B2b Payments news and trends

Small Business Lending Looks Beyond Credit Scores to Everyday Business Data

October 14, 2026
Xfactrs Debuts Tool to Help Services Firms Plug Revenue Leaks
Back-office // October 14, 2026

Revenue assurance platform xfactrs argues that services companies are suffering from “revenue leakage” hiding “in the gaps between what’s sold, contracted, delivered, and billed.” To address this issue, the company announced Wednesday (Oct. 14) that it is expanding its revenue tracking software to serve professional services firms, systems integrators,...

OCC Report Accuses Banking Giants of Political ‘Debanking’
Bank Regulation // October 14, 2026

Federal regulators said some of the largest banks in the United States allowed political concerns to shape who received services. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released a 45-page report called “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans” Wednesday (Oct. 14) on the issue...

Genpact Expands Agentic AI Suite to Industrial Accounts Receivable
Accounts Receivable // October 14, 2026

Genpact has launched a suite of agentic artificial intelligence solutions designed to handle accounts receivable tasks for industrial clients in manufacturing and mining, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) press release. The Genpact Accounts Receivable Suite includes Genpact AR Collections, which prioritizes accounts...

The $100 Million CFO’s Playbook for Onboarding AI Agents
Artificial Intelligence // October 14, 2026

The 21st century finance team is growing. But instead of hiring more employees, chief financial officers are onboarding artificial intelligence solutions. After all, AI agents can today already reconcile accounts, investigate payment exceptions, manage invoices and initiate financial workflows. FIS, for example, on Monday (Oct....

Interviews & Exclusives
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
Xfactrs Debuts Tool to Help Services Firms Plug Revenue Leaks

October 14, 2026
Revenue assurance platform xfactrs argues that services companies are suffering from “revenue leakage” hiding “in the gaps between what’s sold, contracted, delivered, and billed.” To address this issue, the company announced Wednesday (Oct. 14) that it is expanding its revenue tracking software to serve professional services firms, systems integrators, and technology service providers. “Services revenue has a unique challenge. […]

OCC Report Accuses Banking Giants of Political ‘Debanking’

October 14, 2026
Federal regulators said some of the largest banks in the United States allowed political concerns to shape who received services. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released a...

Genpact Expands Agentic AI Suite to Industrial Accounts Receivable

October 14, 2026
Genpact has launched a suite of agentic artificial intelligence solutions designed to handle accounts receivable tasks for industrial clients in manufacturing and mining, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct....

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...