May 11, 2025 @ 9:32 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Melio, an accounts payable and receivable platform, and Gusto, a payroll, HR, and benefits provider for more than 400,000 small and mid-sized businesses, are partnering on business invoice services. Gusto is the latest in a growing list of financial institutions, SaaS providers, and e-commerce platforms to choose Melio’s… Read More

May 11, 2025 @ 9:31 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

TreviPay, a B2B payments and invoicing network, today announced its Pay by Invoice program with Northern Tool + Equipment, a major supplier of tools and equipment. The partnership powers the new Northern Tool Commercial Account program, designed exclusively for businesses to provide greater flexibility and convenience in… Read More

May 11, 2025 @ 7:05 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

SPACE ID, a digital identity platform, this week announced that it has partnered with Floki, a community-driven blockchain ecosystem that started as a memecoin, on the launch of its decentralized website platform, the Floki Hub. SPACE ID will provide decentralized identity infrastructure to the Floki… Read More

May 11, 2025 @ 4:30 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

More than 130 countries and currency unions are currently exploring the potential of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) outlines five key factors for ensuring its success and unlocking its full impact on the global financial ecosystem. More than half of all countries… Read More

May 11, 2025 @ 4:29 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), the global modern card issuing platform that enables embedded finance solutions, has joined forces with Perpay to power the Perpay Credit Card, issued by Celtic Bank. That card automates payments directly from a paycheck. The demand for innovative credit-building solutions is growing,… Read More

May 9, 2025 @ 6:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Visa’s Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) is causing problems for acquirers and merchants, both for its design and its rollout. While the motivation to limit losses is understandable, Accertify’s director of global product management, Michael Mallon, said customer frustration is too. Visa said VAMP combines five… Read More

May 6, 2025 @ 11:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Modern Treasury introduced Modern Treasury AI to address enterprise payments. Built on the company’s Payment Ops infrastructure, Modern Treasury AI blends a context-aware agent with a real-time workspace. “AI is only as good as the data, and Modern Treasury is uniquely positioned to… Read More

May 6, 2025 @ 9:03 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

MAG, a real estate developer in the United Arab Emirates, has signed a $3 billion tokenization agreement with MultiBank Group, a financial derivatives institution based in Dubai, and Mavryk, a blockchain firm, marking what the parties claim is the largest real-world asset tokenization initiative globally… Read More

May 6, 2025 @ 7:36 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Last week, Visa used its Global Product Drop to highlight how it is using AI to improve the consumer shopping experience. “As new ways to pay emerge, they need to run on a network that is always on – that is safe, secure, scalable and… Read More

May 5, 2025 @ 4:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This past week, Instacart (NASDAQ: CART) acquired Wynshop, a provider of e-commerce solutions for leading grocers and retailers. By bringing together both organizations’ expertise and deep retailer relationships, Instacart aims to strengthen its enterprise solutions and empower more retailers to enhance their online experiences and further… Read More

May 5, 2025 @ 3:01 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Crystal Intelligence, a provider of blockchain analytics and risk monitoring, is acquiring Scam Alert, a publicly accessible platform for crypto scam reporting and detection initially created by Whale Alert. Crypto fraud has reached unprecedented levels, and victims are often left isolated, unsupported, and unaware that they… Read More

May 5, 2025 @ 3:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Brex’s recently published The CFO Imperative – How Finance Leaders Are Staying Ahead In a Volatile World provides a concise roadmap for finance executives navigating a business environment that has dramatically changed over the past four months. More than 500 finance executives were polled in… Read More

May 5, 2025 @ 2:58 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Rain, a global card issuing platform built for stablecoins, has joined Visa’s pilot program for stablecoin settlement. Rain has fully tokenized its credit card receivables and has transitioned all settlement transactions for its Visa cards to USDC The company provides backend infrastructure – APIs, compliance layers and… Read More

May 5, 2025 @ 12:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

According to the JD Power 2025 U.S. Direct Banking Satisfaction Study, overall customer satisfaction with direct bank checking accounts is 692 (on a 1,000-point scale), which is 24 points higher than the average regional bank and 35 points higher than national banks. Savings account satisfaction… Read More

May 3, 2025 @ 1:02 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Runa, a global fintech infrastructure for payouts, has released new payments research that provides businesses with data-driven insights into how to retain and engage gig workers, freelancers, direct sellers, and other independent workers. With workplace engagement continuing to plummet, more than one-third of the U.S. workforce… Read More

May 3, 2025 @ 12:01 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Qenta, a global payments company, this week announced the acquisition of Pipit Global, a B2B cross-border payments platform operating in more than 45 countries. Pipit adds an international compliant network of more than one million pay-in points and integrations with mobile money systems across Africa,… Read More

May 3, 2025 @ 10:24 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain company Tectum has officially launched TectumKeys — a hardware-based cryptographic key generator built to deliver quantum-level security, eliminate traditional software vulnerabilities, and protect against electromagnetic interception through physical isolation. At the core of TectumKeys is a physical entropy generator, RNG 1.0, developed by a… Read More

May 2, 2025 @ 11:35 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Web3 executives comment on disappearing NFTs, data center shortages and other issues of the week. Disappearing/reappearing NFTs highlight risk with centralized cloud networks “After Nike’s CloneX collection went dark on Thursday, we worked closely with the Nike RTFKT team to hurriedly upload the files to… Read More

May 2, 2025 @ 7:54 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

DailyPay, a worktech company and provider of On-Demand Pay, has expanded into Canada. This marks the company’s second international expansion, after initially moving into the United Kingdom in September 2024. “Expanding into Canada is a major step in our mission to better serve our multinational… Read More

April 30, 2025 @ 3:19 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) today announced the launch of AI agent capabilities that utilize data from the commodities sector, integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot and powered by its Commodity Insights AI-Ready Data solution. The S&P Global AI agent on Microsoft 365 Copilot harnesses the expertise… Read More