Financial Technology news and trends

AI Gives Accounts Payable a Seat at the Strategy Table
Accounts Payable // May 13, 2025

The business landscape moves fast, and that can leave reactive businesses a step behind their more proactive competitors. But today’s increasingly digital landscape is full of opportunity for firms looking to transition their legacy back-office processes, such as accounts payable (AP), from passive operations to...

FinTechs and Credit Unions Increasingly Play Nice With Each Other
Credit Unions // April 30, 2025

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Many financial technology firms have historically sought to compete with credit unions by offering their own financial services and credit products to lure credit union members into their fold. That’s no longer a hard and fast approach. The...

Worldpay and FIS Deals Shake Up Merchant Services in Echo of 2019’s M&A
Business // April 17, 2025

In the FinTech space, 2025 is shaping up to feel a bit like 2019. This time around, all eyes are on embedded payments, in a nod to the new ways in which transactions are being woven into the fabric of eCommerce and enterprise business models....

Can Agentic AI Solutions Help CFOs and Treasurers Unlock Growth?
artificial intelligence // March 31, 2025

The world is on the cusp of a new era of financial intelligence. While many factors contributing to this evolution of enterprise capabilities, the bulk of them a blend of technological and behavioral, few of the financial landscape’s innovations are as exciting for CFOs and...

Interviews & Exclusives
AI Gives Accounts Payable a Seat at the Strategy Table

May 13, 2025
The business landscape moves fast, and that can leave reactive businesses a step behind their more proactive competitors. But today’s increasingly digital landscape is full of opportunity for firms looking to transition their legacy back-office processes, such as accounts payable (AP), from passive operations to value creation levers. The latest PYMNTS Intelligence data from the April […]

Giving Credit Unions Credit: Bright Future for ‘Little Guys’ of Banking

November 05, 2024
Bigger doesn’t always mean better across financial services — especially when it comes to innovation. And as financial technology reshapes the payments industry, even smaller, regional credit unions are finding...

CBDC Scrutiny Underscores Role of Compliance in Scaling Digital Innovations

May 29, 2024
The technology for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) already exists. And as dozens of countries around the world have proven, in less time than it took to read this sentence,...

FinTech IPO Index Adds 3% as Oportun Soars on Preliminary Quarterly Results

April 26, 2024
For the companies populating the FinTech IPO Index, earnings have been part of the continuing avalanche of headlines this past week. Earnings Begin to Trickle In Oportun shares soared 32.5%....

Quick Reads
Bank of England Announces CBDC Experiments

July 30, 2024
The Bank of England (BoE) is conducting a new series of experiments with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for retail use. Citing growing innovations and risks in the payments industry, BoE said in a Tuesday (July 30) discussion paper that “central banks must be quick to engage with them and prepare for their implications” in a […]

Inter Focuses on Brazilian Migrants to Drive US Growth

June 05, 2024
Brazilian online lender Inter&Co is expanding its efforts in the United States, with a focus on replicating its success in Brazil’s online banking sector. With a customer base of 32 million...

PSCU/Co-op Solutions Launches Program to Facilitate Credit Union-FinTech Collaboration

April 02, 2024
PSCU/Co-op Solutions has launched a program designed to facilitate collaboration between credit unions and FinTech companies. The new Fintech Engagement Program includes both vetted FinTech companies and credit unions that are looking to...

Lawmakers Say FDIC Has ‘Moved Backwards on Innovation’

February 02, 2024
Three members of Congress have asked the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) for information about how it will provide regulatory guidance for FinTech firms and other financial innovators. This request was driven...