B2B Payments

The year 2024 has been nothing short of transformative for CFOs and treasurers, reshaping their roles into a blend of strategy, technology and operational precision.  Here at PYMNTS, we talk to ...

UAE-based startup CredibleX has raised $55 million in a seed round to grow and broaden its embedded finance solutions for small- to medium-sized business (SMBs). The company’s solutions are designed for the ...

Germany-based venture capital fund Robin Capital closed its Robin Fund One at 13 million euros (about $13.6 million). “Robin Fund One is closed,” Robin Haak, Robin Capital founder and managing partner, ...

Since the inception of global trade, the world’s financial systems have largely talked past and around each other. The reason? Diverse payment systems and communication protocols across countries and financial institutions ...

The circle of trust and the issues around risk management explored in PYMNTS’ recent “What’s Next in Payments” articles are often heavy on future technology. They may bring to mind ...

Instant payments continue their global sweep, with expanding RTP® network capabilities from The Clearing House in the United States, Australia simplifying cross-border transfers and Hungary embracing QR codes for everyday ...

Chargeback management firm Justt raised $30 million to bolster its artificial intelligence-powered platform. The Series C round brings Justt’s total funding to $100 million and will allow it to expand into ...

The B2B payments landscape is at a pivotal juncture as 2025 approaches. On one hand, the imperative to digitize and integrate payment processes has never been more pressing. On the other, ...

Payments innovations impacted small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in 2024. For years, SMBs lagged behind larger enterprises in adopting digital payment solutions, hindered by limited budgets, resources and expertise. To this ...

The stakes for fraud prevention and data security are rising with innovation across digital payments. Trust remains the cornerstone of today’s dynamic ecosystem, but it is increasingly tested by a web ...

There are two sides to any commercial transaction. Within B2B, buyers and suppliers find one another and agree on terms, funds flow, and accounts payable and receivable departments interact. On that ...

What many finance teams want for the holidays this year is an automated back office. As the calendar years’ worth of PYMNTS Intelligence studies have shown, accounts payable (AP) and accounts ...

Payments services company Worldline has introduced FlexPricing for independent software vendors (ISVs). The new offering, which Worldline calls the first of its kind, lets ISVs implement flexible pricing strategies that include charging a percentage ...

Complexities breed inefficiency, as business-to-business (B2B) payments throughout their history have proven. But B2B payments should be simple, easy and secure. In an era when digital transformation is reshaping every ...

Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) across the U.S. face struggles due to fragmented and inefficient business-to-business (B2B) payment systems. While many SMBs recognize the potential of integrated solutions to streamline ...

Keo World is expanding access to its B2B payments platform Workeo in Brazil through a partnership agreement with investment bank BTG Pactual Bank S.A. This partnership will help medium and large businesses in ...

Basis has raised $34 million in a Series A round to expand its deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) agents designed to help accountants. “We’ve raised $34m to accelerate our goal of ...

Parafin has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round to grow its embedded finance infrastructure that powers financial services for marketplaces, vertical software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and payment platforms. The ...

Kimura Capital is reportedly closing its London-based trade finance business and returning money to investors. The company will continue its ventures in commodity logistics and sports management, but a proposed commodity hedge fund ...

Cross-border finance FinTech AstroPay has introduced its multicurrency wallet. The new offering, announced by the London-based company Tuesday (Dec. 17), is aimed at simplifying how users manage money across borders. “We’re making ...

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions has debuted a marketplace solution for retailers. The Toshiba Commerce Marketplace is designed to connect retailers with a network of technology partners to help them stay competitive and ...

Stablecoin payments infrastructure firm BVNK is expanding to the U.S. after raising $50 million. The company’s Series B round, announced Tuesday (Dec. 17), was led by Haun Ventures, with participation from ...

For decades, finance functions and treasury teams stared down tedious, manual and repetitive workflows. But today’s financial landscape is in constant motion. Rising regulatory pressures, unpredictable global economic conditions and evolving ...

Payroll/HR platform Remote says its clients can now pay contract workers using stablecoins. The new offering, launching initially for businesses in the U.S., allows companies to pay contractors in 69 countries with the ...

Shopline and Onramp Funds have teamed up to deliver flexible financing options to eCommerce businesses. With this partnership, U.S.-based online merchants using Shopline’s commerce services platform can access capital from Onramp Funds, ...

Morgan Stanley will offer its clients high-speed cross-border settlements through Wise Platform. The investment bank tapped this solution from Wise, a global technology focused on money movement, to facilitate foreign exchange ...

Revolut will reportedly offer new anti-fraud security measures to its cryptocurrency customers starting next year. “In the crypto space, there’s a little bit of an issue with fraud outcomes,” Alex Codina, general manager for ...

For years, the middle and back offices have operated in the shadows of their more glamorous counterparts — the front office and client-facing teams. But now, nearly a quarter-century into the ...

The insurance industry has faced challenges in implementing real-time payouts due to high costs and transparency issues, despite the potential benefits for insurers and customers, such as reduced delays and ...

CARD.com now enables its users to make cross-border payments via Visa Direct. This offering results from a collaboration between CARD.com, which is a FinTech specializing in mobile banking and card payments, ...

Blockchain firm Ripple says it is preparing to bring its stablecoin to the world’s exchanges. The dollar-backed Ripple USD (RLUSD) will be available beginning Dec. 17, the company announced Monday (Dec. 16), in the latest ...

Today’s treasury operations are a far cry from your father’s, as the saying goes. Agility, powered by real-time insights and dynamic decision-making, is increasingly allowing treasury teams to move beyond reactive ...

FIS is reportedly acquiring U.K. supply chain finance firm Demica in a $300 million deal. The two parties agreed to a deal last week, Sky News reported, citing unnamed sources. An ...

Google unveiled a platform that provides artificial intelligence agents and AI-powered search to enterprises. The new Google Agentspace brings together the company’s Gemini AI model and search capabilities and the enterprise’s ...

The paper check endures, perhaps bafflingly so, in the digital age. There are easier ways to pay, of course, but for commercial transactions, the paper check remains entrenched as a ...

The connected economy might be making a jump from end-users’ hands to their faces. That is, if Big Tech’s biggest representatives are to be believed. On Thursday (Dec. 12), Google introduced ...

The benefits of standardized data formats and exchanges in financial services are myriad. Banks are moving toward the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard, tied to Swift, which noted that the open ...

B2B firms have two items at the top of their wish list this holiday season: more liquidity, and greater operational efficiency. These dual priorities reflect the pressure to navigate uncertain economic ...

For banks, the ever-expanding push into global markets also has included a broadening of lending activities — to the tune of trillions of dollars. In many cases, the party on the ...

Accounting Seed, an accounting solution built on the Salesforce Platform, released three new guides designed to help businesses improve their data and automate their accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable ...

The United Kingdom’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) proposed a price cap on cross-border interchange fees and is seeking comment on the level at which the cap should be set. The PSR ...

No business wants to get paid slower. No one wants to park their financial operations with a larger company. And no one wants to pay more fees for banking and ...

When The Clearing House launched its RTP® network in 2017 — the first new payments infrastructure in about 40 years — the transaction limit was $25,000. That was before the digital ...

To improve customer satisfaction, revenue growth and competitiveness, payment facilitators (PayFacs), independent software vendors (ISVs) and marketplaces from the logistics and wholesale trade industry have set their sights on enhancing ...

B2B payments are no longer just about moving money — they’re about unlocking new financial infrastructure possibilities for businesses worldwide. Today’s innovations in financial infrastructure are transforming how businesses operate, compete ...