In 2015, the world of B2B payments ramped up its ability to knock its reputation for being slow to innovate and unable to grasp the market’s attention. From commercial card mobility, to T&E technology, to small business lending development, B2B payments endured growing pains and...
B2B venture capital activity this year was anything but consistent. Some weeks saw hundred-million dollar investment rounds; others, a modest few millions of dollars funneled into just a couple of startups. But venture capitalists showed their range of interests this year, too, and 2015 B2B...
Is the future of auto sales in the online realm, or are there too many variables involved in those transactions to ever see traditional methods fully give way to new technology? With the U.S. auto industry coming off a banner year, the answer might be...
If there’s anything that retail should learn from the now-deposed king of social media outrage Martin Shkreli, it’s that consumers always have a line they don’t want businesses to cross. For Shkreli, raising the price of life-saving medications should have been a no-brainer if he...
Everybody’s gotta eat -- including high-end retail customers. That’s why luxury stores such as Burberry are moving ahead on installing dining options with ambiance and cuisine to match the high culture of their stores, with the idea being that the more time customers spend on...
At the heart of much of the push toward faster payments is ISO 20022 — the new messaging standard for financial institutions that standardizes the payments messaging scheme for payments, cards, foreign exchange and other transactions. ISO 20022 has been vital to Europe’s Single Euro Payments...
Small business financial service providers are beginning to realize the value in linking their business customers to lending services. PayPal launched its Working Capital unit in 2013, for example, while QuickBooks took to partnering with other lenders to fill in its small business financing gaps....
The winding down of the holiday season is no excuse to be slack in security, as recent news shows that hackers certainly aren’t taking a vacation. The latest Retail Security Tracker shares what retailers need to be looking out for as we head into the...
Shakespeare famously wrote that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” but that poetic sentiment doesn’t quite translate when it comes to dissimilar prices on similar products. For the most part, customers don’t want to feel like superficial differences to a product,...
