By now, it is no secret that the U.K. is in the midst of a late payments epidemic. Small businesses are speaking out against unfairly long payment terms, major corporate buyers are being pressured to improve their payment practices, and policymakers are exploring new ways...
Since the beginning of 2015, there have been over 20 major data breaches logged in the United States; Anthem, the Mandarin Hotel and Chick-fil-A are three of the biggest, but it seems that the international cybercriminal community is determined to surpass 2014 in its efforts to illegally harvest data from...
What do you get when you bring eight payments, retail and commerce executives together to debate whether omnichannel is the future of retail? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
While the Code of Hammurabi is best known for the “eye for an eye” proclamation, it also deserves credit for being the first recorded instance in history where money was formally recognized as a tool of civil society. While less eye-catching than the retributive justice part,...
Last week may have been quiet in the B2B investment front, but this week bucked that investment slump. Maybe it was Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s fierce declaration of the dawn of Software-as-a-Service, but B2B SaaS providers certainly received attention in the form of $4.85 million...
When Ethan Senturia started his own business, he encountered a problem. As he described it, it was the curse of success: too young to get approved for a bank loan, in need of more financing than what was available through alternative lenders, and forced to...
Disruption, then innovation. Or is it innovation then disruption? Either way you slice it, the payments industry is going through a massive wave of disruptive innovation. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
Before Innovation Project 2015 wrapped up on the evening of March 19 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there was one key event left to do: honor the innovators. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
One of the “Big Four” leading auditing firms has released the latest data on the state of alternative lending and its position in the world’s SME funding market. Deloitte’s newest Alternative Lender Deal Tracker was released Tuesday (March 17), the sixth of its kind. According...
