Across the multitrillion-dollar global B2B market, the future of payments is arriving faster than many expected and putting pressure on suppliers to keep up. Being a reliable B2B supplier once meant delivering on time, offering fair prices, and responding promptly to orders and issues. Increasingly,...
The once linear, largely predictable movement of money through corporate ecosystems is being reimagined against today’s increasingly dynamic and uncertain macro backdrop. Even category giants aren’t immune, as evidenced by Walmart Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey’s commentary during the company’s latest earnings call. “The...
Microsoft said Monday (May 12) that it will retire Bing Search APIs on Aug. 11. “Any existing instances of Bing Search APIs will be decommissioned completely, and the product will no longer be available for usage or new customer signup,” the company said in an...
Expedia Group enhanced its B2B segment, Private Label Solutions, by adding APIs that help its partners build travel packages. The new offerings will provide access to rental cars, bookable experiences, trip protection insurance and air travel, the company said in a Wednesday (May 14) press...
May 14, 2025
A $10 million instant payment is no longer a fantasy — it’s the new normal as real-time payments revolutionize global finance. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest “Real-Time Payments World Map” revealed a surge in instant payment capabilities across the globe, as announcements focus on bringing faster payments to new use cases for consumers and businesses. The moves […]
May 09, 2025
At its core, the insurance industry has a business model that’s been around for decades, at least on the service side of the equation. Essentially there are two sides of...
March 04, 2025
The ability to embed payments across nonfinancial touchpoints and into existing systems is transforming business models across industries with new monetization opportunities. “There has definitely been an uptick in B2B-type...
February 18, 2025
For decades, payments infrastructure was largely controlled by major financial institutions and legacy processors, with limited flexibility for customization. However, the rise of open banking, cloud computing and API-first development...
May 22, 2025
Payments bank Banking Circle launched a partnership with Visa’s Visa Direct. This collaboration lets Visa Direct access Banking Circle’s “extensive” local clearing rails around the world, thus strengthening Visa’s payment reach for its customers, the companies said in a Thursday (May 22) news release. The arrangement lets Visa Direct use Banking Circle’s single API technology […]
May 15, 2025
Microsoft said Monday (May 12) that it will retire Bing Search APIs on Aug. 11. “Any existing instances of Bing Search APIs will be decommissioned completely, and the product will...
May 14, 2025
Expedia Group enhanced its B2B segment, Private Label Solutions, by adding APIs that help its partners build travel packages. The new offerings will provide access to rental cars, bookable experiences,...
May 07, 2025
Coinbase introduced a way to streamline internet-native stablecoin payments. The cryptocurrency exchange’s x402 is an open standard that employs the original HTTP “402 Payment Required” status code to embed stablecoin...
