B2b/page/4 news and trends

Mastercard Forms OpenAI and Tencent Partnerships to Drive Agentic Commerce

November 02, 2026
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...

2 Engineers, Unlimited Tokens and Cisco’s 98% Rewrite
Artificial Intelligence // November 02, 2026

Cisco has handed a single engineer an unlimited artificial intelligence (AI) budget to replace nearly all of its legacy code within two years. Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel told Fortune that Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, a 27-year-old engineer who joined through Cisco’s 2025 acquisition...

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
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 company’s only employee, responsible for finding clients, managing those relationships and delivering every project. That same person has to keep the books, deal with taxes […]

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...

Businesses Believe in Payment Guarantees but Few Actually Use Them

October 28, 2026
Businesses have spent years investing in systems designed to determine whether a payment is legitimate. Fewer have invested in ensuring that a legitimate payment actually arrives. Just 13% of firms...

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...