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Watch more: How Treasury Teams Can Harness the ‘Right’ Data for Actionable Insights and Smarter Payments
Corporate treasury professionals are no longer reactive gatekeepers of cash. Empowered by data-driven insights, real-time visibility and purpose-built technology, the finance function is emerging as a strategic orchestrator of evolving payment infrastructures.
And it’s all thanks to...
Agentic AI’s splashy arrival on the business scene is proving to be more of a rapid sociotechnical evolution than a pure-play technological upgrade. As such, this autonomy-driven sociotechnical evolution is itself increasingly being shaped by trust, structural readiness and strategic conviction.
PYMNTS Intelligence research in the August 2025 edition of The CAIO Report, “Tech on Tech:...
It is telling that even at the start of the year, when airlines were still recovering from a holiday travel crush and hotels were bracing for an uncertain economic backdrop, both industries were already talking about generative artificial intelligence (AI).
The technology was new, the use cases untested, but travel companies and consumers alike were imagining how the advanced...
Temu parent company PDD Holdings saw its revenue grow but its operating profit fall during the second quarter, with executives saying the company is investing in “long-term impact.”
PDD Holdings’ revenue grew 7% year over year during the quarter to reach about 104 billion yuan ($14.5 billion), the multinational commerce group said in a Monday (Aug. 25) press release. At the same time,...
Spreadsheets may be dying a slow death, but they’re still on their way out the door. And no one is more grateful than the corporate treasurer.
Treasury used to run on lag. Reports rolled in after cutoffs. Cash positions were tallied after the fact. By the time a treasurer got the full picture, reality had already shifted.
For decades, this quiet workhorse of corporate finance was...
Foot Locker shareholders voted to approve the footwear and apparel retailer’s acquisition by Dick’s Sporting Goods, which was announced in May.
Shareholders voted at a special meeting held Friday (Aug. 22) and approved the deal with 99% of the votes cast, representing 70% of all outstanding shares, voting in favor, Foot Locker said in a Friday press release.
The transaction remains...
Global omnichannel dog brand Bark has migrated its subscription base to enterprise subscription platform Ordergroove and eCommerce engine Shopify.
The company previously managed two separate subscription platforms, which put a strain on engineering resources and created other challenges, according to a Thursday (Aug. 21) press release.
By shifting to a single scalable tech stack for...
Financial and retail technology solutions company Diebold Nixdorf has debuted new services for bank branches.
The company’s new Branch Automation Solutions portfolio, announced Monday (Aug. 25), is designed to help financial institutions (FIs) improve efficiency in their physical channels, while addressing customers who are seeking an omnichannel banking experience.
This offering...
Features enhancing reliability, tools for restaurants and expanded financial access are on Square’s product roadmap.
The business technology platform highlighted these upcoming offerings in a Monday (Aug. 25) article announcing that it has made its product roadmap public.
Willem Avé, global head of product at Square, wrote in the article that the company did so to increase transparency...
Agentic artificial intelligence is embedding itself into everyday shopping and enterprise workflows, turning simple prompts into fully executed tasks and streamlining online interactions that improve customer-facing and supply chain interactions.
The promise that beckons is hands-off commerce, whether you’re a consumer or business, but the reality remains mixed. In B2C, retailers are...