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Virgin Money Isn’t Ruling Out SMEs
March 03, 2016

Virgin Money just reported a pretty good year. The U.K.-based lender said its pre-tax profits increased by 53 percent due to strong consumer lending and credit card operations. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

Bottomline Brings Corporates Closer To Faster Payments
March 03, 2016

Bottomline Technologies has made it a point to focus on payments speed for its B2B customers as of late. Already, the company allows payment service providers to access an array of gateways, including Bacs, SWIFT and international clearing houses. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Facebook’s Next B2B Move: Small Business Videos
March 03, 2016

Facebook — and social media in general — has never been a sure thing for business users, but that doesn’t mean its popularity among entrepreneurs is weak. Even in the B2B realm, research released last year found that more than half of B2B sellers have considered using...

B2B Payments
Collaboration Puts Pay Buttons On eInvoices
March 03, 2016

Even if small and medium-sized businesses want to do their business digitally, the cost of electronic B2B payments can be high. For low-margin SMEs, that cost can be fatal. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

B2B Payments
Xerox, Once The Paper King, Champions FinServ Digitization
March 03, 2016

Financial executives are more educated than ever on the ability of digital workflows to cut the time, money and hassle wasted on paper, manual processes. Xerox, a company that built itself into an empire thanks to physical paper, has had a front row seat for...

Seven Ways Mobile Payments Made News This Week
March 03, 2016

As everyone knows, when it comes to igniting mobile payments, there’s no one player, technology or device that’s going to dominate it all. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

Security & Fraud
Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt Joins Pentagon’s Tech-Savvy Mission
March 03, 2016

The Pentagon is putting together a new advisory board to bridge the gap between the tech innovation of Silicon Valley and the best practices of the U.S. military, and it’s brought on Google’s former chief executive, Eric Schmidt, to lead the charge, Reuters reported Wednesday...

US Shoppers Flock To Canada For Online Shopping
March 03, 2016

With thousands of miles of a shared border, Americans and Canadians have decades of practice skipping across the international boundary when the strength of their respective currencies suits them. When the loonie’s value drops under that of the U.S. dollar in 2016, though, customers don’t...

Can Software Trump Hardware In Securing Payments?
March 03, 2016

When talking payments, there’s one topic of conversation that comes hand in hand: security. And, of course, the players who are bringing innovations into the market to secure data and transactions between devices — and on the cloud. Get the Full Story Complete the form...