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M3 and Edenred Pay Partner on Financial Solutions for Hospitality Businesses
Partnerships // March 17, 2025

M3 and Edenred Pay, an Edenred company, have partnered to deliver financial solutions to hospitality businesses. The collaboration will combine M3’s financial management platform for the hospitality industry with Edenred Pay’s payment automation solutions and will deliver solutions tailored to this sector’s unique needs, the companies said in...

Bank of America Says Real-Time Payments Connect Businesses to Working Capital
Payments Innovation // March 17, 2025

The Clearing House’s RTP network launched in 2017. The FedNow Service, the central bank’s foray into real-time payments, debuted in the summer 2023. And yet real-time payments — while getting some serious global traction — still have a lot of runway left for consumers and...

The Digital Gold at the End of the Rainbow: How Tech Is Transforming St. Patrick’s...
Digital Payments // March 15, 2025

As St. Patrick’s Day approaches Monday (March 17), the traditional celebration gets a digital makeover beyond virtual pints of green beer. The intersection of technology and Irish celebration has created innovations across financial services, artificial intelligence and digital marketing. This evolving digital ecosystem transforms how...

UiPath Buys Peak to Bolster Agentic Automation Platform
Acquisitions // March 13, 2025

Enterprise automation and artificial intelligence (AI) software company UiPath has acquired AI platform Peak. “With the acquisition of Peak, we are accelerating our mission to strengthen our vertical AI solutions strategy,” Daniel Dines, UiPath’s founder and chief executive, said in a news release Thursday (March 13). “When combined with the UiPath...

Interviews & Exclusives
Bank of America Says Real-Time Payments Connect Businesses to Working Capital

March 17, 2025
The Clearing House’s RTP network launched in 2017. The FedNow Service, the central bank’s foray into real-time payments, debuted in the summer 2023. And yet real-time payments — while getting some serious global traction — still have a lot of runway left for consumers and businesses. Daniel Stanton, managing director and global head of Transactional […]

Mews Founder Says It’s Time to Stop Treating Hotel Guests Like a Room Number 

March 13, 2025
The hospitality industry is built on service, but the hotel experience has remained largely unchanged for decades. Guests arrive at a front desk, provide identification, hand over a credit card...

These 3 Connected Consumer Segments Will Define Commerce’s Next Decade

March 13, 2025
Once relegated to simple card-present transactions, digital payments today are deeply embedded into and across a web of connected devices, ultimately driving more personalized experiences and frictionless commerce. The PYMNTS...

Turning Digital Bill Presentment Into the Next Consumer Touchpoint

March 12, 2025
Payments innovation often steals the spotlight from its less flashy cousin, payment advances. But beneath developments like artificial intelligence and real-time payments, bill presentment has quietly emerged as a critical...

Quick Reads
M3 and Edenred Pay Partner on Financial Solutions for Hospitality Businesses

March 17, 2025
M3 and Edenred Pay, an Edenred company, have partnered to deliver financial solutions to hospitality businesses. The collaboration will combine M3’s financial management platform for the hospitality industry with Edenred Pay’s payment automation solutions and will deliver solutions tailored to this sector’s unique needs, the companies said in a Monday (March 17) press release emailed to PYMNTS. “This […]

UiPath Buys Peak to Bolster Agentic Automation Platform

March 13, 2025
Enterprise automation and artificial intelligence (AI) software company UiPath has acquired AI platform Peak. “With the acquisition of Peak, we are accelerating our mission to strengthen our vertical AI solutions strategy,” Daniel Dines, UiPath’s...

Visa to Add Tokenization and Digital Wallet Capabilities to Fleet Cards

March 13, 2025
Visa will soon add tokenization and custom provisioning for mobile transactions to its Fleet cards, enabling issuers and FinTechs to integrate encrypted and tokenized card information into Apple Pay mobile...

Revolut Goes On Hiring Spree to Prep ‘Mobilization’ for UK Banking

March 13, 2025
Revolut is reportedly hiring 100 new staffers as it prepares to expand its U.K. banking business. The FinTech received its long-awaited British banking license last summer — albeit with some...