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Spotify Opens Tech Resources to Outside Development Teams
Technology // October 08, 2026

Spotify launched a site called Spotify Technology that is designed to open the streaming audio company’s technology to outside research and development organizations, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 7) company blog post. The site builds on the company’s existing products like Backstage, Portal, Confidence and...

Wise Third-Party Software Glitch Leads to 4,000 Incorrect Tax Statements
Taxes // October 08, 2026

Wise is reportedly negotiating a settlement after a software glitch affected thousands of customers’ tax statements. The money transfer app this week contacted roughly 4,000 U.K. users of its Wise Asset service to inform them it had given them incorrect tax statements between 2021 and...

Hacking Is Getting Cheaper Faster Than Enterprises Can Make Software Safer
Artificial Intelligence // October 01, 2026

Enterprises are spending heavily to make software capable of acting autonomously across increasingly valuable company systems. But the return on that investment depends on giving those systems authority. And authority creates exposure. Companies are connecting artificial intelligence tools to code repositories, cloud infrastructure, corporate databases...

5 Things CFOs and CISOs Need to Know About Nvidia’s AI Safety Push
Artificial Intelligence // September 29, 2026

The next enterprise artificial intelligence breakthrough could be the ability to stop an AI agent before it makes an expensive mistake. Or a hundred of them all at once. Nvidia’s newly launched Open Agent Safety Platform, announced Monday (Sept. 28), brings that distinction into sharper...

Interviews & Exclusives
59% of Firms With AI Fraud Defenses Stop Losses Before They Start

October 09, 2026
Businesses that combine several artificial intelligence tools to fight payments fraud are nearly twice as likely to stop at least 90% of attempted attacks before losing money, according to new PYMNTS Intelligence research. “Prevention First: Building a Smarter Defense Against Payments Fraud” is a PYMNTS Intelligence report produced in collaboration with Bottomline and published in […]

Amazon Wants to Run Merchants’ Businesses Beyond Amazon

September 24, 2026
Amazon spent decades trying to make itself the place where merchants sell. Its next act may be considerably more ambitious: becoming the place where merchants run their businesses, regardless of...

62% of Businesses Make ERP Integration the Top AP Test

September 09, 2026
For accounts payable software buyers, the quality of the connections now carries more weight than the size of the price tag. That shift runs through “Who Decides Now,” the July...

Embedded Payments Emerge as a FinTech M&A Target

September 01, 2026
FinTech buyers looking for growth in a tough funding and software market are finding something valuable inside real estate closings, municipal bills, healthcare practices and commercial banking. The payment is...

Quick Reads
Spotify Opens Tech Resources to Outside Development Teams

October 08, 2026
Spotify launched a site called Spotify Technology that is designed to open the streaming audio company’s technology to outside research and development organizations, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 7) company blog post. The site builds on the company’s existing products like Backstage, Portal, Confidence and Xirp, per the post. “They were always designed to work […]

Wise Third-Party Software Glitch Leads to 4,000 Incorrect Tax Statements

October 08, 2026
Wise is reportedly negotiating a settlement after a software glitch affected thousands of customers’ tax statements. The money transfer app this week contacted roughly 4,000 U.K. users of its Wise...

CFTC Makes It Easier for Software Developers to Have Prediction Markets

September 17, 2026
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division issued a staff letter declaring a no-action position for the benefit of providers of passive software, the agency said in a Thursday...

Bottomline Connects Payment Rails and Blockchains in One Platform

September 17, 2026
Business payments firm Bottomline introduced a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to improve payment messaging, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. Global Pay Connect is aimed at helping “financial...