Payments

Procurement platform Axya raised 17 million Canadian dollars (about $12 million) in new funding, according to a Thursday (Sept. 24) press release provided to PYMNTS. The Montreal-based company’s Series A financing ...

The shopping basket has always held the answer. Brands just haven’t had a clear way to read it at the moment a customer pays. Smart checkout technology could change that ...

A payment request can look perfectly ordinary until someone checks the bank account. By then, the finance team may be one click away from sending money to a fraudster. “Prevention First: ...

U.S. business activity grew in September at the fastest rate for over five years, according to the S&P Global US Flash PMI released Wednesday (Sept. 23). The flash S&P Global US PMI Composite ...

Consumers and merchants were supposed to be the silver bullet driving scalable digital asset adoption. The cryptocurrency industry is mature enough for that to have already happened by now, and ...

Embedded payments infrastructure company NMI is expanding its NMI Business Capital service to help more merchants access financing, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 23) press release. “The expansion reflects NMI’s focus ...

MoonPay is continuing its acquisition spree by merging with private markets infrastructure platform North Capital. The acquisition is designed to bring regulated private markets infrastructure directly to MoonPay’s platform, rather than ...

It’s the year 2026, and net-30 terms still dominate the corporate landscape. Companies have digitized invoices, automated accounts payable, connected bank accounts through APIs, and built future-proof, sophisticated cash forecasts. But ...

Thredd is expanding its issuer processing platform to include stablecoin-powered money movement capabilities. This expansion stems from a partnership with stablecoin treasury and settlement platform Velocity, Thredd announced in a Wednesday (Sept. 23) news ...

The loudest arguments about artificial intelligence and labor have focused on how many jobs machines will take. WorkWhile CEO Simon Khalaf is planning around a different constraint: too few workers ...

Accounts payable technology is being judged on how well it connects to the systems businesses already use, giving developers, IT teams and implementation specialists a larger role in payment-platform decisions. The ...

The government never guaranteed the USDC stablecoin’s value. But when regulators protected Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) uninsured depositors, they rescued $3.3 billion backing the stablecoin anyway. A new review by the ...

Payments FinTech Adyen hired Klarna Chief Financial Officer Niclas Neglen as its new CFO, effective Feb. 1, 2027, according to a Tuesday (Sept. 22) press release. Neglen is expected to start ...

Google says it wants to help local governments have “civic conversations” with AI’s assistance. The tech giant announced on its blog Tuesday (Sept. 22) that it was supporting the Jigsaw Partner ...

Ramp has introduced a tool designed to automate invoicing and payment collections for corporate clients. Ramp Accounts Receivable, announced Tuesday (Sept. 22), allows the FinTech’s clients to use Ramp to manage both costs ...

Monzo’s European CEO is reportedly leaving to launch a robotics-focused startup for people with disabilities. Michael Carney is stepping down from the U.K. neobank, where he has served as European Union ...

The term “real time” is becoming to corporate finance what “AI-powered” became to enterprise software: Ubiquitous enough to sound meaningful, but elastic enough to mean almost anything. But real-time finance isn’t ...

Payments firms need a way to identify where artificial intelligence is being used and who’s responsible for it, as well as to monitor how those systems are managed over time. ISO/IEC ...

The most important benchmark for the next phase of enterprise artificial intelligence isn’t arising around the model’s intelligence. Instead, the most important benchmark is around a model’s data retention policies. That ...

Small business-focused, artificial intelligence-native benefits brokerage Corridor launched with $25 million in funding, according to a Monday (Sept. 21) press release. The funding is aimed at remedying what Corridor described in ...

Coinbase said it is expanding access to primary financial markets by bringing initial public offering (IPO) allocations to retail traders in the U.S. Starting with Oura’s IPO this week, eligible customers ...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said in a bulletin released Monday (Sept. 21) that it updated the structure and references of the OCC Cybersecurity Supervision Work ...

The cryptocurrency industry spent years citing U.S. regulatory clarity as the prerequisite for its next phase of growth. This past week showed the industry may have had the sequence backward. On ...

Payments and banking solution provider Priority Technology Holdings has agreed to be taken private by an investor group led by the company’s chairman and CEO, Thomas Priore, the company said ...

Issuers can invest in faster, more precise credit decisions, but those improvements alone may not persuade customers to change how they pay. Cardholders need to see a benefit they can ...

Citigroup’s CEO says artificial intelligence-related security concerns have led to a wave of cyber defense fixes in the business world. “There is a race to defend and shore up all of ...

FinTech company Avant filed an application to establish an insured national bank called Avant Bank, N.A., the company said in a Friday (Sept. 18) press release. Avant filed the application for ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a proposal to regulate crypto asset transactions and crypto asset markets, according to a pending regulatory ...

The paper check has spent years as the punchline of B2B payments modernization. The next legacy format is already sitting in the accounts payable inbox. It’s the PDF. The PDF invoice ...

OpenAI has launched an artificial intelligence foundation designed to be used by law firms and legal technology companies to build AI products and workflows, the company said in a Thursday ...

Insurers are in the predictability business. Artificial intelligence is an unpredictable technology. For CFOs and CISOs and their cyber insurance partners, that uncomfortable juxtaposition is becoming harder to ignore as ...

CFOs have typically solved payments problems by buying more payments technology. A new rail for faster settlement, another provider for cross-border payments. Fraud software, treasury platforms, AP automation, virtual card capabilities, ...

Amazon said artificial intelligence labs should ensure models are safe and fully tested before releasing them but did not call for the industry to slow down, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. ...

Plaid and digital identity wallet ID.me launched a benefits payments partnership, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. The collaboration is designed to combine ID.me’s wallet with Plaid’s financial account ...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) board of directors voted Thursday (Sept. 17) to approve a proposed rule that it said would make the agency’s review of bank merger transactions ...

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 institutions ...

S&P Global is acquiring blockchain security company OpenZeppelin as it looks to expand its risk assessment business to on-chain financial products, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. “The transaction ...

The Federal Reserve just made corporate cash strategic again. The Fed on Wednesday (Sept. 16) raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point, bringing the federal funds target range ...

Watch more: Digital Shift With Flagright’s Chris Phillips Financial institutions have spent years stalking the risks and opportunities that artificial intelligence brings to their security-critical space. Then came AI agents. These agents ...

Bank of America’s digital platform for treasury tasks, CashPro App, was used by European companies to approve more than 100 billion euros (about $115 billion) in payments in the first ...

American Express launched a new high-yield Business Savings account as part of its strategy to add integrated financial solutions to Amex Business membership, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. ...

Revolut and the Federal Reserve are in the news this week after suffering two banking infrastructure compromises. However, the most interesting thing about the separate incidents isn’t what happened; it’s ...

Circle has introduced Arc, a blockchain designed for financial markets, real-time money movement and agentic economic activity. Arc launches with integration into Circle’s platform, including the USDC stablecoin, the company said in ...

For six years, India’s United Payments Interface (UPI) has been free for everyone involved, but that’s reportedly about to change. Reuters reported Wednesday (Sept. 16) that India is set to begin charging merchants a ...

OpenAI is reportedly weighing a funding round at a $1.2 trillion valuation before going public. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup has held early discussions with investors about a private funding round ...