After months of head-to-head innovative competition, Alibaba has picked the winners of its first-ever Outstanding B2B eCommerce Business Competition, held in Hong Kong. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
With cross-border payments remaining one of the harshest points of friction for international commerce, many businesses are struggling to sort out the varying regulations and currencies across national borders. Transpay’s latest effort, announced Thursday (April 23), is not only offering a way to overcome these...
When INTURN announced earlier this week that it has launched a new B2B software solution, the firm simultaneously uncovered a long-ignored area of the B2B commerce industry. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
Last week, PYMNTS reported on one of the year’s busiest days for B2B investment with more than $130 million of funding entering in the space. The last few days, however, have blown those numbers out of the water. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
The departure of several major banks from the United Arab Emirates in recent years signaled a new shift for small business lending in the nation. Government initiatives and the influx of alternative lending have worked to fill the SME lending gap in the nation, but...
Saving money and time are the most talked-about reasons why businesses and governments should make the effort to adopt digital procurement and invoicing strategies. E-invoicing solutions provider Basware is touting a less referenced benefit of the electronic shift, just in time for Earth Day 2015....
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has released the findings of two separate studies on the state of small business access to financing across 34 nations. Its twin reports did not uncover any earth-shattering revelations about the alternative finance in the world’s markets, instead coming to similar conclusions...
While Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba recently made moves to encourage businesses to run their operations entirely on smartphones, the rise of B2B mobile apps suggests that businesses may be shifting in this direction anyway. The latest app to emerge onto the enterprise scene is Dash,...
The United Arab Emirates’ economy largely depends on the success of its small- and medium-sized enterprises. With the recent exodus of mainstream banks from the UAE in recent years, non-traditional financers have been left to fill the gaps in SME funding. Get the Full Story...