Analysts have yet to exhaust their forecasting efforts, gazing into crystal balls to assess where 2016 will lead. In FinTech, that means taking a look at the data from 2015, comparing it to the most recent figures and calculating trends for the year — and decade...
Investors’ interest in FinTech could be disintegrating. The latest research from CB Insights revealed that, despite a year of FinTech unicorns — startups valued at $1 billion and up — just nine technology firms earned that label in 2015’s fourth quarter, compared with 23 unicorns that emerged...
Getting back to the grind after a few weeks of holiday fun and relaxation is tough for anyone. But for thousands of HSBC customers, the start of the new year was especially brutal as the bank’s online personal banking service was knocked offline amid technological glitches...
Why, in 2016, are accounts payable and procurement teams still seeing paper invoices? That’s the question asked by procure-to-pay firm Zycus in a blog post published this week, also noting that, according to research, less than a third of AP departments describe themselves as “highly...
It’s the start of a new year, and innovators are making predictions left and right about what 2016 will bring for FinTech and payments. This week, payments company BillingTree made its contribution when Dave Yohe, the firm’s head of corporate marketing, released three predictions that...
It’s prediction and forecasting season with the start of the new year. In B2B, 2016 seems to be the year of commercial cards, with new research and analysis emerging regarding the hopeful rise in card acceptance among suppliers and vendors. One of the latest is...
If you want to catch a thief, follow the money. In B2B payments, that money is moving into the digital realm, meaning cyberthieves are, too. With these criminals using electronic paths to steel corporate cash, the age-old scam of fraudulently posing as a supplier seeking...
Cloud technology has already changed the way businesses run their back-end operations, and when it comes to finances, everything from payroll to treasury management processes have migrated. New research from North Bridge Growth Equity and Venture Partners, in collaboration with Wikibon, aimed to explore exactly...
Got your brand’s strategy for marketing to millennials all sorted out? Great. Now forget all that when it comes to the next generation of consumers -- teens, or “post-millennials”. They practically live on social media, and their self-designated rules of operation can be a quite...
