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92% See AP Automation as a Way to Move Beyond Routine Tasks

October 23, 2026
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AI Shifts Underwriting From the Person to the Purchase
Loans // October 23, 2026

The credit score has a strange blind spot. It knows a lot about the borrower and almost nothing about what the borrower is about to buy. And as latest installment of “The Future of AI Credit” playbook, a PYMNTS Intelligence collaboration with Thredd, shows, creditworthiness is not...

Enova Tops $1 Billion Quarterly Revenue as Online Lending Surges
Consumer Insights // October 22, 2026

Online lender Enova saw its revenue exceed $1 billion during a quarter for the first time in its history in the third quarter, with strong growth across its portfolio, CEO Steve Cunningham said Thursday (Oct. 22) during an earnings call. “We are pleased to report...

OpenAI Aims to Lock In $30 Billion Funding Round by Next Week
Artificial Intelligence // October 22, 2026

OpenAI is close to finalizing a funding round in which it could raise as much as $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, CNBC reported Thursday (Oct. 22), citing unnamed sources. OpenAI told investors Thursday that it aims to secure signatures by the end...

FTC Data Shows Investment Scams Fuel Fivefold Surge in Seniors’ Fraud Losses
Fraud Prevention // October 22, 2026

Fraud losses reported by older adults increased fivefold between 2020 and 2025, leaping from $600 million to $3 billion, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Monday (Oct. 19). The FTC shared this data in a press release outlining findings from its report to Congress, “Protecting...

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92% See AP Automation as a Way to Move Beyond Routine Tasks

October 23, 2026
Businesses looking to automate supplier payments are giving technology teams a bigger say in purchasing decisions, and the reason starts with a practical priority: making new software work with what they already have. The July 2026 “Business Payments Tracker®” from PYMNTS Intelligence and WEX, “Who Decides Now: How Developers and Tech Teams Are Reshaping the […]

AI Shifts Underwriting From the Person to the Purchase

October 23, 2026
The credit score has a strange blind spot. It knows a lot about the borrower and almost nothing about what the borrower is about to buy. And as latest installment...

Nvidia and Reflection Make Open Models Enterprise-Ready

October 22, 2026
Chinese labs have led the open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) race for most of the year. This week, the U.S. stacked up its own entries, with Nvidia and Reflection releasing models...

Currency Costs Test the Promise of Cross-Border Payment Bundles

October 22, 2026
Small businesses in the United States purchasing overseas want faster payments, lower fees and better exchange rates. Financial providers are combining accounts, currency management and spending services around that activity....

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Enova Tops $1 Billion Quarterly Revenue as Online Lending Surges

October 22, 2026
Online lender Enova saw its revenue exceed $1 billion during a quarter for the first time in its history in the third quarter, with strong growth across its portfolio, CEO Steve Cunningham said Thursday (Oct. 22) during an earnings call. “We are pleased to report another quarter of healthy growth and credit as originations, receivables, […]

OpenAI Aims to Lock In $30 Billion Funding Round by Next Week

October 22, 2026
OpenAI is close to finalizing a funding round in which it could raise as much as $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, CNBC reported Thursday (Oct. 22), citing...

FTC Data Shows Investment Scams Fuel Fivefold Surge in Seniors’ Fraud Losses

October 22, 2026
Fraud losses reported by older adults increased fivefold between 2020 and 2025, leaping from $600 million to $3 billion, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Monday (Oct. 19). The FTC...

Uber Deploys OpenAI Agents to All 30,000 Employees

October 22, 2026
Uber has made OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work available to all its 30,000 employees around the world after initially piloting it with 1,000 employees, OpenAI said in a Thursday (Oct. 22) press release. ChatGPT Work is an agent designed to...