March 10, 2015
Credit Unions Crucial to SBA’s Latest Lending Initiative
The Small Business Administration is at it again in proactively increasing SMEs’ access to capital within the U.S. The SBA recently revealed a new online portal to connect small businesses...
March 09, 2015
Remittance Coalition Proposes B2B Payments “Phonebook”
The Remittance Coalition, an association of professionals promoting electronic business-to-business payments and data exchanges, is looking to launch a new platform to accelerate the group’s goals of more efficient business...
March 09, 2015
Dealstruck Adds Online Credit Service for Inventory Management
Online lender Dealstruck announced Thursday (March 5) that it has added a new credit product to its offerings for companies looking to better manage their inventory. Reports say the company...
March 09, 2015
Discounting, Financing Products Boost PrimeRevenue Offerings
Successful corporations understand the importance of managing their supply chain and cash flow, and today there are a growing number of services that offer new ways to facilitate this management....
March 09, 2015
With Google’s Entry, Competition Within Comparative Insurance Sites Spikes
The introduction of online comparative sites for insurance policy purchases is already disrupting the insurance market. The launch of CompareNow.com and, last year, Overstock.com’s insurance e-commerce operations revealed the potential...
March 09, 2015
Tab: Is The Future Of Payments Social?
In 1640, the English poet John Donne famously wrote in meditation 17 “No man is island.” Given the contemporary limitations of travel and communications in the 17th century, that...
March 06, 2015
B2B Payments Investment Tracker, February 27 – March 6
Software software software. That’s where the money was at in the B2B world this past week as venture capitalists secured millions for Software-as-a-Service startups looking to make all aspects of...
March 06, 2015
Why B2B Should Quit Ignoring The Benefits of E-Invoicing
Although still underutilized industry-wide, attitudes toward electronic invoicing and billing are changing. Out of the estimated 170 billion invoices exchanged by the global business and government sectors in 2014, a...
March 06, 2015
Obama Budget Proposal Reveals Healthier SME Loan Program
For the first time since before the recession, the federal Small Business Administration will not have to seek taxpayer dollars to make up for funds it loaned to small businesses...
Business cards offer numerous benefits to small businesses over other financing, including easier qualification, significantly higher credit limits, and perks such as cash back, travel and mileage-earning rewards. The latest “B2B and Digital Payments Tracker®” explores why 63% of small business owners using cards as their primary startup funding attribute their success to this method of financing.
Real-time payments already account for at least 15% of B2B payments volume in the insurance, manufacturing and retail industries. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 500 executives across the retail, insurance, manufacturing and real estate sectors examines how these industries are using real time payments today and their plans for the future. Read more in “The State of Real-Time Payments,” a collaboration with The Clearing House.