The massive disruption of the retail space has plenty of merchants scrambling after things like social commerce without quite knowing what exactly they should be doing to help their businesses. While plenty of startups have managed to isolate this or that customers’ preferences and activities...
What can the payments industry learn from retail (and vice versa)? PYMNTS breaks that down -- plus explores the seasonal hiring boom’s effect on retail security, as well as the continued gaps in consumer password protection -- in this Thanksgiving edition of the Retail Security...
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As an accounts payable solutions provider, commercial payments firm AOC Solutions knows well the challenges and needs of corporate buyers and procurers. So when the company decided to launch an accounts receivables function for suppliers, AOC did so from a unique perspective in the procure-to-pay...
New research from Deloitte points to a perhaps unexpected segment of technology as one that is among the market’s fastest-growing and most disruptive today. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
The University of Warwick has given birth to a new small business finance player, which has just emerged from the school’s Software Incubator. Reports Monday (Nov. 23) said Funding Invoice has spun out of the university and begun providing factoring services to SMEs. Get the...
Treasury management service provider Kyriba has chosen a new leader for its supply chain finance (SCF) operations. An announcement late last week revealed that Eric Riddle will join Kyriba as executive vice president of supply chain finance solutions, spearheading the company’s SCF services throughout the...
Square hasn’t been shy about its efforts to provide new services for businesses in the back office, from payroll to financing. But with the company’s recent public debut, scrutiny has hit a new level for Square, and it can do little to keep anything quiet....
By now, it’s no secret that if major financial institutions want to stay ahead of the game, they should invest in blockchain startups. Analysts predict the ledger technology to potentially overhaul the way payments are done, to ease cross-border transactions and to provide an extra...
