July 24, 2015
B2B Investment Tracker, July 17-24
B2B investment came roaring back this week, with multimillion-dollar investments landing in several markets, and financing concentrated in North America and Asia. Small business finance and B2B eCommerce secured significant...
July 24, 2015
Tradeshift Touts The Sustainability Of E-Invoicing
Digital invoicing can save businesses and governments time, money, reduce errors from manual data input and increase transparency on spending. The possibilities to improve procurement and strengthen cash flow management...
July 24, 2015
Good Technology Solves A Hidden Problem With BYOD
As businesses embrace Bring Your Own Device and allow employees to use their own smartphones for work-related practices, technology firms have been more motivated than ever to roll out mobile...
July 24, 2015
Capify Sets A New Precedent For Alternative Lending
If you hadn’t heard the Capify name before this week, it’s likely because it wasn’t technically a company yet. But with the news that four small business alternative lenders operating...
July 24, 2015
RBS Adds Muscle To Probe of Alleged SME Mistreatment
As U.K. federal financial investigators continue their probe into the Royal Bank of Scotland’s small business banking practices, new reports say the financial institution is launching an inquiry of its...
July 24, 2015
Expert Questions Ex-Im’s Small Business Support
The U.S. Export-Import Bank, often referred to as Ex-Im, hit headlines last month when news emerged that Congress had allowed the financier’s budget to run out, forcing its trade financing...
July 24, 2015
Don Kingsborough To Drive Capital One’s Innovation Agenda
It has been almost six months since Don Kingsborough left his high-ranking post at PayPal. Now the retail and payments veteran has moved on to credit-card lender and diversified bank...
July 24, 2015
Procurify Funded $4M To Ease B2B Purchasing
Procurify — a procurement startup which aims to make purchasing more effective and efficient for small- to medium-sized businesses through its purchasing management solution — announced the closing of $4...
July 23, 2015
Apple At It Again With Enterprise Apps
Apple and IBM announced earlier this year a high-profile collaboration to rollout dozens of new mobile applications all geared toward enterprise users. Recently, the two launched tools developed for the...
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.
PYMNTS surveyed 271 senior finance and payments executives to understand how businesses are weighing the move to real-time B2B payment rails. The findings show a market approaching a tipping point, with faster settlement, better cash flow control and ERP integration shaping what comes next.
Download “Ready and Willing:B2B Payments Are Headed for Real-Time Rails. Here’s How They’re Getting There,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and The Clearing House.