Paystand Named One of the World’s Top Fintech Companies for Second Consecutive Year by CNBC/Statista

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A Changing Definition of Fintech Leadership

Paystand’s Role in the Evolution of B2B Payments

USDb: A Digital Dollar Built for Business

What This Means for Finance Leaders

Building the Future of Enterprise Finance

CNBC and Statista recognize Paystand among the world’s leading fintech innovators as AI, blockchain, and digital money reshape business payments.

Paystand has once again been recognized by CNBC and Statista as one of the World’s Top Fintech Companies, earning a place among the leading global payments innovators for the second consecutive year.

The recognition reflects Paystand’s continued role in modernizing B2B payments and comes at a pivotal moment for financial technology. Artificial intelligence, blockchain, and business-ready digital money are reshaping how companies move funds, manage financial operations, and prepare for a more connected future.

Paystand was ranked among the top 115 companies globally in the Payments category, which represented the largest segment on the 2026 list.

The CNBC and Statista ranking recognizes companies across major fintech segments, including payments, neobanking, alternative financing, wealth technology, digital assets, enterprise fintech, insurtech, and regtech. For Paystand, the recognition reflects the company's continued leadership in reimagining B2B payments through AI, blockchain, and digital money built for modern enterprise finance.

A Changing Definition of Fintech Leadership

Recognition like this reflects a sustained commitment to solving some of the biggest challenges facing enterprise finance. More importantly, it reflects the direction the broader financial services industry is moving.

Finance leaders are under pressure to improve efficiency, strengthen cash flow, reduce costs, and gain greater visibility across their operations. At the same time, the technologies available to them are evolving quickly.

As AI transforms financial operations and digital money becomes part of the enterprise technology conversation, Paystand is investing in technologies that help finance teams operate with greater speed, intelligence, and control. Earlier this year, the company introduced USDb, a digital dollar built for business, reflecting its long-term vision for more programmable and efficient B2B payments.

Being recognized once again by CNBC and Statista reinforces Paystand's continued momentum as it helps shape the next generation of business payments—one where AI, blockchain, and modern payment infrastructure work together to help finance teams move money more efficiently.

Why Payments Are Leading Fintech Innovation

Payments dominated the 2026 ranking because the way businesses move money is still filled with friction.

Companies continue to deal with transaction fees, delayed settlement, disconnected systems, manual reconciliation, and limited visibility into cash movement. These challenges affect far more than the payment itself. They influence working capital, margins, forecasting, and the overall efficiency of the finance organization.

That is why fintech payment companies are becoming central to the transformation of enterprise finance.

Modern business payments must do more than move funds from one account to another. They must connect with the systems, controls, and workflows finance teams already use.

The most innovative payment technology companies are helping businesses move toward:

• Faster movement of money
• Lower payment costs
• More automated financial processes
• Greater visibility into cash flow
• Better connectivity between payments and accounting systems
• Infrastructure that can support global growth

These capabilities are becoming increasingly important as businesses look for financial systems that can keep pace with the speed of modern commerce.

Paystand’s Role in the Evolution of B2B Payments

Paystand was founded on the belief that business payments should work more like the internet: open, connected, efficient, and designed to scale. Rather than accepting transaction fees, manual processes, and slow payment cycles as unavoidable, Paystand has focused on building a different model for B2B payments.

Paystand’s Network helps businesses modernize how they send, receive, track, and manage money.

The goal is straightforward: help finance teams reduce the cost of moving money, accelerate cash flow, and automate the work surrounding every transaction.

This approach has helped establish Paystand as a leading innovator in business payments and contributed to its continued recognition among the world’s top fintech companies.

USDb: A Digital Dollar Built for Business

This year, Paystand introduced USDb, a digital dollar built for business.

USDb reflects Paystand’s long-term vision for business payments that are faster, more programmable, and better aligned with the requirements of enterprise finance. It was designed with the controls, reconciliation, and auditability finance teams expect, while supporting the broader shift toward modern digital payment networks.

The objective is to give businesses a more efficient way to move money. As adoption grows and regulatory frameworks continue to develop, digital dollars could become an increasingly important part of how companies manage payments, treasury operations, and cross-border transactions.

What This Means for Finance Leaders

The CNBC and Statista recognition arrives at a time when finance leaders are being asked to do more than manage the numbers. They are expected to improve margins, accelerate growth, strengthen controls, and help their organizations adapt to new technology.

The systems businesses use to move money can directly affect:

• Cash flow visibility
• Days sales outstanding
• Payment processing costs
• Reconciliation workloads
• Forecasting accuracy
• Global payment efficiency
• The ability to adopt AI-driven financial workflows

For CFOs, controllers, and finance teams, the future of fintech is not an abstract technology conversation.

It is about building a more efficient finance organization.

Building the Future of Enterprise Finance

Being recognized as one of the World’s Top Fintech Companies for a second consecutive year is a meaningful achievement for Paystand.

It reinforces our commitment to transforming B2B payments and building financial technology that helps businesses move money with greater speed, intelligence, and efficiency.

Paystand is proud to be recognized by CNBC and Statista and is even more excited to continue helping shape what comes next. Contact Paystand to discover how modern payment infrastructure can help you build the future of enterprise finance.

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