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B2B Payments
Emotion Plays A Bigger Role In B2B Purchasing Than Anyone Wants To Admit
November 13, 2014

When Gallup—the polling folk—examined B2B purchasing habits, they discovered that emotions play a much larger role than most are comfortable admitting. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker | November 1-7
November 12, 2014

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Amex, Intacct Cut B2B Check Deal
November 12, 2014

With some 70 percent of all B2B transactions that cloud accounting vendor Intacct sees still requiring paper checks, American Express Global Corporate Payments cut a deal with the company to integrate a Pay Now button that sidesteps the various manual processes involved in causing checks...

“Wirelurker” May Just Be The Tip Of The Security Concern Iceberg For iOS
November 11, 2014

Apple products are safe, everyone knows that. Viruses and malware are for Windows machines and Android devices but cybercriminals up to this point seem to have been stymied by Apple’s security and left their devices alone.  So revered are the Apple operating systems, that in...

B2B Payment Shop Zerve Taking A Shot At Consumers
November 11, 2014

Tackling payments for B2B is quite different from B2C, but Zerve, the B2B payments startup with backing from Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, is giving it a try. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

B2B Payments
AP Tech Pushes Cloud-Based Checks Effort
November 11, 2014

Payments vendor AP Technology has rolled out a new product called APeChecks, which the company said is pronounced Ape-Checks. The cloud B2B payments platform includes paper checks, eCheck and ACH support. The vendor claimed the new approach can cut payments costs by 80 percent and...

Will NFC Users Grow by 5X in 5 Years?
November 11, 2014

Merchant resistance, particularly because of the MCX CurrentC conflict, has been Apple Pay’s biggest impediment, and despite hurdles Apple has faced, Juniper Research predicts NFC users will quintuple from this year’s 101 million users to more than 500 million by 2019. Get the Full Story Complete...

B2B Payments
The Globalization Of B2B Virtual Accounts
November 10, 2014

Markus Straussfeld, head of international cash management at UniCredit (an Italian bank focusing on cross-border payments), argues that the latest moved forward by the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) will “provide companies with a wealth of opportunities to generate big efficiencies. Even businesses that don’t...

HSBC Exec Lays Out The Bank’s B2B Expansion Strategy
November 10, 2014

Diane Reyes, global head of payments and cash management for HSBC, looks to the globe when she’s asked where her company is headed. “We aim to reinforce our leading position in trade finance, to improved client coverage in product and payments and cash management, increase...