The key to successful innovation is being able to solve a problem, and in the U.K., one of the biggest problems for small suppliers is getting paid late by their large corporate buyers. One startup has emerged on the market with this issue in mind....
As we look at some of the data impacting business finance into the new year, the numbers are mixed. New statistics highlight the rising popularity of alternative small business lending; others uncover just how prominent cybercrimes are in B2B deals. From 1.5 billion to 2.9,...
Walmart ended the year by announcing Walmart Pay. It’s starting the year with a big move to reinvent the way its customers can pay online. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
In mid-November, news broke that Apple was reportedly planning a mobile P2P payment service that would compete with the array of other players in the space who enable that service, including PayPal’s Venmo, Square Cash, Facebook Messenger and SnapCash, among others. Get the Full Story Complete...
There are lots of things that will influence the actions of the players within the vast and dynamic ecosystem in 2016. But MPD CEO Karen Webster says, there are only six trends that you need to pay attention to. Well, more explicitly, she says, six...
The big banks, until very recently, seemed largely allergic to SMB lending. In the wake of the financial meltdown and increased regulations, underwriting a big loan to a big player and a small loan for a small player were equally expensive on the front end, but...
Technology can do much to streamline backend processes at banks large and small. Here’s how nCino CEO Pierre Naudé sees the cloud bridging the gaps in SMB finance.
For the non-initiated, it can be tempting to see mobile payments and all the innovations around them as far away from the tangible concept of a buck in a pocket or a bar of gold in a bank vault. Now, though, BitGold is proving that...
Online commerce is growing slowly but steadily in Mexico, thanks in large part to the ways in which digital merchants are reaching the unbanked population of the country. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
