Payments
How Virtual Cards Change Payment Controls for Business AP
Single-use PANs, ghost cards and issuer rebates are turning accounts payable from a check-writing cost center into a controlled, revenue-generating card…
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Naomi Bergman
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Finance News
Q1 2026 Bank Earnings: JPMorgan Grows Net Interest Income 9%
JPMorgan's April 14, 2026 release showed net income of $16.5 billion, net interest income up 9% year over year to $25.5 billion, deposits up 7% and provisions…
Payments
Where the FX Markup Hides in Cross-Border Payments
Cross-border card and wire payments stack several markups — issuer spread, network assessment, processor margin, and dynamic currency conversion of 2 to 5…
Finance News
What March 2026 CPI Showed: Gasoline Drove a 0.9% Monthly Jump
The BLS reported on April 10, 2026 that headline CPI rose 0.9% in March on a 21.2% gasoline surge, lifting the 12-month rate to 3.3% while core ran at 2.6%.
Payments
What Payment Orchestration Layers Actually Do for Merchants
Payment orchestration sits between checkout and processors, choosing a provider per transaction, surviving outages, retrying soft declines and unifying…