PYMNTS Intelligence

Working Capital Lost Its Strategic Edge in 2026. The Best CFOs Are Already Getting It Back.

Working Capital Lost Its Strategic Edge in 2026. The Best CFOs Are Already Getting It Back.
Working Capital Lost Its Strategic Edge in 2026. The Best CFOs Are Already Getting It...
September 28, 2026  |  Working Capital

Picture the CFO at a $300 million industrial distributor. For three years she paid her key suppliers on day 10 of a net 30 invoice...

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Middle Market Firms Struggle Most to Justify Financial Tech Upgrades, PYMNTS Finds
Middle Market Firms Struggle Most to Justify Financial Tech Upgrades, PYMNTS Finds
September 28, 2026  |  Fintech Investments

Middle market companies are the most active embedded finance upgraders, but they also report the greatest difficulty connecting those investments to business strategy. Among firms...

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Working Capital Has Lost Its Strategic Edge
Working Capital Has Lost Its Strategic Edge
September 28, 2026  |  Working Capital

The early bird used to get a supplier discount. These days, it may still be waiting for the customer to pay. Across North America, more...

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51% of eCommerce Merchants Hold the Line on Fraud Staffing
51% of eCommerce Merchants Hold the Line on Fraud Staffing
September 25, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Fraud budgets are moving in two different directions. Fifty-one percent of global eCommerce merchants expect spending on fraud-management staff to remain flat or decline, while...

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Digital Freelancers Find More Work and New Pressure on Pay
Digital Freelancers Find More Work and New Pressure on Pay
September 25, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

AI can produce a first draft. Someone still has to make the finished work worth paying for. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Why 63 CPG Brands Said Yes to Smart Checkout
Why 63 CPG Brands Said Yes to Smart Checkout
September 24, 2026  |  Retail

The shopping basket has always held the answer. Brands just haven’t had a clear way to read it at the moment a customer pays. Smart...

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5 Ways Millennials’ Cash-Flow Habits Are Shaping Payments
5 Ways Millennials’ Cash-Flow Habits Are Shaping Payments
September 24, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Millennials’ financial lives are shaping how they receive, spend and manage money, creating new opportunities for payment providers to make transactions faster and more useful....

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Benefits Payment Exceptions Eat Up 62.5 Staff Hours a Month
Benefits Payment Exceptions Eat Up 62.5 Staff Hours a Month
September 24, 2026  |  Next-Gen AP Automation

Benefits teams can spend more than a week of staff time every month handling transactions that don’t move cleanly through the system. Get the Full...

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