NACHA, which oversees the nation’s automated clearinghouse system, has made great strides in recent years to help companies facilitate ACH B2B payments. This progress has helped especially large companies to take a lot of paper out of the remittance process. As NACHA’s Jan Estep noted...
Most large merchants have visions of omnichannel dancing thru their heads, but having to manage multiple acquirer relationships makes that tough. A European startup called Zooz has solved that problem for merchants in Europe and is now headed to the US. What’s their formula for...
Six Minutes and 49 Seconds. That’s how long it took, on average, for SMEs to move funds across bank accounts and borders. And the company responsible wasn’t one of the “name brands” either. Ten-year-old World First is out to deliver the kind of service, speed...
With hundreds of mPOS players in the market, it’s getting harder and harder to tell them apart. Well, except if you’re Flint. They’ve ditched the dongle and use smartphone cameras to turn any phone into a card accepting device. What’s the inspiration behind their mPOS...
Analysis/Paralysis. That’s what happens when businesses are presented with a portfolio of tools to solve their billing and payments problems. In fact, Eric Remer, founder and CEO of PaySimple says that their 8 years in serving this market has found it’s actually one of the...
Last week Intuit announced the launch of PayWithBitcoin, a new service that integrates its new online bitcoin wallet with processing provider Coinbase. PYMNTS spoke to Manish Shah and Clinton Neilsen, the two Intuit engineers who are the brains behind this Bitcoin payments integration. But will...
Smaller firms, such as application developers and companies that sell products through online marketplaces, often have cash-flow issues that can impede their ability to thrive but not a whole lot of options available to help. In a recent PYMNTS.com podcast interview, PayPlant co-CEO Ronjon Nag...
Social commerce hasn’t’ exactly set the world on fire. Wanelo and its new partnership with Nordstrom would like to change that. Wanelo’s Social Commerce Evangelist Rachel Youens tells PYMNTS about their ambition to become “the Facebook of eCommerce” and bring social back to shopping -...
The closing days of Q2 2014 and the dawn of Q3 has seen the cross-border eCommerce world shaken up twice—first with Stripe’s deal with China’s Alipay and then with yesterday’s announcement that Ingenico is acquiring GlobalCollect. BlueSnap CEO Ralph Danglemaier tells MPD CEO Karen Webster...
