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Amazon Offering Payment Plans For UK Customers
January 04, 2016

Amazon UK is making it easier for their customers to purchase big ticket items — and harder for their real world competitors to keep up. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

B2B Payments
Grasping The Potential Of HR Technology
January 04, 2016

Tracking employee hours, managing benefits, handling legislative changes in worker compensation and health care – these are all complex tasks to manage, but for SMEs, the resources to do so are limited. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

B2B Payments
Scrapped SME Banking Report Ignites Firestorm
January 04, 2016

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has decided not to publish a long-anticipated report on the state of small business banking for the nation’s largest financial institutions, a decision that has angered some SME advocates, according to reports published Thursday (Dec. 31). Get the Full Story Complete...

B2B Payments
Taiwan Business Bank Conquers New York
January 04, 2016

State-run Taiwanese bank Taiwan Business Bank (TBB) is moving into a new market. Reports last weekend (Jan. 2) said the financial institution will be setting up shop in New York after receiving clearance late last week from the U.S. Federal Reserve Board to begin operating...

B2B Payments
Startup Built From A Late Payments Crisis
January 04, 2016

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....

B2B Payments
M&A, Alt-Lending And Business Cybercrimes At The Start Of 2016
January 04, 2016

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,...

MasterPass Reinvents Walmart.com Checkout
January 04, 2016

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...

New Apple P2P Payments Details Emerge
January 04, 2016

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...

Mobile Commerce
The Six Things That Will Define Payments In 2016
January 04, 2016

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...