The fleet card market is expected to grow $35 billion by 2019, a more than $20 billion increase from its current value. However, it still remains a highly fragmented and underpenetrated sector. Providers’ abilities to negotiate discount deals with fuel companies seeking more visits to...
Welcome to Day No. 218 of Apple Pay. You probably haven’t been counting quite as meticulously as we have here at PYMNTS about what’s happened since Day 1 of Apple Pay, but we‘ve tracked every move along the way. From Day 1 when a few...
Just like the weather, things are heating up for B2B startups. Following last week’s slow flow of new investments, the market saw significant activity this week as more than $210 million was raised over the past seven days. FinTech and alternative lending led the way,...
While late 2014 and early 2015 were largely “The Apple Pay Show,” as far as Apple fans, financial services geeks and tech bloggers were concerned — by Spring new favorites had cropped up to steal some of that laser-like focus on Apple’s foray into the...
We may all know that NACHA members, in a near unanimous vote, approved the amendments to the operating rules to implement Same Day ACH, but the real question is why all 12,000 financial institutions said yes today when they said no just three years ago....
For B2B buyers, the rise of online commerce and product research, along with the introduction of procurement tools like Software-as-a-Service, have in many cases made the procurement process automated, and therefore easier. Reports released earlier this year, however, suggested that this automation is bad news...
Access to capital, or lack thereof, is the top concern of Europe’s small businesses. As one owner told EmergingMarkets.org, “You can have all the vision, all the business plans in the world, but if you don’t have money to go with it and support from...
Another week, another ride on the rollercoaster of B2B investment. The last month or so has seen dramatic rises and falls in the volume of funding given to B2B startups, and while the first week in May yielded half a billion dollars for an array...
Consumers often know less about their credit than they should. According to the American Bankers Association, only 42 percent of Americans are aware of what their FICO score is. And that is problematic since, according to data released by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED),...
