Bank of America launches Payments Insights using proprietary treasury data for CashPro clients
On 28 September 2026 Bank of America launched Payments Insights inside CashPro Data Intelligence, giving corporate treasury clients peer benchmarks on payment efficiency, cross-border flows and working capital, drawing on the 213 million payments CashPro handled in 1H 2026. Allegis Group's Laura Fox, a CashPro Board member, helped shape it. BofA bundles the analytics into the portal rather than pricing them as a standalone data product.
What happened
- Bank of America announced Payments Insights on 28 September 2026 as a new capability within CashPro Data Intelligence, the bank's AI-powered treasury analytics suite.
- CashPro facilitated 213 million payments in 1H 2026, up 10% year on year — the peer pool BofA benchmarks each client against.
- The capability covers payment efficiency, cross-border flows and working-capital performance on clients' U.S. accounts, delivered as visualisations and peer benchmarks inside CashPro.
- The suite already includes Capital Markets Insights, Mobile Security Insights, CashPro Forecasting and CashPro Search; Capital Markets Insights moves from the App to online next month and Security Insights expands globally in 2027.
- Development drew on the CashPro Boards, including Laura Fox, Director of Treasury for Allegis Group, quoted in the announcement.
- The press release names no separate price, fee or subscription line for Payments Insights; it is described as a CashPro capability.
Who is involved
Second-largest US bank; the data asset here is proprietary treasury/payment flow data from its CashPro corporate banking platform, which facilitated 213 million payments in the first half of 2026.
CashPro processed 213 million payments in 1H 2026, up 10% year over year; Bank of America is one of the largest US banks by assets.
The reading
The enrichment is done by Bank of America: it aggregates CashPro clients' U.S. account payment flows (CashPro processed 213 million payments in H1 2026, up 10% YoY) into proprietary peer benchmarks and visualisations of payment efficiency, cross-border flows and working-capital performance. The client contributes the raw transactional footprint; BofA constructs the comparative insight layer on top.
BofA keeps the rake and it is owned, because the bank itself does the benchmarking and analytics work; no outside partner is named in the announcement as supplying the intelligence layer.
The substrate - pooled corporate payment flows across BofA's commercial book - lets a treasurer at a paying CashPro client decide concrete next moves: whether to shift a cross-border corridor, re-time a payment run, or move working capital, informed by how peers in the same cohort perform. A single company cannot generate these peer comparisons from its own data.
What crosses to the client is the finding - their own metrics plus peer benchmarks and visualisations inside CashPro. What does not cross is the underlying peer-level transaction data from other corporates, which stays inside BofA's perimeter and is the asset making the benchmark possible.
Not determinable from public facts: BofA has not disclosed whether Payments Insights carries a separate fee or is bundled into existing CashPro treasury pricing, so whether the bank is pricing the analytical layer against the value treasurers extract from it cannot be judged.
Why it matters
Bank of America is giving away the one thing an Allegis treasurer cannot get anywhere else — a benchmark against 213 million peer payments — with no line item attached. That is a deliberate choice to route the return through CashPro retention and cross-sell rather than price the analytics directly, which keeps the rake owned but unmeasured. Without a price the bank never learns what Payments Insights was worth to Laura Fox, and specification debt accrues on its own module.
The argument this deal tests: Triggering Platform Network Effects with Data
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Sources
- investingnews.com — primary
- newsroom.bankofamerica.com — party background
- pymnts.com — party background
Announced 2026-09-28