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Mastercard has launched a program designed to help small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region navigate the trade disruptions, rising energy and logistics ...

BILL plans to reduce its workforce by 30% by the end of the quarter as it sharpens its focus on artificial intelligence, BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte said Thursday ...

San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Fazeshift has secured $17 million in Series A funding to automate accounts receivable (AR) and other financial tasks, bringing its total capital raised to ...

ServiceNow, SAP and Workday are drawing new lines around the customer data stored inside their platforms as external artificial intelligence (AI) agents begin to erode the per-seat pricing model that ...

If Colorado’s governor signs a bill that’s now on his desk, the state will prohibit payment card networks from charging an interchange fee, or “swipe fee,” on the sales tax ...

Amazon is turning another internal capability into a commercial product. This time, the asset is logistics. On Monday (May 4), the eCommerce and retail titan launched Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), ...

The public narrative around third-party cyber risk has traditionally focused on downstream fallout. When a software provider or financial services vendor suffered a breach, the attention typically shifted to the systemically ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Remitly’s Sebastian Gunningham Sending money across borders should be simple by now. We live in a world where you can order groceries from your couch and ...

Watch more: Live Roundtable With Synchrony, Home Zone Furniture, Eagle Pipe & Mechanical Here’s a truth every small business owner has felt in the pit of their stomach. The sale doesn’t ...

In a business environment defined by uncertainty, financial control is no longer just something appealing operationally. It is becoming a measurable competitive advantage. This is driving a rethink of virtual cards ...

Insurance carriers are learning that the claims experience no longer ends when a claim is approved. In fact, the experience ends when the money arrives, and for many policyholders, faster access ...

Adyen’s processed volume increased 21% year over year in the first quarter to reach €382 billion (about $449 billion), showing continued resilience in consumer spending, the company said in a ...

A near real-time cross-border, cross-bank redemption of a tokenized U.S. Treasury fund was successfully completed in a pilot conducted by Ondo Finance, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, Mastercard and Ripple. The achievement ...

PhonePe launched an artificial intelligence agent that enables merchants to integrate the company’s payment gateway through a conversational interface. With this new AI-powered integration layer, merchants can integrate the payment gateway ...

American Express is introducing new artificial intelligence (AI) training and education programs for small businesses. The programs, announced Wednesday (May 6) in partnership with nonprofits Generation and Scholarship America, are designed to help small businesses embed “practical” ...

Global supply chain pressure reached its highest level in nearly four years in April as the Iran war disrupted the movement of goods and drove up fuel prices. The Global Supply ...

Intuit introduced a human capital management (HCM) system for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a Wednesday (May 6) press release. QuickBooks Workforce is designed to let businesses combine multiple ...

Autonomous finance data layer Astrada has raised $3.8 million in new funding. The company’s seed round, announced Wednesday (May 6), was led by Bain Capital Ventures, QED Investors and Nyca Partners, with participation from ...

Enterprise services can change forever in an instant, at least in today’s digital era. On Monday (May 4), businesses from mid-market to Main Street and the Fortune 50, potentially witnessed such ...

Billtrust has added a self-service payment experience and a cash forecasting tool to its B2B accounts receivable workflow and payment software. These tools are designed to accelerate collections, improve buyer payment ...

Paymentus is launching products in tandem with its entry into “AI-native service commerce.” The new products, announced Tuesday (May 5), include the digital wallet BillWallet, and the “intelligent action and experience layer” Billeo. “Service commerce ...

Credibly is set to bring its small- to medium-sized business (SMB) loans and revenue-based financing products onto Figure’s decentralized lending marketplace, Democratized Prime. The combination will enable SMB capital providers to ...

Digital transformation has evolved what were once tactical, back-office workflows into strategic levers. And chief financial officers are among the biggest beneficiaries of this new playing field. Across accounts payable (AP) and ...

Digital asset platform Bullish is acquiring global transfer agent Equiniti for $4.2 billion. The deal is designed to create a transfer agent for tokenized securities and “position Bullish to lead the shift toward blockchain-native capital ...

Anchorage Digital is exploring a stablecoin issuance model designed to offer institutional stablecoin issuers better liquidity, capital efficiency and security. This Cashless Reserves model would rely on just-in-time liquidity to meet ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Mastercard’s Marc Pettican There’s a digital reckoning reshaping the B2B landscape. Buyers, conditioned by seamless consumer experiences, are bringing new expectations into corporate purchasing. Suppliers, in ...

Traditional thinking holds that the defining challenge for middle market businesses is around achieving growth. But traditional thinking can be wrong, and today, that equation has flipped. Findings in a new ...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems act as the organizing backbone of corporate finance, yet their limits are showing. In many cases, they arrive too late in a company’s lifecycle, often ...

The operational backdrop is changing at an unprecedented speed for global businesses. If only their back offices could keep up instead of struggling to do the same. In few places is ...

American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) will become a privately held company enhanced with additional artificial intelligence capabilities upon the closing of a $6.3 billion acquisition by Long Lake, ...

Amazon is expanding its supply chain offering beyond its own retail/merchant operations. Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS) opens the company’s freight, distribution, fulfillment and parcel shipping tools to businesses of all types ...

The digital asset industry’s path toward federal oversight in the United States has, over time, taken on the defining features of the sector itself. Those features are cryptocurrency’s fragmentation, volatility and ...

Anthropic is launching a new venture focused on selling AI tools to enterprise companies. This effort is being launched in partnership with Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street bank said Monday (May ...

Watch more: Need to Know With David Bork of Boost Payment Solutions As digital payment infrastructure matures and economic pressures sharpen the focus on liquidity, the humble accounts payable (AP) function ...

Change typically happens two ways: gradually, and then suddenly. The embedded finance landscape is finding this out for itself in real time. A new survey of 515 senior leaders at U.S. ...

A pair of Canadian banks is reportedly in talks to sell payments-focused FinTech Moneris. The deal between Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal and the private equity firm Francisco ...

GameStop says it has made a $55.5 billion proposal to acquire eBay. The video game retailer announced Sunday (May 3) it had submitted a nonbinding proposal to acquire 100% of the ...

The tech stack powering the office of the CFO is evolving from a monolith to an ecosystem. And it’s resulting in some growing pains, as corporate customer pushback on new ...

For many growth-company CFOs, working capital is no longer a back-office cushion, but a strategic lever. That is a central finding from “The 2025-2026 Growth Corporates Working Capital Index,” a Visa and ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Mastercard’s Kaushik Gopal Both risk and opportunity across the payments industry are being increasingly defined by what happens in a millisecond—and what doesn’t. “What AI ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has reduced the small business data collection and reporting requirements under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B). The agency posted the final rule on ...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury is proposing regulatory changes that would significantly restrict the circumstances under which federal agencies can issue paper checks, pushing the government closer to an ...

The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index (LEI) declined by 0.6% in March amid higher oil prices and stressed supply chains. The LEI is based on 10 components and aims to indicate ...

WEX corporate card customers can now generate and settle vendor payments with virtual cards within SAP’s Concur Invoice platform. This capability is enabled by a new collaboration between WEX, which is a provider of ...

Building a competitive treasury platform used to be purely the purview of global, bulge-bracket banks. But as recent quarterly earnings and marketplace announcements across the financial sector reveal, the barrier to ...