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ACH continued to replace checks in B2B payments in 2025, Nacha said Thursday (Jan. 29).
B2B volume on the ACH Network increased 9.9%, from 7.4 billion in 2024 to 8.1 billion in 2025, according to an infographic released Thursday by Nacha, which governs the ACH Network.
In addition, healthcare claim payments from insurers to medical and dental providers rose 7.3% and reached 548 million...
Brazilian FinTech PicPay has raised $434 million in its U.S. initial public offering.
The company announced Wednesday (Jan. 28) evening that it had sold 22.8 million shares at $19 each, the high end of its target price range. PicPay is set to begin trading on the Nasdaq Thursday (Jan. 29) morning.
A report by the Financial Times (FT) notes that the IPO — which valued PicPay at $2.5...
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B2B payments typically arrive with invoice and remittance data, not fanfare.
These fundamental value transfers are largely invisible to anyone outside finance departments, embedded inside enterprise software, compliance frameworks and chief financial officer workflows.
That invisibility is part of why change in B2B...
If you’ve been watching the NFL playoffs or scrolling social media lately, you’ve probably noticed a surge in ads for consumer artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
Left Mr. Fuzzy the Teddy Bear on the airplane? Google Gemini says it can help you retrieve him. Stumped about what to name your new jewelry designs? Tap Microsoft Copilot, just like actress Kristin Cavallari. Feeling sluggish...
Identity, onboarding and fraud prevention are critical in managing financial crime across the digital economy, Trulioo CEO Vicky Bindra writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The Bets That Paid Off.”
Over the course of my career in global payments, one lesson has remained constant: trust is easiest to take for granted when systems are working, and hardest to rebuild once...
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On its fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday (Jan. 28), Tesla said its capital expenditures will exceed $20 billion in 2026, more than double prior guidance, as it accelerates investment in humanoid robotics, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI). The spending increase comes as Tesla winds down Model S and Model X production and reallocates manufacturing capacity toward Optimus...
Google has disrupted a network that sold the ability to route internet traffic through consumer devices all over the world to bad actors who could then use this ability to mask their illicit activities.
By hijacking IP addresses owned by internet service providers and used to provide service to residential or small business customers, the network made it more difficult for network...
The White House’s crypto council plans to host a summit for executives from trade groups representing the banking and cryptocurrency industries in an effort to restart progress that was being made on crypto legislation, Reuters reported Wednesday (Jan. 28).
The meeting will focus on a key issue that caused the movement of the legislation to stall: the bill’s provisions having to do...