Payments

Corporate growth has developed a hair trigger. More than half of middle-market chief financial officers said they need high confidence before expanding investment, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Funding the ...

Automating one part of finance doesn’t ensure information and decisions carry through to the next, Tungsten Automation SVP and GM, AP and Payments John Gibbon writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, ...

OpenAI is reportedly saddled with heavy operating losses amid a surge in revenue. The company’s revenue increased by around 50% to $10 billion between the second quarter and the third, according ...

Western Union has terminated its agreement to acquire International Money Express (Intermex) after reaching what it described as an impasse with California regulators. California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) ...

Customers are willing to adopt AI, but they still want guidance from people who understand business, Bottomline SVP, Product Management Jeff Feuerstein writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Payments Leaders ...

Business payments have a bookkeeping problem that’s been keeping them manual for centuries. Millennia, even. In 2026, after one company approves an invoice, someone often must authenticate into a supplier portal, ...

OpenAI is launching a new suite of tools that lets companies manage their presence on the platform, track customer engagement and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents to interact with prospective ...

FinTechs are using cross-border acquisitions to add a service to payment relationships merchants already have. For a lender, that means buying a provider whose payment option is already on a ...

Anthropic is releasing a suite of workplace applications designed to integrate artificial intelligence directly into daily business operations, escalating competition with major backers Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google as the startup ...

Corporate America is spending billions to make itself cheaper. Across media, technology and financial services, mergers and restructuring programs are producing a familiar combination of severance payments, technology migrations, consulting ...

The United Kingdom arm of banking giant HSBC is turning to Stripe to power a new tap-to-pay offering, according to a Tuesday (Nov. 10) news release. Eligible HSBC U.K. small business ...

Stablecoins are coming for corporate banking. However, headlines this week showed that the cryptocurrency companies behind them are finding that the fastest way in may be through traditional banks themselves. Rather ...

Business management software company Sage launched new partnerships with Mastercard and FinTech platform Adyen, according to a Tuesday (Nov. 10) press release. The collaborations are designed to help Sage as it ...

Cryptocurrency-focused bank Anchorage Digital has launched a partnership with digital asset payment infrastructure company Lydian. With this collaboration, Lydian has onboarded to Anchorage stablecoin minting and redemption, with digital assets custodied ...

For companies embedding payments into their products, the biggest operational risk may be that the technology succeeds, particularly when embedded payments succeed beyond even the expectations of the business. The problem, ...

Companies can’t hire, train, automate or optimize their way out of demand that shouldn’t exist in the first place, Paysafe Chief Customer Officer Ali Wilkes writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, ...

Walmart wants its artificial intelligence shopping agent, Sparky, to turn a handwritten holiday list into a shopping cart. Amazon wants businesses to put agents to work buying supplies and managing ...

Financial institutions looking for artificial intelligence applications beyond employee productivity tools may have a new option. Financial intelligence startup geniosAI has emerged from stealth with $19.1 million in combined seed ...

Citizens Bank has introduced a digital platform designed for its commercial banking clients. Citizens Treasury Intelligence includes “multi-bank cash visibility, analytics, forecasting and workflow tools” designed to help customers manage liquidity, ...

PNC Bank is making incoming USDC stablecoin payments available to its corporate and institutional clients. These clients can now receive payments in the dollar-backed USDC on the Ethereum blockchain, powered by ...

Priority Commerce’s collaboration with the National Football League (NFL) continues with a new partnership with the Cleveland Browns. This new agreement will see the company provide ticketing payment processing to the ...

Coinbase has reportedly gotten regulatory approval to establish a nationally-chartered trust bank. The approval by the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) marks the latest example of digital ...

A fan can spend weeks looking forward to a concert and lose interest in the time it takes to read the total at checkout. That last screen has some competition. ...

AI models matter, but their real value depends on the harness around them, PayPal SVP, Chief Information Security Officer Shaun Khalfan writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Payments Leaders Rethink ...

Stablecoins are becoming a distribution business before they have conclusively become a profitable payments business. And if stablecoins are a distribution business, then a new player might be trying to corner ...

Nubank and Mercado Pago paused some cryptocurrency operations due to issues with third-party providers, Bloomberg reported Friday (Nov. 6). The suspensions by the financial services firms came a week after hackers ...

Embedded finance and banking-as-a-service (BaaS) company Synctera raised $24.5 million in new funding, according to a Friday (Nov. 6) news release. The financing will support “Synctera’s work with sponsor banks and ...

Connecting artificial intelligence to a knowledge base is only the starting point for AI readiness, i2c VP of Operations Pam Guinn writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Payments Leaders Rethink What ...

Artificial intelligence agents are saving BILL’s teams more than 1,400 hours per month, which is equivalent to about eight full-time employees, BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte said Thursday (Nov. ...

London-based digital bank Monzo is considering a funding round that would value it at 7.5 billion pounds (about $10.1 billion) after failing to secure a takeover by Nubank or a stake sale to ...

Priority Commerce saw its revenue increase in its last quarter as a public company. The payments and banking solutions provider released earnings Thursday (Nov. 5) showing revenues of $268.6 million, an ...

Does enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) save teams money, or cost companies cash? It’s a question with a potentially category-defining answer, and it’s one that depends on whom you ask. News broke ...

Cross-border payments firm Payoneer increased its revenue by 5% year over year to $222 million in the third quarter and secured payment licenses in two more countries as it works toward a ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are getting corporate cards of their own. The cards let the agents buy supplies, book travel and pay vendors without an employee entering payment details for ...

The Huntington National Bank launched a treasury management platform that brings together treasury operations distributed across banks, enterprise resource planning systems and FinTech providers, the company said in a Thursday ...

Wall Street is getting ready to modernize post-trade plumbing and experiment with tokenized real-world assets. But does that mean the corporate order book is moving onto the blockchain? The Commodity Futures ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Priority Commerce’s Brendan Kirsch College sports programs can have enough revenue committed to pay their athletes and still lack the cash when payments come due. The ...

Tripadvisor said in two Thursday (Nov. 5) press releases that CEO Matt Goldberg and Chief Financial Officer Michael Noonan will be stepping down from their roles and that the company ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Tungsten Automation’s Peter Hantman The buyer-supplier network has always had a gap between its promise and its payoff. The buyer picks the platform. The supplier ...

AI agents can handle lower-risk work, while people must own decisions that impact a customer’s financial life, Flagright Co-Founder and Co-CEO Madhu Nadig writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Payments ...

Corporate finance has spent the past several years pursuing a straightforward ambition. Get cash moving faster. And by many measures, the strategy is working. Data in “Time to Cash: What Two ...

People earning at least $75,000 a year are Chime’s fastest-growing group of new sign-ups. They’re also more likely to send Chime their paychecks, giving the company a shot at becoming ...

There’s a new flavor of AP fraud in town, and it’s all about AI. Cybercriminals have found a way to monetize stolen corporate artificial intelligence infrastructure in real time, selling ...

The cryptocurrency industry spent heavily to shape the next Congress. Now it may have to spend the next two years defending the regulatory ground it already won. Democrats captured control of ...

Global stablecoin payments infrastructure provider Yellow Card has established direct operations in Brazil by completing its acquisition of GoMoney, a virtual asset provider in Brazil, the company said in a ...