B2B Payments

The highly complex payments processes and networks that power $120 trillion in payments flows that move between businesses globally each year. The B2B Payments ecosystem is undergoing a massive digital transformation as corporates move away from paper-based processes and payments methods to digital workflows that more efficiently move money and data between trading partners. These efficiencies give corporates more visibility into their cash position across their supply chain and innovations in accounts payments and receivables are helping buyers and suppliers to align on payments terms and trade credit.

AI Agents Need Rules Before They Can Run Payments

AI Agents Need Rules Before They Can Run Payments
AI Agents Need Rules Before They Can Run Payments
July 31, 2026  |  Opinion

Assigning work to agents and agentic workflows requires clear rules and defined decision rights, Bottomline Global Head of Product Colin Swain writes in a new PYMNTS...

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49% of Credit Unions See AI as an Acquisition Tool
49% of Credit Unions See AI as an Acquisition Tool
July 31, 2026  |  Credit Unions

Credit unions have a gift heading into the artificial intelligence era: Their business customers are telling them exactly what to build first. Research from PYMNTS...

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Western Union Pursues AI Savings as Falling Migration Hits Revenue
Western Union Pursues AI Savings as Falling Migration Hits Revenue
July 30, 2026  |  Earnings

Western Union is sharpening its focus on digital and artificial intelligence as it faces unexpected headwinds, executives said Thursday (July 30). The company did not...

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Amex GBT Lets Claude Book Corporate Travel
Amex GBT Lets Claude Book Corporate Travel
July 30, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) has launched an agentic integration in Anthropic’s artificial intelligence assistant, Claude, that enables both travelers and enterprise AI...

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Mastercard Says Cards Will Power Agentic Commerce
Mastercard Says Cards Will Power Agentic Commerce
July 30, 2026  |  Earnings

While Mastercard reported another quarter of double-digit revenue growth Thursday (July 30), executives devoted much of their second-quarter earnings discussion to explaining why agentic artificial...

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Pagaya Is Processing More Loans, Earning Less per Dollar, and Making More Money
Pagaya Is Processing More Loans, Earning Less per Dollar, and Making More Money
July 30, 2026  |  Earnings

Pagaya Technologies’ second-quarter results demonstrated that an artificial intelligence (AI) lending network can generate sharply higher profits even as it earns less on each dollar...

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Embedded Finance Grows Up and Picks an Industry
Embedded Finance Grows Up and Picks an Industry
July 30, 2026  |  Payment Methods

Watch more: Need to Know With Green Dot’s Renata Caine Embedded finance has been able to put financial products almost anywhere. The trend is now...

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Real-Time Payments Move Into More Markets and More Workflows
Real-Time Payments Move Into More Markets and More Workflows
July 30, 2026  |  Real-Time Payments

Real-time payments are no longer waiting for a killer app. From Pix becoming an everyday payment method in Brazil to RTP and FedNow moving deeper...

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