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Commercial Lending Moves Toward Continuous Underwriting
Commercial Lending Moves Toward Continuous Underwriting
October 27, 2026  |  Loans

A commercial borrower’s finances keep changing after a loan is approved, as invoices are collected, inventory is purchased and payroll comes due. Continuous underwriting brings...

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Fraudsters Leave Patterns, and AWS Wants AI to Follow Them
Fraudsters Leave Patterns, and AWS Wants AI to Follow Them
October 27, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Fraud attacks can now be assembled with commercially packaged software, distributed across accounts and devices, and altered faster than banks can rewrite a conventional fraud...

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Tungsten Automation Says Scale Will Keep Humans in the Payment Loop
Tungsten Automation Says Scale Will Keep Humans in the Payment Loop
October 27, 2026  |  Next-Gen AP Automation

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Tungsten Automation’s Emily Nash-Walker A company can automate routine supplier payments while requiring human approval for unusually large...

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Scams Gain 10 Percentage Points in Share of Fraud Dollars
Scams Gain 10 Percentage Points in Share of Fraud Dollars
October 27, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Banks have an opportunity to strengthen fraud protection by helping customers recognize when someone is persuading them to send money to a criminal. That’s a...

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AI Breaks the Traditional Relationship Between Business Growth and Hiring
AI Breaks the Traditional Relationship Between Business Growth and Hiring
October 27, 2026  |  SMBs

Artificial intelligence is creating a new competitive question for small businesses. What happens when revenue can grow without payroll growing alongside it? The PYMNTS Intelligence...

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CFOs See the Same Downturn. Only Some Can Afford to Exploit It.
CFOs See the Same Downturn. Only Some Can Afford to Exploit It.
October 27, 2026  |  CFO

Economic uncertainty is supposed to make CFOs defensive. Today, it’s giving the strongest companies permission to attack. New data in the October 2026 edition of...

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Gen X Wants More From Familiar Payment Tools
Gen X Wants More From Familiar Payment Tools
October 27, 2026  |  Payment Methods

Generation X is giving payments providers a clear signal to make payments more flexible, but keep them familiar. This cohort is not particularly interested in...

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Banks Buy the Same Fraud Tools but Get Different Results
Banks Buy the Same Fraud Tools but Get Different Results
October 26, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Regional and community banks and credit unions surveyed by PYMNTS Intelligence now report behavioral analytics and artificial intelligence adoption approaching the levels seen with large...

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Anthropic Eyes $40 Trillion Market as Revenue Surges Ahead of IPO
Anthropic Eyes $40 Trillion Market as Revenue Surges Ahead of IPO
October 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic’s filed its paperwork to go public Monday (Oct. 26), becoming the first frontier artificial intelligence (AI) lab to seek a listing. Its prospectus disclosed...

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