Mastercard Launched an AI-Powered B2B Analytics Platform

"Businesses today are sitting on vast amounts of payment data, but too often it remains fragmented and underutilized."
Mastercard launched Advanced B2B Analytics on September 28, 2026 to address a gap that sits inside one of the largest payment markets in the world.
Banks and corporate buyers currently have no systematic, data-driven way to identify which suppliers in their payables portfolio are most likely to accept card payments.
So commercial card programs expand slowly, through broad outreach, rather than by targeting the highest-probability conversions first, according to the company.
The platform addresses that gap with AI-powered acceptance propensity scoring, analyzing payment and accounts payable data to rank suppliers by their likelihood of accepting card payments and surface the highest-value conversion opportunities first.
Interactive dashboards translate the scoring into actionable analytics that corporate clients can use to optimize payment flows, reduce reliance on manual processes, and improve working capital visibility across their supplier networks.
"Businesses today are sitting on vast amounts of payment data, but too often it remains fragmented and underutilized," said Marc Pettican, Global Head of Corporate Solutions at Mastercard. "With Advanced B2B Analytics, we're combining powerful insights with our deep commercial payments expertise to help issuers identify where card acceptance can deliver the greatest value, engage suppliers more effectively and drive measurable growth."
Absa Group and Emirates NBD are the first financial institutions named as deploying the platform. Both are using it to identify supplier acceptance opportunities for their corporate clients and accelerate virtual card adoption across their commercial payments portfolios.
Mastercard estimates the addressable B2B payments market at approximately $80 trillion globally, the majority of which still flows through checks, ACH, and wire transfers rather than commercial cards.
According to the company, the friction that keeps that conversion from happening faster is the same friction the platform targets: fragmented data, manual supplier outreach, and the absence of a systematic way to prioritize where commercial card programs can expand most efficiently.
Advanced B2B Analytics is combined with consulting from the Mastercard Advisors and Transformation team, giving financial institutions access to both the data layer and the advisory capability to act on it.
Mastercard described the platform as the first foundational B2B capability in a broader AI-powered commercial payments infrastructure, one it plans to extend to the supplier and acquirer side of the ecosystem in subsequent releases, progressively embedding intelligence across the full commercial payments journey.
"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.
Key Takeaways
- Mastercard launches AI-powered B2B Analytics to optimize supplier payment processes.
- Utilize advanced scoring to identify suppliers likely to accept card payments.
- Leverage interactive dashboards for actionable insights on payment flows and working capital.
- Shift from broad outreach to targeted strategies for enhancing commercial card program efficiency.