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B2B Payments
Brazil Steps Forward In E-Invoicing Innovation
July 16, 2014

Aerospace manufacturing company Brazil Nota Fiscal announced earlier this week that it had selected Invoiceware International to manage its eInvoicing processes in Brazil. The aerospace firm is a Fortune 50 multinational company, according to E-Invoicing Platform. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

Company Spotlight
MasterCard’s Digital Checkout Service Comes To Apps
July 16, 2014

Jumping into the lucrative world of in-app purchasing – where free games can make as much as $1 million per day – MasterCard will enable in-app payments for its MasterPass digital payment system beginning in early August, the company announced in recent blog post. Get the...

Mobile Commerce
New Report Has Digital Payments Reaching ~$5T in 5 Years
July 16, 2014

Digital payments are expected to rise to $4.7 trillion by 2019—nearly doubling their current value of $2.5 trillion, according to new research released by Juniper Research. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

B2B Payments
Visa Invests In Digital Transaction Management Company
July 16, 2014

DocuSign, a digital transaction management firm, announced earlier this week that Visa, Inc. made a strategic investment in the company. According to a DocuSign statement, the goal of the two companies is to help customers prepare, execute and manage digital transactions and integrate payments safely...

B2B Payments
How Hiding The Rebate Got Pilot Flying J In Hot Water
July 16, 2014

Fuel company Pilot Flying J recently entered into an agreement with the Justice Department where it confirmed its employees, including supervisors, schemed to withhold diesel rebates from many of its trucking customers. As a result, the company is paying millions in fines, and its employees...

Loyalty & Rewards
PayPal Takes On Passbook With New Loyalty Card Feature
July 16, 2014

PayPal has updated it’s iOS app to version 5.5, and with that comes a new ability for users by providing an mWallet home for loyalty cards from a long list of selected retailers, emulating the Apple Passbook already installed in the phone. Get the Full...

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Chase Q2 Mobile Users, Card Volume Up
July 16, 2014

Chase Card services performed well in Q2, acquiring new 2 million new consumers with end of quarter receivables hovering around $2 billion. Delinquency rates also fell, while active mobile users were up more than 20 percent to 17 million. So if consumers were using their...

Controversial
Is An Apple iBeacon Transmitter The Path To Payments?
July 16, 2014

Pop quiz. How does Apple make money? Selling hardware. Very good. So, is anyone really surprised that it may have its own plans to sell its own iBeacon transmitter? Well, recent filings with the Federal Communications Commission would suggest that is exactly what’s on the...

B2B Payments
B2B Check Use Continues, But Why?
July 16, 2014

It’s becoming an increasingly popular question, but why are so many companies and their vendors so hesitant to give up using checks to settle their transactions? Surely they want to reduce their costs and increase efficiency. Much of the issue stems from reliance on old...