The problem with the B2B payments mindset is that financial players still focus on the money transfer element, when it’s the data that has to rule. This is colored mostly by the fact that B2B payment professionals also happen to be consumers. And the important...
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...
Economist, and “What’s Next in B2B Payments?” keynote speaker, Nouriel Roubini correctly identified the financial crisis of 2008 well before it was a frightening reality. Now, seven years later, global markets have rebounded and are more buoyant than ever; and according to Professor Roubini they...
When most people think of the Small Business Administration (SBA), they likely think of traditional American small-businesses. One-or-two-off shops, restaurants and garages – the types of business that are often called “the engine of the American economy,” in stump speeches, particularly during elections years. The...
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...
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...
There’s no doubt that Apple Pay has a lot going for it. It’s the payment method birthed by a beloved consumer brand and technology giant, it has the backing of the biggest payments players on the planet and it has those same players using their...
Victor Ho, the CEO of 3-year-old loyalty firm FiveStars, has become a veteran of the capital-raising game as he has built his firm to support more than 5,500 merchants and about 4 million cardholding shoppers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
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....
