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Hotels Cash In on Business Travel as Airlines Struggle

November 03, 2026
business travel, corporate travel
J.P. Morgan Payments Debuts Tool to Streamline Cash Application
Accounts Receivable // November 03, 2026

J.P. Morgan Payments launched Receivables Matching, a tool designed to help clients streamline cash applications, according to a Monday (Nov. 2) press release. “Cash application has historically been a necessary but often labor-intensive part of the receivables process,” the release said. “Once a payment arrives,...

Mastercard Debuts Free EU Cybersecurity Lessons
Cybersecurity // November 03, 2026

Mastercard has launched a free cybersecurity platform for European small businesses. The Mastercard SME Academy: Cybersecurity platform is designed to provide “practical” cybersecurity education tailored to small business and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), the company said in a news release provided to PYMNTS Tuesday (Nov. 3)....

Coupa Card Reaches $50 Million Spend Since November 2025 Launch
B2B Payments // November 03, 2026

Coupa’s Invoice-to-Pay solutions saw strong growth in the first half of the company’s fiscal year 2027, the company said in a Tuesday (Nov. 3) press release. The company’s Coupa Pay solution concluded the first half with a 58% year-over-year increase in transaction growth. This solution...

AI Incident Reporting Moves Toward Center of Governance Debate
Artificial Intelligence // November 03, 2026

A growing push for artificial intelligence (AI) incident reporting is giving Washington a practical starting point for AI oversight. Recent administration guidance, congressional requests and disclosure proposals point toward a system built around documented failures and near-misses. According to an analysis by government relations strategist...

Interviews & Exclusives
AI Agents Could Control 5% of Cross-Border Payments. Who Controls Them?

November 03, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Mural’s Sinclair Toffa As stablecoins, real-time payment networks and artificial intelligence converge, financial infrastructure providers are confronting the fact that competitive questions are now becoming architectural ones. But building a system in which software can initiate transactions across borders, currencies and banking networks, without compromising the controls that make […]

MIT Researchers Say Privacy Rules Will Shape AI Competition

November 03, 2026
Watch more: TechReg With Catherine Tucker and Rozhina Ghanavi of MIT Sloan An artificial intelligence agent researching a medical condition can learn something about an entire family from a conversation...

Economic Optimism Gains 3.8 Percentage Points as Shoppers Stay Selective

November 03, 2026
More Americans see better economic days ahead, giving merchants an opening to win purchases that cautious households have put off. That’s one encouraging finding in “Keeping Up Gets Harder: Debt...

Connecting AI Visits to Sales Could Sharpen Retail Investment

November 03, 2026
A retailer’s next artificial intelligence investment could depend on what happens after a shopper arrives. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Agent Advantage: How Merchants Plan to Win AI Shopping” found...

Quick Reads
J.P. Morgan Payments Debuts Tool to Streamline Cash Application

November 03, 2026
J.P. Morgan Payments launched Receivables Matching, a tool designed to help clients streamline cash applications, according to a Monday (Nov. 2) press release. “Cash application has historically been a necessary but often labor-intensive part of the receivables process,” the release said. “Once a payment arrives, accounts receivable teams must determine which invoices it belongs to, […]

Mastercard Debuts Free EU Cybersecurity Lessons

November 03, 2026
Mastercard has launched a free cybersecurity platform for European small businesses. The Mastercard SME Academy: Cybersecurity platform is designed to provide “practical” cybersecurity education tailored to small business and medium sized...

Coupa Card Reaches $50 Million Spend Since November 2025 Launch

November 03, 2026
Coupa’s Invoice-to-Pay solutions saw strong growth in the first half of the company’s fiscal year 2027, the company said in a Tuesday (Nov. 3) press release. The company’s Coupa Pay...

Shopify Revenue Jumps 32% as Agent-Driven Commerce Surges

November 03, 2026
Shopify is seeing a jump in revenue as consumers increasingly use AI agents to evaluate and purchase products. In reporting quarterly earnings Tuesday (Nov. 3), management at the Canadian eCommerce company said artificial...