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B2B Payments
The Changing Relationship Between Customers and Vehicles
October 18, 2022

Nearly 9 in 10 fleet operators say connected vehicle tech saves money and improves driver safety. It also creates the foundation for new fleet payments use cases.

Retail
Corporate Gifting’s ROI Linked to Thoughtfulness and Joy, Not Spreadsheets
October 18, 2022

‘Tis the season for corporate gifting, and businesses large and small are, yet again, closing the books beneath a cloud of uncertainty as they make that annual decision concerning how best to say thank you to their most important customers, vendors and employees. The effort...

Digital Banking
FinTechs Need a Niche to Avoid Becoming a Commodity
October 18, 2022

When everyone is special — or at least says they are — no one is. Application programming interfaces (APIs) and all manner of updated tech infrastructure have made it possible for pretty much any company to embed payments and banking-like services into apps. FinTechs have...

Global Payments
eInvoicing Needs a ‘Translation Layer’ as Business Payments Go Global
October 18, 2022

After a couple of decades, you’d think that electronic invoicing would be pretty much perfected — a done deal, with standardized formats across companies and across countries. As Billtrust President Steve Pinado told Karen Webster, “Companies have been generating PDFs and sending emails with invoice...

Cross Border Commerce
500 Global Sellers Weigh In on the Value of APAC Expansion
October 18, 2022

Asia Pacific (APAC) is a key strategic region for countless international eTailers. Thirty-eight percent of merchants across the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada either already sell to APAC customers or intend to do so within the next year, each hoping to stake their claim in...

Payments Innovation
Why CFOs Need a Seat at the Product Design Table
October 18, 2022

It’s a widely reported fact that the traditional role of the chief financial officer (CFO) is expanding well beyond balancing books and budgets, and increasingly taking on oversight of entirely new areas and projects — including product design. “One dominant trend we see in the...

Cross-border Payments
Seamless B2C Transactions Demand Interoperability Across African, Global Payment Systems
October 18, 2022

With some 40 currencies across 54 countries, divergent preferences for payment methods and even the same payment method processed differently depending on the country, it’s safe to say the African payment landscape is deeply fragmented. But Omoniyi Kolade, CEO at pan-African payment company SeerBit, is...

Regulation
US Regulators Sound Cautious Note on FinTech Innovation
October 17, 2022

If there was at least some consensus that came out of last week’s D.C. FinTech Week confab, it’s that banks and the regulators that oversee them need to tread a fine line between innovation and risk. And the line may not be easily defined. As...

Digital Banking
Maintaining Physical Bank Branches Keeps Cash Alive In Underserved European Communities
October 17, 2022

From the vinyl revival to the enduring appeal of film photography, analog technologies that many thought would give way to the rising tide of digitization have in fact remained culturally and economically relevant, even if they no longer play the leading role they once did....