IVR payments adopted by The Storage Center and other digital transactions news briefs from 5/22/26. * Technology company Self Storage Manager Inc. announced its Dynamic IVR Payment Solution has been installed at facilities operated by The Storage Center. The technology allows customers to make credit card payments via an automated phone system via interactive voice response. The Storage Center says it manages more than 60,000 storage units at more than 70 facilities in six states. * NCR Atleos Corp. said it has expanded its ATM network, CashZone, into Colombia, with Bancoomeva as the settlement bank. The network now operates in 14 countries. * Conduent Inc. said it will sell its Public Transit unit, which handles transit-fare processing, to Modaxo, a transit-technology company, for $164 million. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year. * Pivot, an AI-based payments platform for procurement, raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital.

Pivot raises $40M to expand AI-powered enterprise procurement platform. With new funding, Pivot plans to expand its AI-powered procurement and finance platform, accelerate development of agentic AI capabilities and deepen integrations with ERP and financial systems. Paris-based Pivot, an AI-powered procurement and finance operations platform, has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital, with participation from Greyhound, procurement industry executives and existing investors including Hedosophia, Visionaries Club and Emblem. The latest financing brings the company's total funding raised since its founding in 2023 to $70 million. Pivot develops an AI operating system designed to help enterprises manage procurement and financial workflows across sourcing, approvals, purchasing, invoicing, payments, budgets, expenses and reporting. The company aims to address inefficiencies in enterprise procurement, where spending commitments are often managed across fragmented systems, spreadsheets, email chains and manual approval processes. Pivot positions its platform as an enterprise-grade system designed to give procurement and finance teams real-time visibility into committed spending before it creates reconciliation and reporting challenges during financial close processes. The platform integrates with enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financial systems while supporting complex multi-entity environments. The company says its AI-driven workflow automation and real-time integrations are designed to improve operational efficiency while maintaining financial controls and reporting accuracy. According to Marc-Antoine Lacroix, co-founder of Pivot, finance and procurement teams are increasingly looking for greater visibility into company spending commitments earlier in the procurement process. Pivot gives enterprises that visibility, reinforced by agentic AI that shifts the manual grind from a human burden to a machine burden, said Lacroix. Since launching, Pivot has expanded operations to more than 25 countries and currently processes approximately $3 billion in invoices annually. Customers include DoorDash, Lemonade and Flix. The new funding will be used to accelerate development of Pivot's agentic AI capabilities, expand into additional enterprise markets and deepen integrations with ERP and financial systems across complex enterprise environments. Follow the developments in the technology world. What would you like us to deliver to you?