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CFOs Keep Payment Complexity From Eating Into Margins
CFO // September 10, 2026

Middle market CFOs are getting themselves stuck by doing what they think is the right thing. And that “right thing” is typically still treating finance modernization as a technology upgrade. Findings in the August 2026 edition of The 2026 Certainty Project, a PYMNTS Intelligence report in collaboration with Fynapse, show how growth is...

When AI Makes the Math Cheap, Finance Has to Find a New Advantage
Artificial Intelligence // August 11, 2026

Sophisticated mathematical analysis takes time. Or at least it used to. Today, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence’s ability to solve highly complex math problems, finance teams are now approaching a point where computation is not merely automated, but model-building itself becomes dramatically cheaper. OpenAI,...

Pattern Leverages AI and Data to Fuel eCommerce Growth
eCommerce // August 05, 2026

eCommerce accelerator Pattern is seeing a “virtuous cycle” in which the company uses its data to deliver results to brands, other brands see that success, and those brands provide the company with more data, Pattern Co-Founder and CEO Dave Wright said during a Wednesday (Aug....

Quantifind Raises $200 Million to Find the Fraudster in the Financial Chain
Fraud Prevention // August 05, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With Quantifind’s Ari Tuchman An atomic physicist goes looking for the molecule that can reveal a buried land mine before someone steps on it. Years later, he is helping banks find the fraudster hiding inside a chain of legitimate-looking people,...

Interviews & Exclusives
CFOs Keep Payment Complexity From Eating Into Margins

September 10, 2026
Middle market CFOs are getting themselves stuck by doing what they think is the right thing. And that “right thing” is typically still treating finance modernization as a technology upgrade. Findings in the August 2026 edition of The 2026 Certainty Project, a PYMNTS Intelligence report in collaboration with Fynapse, show how growth is turning that same modernization into something more consequential: an operating-model problem. […]

Quantifind Raises $200 Million to Find the Fraudster in the Financial Chain

August 05, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Quantifind’s Ari Tuchman An atomic physicist goes looking for the molecule that can reveal a buried land mine before someone steps on it. Years...

AI Gives Main Street Its Own Finance Department

June 17, 2026
Small businesses run on instinct. Main Street entrepreneurs know their customers personally. They understand seasonal fluctuations without consulting dashboards; many can sense when sales are slowing, when inventory is piling...

Big Data Has a Bigger Execution Problem

May 21, 2026
The financial services sector has spent the better part of a decade treating data as the definitive competitive asset. Whoever has the most transaction history, the richest behavioral signals, the...

Quick Reads
Pattern Leverages AI and Data to Fuel eCommerce Growth

August 05, 2026
eCommerce accelerator Pattern is seeing a “virtuous cycle” in which the company uses its data to deliver results to brands, other brands see that success, and those brands provide the company with more data, Pattern Co-Founder and CEO Dave Wright said during a Wednesday (Aug. 5) earnings call. Ask by an analyst about a year-to-date […]

EnFi’s $15 Million Fundraise Pushes Agentic AI Into Bank Credit Decisions

February 04, 2026
EnFi has raised $15 million to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that analyze and make credit decisions at banks, Reuters reported Wednesday (Feb. 4). The move comes...

Snowflake in Talks to Acquire Observe to Expand Range of AI Offerings

December 24, 2025
Snowflake is reportedly in talks to acquire Observe for about $1 billion to expand its range of artificial intelligence (AI) offerings. A deal would add Observe’s observability tools for monitoring applications,...

Seekr and Stephano Slack Develop AI Agents for Financial Data Extraction

December 23, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) solution provider Seekr and Wayne, Pennsylvania-headquartered regional accounting firm Stephano Slack have partnered to build AI agents for financial auditing and advisory services. The collaboration started with...