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Finance operations
Trust is the infrastructure autonomous finance runs on
Only 11% of finance workflows run autonomously today. Here's why trust, not technology, is what's holding autonomous finance back.
Ross Weldon
•5 minutes
Finance operations
The tariff shock that turned treasury from backroom to boardroom
A tariff shock and a Supreme Court reversal made treasury strategic in under a year. Staying that way depends on the infrastructure underneath it.
Ross Weldon
•6 minutes
Finance operations
Inside our journey to transform the office of the CFO
Pranav Sood shares his approach to tranforming the Office of The CFO within Airwallex.
Pranav Sood
•2 minutes
Online payments
Affirm is now available on Airwallex
Offer Affirm's flexible payment options to US shoppers through Airwallex. Boost conversion with interest-free instalments and monthly plans without a local US entity.
Zhen Heng Low
•3 minutes
Shannon Scott
•3 minutes
The Airwallex Editorial Team
•4 minutes
Embedded finance
Why Payments and EmFi are the lifeline software platforms need in the AI era
For modern platforms, payments and embedded finance are not side products or secondary monetisation levers. They are the operational rails that determine how money is collected, routed, held, converted, reconciled, and paid out across an ecosystem.
Ezgi Bereketli
•4 minutes
Technology
E-invoicing is becoming mandatory around the world
Governments are turning invoices into structured data. Here's what's changing, why it matters, and how to prepare for it.
The Airwallex Editorial Team
•3 minutes
Finance operations
AI has a context problem
Only 11% of finance workflows run autonomously. The bottleneck isn't AI itself. It's the data architecture underneath it.
Ross Weldon
•4 minutes
Online payments
Introducing Airwallex Additional Payments: Onsite Local Payment Methods for Shopify Checkout
Accept WeChat Pay, KakaoPay, Bancontact & BLIK natively in Shopify checkout with no redirects. Install the Airwallex Additional Payments app.
Stevanus Satria
•3 minutes
Online payments
What the World Cup reveals about global payment infrastructure
Capacity, acceptance, risk, settlement. The 2026 World Cup found four payment infrastructure weaknesses in six weeks, and every business carries a version of each.
Ross Weldon
•5 minutes
Finance operations
The unconventional path to the CFO seat
Pranav Sood shares why his unconventional journey from strategy and general management to CFO has shaped his view of modern finance – and why today's finance leaders must be operators, strategic partners, and drivers of growth.
Pranav Sood
•3 minutes
Online payments
Agentic Commerce Will Be Won Under the Hood
Mo Mehanna, Airwallex Product Director of Payments, moderated a panel with speakers from Google, Visa and Anthropic on agentic commerce. Learn how Airwallex closes the trust gap for buyers, sellers and AI builders.
Mohamed Mehanna
•3 minutes
Shannon Scott
•3 minutes
Online payments
Wero is now available on Airwallex
Start accepting Wero payments with Airwallex. Offer a bank-backed checkout experience to European customers without requiring a local entity.
Uyen Le
•3 minutes
Online payments
Why Payment Settlement Visibility is a Growth Lever
Settlement visibility is not just a back-office reporting feature. It is a growth lever. Here is what that looks like with the right payments infrastructure in place.
Harrison Lochtenberg
•4 minutes
Technology
Beyond the limits: ambition, performance, and partnership
Zak Brown took McLaren from ninth to back-to-back F1 titles. He believes championship-winning teams are built on culture first.
The Airwallex Editorial Team
•4 minutes
Finance operations
The finance professional of 2027 doesn't exist yet
53% of finance leaders say skills gaps are stalling AI. The 2027 hybrid hire can't be recruited, so here's why you build one instead.
Ross Weldon
•6 minutes
The AI Era Has No Home Market. Build Accordingly.
Airwallex announces $11B valuation and new AI products: T:0, an autonomous finance platform for founders, and Airi, an agentic consumer wallet — built on a decade of global financial infrastructure spanning 160+ payment networks and 200+ countries.
Jack Zhang
•3 minutes
Online payments
Introducing Airi: Increase your conversion with a global customer network
Airi is Airwallex’s consumer wallet, built into Airwallex Payments. Airi helps customers check out faster with saved payment details. It reduces payment friction and lift conversion by up to 14%, without extra cost or setup.
The Airwallex Editorial Team
•3 minutes
Introducing Airwallex AgentOS: manage your financial operations in your preferred agent environment
Works with any agent. Plugins available today on Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Cursor.
Cindy Zhao
•3 minutes
Finance operations
The AI ROI question CFOs can't answer (yet)
74% of finance leaders prioritise AI, but 40% can't build the business case. Why the cost of waiting could dwarf the cost of getting it wrong.
Ross Weldon
•4 minutes
Say Hi to Kai: your AI Assistant in Airwallex
Airwallex's AI assistant now has a name: Kai. It handles 88% of user conversations without human escalation and supports 100+ tools and workflows, from onboarding to transfers to card management.
Shannon Scott
•2 minutes
Finance operations
AI sped up the workflows but human oversight became the bottleneck
AI is making finance teams faster. But results aren't showing up where it counts – and the reason has nothing to do with the tools.
Regina Lim
•5 minutes