,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) surveyed in 18 countries for Mastercard’s inaugural Dreamonomics report, 68% said they prioritize stability ...

Watch more: Digital Shift With Amir Wain of i2c Companies have embraced generative artificial intelligence, examining where software could help employees. The truly agentic enterprise must examine what happens when the ...

AI can find the sweater, compare prices and read hundreds of reviews before a shopper finishes a cup of coffee. Getting that sweater through checkout is where the trip gets ...

Paymentus executives emphasized the company’s position as a specialized technology provider navigating bill payment modernization, agentic artificial intelligence and expansion into additional verticals during the Goldman Sachs 2026 Communacopia + ...

Bank sponsorship has been a staple of merchant acquiring in the United States. A payments company can provide the technology, process the transaction and manage the merchant relationship, while relying on ...

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup founded by former Apple employees that is developing artificial intelligence-enhanced cameras for smartphones, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday (Sept. 14), citing unnamed ...

Fiserv aims to tap several growth opportunities by bringing together the capabilities of its Financial Solutions (FS) and Merchant Solutions (MS) segments, which have operated separately, and operating as one ...

U.S. Bank has named Citi veteran Calvert Lange to lead the delivery of payment and treasury solutions to technology, media, telecom, automotive, transportation, consumer and hospitality companies, the bank said ...

A pair of regulatory actions issued Friday (Sept. 11) could change how banks think about third-party risk. The Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Office of the Comptroller ...

A credit card can go from first choice to forgotten backup faster than an issuer can say “statement credit.” Once the wallet changes order, the next purchase often follows the ...