American Express stories
Australian SMEs can now earn Velocity and Qatar Avios on routine bills, as B2Bpay broadens its rewards platform beyond Qantas Frequent Flyer.
A tougher fee regime is pushing the payments firm to offer SMEs more services, from POS and broadband to bookkeeping, beyond EFTPOS.
Backed by its founders, the AI venture is targeting firms struggling to turn pilots into measurable gains as demand grows across regulated industries.
Fresh capital will fund Airwallex's expansion and AI product push after the payments firm's valuation jumped to USD $11 billion.
Merchants could win back lost sales as tokenised checkout trims friction, reduces card-not-present fraud and keeps payment data in bank rails.
Banks are under pressure to turn scattered customer data into actionable advice as BMO adopts Codat’s new platform for client conversations.
Shareholders are set to pocket USD $9.50 a share as the business travel group exits public markets, pending approvals.
The payment option is generating more completed sales, with approval rates for online guest checkouts rising to 75.18% in April 2026.
The new tools could let firms’ AI agents act on live data more securely across clouds, while cutting rebooking from hours to minutes.
Cardholders will get protection from AI agent mistakes as the payments group extends its network safeguards to software-led purchases.
Backers say the move will give AI agents and apps a neutral, open payments standard for web transactions, with support from Amazon, Visa and others.
The updates should cut manual expense work and tighten policy compliance as SAP Concur rolls out more AI and card-linked automation.
SAP Concur rolls out new Joule AI agents, tighter Microsoft and card links, and expanded travel tools to streamline corporate expenses.
Support from 40 firms signals growing industry backing for a vendor-neutral standard as AI agents prepare to pay for services online.
The layer is designed to stop AI misreading marketing shifts, after many pilots fail because systems lack business context and governance.
Small firms taking card payments by phone face fraud, chargeback and compliance risks that Gamma says have been overlooked.
Enterprise merchants can now connect once to multiple AI shopping platforms, as Adyen's limited US rollout aims to cut repeated integration work.
Businesses using x402 could keep payment amounts and balances private, as TACEO's new Merces-based system targets confidential transactions on Base.
Business customers could soon get more automated spending controls as American Express buys Hyper to add AI expense tools to its commercial services.
New York fintech Ramp is betting on 'self-driving' finance, using AI and Visa cards to automate spend, bills and cash for US firms.