When corporate payments firm WEX, known best for its fuel card services, announced this month it struck a $1.1 billion deal to acquire peer Electronic Funds Source, the fleet industry perked up. As gas prices decline and fleet card technology evolves, WEX’s buyout of EFS...
When the World Bank first began publishing its “Benchmarking Public Procurement” report last year, the organization looked at just 11 economies and their procurement activities. This month, the World Bank Group released the 2016 edition of the report, which examines the states of procurement across...
In some sense, it’s no surprise when Apple posts a successful quarterly earnings report. They didn’t get to be the world’s most valuable company by making a habit of choking during earnings season. However, when it comes to Apple “success,” it is measured somewhat differently...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When long-time homeless advocate and serial entrepreneur Liz Powers first told people about her plan to combine her two passions and build the first online art marketplace for homeless, disabled and otherwise disadvantaged people, people continually congratulated her on founding such a noble charity. Get...
Business Intelligence processes go beyond finding out who’s buying what. In some cases it’s crucial that smaller B2B companies use BI in the never-ending war against cybercrime. Here’s why.
Innovation can be a difficult journey, especially in the ever-changing and complex payments landscape. But for Mike Keegan, Chief Executive Officer of TNS, the key to successful and meaningful innovation starts with a practical approach and building a culture that not only embraces innovation, but...
As of 2015, it is no longer really controversial to name data and its successful use as one of the key arrows in any retailer’s quiver. Retailers are almost always on the hunt for new and better ways to capture and leverage the data –...
In the age of digital commerce, what platform content appears on might have as much of an impact on sales as the content itself. As a result, platform owners like Google and Apple have big decisions to make when it comes to pricing new services...
Despite being worth over half-a-trillion dollars annually, remittances are an oddly invisible part of the payments ecosystem to most people — even those who otherwise know it quite well. We all might know that money may make the world go around, but what makes money...
