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Visa, Mastercard, SAP, Circle and many other financial firms are launching digital card accounts with an emphasis on B2B clients.

Companies such as Visa and Mastercard, as well as banks and retailers, are stepping up their investments in artificial intelligence to reach small businesses and spot new uses.

Visa said Chairman Al Kelly, the payments giant's former chief executive officer, will leave the board in January.

As false credit-card disputes spike, the networks have updated policies to provide merchants and issuers with more data to combat false chargebacks.

In search of new revenue streams, the card network has researched companies' working-capital and cash-flow headaches to see where it could play a bigger role.

The firm's investors include Visa and PayPal, as well as the Teacher Retirement System of Texas

Visa and its rivals have seen spending increases cool with inflation soaring to once-in-a-generation levels.

The use cases for non-fungible tokens for consumer loyalty, gaming and other business purposes are expanding, while banks and payment companies step up their NFT experiments.

Twenty companies have joined the “Visa Ready” list of suppliers offering streamlined connections to installment loans online and at the point of sale.

Financial institutions are confronting major compliance challenges given the demands of Russian sanctions as well as the explosion of online gaming transactions and marijuana sales.