# b2b payment (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover b2b payment. Page: Feed: --- ## [Fifth Third Backs Payload’s Embedded Payments Expansion](https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2026/fifth-third-backs-payloads-embedded-payments-expansion/) _2026-08-22 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Payload has secured a strategic investment led by Fifth Third to expand its embedded payments platform, Payload said in a Wednesday (Aug. 19) press release. Payload was founded in late 2019, processed its first payment in January 2020 and processed nearly $500 million in May alone, according to the release. The company has become a leading processor of earnest money deposits \[…\] The post Fifth… ## [Apple Cuts Vision Pro Roles to Focus on Smart Glasses Push](https://www.pymnts.com/apple/2026/apple-cuts-vision-pro-roles-to-focus-on-smart-glasses-push/) _2026-08-22 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Apple is realigning some teams as it shifts its focus to new devices and artificial intelligence (AI), Bloomberg reported Friday (Aug. 21), citing unnamed sources. Amid this shift, Apple is cutting jobs across its teams responsible for the Siri digital assistant, the Vision Pro headset and the Intelligent Systems Experience organization that is responsible for some AI features \[…\] The post Apple… ## [Nscale Targets $3 Billion IPO as AI Data Center Demand Soars](https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/ipo/2026/nscale-targets-3-billion-ipo-as-ai-data-center-demand-soars/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Nscale, a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, aims to raise as much as $3 billion in an initial public offering that could take place as soon as September, Bloomberg reported Friday (Aug. 21), citing unnamed sources. Deliberations are ongoing, and the details could change, according to the report. Nscale is developing data centers in \[…\] The post Nscale Targets $3 Billion IPO… ## [Standard Chartered and HSBC Complete First Interbank Transaction on Swift’s Blockchain-Based Ledger](https://www.pymnts.com/blockchain/2026/standard-chartered-and-hsbc-complete-first-interbank-transaction-on-swifts-blockchain-based-ledger/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed the first interbank transaction executed on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger, Standard Chartered said in a Wednesday (Aug. 19) press release. This live cross-border transaction demonstrated interbank operability and helped advance industry progress on 24/7 cross-border payments, according to the release. By doing so, it marked a milestone in the use of… ## [One AI Agent, 2,395 Payments. Still No Final Say](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/one-ai-agent-2395-payments-still-no-final-say/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Preparing a batch of payments used to mean a person checking each invoice, confirming it matched what was approved, and grouping everything by hand. Coupa just showed how much of that work software can now do on its own. The company’s Payment Batch Creation Agent ran 14 payment batches on its own, covering 2,395 individual \[…\] The post One AI Agent, 2,395 Payments. Still No Final Say appeared… ## [Apollo Global Management Hit by Social Engineering Attack and Data Breach](https://www.pymnts.com/cybersecurity/2026/apollo-global-management-social-engineering-attack-data-breach/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Apollo Global Management disclosed Friday (Aug. 21) that it suffered a social engineering attack that led to a data breach. Apollo determined in an investigation that there was unauthorized access to some of its cloud platforms between July 6 and July 10 and that the information that may have been impacted by the incident includes \[…\] The post Apollo Global Management Hit by Social Engineering… ## [Card Processors Add New Rails as Customers Go Global](https://www.pymnts.com/news/payment-methods/2026/card-processors-add-new-rails-customers-go-global/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ The card-issuing platforms that grew up alongside, and serving, FinTechs are following their customers into businesses that have little to do with issuing another card. There is a common commercial calculation across several examples. Once a company is plugged into a customer’s payments operation, card processing is only one place to generate business. At the \[…\] The post Card Processors Add New… ## [AI Is Opening New Revenue Streams for Automakers](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/ai-is-opening-new-revenue-streams-for-automakers/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Artificial intelligence (AI) could give automakers something they have spent years trying to build: a way to keep making money from a vehicle long after it leaves the dealership. Ford and General Motors (GM) are both betting that an AI assistant tied to a vehicle’s data can keep that relationship, and the revenue, going long \[…\] The post AI Is Opening New Revenue Streams for Automakers appeared… ## [Former JPMorgan COO Matt Zames to Advise Social Security Administration on Modernization](https://www.pymnts.com/personnel/2026/former-jpmorgan-coo-matt-zames-to-advise-social-security-administration-on-modernization/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Former JPMorgan Chase Chief Operating Officer Matt Zames will become an advisor to the Social Security Administration Monday (Aug. 24) to help modernize the agency, CNBC reported Friday (Aug. 21), citing unnamed sources. Zames will serve in an unpaid advisory role and will join his former JPMorgan Chase colleague Frank Bisignano, who is the Social \[…\] The post Former JPMorgan COO Matt Zames to… ## [Nvidia Pays $6 Billion to License Poolside AI Model-Development Software](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/nvidia-pays-6-billion-to-license-poolside-ai-model-development-software/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Nvidia will pay $6 billion to license Poolside’s artificial intelligence model-development software, Model Factory, and will make offers to hire 109 Poolside employees who were involved in making the company’s AI