November 17, 2014
Taking Compliance from Barrier to Enabler in Global Payments
As banks, retailers, and international online payments have gone digital over the last two decades, technology has sparked major changes in global payments. The flow of goods, services and finance...
November 16, 2014
B2B Vendor Global Healthcare Exchange Buying Vendormate
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) has agreed to buy Atlanta’s Vendormate for an unspecified amount. GHX handles business network connectivity and payments issues for some 4,000 hospitals and 18,000 provider facilities,...
November 14, 2014
Apple Pay Comes To Alibaba’s US Marketplace
In case the E-commerce giant in China hasn’t proved it’s place in the E-commerce shopping marketplace yet, its new mobile apps might give it another edge. And they come equipped...
November 14, 2014
Amazon Web Services Tout B2B Exchange Help With Lambda
Amazon Web Services rolled out on Thursday (Nov. 13) a compute service that runs developers’ code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for them, one that...
November 14, 2014
Casino Payments And Gaming Payments Meet
When Tapinator, which develops mobile games, announced Thursday (Nov. 13) that it had acquitted InAppFuel, a mobile casino business, it had interesting implications for payments. Although in-app purchases in gaming...
November 13, 2014
Samsung, SAP Agree To B2B Mobile Deal
Samsung Electronics and SAP agreed this week to jointly develop mobile applications for B2B companies in retail, petrochemical, finance and health care. The agreement will “integrate payments to be made...
November 12, 2014
How To Triple Global Commerce In Ten Years
Want to know how to triple the flow of commerce cross-border over the next ten years? Just remove the friction from how small businesses conduct commerce globally. That, cross-border payments...
November 12, 2014
PYMNTS B2B Investment Tracker
According to PYMNTS.com analysis, October saw somewhat of an investment declining trend for B2B payments, impacting almost every corner of the vast B2B payments universe. But the dollars are still...
November 12, 2014
Amex, Intacct Cut B2B Check Deal
With some 70 percent of all B2B transactions that cloud accounting vendor Intacct sees still requiring paper checks, American Express Global Corporate Payments cut a deal with the company 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.