Prioritizing your payments strategy means converging banking and payments. We call businesses that do this Payment Innovators, and they outperform other businesses in many ways.
In August 2026, U.S. Bank surveyed 1,000 senior finance leaders at U.S. companies with annual revenue ranging from $100 million to more than $5 billion. The findings reveal that finance leaders are growing more optimistic, even as many of the risks they faced earlier this year remain.
The data in our reports and related materials comes from surveys commissioned by U.S. Bank and conducted by FT Longitude, a Financial Times company. We also conduct interviews with experts within U.S. Bank and at leading companies around the nation.
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