May 02, 2024
Chase Debuts Tools for Small Business Payment Pain Points
Chase introduced a series of payments-oriented tools aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The new tools include offerings to help SMB owners electronically create and send invoices and gain better insight into customers, the banking...
May 02, 2024
Checkout.com and Mastercard Offer Virtual Cards for Travel Agents
Checkout.com has teamed with Mastercard to offer virtual cards to online travel agents. “As part of the Mastercard Wholesale Program, which reduces costs for travel businesses through virtual card technology and an innovative pricing model,...
May 02, 2024
Competing With Giants: How Small Businesses Can Optimize Their eCommerce...
This National Small Business Week, merchants are increasingly moving beyond Main Street — and into eCommerce. And with the news that the post-pandemic growth for most Main Street small and...
May 02, 2024
Visa Stresses Education as Small Businesses Confront Fraud Vulnerabilities
Most crimes, as the saying goes, are crimes of opportunity. And that’s bad news for small businesses, whose lack of resources and challenges when accessing financing often leaves them ill-prepared...
May 02, 2024
Are Real-Time Payments Near an Inflection Point? Bank of America...
Use cases for real-time payments have never been a source of argument, even among detractors. The ability to speed bill payment and peer-to-peer flows, as well as move money instantly, has been...
May 01, 2024
Nearly One-Third of Healthcare Providers Are Waiting for $100K+ in...
Late business-to-business (B2B) payments aren’t just a headache for the people in the accounts receivable (AR) department; for some businesses, past due payments can mean the difference between success and insolvency. AR...
May 01, 2024
Unimarket Introduces ‘AP Payments as a Service’ for US Customers
Unimarket has introduced its fully managed accounts payable (AP) payments service, Unimarket Payments, to the United States. This service, which optimizes, monetizes and secures the entire payment life cycle, is now available to...
May 01, 2024
US Construction Spending Sees Unexpected Drop in March
Construction spending in the U.S. declined unexpectedly in March after being unchanged in February. Data from the Census Bureau released Wednesday (May 1) showed spending at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $2.083 trillion,...
May 01, 2024
B2B Virtual Cards Move Buyer-Supplier Relationships From Manual to Meaningful
Building a successful business rarely happens on an island or in a vacuum. Typically, success comes from successful business relationships — and when one thinks about B2B relationships, at their core, they exist as payment...
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.
