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The Five-Day Gap Hiding Inside B2B Payments

The Five-Day Gap Hiding Inside B2B Payments
The Five-Day Gap Hiding Inside B2B Payments
August 18, 2026  |  Disbursements

The basic, traditional architecture of a business disbursement has historically contained an unusual gap. Companies can decide that money should move long before the recipient...

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61% of Consumers Would Consider AI-Recommended Financing
61% of Consumers Would Consider AI-Recommended Financing
August 18, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Artificial intelligence may win a place at the Pay Later checkout by recommending the financing, then letting the shopper make the final call. New PYMNTS...

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Rising Fuel Costs Change How 64% of Workers Work
Rising Fuel Costs Change How 64% of Workers Work
August 18, 2026  |  Consumer Finance

A posted hourly wage can overstate what a shift is worth to the person being asked to work it. Gas, tolls, vehicle expenses and unpaid...

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X Money Wants to Make the Feed a Financial Front Door
X Money Wants to Make the Feed a Financial Front Door
August 17, 2026  |  Mobile Payments

Digital wallets have made the phone a familiar place to pay. X Money is testing whether a social platform can claim a place in that...

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Stripe’s Deal Targets Money and Machine Intelligence
Stripe’s Deal Targets Money and Machine Intelligence
August 17, 2026  |  B2B Payments

The next corporate spender may not carry a company card, submit an expense report or even be a person. It may be software. Technology markets...

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Patient Financing Becomes Part of the Healthcare Checkout
Patient Financing Becomes Part of the Healthcare Checkout
August 17, 2026  |  Healthcare

For a patient facing a crown, a new pair of prescription lenses or an unexpected veterinary procedure, the decision to proceed can depend as much...

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When AI Becomes the Travel Agent, Who Owns the Journey?
When AI Becomes the Travel Agent, Who Owns the Journey?
August 17, 2026  |  Travel Payments

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Booking Holdings’ Daniel Marovitz Travel has always had a front door and an operating layer. The front door was the...

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Legal Departments Move From Testing AI to Governing It
Legal Departments Move From Testing AI to Governing It
August 17, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

For decades, the legal department was one of the last enterprise functions to adopt new technology at scale. The work was too nuanced, the stakes...

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