November 05, 2014
Kofax, Visa Cut B2B Payments Deal
Visa will deploy “enhanced data and invoice management capabilities” In the Asia Pacific region using Kofax TotalAgility, the two companies announced late Tuesday (Nov. 4). The pair promised that the...
November 04, 2014
Fixing the Three Major Problems in B2B Payments
Just a few weeks ago, top players and innovators in the B2B payments space gathered at PYMNTS’ B2B conference in New York City. After the keynote speech on global trends...
November 04, 2014
PCI Council Says Compliance Necessary For Secure B2B Payments
As companies get increasingly nervous about data security on B2B transactions, the PCI Council is offering some guidance about the need for merchants to better train employees and increase awareness...
October 31, 2014
MasterCard CEO: MasterPass Starts Where Apple Pay Stops
MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga used Thursday’s (Oct. 30) earnings announcement to make a case that the brand’s own MasterPass starts where partner Apple Pay stops, with loyalty and other promotional capabilities....
October 31, 2014
B2B Pricing Optimization Company Acquired
The global technology-focused firm Francisco Partners has put its name and one of its leaders into the B2B space as it announced Thursday (Oct. 30) that it had acquired Vendavo,...
October 31, 2014
In B2B Payments, The Magic In How A Govt. Phrases...
When Ramesh Tainwala took over as CEO of luggage giant Samsonite International this month, he got an important lesson in the nuance of phrasing in China. When China’s government cracked...
October 30, 2014
Transforming Payments from Cost Centers to Revenue Drivers
Corporate payments programs have often been regarded as costly and tedious, but new insights from recent data to be presented at Money 20/20 show otherwise, according to Digital River. On...
October 30, 2014
U.S. Bank Tries To Streamline B2B Electronic Payments
U.S. Bank announced Wednesday (Oct. 29) that it had launched a Payment Plus system that streamlines the process to set up B2B electronic payments by simplifying the payment instruction fields that are...
October 29, 2014
How Much Of A B2B Payments Role Should Bitcoin Play?
The payments industry has cast a weary eye on Bitcoin and other virtual currencies, but a column in SpendMatters.com asks whether B2B payment folk shouldn’t seriously consider evaluating Bitcoin. “We...
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.