July 18, 2024
This Week in B2B: Embedded Payments, Digital Tooling, Small-Business Success
Innovation and competition are constantly reshaping the B2B landscape. The pace of transformation has financial institutions (FIs) and corporations increasingly seeking ways to bring their B2B payments processes up to...
July 17, 2024
Simply Business Expands Workers’ Compensation Offering With Employers Partnership
Simply Business has expanded its workers’ compensation insurance offering for small businesses by partnering with workers’ compensation provider Employers. With this expansion of its offering, Simply Business can digitally quote...
July 17, 2024
Pindrop Raises $100 Million in Battle Against Deepfake Calls
Voice authentication and security firm Pindrop has raised $100 million in debt financing. The funding, announced Wednesday (July 17) and coming from Hercules Capital, allows Pindrop to further develop its...
July 17, 2024
Insurance Industry $500 Billion Digital Shift Driven by Gen Z...
As the second half of 2024 unfolds, the insurance sector finds itself in the midst of a profound shift. How profound? According to at least one industry insider, the digital...
July 17, 2024
Embedded Finance’s Next Stop Is B2B Commerce
Wind the clock back just a few years, and online transactions were a disjointed experience. After filling a cart at a merchant’s site, upon checking out a user would be...
July 17, 2024
Will Supreme Court Rulings Keep Federal Regulators in Court?
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its own 40-year-old ruling in the LoperBright Enterprises v. Raimondo case on June 28 — in what has come to being popularly tagged SCOTUS...
July 16, 2024
House Oversight Panel to Probe Pharmacy Benefit Managers’ Role in...
The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee announced on Tuesday that it will hold a hearing to scrutinize the role of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the escalating costs of healthcare....
July 16, 2024
AI Opportunities, Cyber Vulnerabilities Define UnitedHealth’s Latest Earnings
In February, UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s Change Healthcare unit suffered a far-reaching cyberattack. Per remarks by UnitedHealth’s executives on Tuesday’s (July 16) second-quarter earnings call, the impact of the Change Healthcare...
July 15, 2024
China’s AI Surge Could Impact the Global Business Landscape, Experts...
Chinese companies are racing ahead in adopting generative artificial intelligence (AI), a technological leap that experts say could upend global commerce and give China a critical edge. This significant lead,...
Instant insurance payouts benefit both customers and carriers by enhancing both speed and efficiency, but barriers such as costs and complexity are blocking the way to their adoption — especially for smaller insurers. The latest “Money Mobility Tracker®,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, explains how insurance companies are jumping these hurdles by collaborating with FinTechs to facilitate instant payments implementation.
Three-quarters of consumers who’ve purchased insurance from their bank want to buy more. But here’s the rub: Many bank customers are unfamiliar with their bank’s insurance offerings. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest report, “Increasing Enthusiasm: The Effects of Purchasing Bank-Provided Insurance,” a collaboration with Franklin Madison, makes the case in five charts why banks would be well served to boost awareness of their insurance offerings.