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Ant International-owned merchant payment and digitization services provider Antom has launched its agentic payment solution.
The new offering, announced Thursday (Sept. 4), features what the company calls a “first-of-its-kind” secure alternative payment method (APM) checkout solution, and makes Antom among the first Visa and Mastercard partners to pilot card-based transaction...
As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the way people search online, businesses face a new challenge: How to stay visible when fewer users click through to websites while AI chatbots and Google’s AI Overviews provide answers directly on the page.
Search engine optimization, or SEO, has long been the process of improving how websites rank on Google and Bing through tactics such as...
Watch more: The Digital Shift
Running a small business has never been simple. Owners often juggle thin margins, supply chain pressures, labor costs and rising interest rates — all while trying to keep an eye on cash flow.
The volatility of the macro environment makes the job harder, and so does the patchwork of digital tools many owners rely on for back-office tasks. “Banks are...
Watch more: Visa Gives Developers New Tools to Accelerate Agentic Commerce
“There’s almost a reimagining of the internet going on right now,” Visa Senior Vice President and Global Head of Growth Rubail Birwadker told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster. For the past 30 years, eCommerce has been about keeping bad bots out. The fraudsters, scrapers and hostile traffic. Now, the challenge is flipped...
J.P. Morgan is set to bring its digital retail bank Chase to Germany next year.
As the Financial Times (FT) reported Thursday (Sept. 4), America’s largest bank plans to launch in Germany in the second quarter of 2026.
Chase’s first product in that country will be a savings account, “because of the popularity of savings products in Germany,” Daniel Llano Manibardo, J.P. Morgan’s head of...
Watch more: Agentic AI Is Rewriting the Auto Buying Playbook From Lot to Bot
Although buying a car is often a milestone, it’s rarely a fun experience for the buyer.
The endless weekends spent wandering dealership lots, the cat-and-mouse of price negotiations, and the lurking suspicion that the other side knows far more than you do. The whole process is one of the least trusted retail...
For millions of Americans, waiting days for funds to clear is rapidly becoming unthinkable. As people earn, borrow, or sell in more flexible ways, the demand for immediate access to money, where and how they want it, has made instant payments not just a convenience, but a necessity.
Instant Is the Default
The era of waiting for paychecks or commissions to post is fading fast. According...
For all the talk about artificial intelligence and instant payments, the biggest change reshaping how businesses pay each other may be happening in accounts payable.
The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Virtual Mobility: How Mobile Virtual Cards Elevate B2B Payments” finds that virtual cards and mobile wallets are emerging as valued tools helping firms wrestle back control over cash flow...
Watch more: Embedded AP Solutions Transform Back Office From Swivel Chair to Command Seat
Walk into the back office of a company with an alleged cutting-edge accounts payable (AP) function, and you might expect to see a frictionless, fully digital operation.
Instead, what you’ll often find looks more like a throwback to the 1990s, with finance teams performing swivel chair maneuvers:...
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is reportedly investigating misconduct allegations against two former executives of collapsed banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider Synapse Financial Technologies.
FINRA is looking into Synapse’s brokerage arm’s former chief compliance officer, Mark Paverman, and the unit’s former president and CEO, Jeffrey Stanley, Bloomberg reported...