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European B2B payments FinTech Pliant raised $40 million in new funding.
The company’s Series B round brings Pliant’s total funding to more than $100 million and sets the stage for its expansion to the United States, according to a Monday (April 28) press release.
“B2B payments remain one of the most underserved and inefficient areas in global finance — still hindered by manual processes, opaque...
Two years after paying a $45 million fine, cryptocurrency company Nexo is returning to America.
As Reuters reported, the company announced this plan Sunday (April 28) at a conference in Sofia, Bulgaria while hosting Donald Trump, Jr., eldest son of the U.S. President.
The younger Trump was the star speaker at the conference, dubbed “Trump Business Vision 2025” and hosted by Nexo.
Nexo Co-founder...
For years, Amazon’s Prime Day has been a prime opportunity for the company’s third-party merchants.
But amid an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China sparked by President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods, some sellers are sitting out this year’s shopping event or scaling back their discounts, Reuters reported Monday (April 28).
For example, Rick Sliter, CEO of pillow company ...
With public listings on hold, venture capitalists are reportedly turning to the secondary market.
As Bloomberg News reported Monday (April 28), this market — a venue for buying or selling shares in private companies — has been around for decades, but has boomed in recent years.
Roughly $122 billion in assets are expected to pass through the secondary market in 2025, compared to $25 billion in...
This week, a judge will hear testimony that could determine the future of the CFPB.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been on shaky ground for months, with President Donald Trump’s administration pushing to cut 90% of its staff.
And as the New York Times reported Sunday (April 27), newly released court records shed some light into the decision-making behind the planned layoffs....
Competition is reshaping payments, and transactions are no longer the main event. They’re just the opening act.
As commoditization drives down margins and disruptors reset expectations, payment processors are pivoting from pure infrastructure providers to strategic enablers. The new frontier? Customer-centric value-added services (VAS).
“When we think of optimization, we think of it in four...
Back in 1999, payment networks introduced the first version of the 3-D Secure authentication protocol, which sought to add security to online credit card transactions. 3DS 1.0, as it is now known, required cardholders to authenticate their identity before completing a purchase.
Ben Dominguez, executive vice president of 3-D Secure and strategic alliances at Entersekt, was a vice president at Visa...
Fraud continues to pose a major challenge to accounts payable (AP) teams. Research shows that 68% of organizations encountered at least one fraud attempt in 2024, with AP fraud taking a variety of forms, including phishing attacks, account takeovers and invoice fraud. Moreover, fraudsters are rapidly growing more sophisticated as they gain access to fraud weapons fashioned with the help of...
The consumer retail landscape is usually painted in broad strokes of green and blue: Walmart for weekly groceries, beverages and basic household items, Amazon for everything from clothing and housewares to electronics and beauty products. But that picture is far more nuanced. A forthcoming report, “Winning Both Carts: Millennials Drive Surge in Having Amazon Prime and Walmart+ Subscriptions,” by...
Empathy combined with creativity leads to products that help clients unlock their potential, Visa Global Head of Acceptance Solutions Rob Cameron writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “The Listening Economy: How Customer Conversations Are Transforming Financial Services.”
The world of payments is expanding rapidly, with a massive surge in digitization, artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging sectors...