From a B2B travel purchasing perspective, there are few things better than online services that try and beat airlines and hotels at their “every seat/room has a different price” game. But one thing that is better? When two of the biggest of those online services—Priceline...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has decided that Congress needs to allow the government to collect user fees from health insurers and that those dollars “can be used to defray some insurers’ losses,” according to a Bloomberg story. Get the Full Story Complete the...
Ten years ago, moving money was critical, now it is table stakes. Data is the key to providing global corporations with the insights they need to make crucial, real time decisions in fragile markets. Kevin Phalen, Managing Director, Head of Global Card and Comprehensive Payables at...
U.K.-based P2P trade-finance platform MarketInvoice is expanding into Europe and reaching out to retail investors, according to Global Trade Review. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
At a time when peer-to-peer mortgage lending in the U.S. is actually feeding loans to small banks, the situation appears to have flipped for small-business loans: alternative lenders are approving fewer loans, while big banks are approving more, according to monthly numbers from Biz2Credit. Get...
Bank of America Corp. will take over financing for a top U.S. oil refinery controlled by Philadelphia Energy Solutions from J.P. Morgan. The oil-services contract was among the commodity assets divested this year by Chase. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Television investment-advice-giver Jim Cramer recently told his CNBC audience that he just discovered fleet card companies and loves them. “The fleet card business may be the hottest business that you’ve never heard of,” he said. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
Regulations for the providers of financial-transaction infrastructure aren’t going to return to pre-financial-crisis levels — in fact, they’re likely to be an ever-increasing burden for everyone involved in a transaction. But regulators could make that burden easier to handle by providing more guidance on what...
The IRS on Monday (Oct. 6) noted the impact of sequestration cuts on a small business health care tax incentive. The ACA offers the credit for SMBs to enroll in insurance exchange health plans. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
