August 12, 2014
The First Step In A Simple Transition To E-Payables
When it comes to digitizing accounts payable processes, Karla Friede’s advice to businesses is to first step back to see what solutions fit the problem. And that’s when Friede, CEO...
August 08, 2014
ACH As A P-Card Alternative?
In B2B buyer/seller relations, purchasing cards, or P-cards, typically represent a two-edge sword in that, while they make the payment process more efficient, especially for the buyers, the sellers pay...
August 08, 2014
The Art Of Getting Buyers To Pay
For businesses, selling is the lifeblood of their operation. But how well they are able to collect on payments owed can be equally important to their viability. And those-hard-to-collect payments...
August 07, 2014
Payoneer Partnership Set To Boost Cross-Border Payments
Online payments firm Payoneer announced on Tuesday (Aug. 5) that it had partnered with the Latin American eInvoicing firm Gosocket. The move is expected to give businesses a better new...
August 06, 2014
July Was A Busy Month (In Massachusetts) For B2B Investments
Not everything worth investing in happens in Silicon Valley! At least last month, in the B2B space, Atlas Venture in Cambridge, Mass, lead the charge by taking part in three...
August 05, 2014
Cross Border Payments Gets Instant Option
On August 4, cross border payments firm Transpay announced that it launched a new instant payments option for freelance providers in the crowd-source marketplace, e-commerce companies, credit card processors, and...
August 04, 2014
Cross-Border’s $4 Trillion Problem
Four trillion dollars worth of merchandise will be abandoned online globally this year. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. MPD CEO Karen Webster, BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier and...
August 04, 2014
PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker
There’s lots of stuff published on who’s funding what across all technology sectors worldwide. We thought it would be useful to provide you with a weekly update on who’s investing...
August 04, 2014
Travelport Invests Further In Payments Options
Travelport, an eCommerce company, announced last week that it had increased its ownership stake in eNett International, a payments business for the travel industry. According to a company statement, 2009,...
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.