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Trust in both financial services and public consciousness has traditionally been treated as a checkpoint.
A customer opened an account, submitted documents, cleared know-your-customer (KYC) reviews and, in effect, crossed the threshold. Once inside, they were largely treated as trusted unless...
Agentic commerce has been framed as the payment industry’s next leap forward.
But the central insight emerging from “How Acquirers Prepare for Agentic Commerce,” a new PYMNTS Intelligence report commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, reveals that agentic commerce is not a new stack.
Rather, it represents a new channel running on an existing one. That distinction matters because it...
Small businesses may be sending a clear signal to card issuers: stop selling access and start selling usefulness. A new PYMNTS Intelligence report suggests many small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) already feel confident they can get credit. What they want now are cards that work harder for the way they actually run their businesses.
That is one of the more striking takeaways from ...
Embedded finance is increasingly central to how B2B companies buy and sell, but it only works as well as the bank or FinTech behind it. New PYMNTS Intelligence research finds that trust and security are the deciding factors in who a B2B firm chooses to work with, and by open water over pricing and how fast a solution can get up and running. B2B firms see embedded finance as part of their...
Bank of America has formed a new team within its investment bank that is focused on helping private equity firms exit their investments, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (March 25).
The new Private Capital M...
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has proposed adding a surcharge for fuel and other transportation costs to some of its products for shipping packages.
The proposed price change would add 8% to the base postage prices on Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage and Parcel Select, the organization said in a Wednesday (March 25) press release. It would last from April 26...
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) said Wednesday (March 25) that the European Commission needs to do more to enable European Union (EU) businesses to provide services in other EU countries.
Currently, while services account for 70% of EU countries’ gross domestic product (GDP), only 20% of services are provided cross-border, the ECA said in a Wednesday press release highlighting its...
The traditional framing around stablecoins has been one centered on infrastructure. Reserves, regulation and the mechanics of maintaining a one-to-one peg with fiat currency have been the name of the game.
But as the U.S. moves forward with the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, or GENIUS Act, the center of gravity is shifting. Stability may not...
Major enterprise software platforms are moving to block or limit how outside artificial intelligence agents interact with their systems, setting up a structural conflict at the center of the broader push toward AI-powered automation.
As reported by The Information, platforms including Slack, Workday and LinkedIn have started restricting what customer-deployed agents can access and do...
Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, a firm that designs and assembles humanoid robots that can be used around people and are likely to be marketed to consumers.
The acquisition was announced in posts on LinkedIn by Fauna Robotics Co-founder and CEO Rob Cochran and Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Josh Merel.
“When we launched in NYC back in February 2024, we set out with a clear...