October 29, 2014
Credit Card Payments Taking Off In B2B Payments
Although credit card payments represent barely 10 percent of all B2B payments that number has doubled in the past two years, according to a report from the Hackett Group. In...
October 28, 2014
Overcoming Friction in B2B Payments
A few weeks ago, innovators and thought leaders focused on enterprise payments gathered in New York City to discuss “What’s Next” in B2B payments – and what’s really broken. PYMNTS...
October 27, 2014
The Scariest Things In Payments
The Scariest Things In Payments Friday is Halloween, a holiday in the U.S. that involves people – young and old – dressing up in (sometimes) scary costumes and going door...
October 24, 2014
Death Threats, Fraudsters and Lawsuits
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 46 Ok, so even the Coinbase CEO used the word bubble, saying that bitcoin is in a “rebuilding” period after going thru its most recent...
October 23, 2014
With New VC Dollars, GoCoin Pledges B2B Payments Push
Shortly after BitFury Capital announced an undisclosed investment in digital currency merchant processor GoCoin, GoCoin CEO Steve Beauregard said that his Bitcoin operation will make B2B payments recruiting a top...
October 23, 2014
Has FleetCor Lived Up To Its 2014 Great Expectations?
FleetCor has tickled investors in 2014, with its large and expanding hold in the business of fleet cards, and, with the completion acquisition of Canadian company Comdata, B2B e-payments in...
October 23, 2014
Tipalti Lassos In $13 Million In Series B Funding
Tipalti, the Israeli- and California-based B2B global payments firm, has locked in $13 million in Series B funding, raised in a round led by Wicklow Capital, according to a story...
October 23, 2014
Ecuador Central Bank Launches Mobile B2B With No Banks Nor...
The Central Bank in Ecuador is trying to launch a national mobile payment scheme that is designed to handle B2B transactions (along with P2P, top-up, cash in and out, in-store...
October 22, 2014
Citi’s New B2B Analytics Suite
Citi has introduced Citi Integrated Payables Solutions, a suite of B2B analytics, advisory and payment services. The idea behind the program is that it uses “proprietary algorithms and rules to...
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.