In B2B buyer/seller relations, purchasing cards, or P-cards, typically represent a two-edge sword in that, while they make the payment process more efficient, especially for the buyers, the sellers pay the price in the discount fees they pay their acquiring banks. Buyers, on the other...
OpenTable reinvented the restaurant reservation dining scene 16 years ago and more recently introduced mobile payments into the mix. But is Apple next up to reinvent the dining experience for hungry people and restaurateurs? MPD CEO Karen Webster shares two separate but related data points...
Milk, blueberries, yogurt, Popchips, Comcast monthly bill? Yep. A growing roster of retailers now enable their customers to pay a variety of monthly bills at checkout. And, the benefits go well beyond customer convenience – increasing both foot traffic and impulse buys, especially for those...
During the second quarter, consumer confidence globally climbed a point, to the highest it has been since the first quarter seven years ago. The confidence, however, doesn’t appear to be playing into payments players’ favor, however. Visa, for example, says its numbers don’t show yet...
Not everything worth investing in happens in Silicon Valley! At least last month, in the B2B space, Atlas Venture in Cambridge, Mass, lead the charge by taking part in three major funding rounds at Button, Captricity and Freshbooks. Their large investment in Freshbooks continues to...
Spending on credit cards is back in vogue. And this time, issuers are reaping the benefits of better loan quality. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
Thanks in large part to the rise of smartphones and tablets, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) is hardly a new term in the business world. But organizations can integrate mobile in more ways than just letting employees use their iPhone for work purposes. Get the Full Story Complete...
There’s lots of stuff published on who’s funding what across all technology sectors worldwide. We thought it would be useful to provide you with a weekly update on who’s investing what in the retail and commercial payments and financial services sectors. Get the Full Story...
Taulia has just raised $27 million with a simple goal—fixing the status quo in buyer-supplier payments so that it’s no longer out of date, out of touch and bad for basically everyone involved. PYMNTS.com caught up with Taulia’s CMO Joe Hyland to learn how this...
