Treasury news and trends

Study Finds CFOs Find AI Can’t Clear Every Cash Flow Bottleneck

October 01, 2026
Cover image for the October 2026 PYMNTS Intelligence and J.P. Morgan Time to Cash Report. PYMNTS Intelligence reports on how CFOs use AI and faster forecasts to improve cash flow as payment and fraud risks grow.
Treasury and Education Departments Launch Portal to Ease Student Debt Rehabilitation
Consumer Finance // September 30, 2026

The Treasury Department and the Education Department have launched a new online portal designed for Americans who have defaulted federal student loans, they said in a Wednesday (Sept. 30) press release. The new Defaulted Loans Support Center is designed to help these borrowers understand their...

Working Capital Has Lost Its Strategic Edge
Working Capital // September 28, 2026

The early bird used to get a supplier discount. These days, it may still be waiting for the customer to pay. Across North America, more businesses are receiving payments on the due date and rethinking when they can afford to pay their own bills. PYMNTS...

What Happens When 10,000 Treasury Agents Make the Same Decision?
Artificial Intelligence // September 24, 2026

Treasury departments have traditionally been centered on helping the treasurer, who is typically a human, make better decisions about corporate cash. The next generation of treasury technology, however, is proving capable of making those same decisions on its own. Artificial intelligence treasury agents today can...

What Stablecoins Can Learn From the $12 Trillion Repo Market
B2B Payments // September 08, 2026

Stablecoins have already proven they can move money across blockchain rails in seconds. The harder problem sits on either side of that transaction: what happens to the money before it moves, and where it goes once it lands. For corporate treasurers, that gap is fast...

Interviews & Exclusives
The GENIUS Act Gives Stablecoins a Corporate Cash Audition

August 18, 2026
A Fortune 500 treasurer considering whether to leave $100 million in stablecoins overnight would probably ask a different set of questions than a payments executive deciding whether to use them to settle a transaction. Who legally owes the company the money? What assets stand behind the token? Where are those reserves held? How quickly can […]

Stripe’s Deal Targets Money and Machine Intelligence

August 17, 2026
The next corporate spender may not carry a company card, submit an expense report or even be a person. It may be software. Technology markets can create value at abstraction...

How AI Shopping Agents, Stablecoins and Smarter Checkout Drive Business Growth

August 11, 2026
Payments used to arrive at the end of a sale, take the money and leave. Now they have a much bigger job. They can help companies earn revenue, see cash,...

Real-Time Payments Expose the Cost of Legacy Technology

July 28, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With The Clearing House’s Cheryl Gurz After eight years of industry outreach and infrastructure investment, instant payments are becoming familiar enough that businesses increasingly understand...

Quick Reads
Treasury and Education Departments Launch Portal to Ease Student Debt Rehabilitation

September 30, 2026
The Treasury Department and the Education Department have launched a new online portal designed for Americans who have defaulted federal student loans, they said in a Wednesday (Sept. 30) press release. The new Defaulted Loans Support Center is designed to help these borrowers understand their options, address default and return to repayment, according to the […]

NFL’s Steelers Tap Priority Commerce to Overhaul Treasury Operations

July 16, 2026
The Pittsburgh Steelers entered a multiyear partnership with Priority Commerce to modernize the NFL franchise’s ticketing payments and financial infrastructure, according to a Tuesday (July 14) press release. Under the...

Ripple Introduces Treasury Platform That Manages Traditional and Digital Assets

January 28, 2026
Ripple introduced a treasury platform designed to give chief financial officers, treasurers and accounting teams complete control over traditional and digital treasury operations. Enabled by the company’s acquisition of GTreasury,...

Ripple’s GTreasury Acquires Financial Automation Platform Solvexia

January 06, 2026
Ripple’s GTreasury acquired Solvexia, a provider of no-code financial automation, data management and analytics solutions. The deal is designed to expand GTreasury’s platform to automate reconciliation and regulatory reporting across...