July 22, 2015
Traxo Partnership Helps Travel Data Services Soar
Traxo, a travel itinerary data aggregation solution provider, announced Monday (July 20) a partnership with mid-office and travel management technology provider Cornerstone Information Systems, which will enable the capture and...
July 22, 2015
Innoviti’s $5M Funding Ramps Up SME Lending In India
Innoviti Payment Solutions announced Monday (July 20) it secured Rs 30 Crores (roughly $5 million) in funding to bolster its payments business and expand real-time credit distribution to small- and...
July 21, 2015
Airbnb’s Business Travel Expansion
While Airbnb struggles in the consumer market thanks to new regulations that crack down on its on-demand bedroom rental services, the company is making headway in a different segment of...
July 21, 2015
Alt-Lender MCC Touts A Lucrative Quarter
Alternative lender Merchant Cash and Capital, also known as MCC, has reportedly had a good quarter. The company announced Monday (July 20) that it has originated more than $115 million...
July 21, 2015
It’s Tinder For Entrepreneurs: Swipe Right For Financing
Millennials have made the bizarre act of finding true love on a smartphone the norm with the popularity of Tinder, a mobile app that lets users “like” a potential mate...
July 21, 2015
Coupa Buyout Banks On Open Business Booking
Coupa is putting its money into a new trend in business travel: so-called “open booking,” in which an employee manages his or her own travel booking and itinerary. In an...
July 21, 2015
China’s OKorder.com Turns Up The Sophistication
China’s online commerce market is one of the world’s largest and most successful. With Alibaba as a key global player continuing to expand and with new government efforts aimed at...
July 21, 2015
Small Biz Optimism On The Rise
Small businesses appear to be improving their financial positions in the market. The latest figures from the Biz2Credit small business lending index suggest that big bank lending to SMEs is...
July 21, 2015
globalVCard Exec Sees Growing Transition From Paper Checks To Electronic...
Paper checks are proving to be a stubborn holdout among North American enterprises. With the growth in secure transactions, especially in the B2B space, it seems a wonder that CFOs...
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 110 U.S. companies with annual revenue of $10 million or more to see how payment orchestration affects authorization rates, checkout completion and customer experience. The findings show a sharp divide: Companies with all five core capabilities are pulling ahead, while partial deployment may be adding complexity without improving results.
Read more in “The Orchestration Advantage: How Routing Architecture Shapes Payments Performance,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and Spreedly collaboration.