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Cyber Risks Turn Physical When Hackers Control the Retail Thermostat

October 13, 2026
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PYMNTS Finds Enterprises Outpace Middle-Market Firms in Payment Guarantee Adoption
B2B Payments // October 13, 2026

Large corporations are racing ahead in payment guarantee adoption while middle-market organizations hesitate over technical hurdles and upfront expenses across the evolving digital economy. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Payment Guarantee Gap: Why Adoption Lags Despite Perceived Value,” a collaboration with Plaid, found in October...

Treasury’s Next Big Challenge Is Connecting the Systems It Already Has
Cross-border Payments // October 13, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know with Bank of America’s Daniel Stanton Companies have upgraded their treasury systems while the payment networks, banks and data they rely on remain fragmented. The sheer number of ways to move money has increased. Wires and domestic clearing systems remain....

Paymentology Says AI Agents Must Earn the Right to Move Money
Artificial Intelligence // October 13, 2026

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments | Paymentology | Tim Joslyn Payments infrastructure has become an expert at answering questions centered on human behavior. Is this really the cardholder? Is this account authorized? Is the transaction fraudulent? Artificial intelligence agents introduce another question. Even if...

Entrust Says Millions of AI Agents Will Test the Limits of Enterprise Controls
Artificial Intelligence // October 13, 2026

Watch more: Building a Trusted Foundation for Agentic AI Companies have spent the past several years making it possible for employees to safely use artificial intelligence to retrieve information, summarize documents and generate recommendations. Agentic AI is turning that operating model on its head because...

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Treasury’s Next Big Challenge Is Connecting the Systems It Already Has

October 13, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know with Bank of America’s Daniel Stanton Companies have upgraded their treasury systems while the payment networks, banks and data they rely on remain fragmented. The sheer number of ways to move money has increased. Wires and domestic clearing systems remain. Real-time networks have joined them, along with pay-to-card services and […]

Paymentology Says AI Agents Must Earn the Right to Move Money

October 13, 2026
Watch more: What’s Next In Payments | Paymentology | Tim Joslyn Payments infrastructure has become an expert at answering questions centered on human behavior. Is this really the cardholder? Is...

Entrust Says Millions of AI Agents Will Test the Limits of Enterprise Controls

October 13, 2026
Watch more: Building a Trusted Foundation for Agentic AI Companies have spent the past several years making it possible for employees to safely use artificial intelligence to retrieve information, summarize...

Do Banks Need AI Employees More Than They Do Core Upgrades?

October 12, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Kastle’s Rishi Choudhary Rishi Choudhary, Co-Founder and CEO of Kastle, believes that banks have been approaching AI modernization from the wrong end of the technology stack:...

Quick Reads
PYMNTS Finds Enterprises Outpace Middle-Market Firms in Payment Guarantee Adoption

October 13, 2026
Large corporations are racing ahead in payment guarantee adoption while middle-market organizations hesitate over technical hurdles and upfront expenses across the evolving digital economy. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Payment Guarantee Gap: Why Adoption Lags Despite Perceived Value,” a collaboration with Plaid, found in October that 85% of the largest firms with $5 billion or […]

FIS Wants to Help CFOs Forecast Cash Flow With Agentic AI

October 12, 2026
FIS has debuted an agentic artificial intelligence solution to help finance teams manage collections, liquidity, risk and cash flow. FIS Agentic Insights Suite comes with a new cash flow forecasting module...

Bending Spoons Deploys AI to Overhaul Acquired Software Companies

October 09, 2026
Artificial intelligence has been valuable to Bending Spoons, a company that buys digital businesses and then increases their revenue per customer, CEO Luca Ferrari told Bloomberg in a report published...

Mastercard CEO Says Stablecoins Solve Cross-Border Payment Delays

October 09, 2026
Cross-border payments are proving to be the strongest use case for stablecoins, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach said Friday (Oct. 9), Bloomberg reported. During an interview with Bloomberg TV, Miebach said stablecoins provide an alternative to...