Mastercard launches AI-powered B2B analytics for supplier payments

Evidence tier: A1 Evidence type: Auto-discovered official publication Source: Mastercard Newsroom Official publication date: 2026-09-28 Captured: 2026-10-05T05:38:54.429Z

Advanced B2B Analytics helps financial institutions and their corporate customers identify supplier payment opportunities with greater precision by transforming accounts payable insights into actionable insights. Combined with consulting expertise from the Mastercard Advisors & Transformation team, the platform helps streamline procurement processes, reduce costs and accelerate commercial card acceptance at scale.

Through Mastercard’s latest commercial payments innovation, issuers can enable their corporate customers to:

• Identify suppliers most likely to accept card payments using dynamic acceptance propensity scoringenabled by an underlying AI-powered infrastructure

• Gain actionable insights from accounts payable intel through interactive dashboards and analytics

• Optimize working capital with greater visibility into payment flows

• Scale commercial card adoption and improve supplier engagement through more targeted outreach

• Access Mastercard expertise and recommendations to support supplier prioritization and growth strategies

For financial institutions, Advanced B2B Analytics offers a differentiated way to deepen client relationships and accelerate commercial card growth, helping capture a share of the approximately $80 trillion addressable B2B payments opportunity.

Absa Group and Emirates NBD are among the first financial institutions to offer Advanced B2B Analytics to their corporate clients, leveraging data-driven insights to identify supplier acceptance opportunities and unlock greater value from their payables. This capability will help clients optimize working capital, accelerate virtual card adoption and drive efficiencies across commercial payments.

“We understand that businesses need meaningful insights to make important decisions every day. “Our partnership with Mastercard gives clients a smarter way to understand their payment ecosystems, unlock value across their supplier networks and improve cash flow management,” said Pascalle Albrecht, Executive for Commercial Issuing, Product at Absa Business Banking. “Through this new capability, we are helping businesses operate more efficiently and succeed in a rapidly changing environment.”

By connecting payment, acceptance and performance insights, Mastercard is building toward a future where intelligence is embedded across the commercial payments lifecycle.

Mastercard Advanced B2B Analytics is the first foundational B2B capability to support that vision. As fast as AI is evolving, Mastercard will further extend intelligence and insights to the supplier and acquirer side of the ecosystem, progressively scaling across the commercial payments journey to create more connected, proactive and personalized experiences.

This reflects Mastercard's broader strategy of embedding data, analytics and AI into the infrastructure that powers payments, helping customers make smarter decisions and optimize outcomes for every payment interaction. From Advanced B2B Analytics to innovations like Mastercard Virtual C-Suite, Mastercard is translating its data & AI vision into practical, measurable value for businesses of all sizes.

Visit here to learn more about Mastercard Advanced B2B Analytics.

Disclaimer: all data shown is for illustrative purposes only and is not real Mastercard customer data.