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Mastercard Advances Commercial Payments With AI-Powered B2B Analytics Solution

Business Wire

“One of the biggest pain points for banks and corporates is supplier payments. Mastercard introduced Mastercard Advanced B2B Analytics, a card acceptance analytics platform that provides dynamic, accurate and actionable supplier payment insights in minutes. Issuers can now drive commercial card spend at scale, capture additional revenues and help corporate clients identify opportunities to optimize […]

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B2B Payments: Business Processing and Challenges to Achieving Straight-Through Processing

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

“Electronic business-to-business (B2B) payments have the potential to reduce the manual handling required for checks, helping businesses advance straight-through processing (STP). Although businesses face several challenges to adopting electronic payments, partial solutions have emerged that facilitate STP.”

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B2B Payments: A Gradual Shift from Checks to Electronic Payment Methods

The Federal Reserve

“Although U.S. business-to-business (B2B) payments have shifted from checks to electronic payments over the past decade, many businesses still make and receive B2B payments with checks. Electronic payment methods, which include wire, Automated Clearing House (ACH), instant payments, and credit and debit cards, have the potential to remove some of the manual processing; however, businesses […]

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Episode 302 - Catching Up on the Capital Markets, with Timothy Chiodo, UBS

About a year ago, we chatted with with Tim Chiodo of UBS and Chris Kim of Capital Group about the investment side of payments. It’s been a pretty volatile 12-months in the equity market since then - well-timed for Bryan Derman to welcome Tim back on the podcast and catch up on the market factors playing into the payments space.  Listen in as they recap the performance of payments stocks, dive into the e-commerce market, provide perspective on the card networks, discuss merchant acquiring growth opportunities, and finish up with a lightning round on emerging technology. 

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TreviPay Partners with Dynatos to Add e-Invoicing Capabilities to its B2B Payments Infrastructure

Business Wire

“TreviPay, a global B2B payments infrastructure partner, announced a partnership with Dynatos to expand e-invoicing capabilities for TreviPay clients operating across Europe and other markets. Through the partnership, Dynatos Routty Cloud proposition will provide embedded e-invoicing technology and compliance support, helping TreviPay clients exchange invoices across different formats, networks and country requirements in Europe and […]

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Circle Expands Global Payments Infrastructure with Agreement to Acquire Singapore-based Cross-Border Payments Platform, Tazapay

Circle

“Circle Internet Group, Inc., the global financial technology firm and issuer of USDC today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tazapay, a Singapore-headquartered B2B cross-border payments infrastructure company focused on serving payment service providers and financial institutions. The deal is expected to close in 2027, subject to customary closing conditions and receipt […]

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Visa Signs Shinhan Financial as First Korean Bank on Its Stablecoin Platform

Startup Fortune

“Shinhan Financial Group announced that it had signed a strategic business agreement with Visa to work on stablecoins, AI-based payments and business payment services. Visa is not just talking about crypto from a stage. It has persuaded one of South Korea’s biggest financial groups to test real bank payment functions on its enterprise stablecoin platform: […]

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Episode 300 - Reflecting on 12 Years of Payments on Fire

2026 is a milestone year for Glenbrook as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the firm. We also find ourselves airing the 300th episode of our Payments on Fire podcast - founded by George Peabody in 2014, nurtured by Yvette Bohanan, and now continued on through the hosting efforts of most of the team. We thought there would be no better way to mark the 12 year achievement - and pay respect to what George and Yvette built - than to revisit the journey with clips from the first 299 episodes. From early episodes on digital currency and AI, to fast payments evolution and financial inclusion efforts (and how could we leave out tokenization), listen in as Bryan Derman and Jill Wurst guide you through significant moments in the podcast’s history.

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Fiserv and Stuut Partner to Bring Agentic AI to Enterprise Receivables

Fiserv, Inc.

“Fiserv, Inc. announced a strategic partnership with Stuut Technologies to help eligible enterprise finance teams modernize manual, fragmented B2B receivables processes where available. The collaboration brings together Fiserv’s Commerce Hub, Fiserv’s global payments platform, and SnapPay®, its order-to-cash solution, with Stuut’s AI-enabled automation capabilities to support collections, cash application, payments, disputes, and deductions, subject to […]

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Mastercard Expands Virtual Card Platform with New Security Controls, Embedded Payments Network and Single API Access

Mastercard

“Mastercard announced enhancements to Mastercard In Control® – a virtual card number (VCN) platform for scalable B2B payments. New innovations include advanced virtual card controls that help reduce risk across the full payment lifecycle, and one scalable connection to Mastercard’s growing embedded partner network — enabling enterprises, financial institutions and platforms to manage payments with […]

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American Express Launches Intelligent Capabilities to Help Streamline Buyer and Supplier Payments

American Express

“American Express announced a B2B payment feature and automated invoice reporting capabilities within Buyer Initiated Payments (BIP). Amex is introducing BIP Connect, a feature that connects eligible BIP customers to Paymode, one of the largest B2B payment networks in the U.S. through a new partnership with Bottomline, a leading provider of payments and financial technology […]

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How J.P. Morgan Payments Eliminated 13 Billion Keystrokes a Year by Automating the Paper Behind Payments

Tearsheet

“In 2025 alone, the bank processed roughly 480 million checks and payment documents through its lockbox network. Behind every payment was a mix of invoices, remittance slips, handwritten notes, folded documents, and variations that required human intervention. Before automation, processing that volume meant employees performed roughly 13 billion manual keystrokes every year. Rather than eliminating […]

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U.S. Faster Payments Council Publishes White Paper on ERP-Embedded Instant Payments

EIN Presswire

“The U.S. Faster Payments Council announced the publication of a new white paper, From Bottleneck to Command Center: Embedding Instant Payments in Enterprise Resource Planning, developed by the FPC Business Benefits for B2B Instant Payments Work Group. The white paper explores how enterprise resource planning systems are evolving from traditional financial management platforms into payment command […]

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Visa Expects Stablecoins to See Limited Adoption in Retail Payments

Trend

“Stablecoins are unlikely to become widely used for paying for goods and services in stores in the foreseeable future, but they may play an important role in cross-border transfers, B2B settlements, and emerging markets, Visa’s Group President, Oliver Jenkyn, said. Jenkyn made the statement at a briefing held as part of the Visa Payments Forum […]

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Boost Payment Solutions Reports Measurable Progress on CEDP Qualification, Delivering Tens of Millions in Customer Savings

Boost

“With Visa’s Commercial Enhanced Data Program (CEDP) now in effect, Boost Payment Solutions, a leader in B2B payments, shared results its customers are seeing as real-time data validation becomes the new standard in B2B payments.  Across more than $1.2 billion in qualifying transaction volume, Boost has helped customers save approximately $14.7 million in acceptance costs […]

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