What do you do when you’re the largest payments company on the planet and every aspect of payments is undergoing huge global change? You try and identify the biggest and most threatening of these changes and try to either partner with it or do what...
If adopting the ISO 20022 universal financial messaging system for B2B payments is a chicken-and-egg problem, SEPA seems to have cracked it in Europe. Messaging providers have gone live in at least 11 European countries under the Euro zone’s Single Euro Payments Area initiative, according...
Apple Pay may be the catalyst that mobile payments needed to get the payments ecosystem cranking, but that’s not all it did. It’s launched a whole new focus for the largest payments network in the world – tokens and data. Visa’s mobile chief, Bill Gajda,...
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B2B sellers can provide a better online experience by defining “customer personas,” or profiles, that can help them identify the priorities of individual personas and tailor the eCommerce experience to meet their needs, one online seller noted in a recent commentary. Get the Full Story...
In fiscal 2012, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) employees spent $175 million using government-issued travel cards. Problem was, some employees given the cards spent a combined $183,000 on cash advances and $2.1 million on purchases unrelated to government travel, according to a new report from...
U.S. companies are losing more than $1.5 billion per year and are wasting more than 32 million man hours because their procurement tools are ineffective, a new survey report shows. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
While it is easy to criticize B2B payment for being slow to change, its not always so easy to create products that offer something for all side of the transaction. B2B Payments are different, American’s Express’s Rob Alcock told MPD CEO Karen Webster, and need...
If banks aren’t paying attention and adjusting their strategy, they are on the verge of disruption by startups and high-growth tech firms. These firms are slowly taking away customers and market share from banks and traditional lending players. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
