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Beyond Compliance: Rewiring Fraud Prevention for Faster Payments

Not long ago, creating a fake vendor convincing enough to fool a seasoned finance team would have required significant effort...

Embedded Finance: Banks’ New Growth Channel

In the past, a community bank in Connecticut could attract customers through physical branches and marketing efforts, but expanding beyond...

Synchrony Brings OpenAI into Customer Experience, Agentic Commerce

Synchrony may be best known for its credit card partnerships with major retailers such as Walmart, Amazon, and Lowe’s, but...

Stripe’s OpenRouter Deal Expands Its AI Payments Ambitions

Artificial intelligence has become an new layer of the internet, but the proliferation of AI models has also created a...

How Innovation Is Transforming Payment Fraud Prevention

The biggest challenge in modern payments isn’t moving money instantly—it’s making sure it reaches the right person. As payment technologies...

How the Evolving Role of the CFO Is Changing Payments Strategy

It’s a truism in business that the CFO’s mandate only moves in one direction: It expands over time. A CFO’s...

Chime Considers Adding Stablecoin Support to Its Consumer App

Like many fintechs, Chime‘s business model is built around bringing conventional banking services into the digital realm. However, the company...

American Express Expands Virtual Cards for Commercial Payments

Digital platforms have improved consumer payments in nearly every way, but the experience has yet to fully extend into commercial...

Square Expands Small Business Suite in Embedded Finance Push

Small businesses don’t have the luxury of treating payments, credit, and cash flow as separate problems. A supplier invoice can...

How AI Makes Collections More Human—and More Effective

When someone receives a bill reminder, emotion often plays as much of a role as logic. Stress, avoidance, uncertainty, or...

Google Play Adds Venmo for App and Subscription Payments

Venmo started as a way to split a dinner bill. Now, the platform is moving further into everyday digital spending,...

Culture Clash: How Banks Are Adapting to Embedded AI Experts

Banks have spent years managing technology implementations through procurement processes, vendor reviews, and controlled rollouts. The rise of forward deployed...