Watch more: Need to Know With Mastercard’s Marc Pettican There’s a digital reckoning reshaping the B2B landscape. Buyers, conditioned by seamless consumer experiences, are bringing new expectations into corporate purchasing. Suppliers, in turn, are discovering that payment acceptance is no longer a back-office utility but...
Watch more: Need to Know With David Bork of Boost Payment Solutions As digital payment infrastructure matures and economic pressures sharpen the focus on liquidity, the humble accounts payable (AP) function is being reimagined not as a cost center, but as a strategic engine for...
WEX corporate card customers can now generate and settle vendor payments with virtual cards within SAP’s Concur Invoice platform. This capability is enabled by a new collaboration between WEX, which is a provider of intelligent payment solutions, and Extend, an embedded virtual card payments company that is an established SAP...
For decades, B2B payments have been treated as back‑office plumbing—necessary, unglamorous and largely unchanged. Invoices pile up, checks linger and reconciliation remains stubbornly manual. The result isn’t just inefficiency; it’s an experience that quietly drags on both buyers and suppliers, with little upside for anyone....
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Boost Payment Solutions’ Rinku Sharma The gap between collecting data and extracting advantage from it has become one of the defining competitive fault lines in modern business. “Most companies are sitting on an enormous amount of data today,...
Ramp has added a fleet of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its procurement platform. The new agents can triage employee requests, source vendors, review contract terms and handle compliance checks, the company said in a Wednesday (April 29) press release. Because the platform runs on...
When U.S. importers logged into the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s (CBP) new tariff refund portal this week, the interface looked, at first glance, refreshingly modern. The portal is built to process up to $127 billion in tariff refunds the U.S. owes businesses, offering structured fields,...
Emerging mid-market growth is getting brake-checked, but not just by internal systems. Increasingly, it’s the financial infrastructure and product offerings supporting them. Findings in a new report, “The Emerging Middle Market: When Operational Complexity Grows Faster Than Financial Infrastructure,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and i2c, show that 46%...
B2B payments are becoming a data-rich world. That’s creating new challenges for data-poor businesses. As of Saturday (April 18), Visa’s Commercial Enhanced Data Program (CEDP) officially phased out its Level 2 interchange program, replacing the legacy incentive structures with a new interchange system that rewards...