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Boost CEO Says AI Lets Payments Firms Build More In-House

November 03, 2026
PYMNTS eBook, Boost
Mastercard Forms OpenAI and Tencent Partnerships to Drive Agentic Commerce
Partnerships // November 02, 2026

Lost in the recent earnings announcement from Mastercard was a broad strategic partnership with OpenAI that Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach said includes the use of his company’s Agent Pay and “goes well beyond.” “Our agreement establishes collaboration across payments, joint services growth and AI transformation,” Miebach said...

Casap Raises $56 Million for Agentic AI Financial Services
Artificial Intelligence // November 02, 2026

Casap, an artificial intelligence agent platform for financial services, has raised $56 million in new funding. The company says its Series B round, announced last week, will help Casap advance its AI platform as it looks to move its focus beyond fraud and disputes to...

Enterprises Brush Off Wall Street Jitters and Double Down on AI Deployment
Artificial Intelligence // November 02, 2026

Market jitters around artificial intelligence will not slow enterprise demand for the technology, although it may lead corporations to sharpen their focus on outcomes, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday (Nov. 2). Chief information officers and tech insiders interviewed by the WSJ Leadership Institute said...

Uber Says It Gains 1.5 Extra Days of Investment Yield in Treasury Pilot
B2B Payments // November 02, 2026

The consumerization of corporate finance got a shot in the arm over the past weekend, and it’s an injection that could impact how corporate finance teams handle the very concept of a “weekend” itself. On Friday (Oct. 30), Uber, HSBC, Franklin Templeton, Tradeweb and Fireblocks...

Interviews & Exclusives
Boost CEO Says AI Lets Payments Firms Build More In-House

November 03, 2026
AI has expanded what teams can develop internally without a third party, Boost Payment Solutions Founder and CEO Dean M. Leavitt writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Payments Leaders Rethink What Works in 2026.”   What I changed my mind about in 2026 was the role I expected outsourcing to play as we continued to scale […]

Collective Raises $100 Million to Free Solo Owners From Being Their Own CFO

October 29, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Collective’s Hooman Radfar Hooman Radfar is building Collective for business owners who are also the people doing the work. A consultant might be the...

Businesses Stack Working Capital as Bank Credit Tightens

October 28, 2026
Businesses are using several forms of working capital to pay bills that previously could have been covered by customer receipts arriving earlier. Bank credit lines, corporate cards and supplier payment...

Payments Leaders Say What Changed Their Minds in 2026

October 28, 2026
The most useful thing an executive learns all year may be that a familiar measure of success is pointing in the wrong direction. Faster customer service can mask processes that...

Quick Reads
Mastercard Forms OpenAI and Tencent Partnerships to Drive Agentic Commerce

November 02, 2026
Lost in the recent earnings announcement from Mastercard was a broad strategic partnership with OpenAI that Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach said includes the use of his company’s Agent Pay and “goes well beyond.” “Our agreement establishes collaboration across payments, joint services growth and AI transformation,” Miebach said during the Thursday (Oct. 29) earnings call. Mastercard Agent Pay is the […]

Casap Raises $56 Million for Agentic AI Financial Services

November 02, 2026
Casap, an artificial intelligence agent platform for financial services, has raised $56 million in new funding. The company says its Series B round, announced last week, will help Casap advance...

Enterprises Brush Off Wall Street Jitters and Double Down on AI Deployment

November 02, 2026
Market jitters around artificial intelligence will not slow enterprise demand for the technology, although it may lead corporations to sharpen their focus on outcomes, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday...

Anthropic Reports $17 Billion Quarterly Revenue Ahead of IPO

November 02, 2026
Anthropic’s revenue reached $17 billion for the three months ended Sept. 30, the artificial intelligence company said in an amendment to its Form S-1 registration statement filed with the Securities...