It’s Thanksgiving. There are Americans who are going to shop today, and there are those who are not. Everyone’s already decided, right? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...
For centuries, the retail formula has been more or less static: create a worthwhile product or service, drum up consumer interest, and try to parlay that attention into lucrative sponsorships and partnerships with other brands to grow even larger. This is the common sense approach...
Why do small businesses fail? New research from SME accounting firm Xero wanted to know why, exactly, only half of small businesses in the U.S. make it to the five-year mark, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the U.K., that figure is even...
When it comes to accounts receivables tools, it’s not one-size-fits-all. In fact, BlueTarp president and CEO Scott Simpson recently told PYMNTS that there is a divide among suppliers in many ways – most notably, in their preferences for dealing with their corporate customers and how...
Why is HCE important to driving mobile payments adoption? Because it can enable a lot more than just payments - and do it securely and at scale. MPD CEO Karen Webster spoke with three Mozido executives to get a good look under HCE’s hood to...
How Airbnb is making the leap into corporate travel, and giving road warriors options beyond hotels and motels.
Email marketing drove 18 percent of holiday spend in 2014 – as did the Monday and Tuesday after Thanksgiving – and not the weekend in-between. Digital River’s holiday shopping list for retailers offers new advice on how they can grab consumers’ attention across the growing...
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...
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...