open-source model, Laguna, The Information reported Thursday (Aug. 21), citing a paywalled post by Newcomer. The Newcomer post is based on a Poolside letter \[…\] The post Nvidia Pays $6… ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/jufb76R7gLzh) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [This Week in Stablecoins: Crypto That Never Touches the Customer](https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2026/this-week-in-stablecoins-crypto-that-never-touches-the-customer/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Stablecoins five years ago represented a new form of money looking for a reason to exist. This week offered a different picture. The reason for stablecoins as a cash alternative is emerging precisely as the technology itself becomes harder to see. Across payroll, merchant acquiring, card networks, creator payouts and corporate treasury, stablecoins are being \[…\] The post This Week in Stablecoins:… ## [AI Jobs Are Booming for Gen Z, Not Everyone](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/ai-jobs-are-booming-gen-z-not-everyone/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Artificial intelligence has not been around long enough to reward seniority the way most fields do, and that gap is starting to show up in who gets hired. Generation Z accounted for 69% of new hires for two of the highest-paying individual contributor roles in AI in 2025, forward-deployed engineers and AI engineers, The Wall \[…\] The post AI Jobs Are Booming for Gen Z, Not Everyone appeared first… ## [Grassroots Backlash Forces Big Tech to Rewrite Data Center Playbook](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/grassroots-backlash-forces-big-tech-to-rewrite-data-center-playbook/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Grassroots resistance to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is accomplishing what policymakers have largely failed to do: forcing technology companies, utilities and elected officials to confront who pays for AI’s enormous demands on electricity, water and public infrastructure. Facing delayed projects, local moratoriums and growing voter anger, some of the world’s largest technology… ## [Walmart Tap to Pay Rollout Begins Monday](https://www.pymnts.com/news/payment-methods/2026/walmart-tap-to-pay-rollout-begins-monday/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Walmart will soon begin rolling out tap to pay as a payment option at Walmart and Sam’s Club locations, the company said in a Friday (Aug. 21) press release. The retailer will begin enabling tap to pay at select stores and clubs on Monday (Aug. 24) and plans to roll it out to all U.S. \[…\] The post Walmart Tap to Pay Rollout Begins Monday appeared first on PYMNTS.com . ## [European Consumers’ Inflation Expectations Ease Despite Middle East War Uncertainty](https://www.pymnts.com/economy/2026/european-consumers-inflation-expectations-ease-despite-middle-east-war-uncertainty/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ European consumers’ inflation expectations inched down in July, the European Central Bank said in a Friday (Aug. 21) press release. Consumers’ median expectations for inflation over the next 12 months decreased from 3.0% in June to 2.9% in July, while those for inflation three years ahead declined from 2.8% to 2.7%, according to the release. Their median expectations for inflation \[…\] The post… ## [Retailers Find Bigger Growth Selling Ads Around the Shopping Cart](https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2026/retailers-find-bigger-growth-selling-ads-around-shopping-cart/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Retail media is giving Walmart, Target and Amazon a faster-growing source of revenue than their core retail businesses, built on the same traffic, searches and transaction data generated by stores, websites and marketplaces. The latest quarter showed the gap. Sales from Walmart Connect increased 43% year over year. Target’s reported advertising revenue, primarily from Roundel, \[…\] The post… ## [CFTC Roundtable Exposes Regulatory Rift Over Prediction-Market Risks](https://www.pymnts.com/economy/markets/2026/cftc-roundtable-exposes-regulatory-rift-over-prediction-market-risks/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Prediction-market executives clashed Thursday (Aug. 20) over how regulators should police manipulation and insider trading, exposing a widening divide between established derivatives exchanges and newer event-contract platforms. The confrontation occurred during a Commodity Futures Trading Commission Innovation Advisory Committee meeting in Washington, where executives from traditional finance,… ## [Instant Payments Unlock Working Capital by Allowing Treasury to Pay Later](https://www.pymnts.com/real-time-payments/2026/instant-payments-unlock-working-capital-allowing-treasury-pay-later/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ The unexpected advantage of instant transactions for B2B firms is not faster payment but removing settlement float from payment terms. Real-time settlement does not merely accelerate money. It makes time negotiable, particularly across B2B. If a supplier must be paid Friday, a company should not have to surrender the cash Wednesday just because the payment \[…\] The post Instant Payments Unlock… ## [Robotics AI Firm Dexmal Seeks $3 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round](https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2026/robotics-ai-firm-dexmal-seeks-3-billion-valuation-in-new-funding-round/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Dexmal, a Chinese firm developing embodied artificial intelligence to control robots, is seeking a valuation of 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) in a funding round, Bloomberg reported Friday (Aug. 21). The talks are ongoing, Dexmal Founder Tang Wenbin said in the report. Previous Dexmal funding rounds were led by eCommerce and AI giant Alibaba Group \[…\] The post Robotics AI Firm Dexmal Seeks $3… ## [Ross Posts 13% Sales Jump as Inflation Drives Shoppers to Off-Price Retailers](https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2026/ross-posts-13-sales-jump-as-inflation-drives-shoppers-to-off-price-retailers/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Off-price