Explore the systems behind digital payments, banking and financial services. Our coverage explains how financial technology works, how providers use customer data and what businesses should ask before adoption.
A spending limit is useful, but it cannot explain every unusual payment. A small invoice to a newly changed bank account may deserve more attention than a larger, routine payment to a long-standing supplier.
A dashboard can show a successful payment while the accounts team is still unsure which invoice it belongs to. That gap is where a small business can lose hours at the end of the week.
Visa's October 21 business-payments announcement puts an operational question in focus: how can a company let an AI agent execute a payment while keeping control over the decision to pay?
Visa says stablecoin-enabled prefunding through Visa Direct is moving from pilots into commercial operations. The October 15 announcement names Inyo Global as the first enabler of the rollout.