The corporate travel space is changing shape, no doubt. First to come to mind is the entrance of on-demand and sharing economy services, like Uber and Airbnb, into the game. These players have gained significant traction in the last year, and analysts agree that their popularity...
Blockchain firm Smart Token Chain recently completed its first transaction through the Ripple Network, an event that may have, well, ripples in B2B payments. Tom Meredith, Smart Token Chain’s CEO, and Don Chapman, SVP of business development, weighed in on distributed ledger technology’s potential in...
The dominating narrative in small business lending is the rise in alternative finance to fill the gaps left behind by traditional banks. Even so, FinTech innovators aren’t ignoring traditional FIs, with many developing solutions just for the banks to help them ease back into the...
Equity-crowdfunded FreeAgent, a U.K.-based small business accounting firm, has listed on the nation’s AIM stock exchange, the LSE‘s market for smaller firms. FreeAgent broke ground with the listing but, according to reports, missed the mark on valuation. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
SMEs are hiring but rarely make the call for financial professionals, according to new research from online job hunting site Indeed. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
India B2B payments firm Happay is now looking to accelerate the time it takes to onboard SMEs to its platform. The company revealed Friday (Nov. 18) that it rolled out its Express On-boarding Program for small businesses in the nation aimed to help SMEs more...
Businesses today are extra careful about where they place their money — if they invest at all, that is. This week, we take a look at how companies are investing. In some cases, firms are investing in outsourced services to stay ahead of the competition....
Financial institutions have to compete against FinTech upstarts, with an eye on keeping merchants happy when it comes to remittances. Eliminating some of the manual processes relieves paperwork and legwork, according to Rick Stadel, managing director at ProfitStars.
Of all the barriers that exist to getting a disruptive technology off the ground, convincing users to change their behavior may be the most difficult. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