retailer Ross Stores saw “robust” sales growth in the quarter ended Aug. 1 as both existing customers and new ones sought prices lower than those of mainstream retailers, CEO Jim Conroy said during a Thursday (Aug. 20) earnings call. “We really want to be there for a customer that is battling higher gas prices \[…\] The post Ross Posts 13% Sales Jump as Inflation Drives Shoppers to… ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Z58h9tV93Mqd) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Anthropic Aims for Largest-Ever IPO](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/anthropic-aims-for-largest-ever-ipo/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Anthropic expects its initial public offering to reach a record high, equaling or surpassing the one set by SpaceX, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 20), citing unnamed sources. SpaceX achieved the biggest-ever first-time sale when it raised $75 billion at the outset, and it later increased that figure to $86.2 billion with an overallotment option, according \[…\] The post Anthropic Aims for… ## [CFTC Readies Own Crypto Market Rules as Congress Stalls CLARITY Act](https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2026/cftc-readies-own-crypto-market-rules-as-congress-stalls-clarity-act/) _2026-08-21 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ If Congress doesn’t pass the CLARITY Act, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will use its existing authorities to begin establishing a crypto asset market regime, CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig said Thursday (Aug. 20). In remarks delivered at the Innovation Advisory Committee Conference in Washington, D.C., Selig said: “We owe it to the American \[…\] The post CFTC Readies Own Crypto… ## [Google Launches Preferred Source Button for Publisher Websites](https://www.pymnts.com/google/2026/google-launches-preferred-source-button-for-publisher-websites/) _2026-08-20 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Google has released a new interactive button that publishers can embed on their pages to enable readers to select them as a preferred source of information, the company said in a Thursday (Aug. 20) blog post. The “Preferred Sources” button is designed to make it easier for readers to find their favorite publications in Google’s Top Stories, AI Overviews \[…\] The post Google Launches Preferred… ## [Banks Add Branches as Physical Networks Lift Digital Sales](https://www.pymnts.com/news/banking/2026/banks-add-branches-as-physical-networks-lift-digital-sales/) _2026-08-20 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ For the first time in years, the U.S. bank branch count is moving up meaningfully, and some of the biggest banks are putting billions of dollars behind the physical network. FDIC data shows 69,167 branches at the end of 2025, an increase of 535 from 68,632 a year earlier. The 2025 increase marks a break \[…\] The post Banks Add Branches as Physical Networks Lift Digital Sales appeared first on… ## [Stripe and Ramp Are Betting on AI Traffic Controllers](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/stripe-and-ramp-are-betting-on-ai-traffic-controllers/) _2026-08-20 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Stripe is known for processing payments. Ramp is known for managing corporate expenses. But this week, the two companies made almost identical moves: building the layer that decides which artificial intelligence (AI) model gets used. Ramp launched Router.com on Wednesday (Aug. 19), opening up a tool it had run internally for three years. A company \[…\] The post Stripe and Ramp Are Betting on AI… ## [AT&T Slashes AI Costs by Adopting Model Routers and Open Source](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/att-slashes-ai-costs-by-adopting-model-routers-and-open-source/) _2026-08-20 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ AT&T cut the costs of coding and some other advanced artificial intelligence tasks by as much as 56% by using tools that route employees’ queries to cheaper models when appropriate, The Information reported Thursday (Aug. 20). When doing so, the quality of the performance of the AI declined by only 2%, according to the report, \[…\] The post AT&T Slashes AI Costs by Adopting Model Routers and Open… ## [Airbnb Tests AI Search After Automating 45% of Support](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/airbnb-is-weaving-ai-into-every-step-of-a-trip/) _2026-08-20 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Airbnb is building artificial intelligence into nearly every step of a trip, not just the chatbot. The company’s AI customer-service assistant now resolves nearly 45% of user inquiries without a human agent, up from about a third at the end of last year, operating in more than 50 languages with voice-call support planned later this \[…\] The post Airbnb Tests AI Search After Automating 45% of… ## [Working Capital Is Becoming a Priced Portfolio for CFOs](https://www.pymnts.com/loans/working-capital/2026/working-capital-is-becoming-priced-portfolio-chief-financial-officers/) _2026-08-20 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ The next frontier in working capital management isn’t squeezing another day out of receivables or stretching another day of payables. It’s deciding whether those dollars should be financed the same way at all. Two companies can report identical working capital requirements while sitting on different pools of risk. One may hold short-dated receivables from investment-grade \[…\] The post Working… ## [Business Email Compromise Attack Hijacks Session Token to Steal Vendor Payments](https://www.pymnts.com/cybersecurity/2026/business-email-compromise-attack-hijacks-session-token-to-steal-vendor-payments/) _2026-08-20 · PYMNTS · PYMNTS |_ Cybersecurity firm TrendAI uncovered a business email compromise (BEC) scheme in which an attacker tricked a victim into clicking on a link and was then able to reroute payments that were sent by the victim’s company and intended for its vendors, it said in a Aug. 14 blog post. In this attack, the adversary targeted \[…\] The post Business Email Compromise Attack Hijacks Session Token to Steal…