B2B Payments

B2B Payments
U.S. Bank Tool Pulls In More Shippers For E-Invoicing Hub
October 06, 2014

U.S. Bank said on Monday (Oct. 6) that it has signed up more than 5,000 carriers to use the Freight Bill Lookup online tool for the bank’s freight-payment trade finance service. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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PYMNTS B2B Investment Tracker
October 06, 2014

According to PYMNTS.com analysis, a total of $399 million was invested in 3Q 2014 in B2B payments across a variety of segments – lending, wholesale, travel and entertainment, procurement, billing and invoicing, data and business analytics. And, as we see on the retail side of...

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Is Auto Billing Really The Best Option?
October 06, 2014

To auto-pay or not to auto-pay? That is the question for many B2B companies on both the buyer and supplier side. With digital invoicing becoming more common, it is easy to assume that automatic payments are the optimal choice. But is it?

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New Platform Connects Cooks And Local Food Suppliers
October 06, 2014

Sourcery, an online wholesale food supplier director and payments processor, wants to change the way restaurants manage their kitchens and free them from the shackles of paper.  The company has raised $2.5 million in seed funding and is planning to take its show on the...

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Lands’ End Rethinks Its B2B Site
October 06, 2014

Companies that want to customize apparel—such as adding their corporate logo to a company-issued uniform—now have a supposedly faster and easier way to do it using a redone B2B site at Lands’ End Business Outfitters’ site, which is at business.landsend.com. Get the Full Story Complete...

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MasterCard, Newgen Partner On Digital B2B Payments
October 03, 2014

MasterCard and Newgen have announced a partnership that will assist enterprise customers digitize their Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash processes.  The new system will offer seamless payments processing and reduce overall costs. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Carbon-Credit Trading Scandal Unfolds In Italian Court
October 03, 2014

Italian taxpayers may have been cheated out of 8.5 billion kroner ($1.4 billion) in a cap and trade scandal that saw various European nation’s trading carbon emission credits with a fake company that seemed to exist merely to harvest money from the carbon trading market....

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Asia’s Growing eCommerce Market
October 03, 2014

It’s going to come a year later than anticipated, but the U.S. and Canada’s combined rule over global B2C eCommerce sales is about to end, according to a new report from eMarketer. The research company had predicted Asia would take the helm this year. But...

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Declines In Construction Spending Could Slow Overall U.S. Economic Growth
October 02, 2014

Construction spending in the U.S. construction fell in August, after a slight increase in July.  The 0.8 percent decline was the second fall off in the last three months and weakness was spread across all three major sectors—residential, non-residential and government projects, reports The Associated Press....