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Businesses Limit Pass-Through of Tariff Costs Due to ‘Price-Sensitive’ Customers

Businesses Limit Pass-Through of Tariff Costs Due to ‘Price-Sensitive’ Customers
Businesses Limit Pass-Through of Tariff Costs Due to ‘Price-Sensitive’ Customers
June 05, 2025  |  Business

Business executives don’t feel they can pass the full cost of tariffs along to customers, as they did in 2018, according to researchers at the...

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QIB and Visa Partner to Expand B2B Cross-Border Payments
QIB and Visa Partner to Expand B2B Cross-Border Payments
June 05, 2025  |  Cross-border Payments

Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has partnered with Visa to enhance cross-border business-to-business (B2B) payments through Visa B2B Connect. The platform supports direct, account-to-account international transfers...

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This Week in B2B: AI Agents, Stablecoins, and Back-Office Frontiers
This Week in B2B: AI Agents, Stablecoins, and Back-Office Frontiers
June 05, 2025  |  B2B Payments

Business is evolving, and legacy processes can hamstring operations. But many forward-thinking firms are sitting attractively in the middle of a metamorphosis. Businesses, government agencies and...

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KeyBank Invests in Qolo After Launching Virtual Account Management Solution
KeyBank Invests in Qolo After Launching Virtual Account Management Solution
June 05, 2025  |  Investments

Cleveland-headquartered KeyBank made an equity investment in Qolo, expanding the companies’ existing partnership focused on banking innovation. The companies announced the move in a Tuesday (June 3) press release without...

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Enterprises Embrace AI Assistants to Boost Productivity, Efficiency
Enterprises Embrace AI Assistants to Boost Productivity, Efficiency
June 05, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

From fast food chains and eCommerce companies to banks and law firms, AI assistants are becoming integral to business operations. Think ChatGPT but for internal...

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Oro Labs Adds AI Agent Builder to Procurement Orchestration Platform
Oro Labs Adds AI Agent Builder to Procurement Orchestration Platform
June 05, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Oro Labs added new agentic artificial intelligence capabilities to its intake management and procurement orchestration platform. These additions include pre-built AI agents as well as...

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New Congressional Bill Takes Aim at $335M in Small Business Lending Fraud
New Congressional Bill Takes Aim at $335M in Small Business Lending Fraud
June 05, 2025  |  Loans

As tariffs loomed this spring, PYMNTS Intelligence found that obtaining financing was (and is) a difficult endeavor for smaller firms, which power the U.S. economy....

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Thread AI Raises $20 Million for Composable AI Platform
Thread AI Raises $20 Million for Composable AI Platform
June 05, 2025  |  Investments

Thread AI raised $20 million in a Series A funding round to increase the adoption of its composable artificial intelligence platform that helps enterprises design,...

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