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B2B Payments
What Does Telematics Have To Do With Payment?
July 22, 2014

GPS + Improved Productivity = Cost Savings that support an effective fleet management solution. That’s the business case for the recent partnership between GPS fleet-management company Geotab and telematics company Enterprise Fleet Management. But how will combining forces help fleet managers control spend?

Alternative Finances
Senior-Level Support Lacking For eBilling
July 22, 2014

The greater efficiencies afforded by email and other forms of electronic bill presentment are helping push more and more paper out of the billing process. However, senior-level managers often are impeding further process changes, and that trend is growing, new research has found. As such,...

Financial Inclusion
Volvo And Telogis Partnership Could Move Fleet Managers To Spend Smarter
July 18, 2014

“Trucks run on fuel, trucking companies run on data,” is the motto of a new partnership between Telogis and Volvo. The goal is to show how a strong fleet software-management system can reduce spend while keeping drivers in control.

B2B Payments
How Hiding The Rebate Got Pilot Flying J In Hot Water
July 16, 2014

Fuel company Pilot Flying J recently entered into an agreement with the Justice Department where it confirmed its employees, including supervisors, schemed to withhold diesel rebates from many of its trucking customers. As a result, the company is paying millions in fines, and its employees...

B2B Payments
B2B Check Use Continues, But Why?
July 16, 2014

It’s becoming an increasingly popular question, but why are so many companies and their vendors so hesitant to give up using checks to settle their transactions? Surely they want to reduce their costs and increase efficiency. Much of the issue stems from reliance on old...

B2B Payments
Moving Beyond Traditional Supply Chain Management
July 15, 2014

Procurement managers want to find the best supply chain options for their firms, with as little risk involved as possible. That’s the old news. The new story, data finds, is in procurement manager who are thinking beyond traditional cost-savings and risk strategies and exploring instead...

B2B Payments
EBT Helping Make Cutting U.S. Food-Benefit Fraud A SNAP
July 14, 2014

improvements in the performance of food-benefit distribution through the agency’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Trafficking fraud is at a record low, assisted greatly from electronic benefits transfer card initiatives that have helped state and federal agencies to track transaction activity and identify fraudulent retailers more...

B2B Payments
Pricing Pitfalls And The Professional Buyer
July 14, 2014

According to a recent study by Oracle, 60 percent of B2B online buyers name pricing complexity as their main business challenge. Regular consumers expect to know what and when they are paying, and are used to customizable pricing, but up until now that experience was...

In Depth
Why Wristbands Will Trump Smartphones For Payment
July 11, 2014

Want to really know why mobile payments struggle to ignite? Bad design. At least that’s what Seattle-based startup Artifact says and why it is has created an entirely new payments form factor that fits on your wrist, is biometric, supports Beacon, enables payments and makes...