- Mastercard Sees Trust and Rail Convergence Shaping Commercial PaymentsWatch more: Need to Know With Mastercard’s Raj Seshadri The opportunity for progress in B2B payments has never been hard to spot. Trillions of dollars still move through processes built on paper checks, manual reconciliation and disconnected workflows that digital tools never fully replaced. Change has arrived, but slowly, and usually at the margins. […] […]
- The $42 Billion Checkout Opportunity Hiding in Plain Sight“Embedded Offers: The Billion-Dollar Opportunity Inside Recent Consumer Spendingâ€� is a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and FIS. Based on a Census-balanced survey of 2,754 U.S. consumers conducted from Feb. 12–March 4, 2026, the report examines how shoppers discover, evaluate and redeem offers across grocery, retail and restaurant purchases, and why so many available discounts fail to […]
- Amazon and Walmart Are Now Chasing the Same ShopperImagine buying a high-amp car battery, a crocheted purse and a bag of fresh groceries all in one go without thinking twice about where to shop. That’s the line Amazon and Walmart want to erase as they battle to become the go-to destination for every kind of purchase. New data from the latest issue […] […]
- Collections Finally Gets Its AI Glow-UpWatch more: Need to Know With Billtrust’s Dave Ruda What is relied upon can often get taken for granted. That’s the position the accounts receivable (AR) function has traditionally found itself in. After all, what’s more important than getting paid? But despite its bottom-line impact, AR has traditionally been run as a back-office function […] […]
- AI Is Ready for Prime Time but the Org Chart Is NotArtificial intelligence is doing exactly what it promised. The technology is improving efficiency, sharpening forecasts, accelerating workflows and, in many cases, outperforming expectations across business functions. For corporate leaders who spent years waiting for the technology to mature, that moment has arrived. And yet, inside many large organizations, AI is going nowhere fast. Findings […] […]
- Pipe Originated $300M in MCAs in Last Two Years, Bouncing BackPipe originated $300M in merchant cash advances in the last two years, the company revealed. The figure was presented in its announcement that it has raised a fresh $16M round of capital. The $300M in MCAs was spread across 15,000 merchants. “Pipe has built the infrastructure that small business financing should have had from the […]
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- eBay Has Originated More Than $1 Billion in Business Loans & Merchant Cash AdvancesMore than $1 billion of business loans and merchant cash advances have been originated through the eBay Seller Capital program since its inception. The cumulative figure since 2021 was revealed last fall. eBay relies on partners like Liberis to fund the deals. E-commerce platforms have experienced rapid growth in merchant funding programs over the years. […]
- Former Operator of NACLB Conference Sentenced to Eight Years in PrisonKris Roglieri, the founder, and former operator of the National Alliance of Commercial Loan Brokers (NACLB) Conference, was sentenced to 97 months in prison. Roglieri previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy after it was revealed in 2024 that his commercial lending business, Prime Capital Ventures, was actually a ponzi scheme. Roglieri’s attorney had argued […]
- Just the Facts With LendFaxMore than 76% of small business owners who apply for financing through their system do it from a mobile device. That’s the fax from LendFax, a one-stop shop for business owners (and consumers) to be paired with the most appropriate service provider for their needs. The information they submit through the curated intake process is […]