How can banks remain relevant with SMBs? By enabling innovators that solve their biggest payments, billing and banking problems. This may sound like heresy to a traditional banker but that’s the strong medicine that the industry has to take in order to serve SMBs. It’s...
Now we know. Visa plans to be as dominant in the digital world as it is in the physical card world today. Charlie Scharf, Visa’s CEO, laid out Visa Digital Solutions, to the world during yesterday’s quarterly earnings call also acknowledging that Visa needs to...
How consumers interact with computers while online says a lot about them. So much so that a British company believes it can use individuals’ so-called eDNA to market products that can alleviate the need for sites to require usernames and passwords. But what will consumers...
Six Minutes and 49 Seconds. That’s how long it took, on average, for SMEs to move funds across bank accounts and borders. And the company responsible wasn’t one of the “name brands” either. Ten-year-old World First is out to deliver the kind of service, speed...
It’s rare to see change in how governments handle their contracting and procurement processes. However, more and more cities are turning the process upside down by asking contractors to produce their own solutions to described problems instead of bidding on government-mandated solutions. Perhaps the cities...
Corporations typically have intricate treasury and payments challenges. As technology continues to evolve, it’s necessary for some corporate teams to rethink their payments options. But what specifically are those options, and which banks and card networks are providing them?
With hundreds of mPOS players in the market, it’s getting harder and harder to tell them apart. Well, except if you’re Flint. They’ve ditched the dongle and use smartphone cameras to turn any phone into a card accepting device. What’s the inspiration behind their mPOS...
Analysis/Paralysis. That’s what happens when businesses are presented with a portfolio of tools to solve their billing and payments problems. In fact, Eric Remer, founder and CEO of PaySimple says that their 8 years in serving this market has found it’s actually one of the...
With the mobile payments trend sweeping across the B2B world, it seems surprising there might still be some holdouts. But there are and they are in the enterprise space. A recent study found that travel managers could care less about using mobile payments, contactless cards...
