United Arab Emirates-based spend management and procurement service provider Tejari has unleashed its next-level tool for businesses. Dubbed BravoAdvantage, the new procurement platform was built to strengthen visibility into corporate procurement practices and relations with suppliers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
Institutional investors are considered by some analysts as key to the survival of the alternative finance industry. As alternative lending to SMEs declines, institutional lending to those businesses is on the rise — and many of them are increasingly using alternative lending platforms to flow their investments into...
U.K. policymakers have been moving forward with plans to strengthen the economic position of small businesses, from implementing the bank referral scheme to increase SMEs’ access to alternative finance to cracking down on late payments by large corporate buyers to their small suppliers. Get the...
As eCommerce surges, and EMV gathers steam, so too will hacking attempts on CNP activity. CA Technologies says additional layers of security are needed, in real time, to weed out risky transactions.
Whether it’s online or in person, purchasing cards are being used pretty much everywhere. Kevin Phalen, Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, shared with PYMNTS his firsthand perspective on the global expansion of procurement cards, and what lies ahead in the space.
Last week, PYMNTS featured the B2B invoice scam, a growing phenomenon in which cyberthieves hack into company email accounts or impersonate officials within a corporation to falsify invoices. The scheme leads companies to unknowingly pay the criminal, while under the impression that they are paying...
Canada’s alternative small business lending market is slowly being saturated with new competition, and the industry has earned a new wave of attention thanks to U.S.-based OnDeck’s plans to go public up north. But a different trend is emerging that sees Canadian players launching operations...
Financial services and payments firm Worldpay may appear to be a mega-corporation that works with other big businesses, but according to reports in Forbes, the company actually prefers the small and medium-sized enterprise crowd — and a new focus on SME clients aims to make...
Apple and IBM have been working quite closely together this year in an effort to help companies get on board with the Internet of Things. The collaboration involves the promotion of Apple mobile devices in the workplace and the utilization of IBM technology to help...
