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January 7, 2021Officials at the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) and the Treasury Department are looking to see if American Express Co. (AmEx) harnessed strong and deceptive sales practices ...
January 5, 2021In today’s top retail news, American Express is launching new offers to start off the year, while the chief economist for the National Retail Federation says the stimulus will help ...
January 5, 2021American Express is debuting new promotions for American consumer, small business and co-brand card members in addition to small retailers to start 2021 amid the pandemic. The promotions offer support ...
January 1, 2021We can’t put a final lid on the year 2020 without addressing the big issues, such as how we changed, what we learned, what’s coming back and what will never ...
December 31, 2020For Main Street businesses, to say 2020 was challenging is an understatement.
The good news, according to PYMNTS data, is that as 2020 is coming to a close, small- to medium-sized ...
December 30, 2020With trade shows canceled and enterprise digitization accelerated, 2020 was a big year for the adoption of B2B eCommerce. Whether through the use of online marketplaces or proprietary supplier portals, ...
December 22, 2020In today’s top news, Ripple said it faces a lawsuit from the SEC over the sale of unlicensed securities and Peloton has acquired fitness equipment provider Precor. Plus, a survey ...
December 22, 2020The year 2020 has been a wild ride, and certainly one for the books in just about every corner of the commerce ecosystem.
In fact, Kathleen Fiorello, head of U.S. partner ...
December 18, 2020Something’s going to happen with paper checks, paper invoicing — the whole paper thing on a grand scale — and businesses need to be ready for that eventuality. It’s one ...
December 15, 2020 Paper-based payment processes are slow and costly, and tend to exacerbate existing payment pain points when collecting receivables. This is the key takeaway from a study of 2,203 small to ...
December 7, 2020At a time when the pandemic has fueled a surge in creative corporate payment solutions, American Express has revamped its Early Pay supply chain solution to allow large companies and ...
November 29, 2020President-elect Joe Biden is weighing naming two of the highest-ranking Black leaders in finance to top roles in his administration — TIAA CEO Roger Ferguson to direct the National Economic ...
November 27, 2020From restaurants to the farthest reaches of retail, rapid digitization is making the best of the COVID-19 mess while setting up conditions for an elevated set of future payments experiences.
The ...
November 24, 2020SMBs that have survived the impacts of the pandemic are now confronting new hurdles: winter and a potential second COVID-19 wave. In the 2021 New Merchant Business Models Playbook, Katie ...
November 23, 2020The holiday shopping rush is always critical for Main Street small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. — a reality more starkly drawn in 2020 as some of those ...
November 23, 2020 Small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) were hit especially hard by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and have spent months experimenting with new sales models as they worked to keep ...
November 19, 2020Today in B2B payments: Visa collaborates to open up small business banking data, while Mastercard drives commercial card adoption across the MEA region. Plus, American Express eyes social media shoutouts ...
November 18, 2020As the holidays grow closer, American Express says research has shown that social media promotions and engagement could be a big boost for this year’s Small Business Saturday event, according ...
November 18, 2020Commercial card innovation initiatives are getting creative as solution providers target a range of pain points.
This week’s roundup includes new technology to support corporate card acceptance within the healthcare vertical, ...
November 17, 2020Today in B2B payments, American Express enhances its early B2B payment solution, and payroll provider Paylocity strikes an acquisition deal. Plus, Allied Irish Bank strengthens its receivables finance offering, PwC ...
November 16, 2020American Express is teaming up with PayPal and Venmo to offer a new way for their customers to send money, split purchases and manage their expenses.
The new program enables American ...
November 16, 2020American Express has enhanced its Early Pay system with digital payment features aimed at giving large businesses greater control over their ability to make and receive B2B payments, the company ...
November 2, 2020Economic headwinds abound. This week marks the culmination of an election season like no other. Virus cases are rising.
But as earnings season nears its inevitable end, the puzzle pieces (in ...
October 23, 2020American Express posted Q3 results Friday (Oct. 23) that showed a rebound in spending across consumer and commercial segments from lows seen in the spring amid the pandemic’s heights. The ...
October 21, 2020Spend controls were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to feature and program launches.
This week’s commercial card innovation tracker includes a rollout of the ...
October 19, 2020American Express is working with Coupa on a new partnership to use virtual cards for Coupa’s B2B solution, a press release says.
Coupa Pay, the Coupa B2B solution, will be available ...
October 15, 2020In B2B, late payments were a problem – globally – even before the pandemic hit. But now, chasing overdue payments takes up time and energy that adds to other operating pressures – and torpedoes ...
October 7, 2020Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
This week’s commercial card innovation tracker ...
October 2, 2020Accounting teams have had a rough go of COVID, in many cases improvising highly delicate and secure operations on the fly during the depths of lockdowns while working remotely.
Here comes ...
September 30, 2020In today’s top payments news around the world, American Express launched co-branded credit cards with Amazon targeting small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Britain, while Volopay is teaming with Nium ...
September 29, 2020American Express on Tuesday (Sept. 29) launched a co-branded credit card with Amazon, targeting small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.K. “The cards offer a host of rich rewards ...
September 29, 2020The pain points that accounts receivable (AR) teams most commonly experience can be boiled down to three underlying and related problems: continued reliance on manual AR management practices, and the ...
September 14, 2020In a year that will see more than 25,000 retail stores blink out of existence, with an estimated 16,000 restaurants having closed permanently by August, people could use some upbeat ...
September 11, 2020 Brick-and-mortar stores have been hit hard by the pandemic and have made serious adjustments to stay in business.
Sixty percent of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) reported in March that their ...
September 10, 2020Colleen Taylor, a Wells Fargo alum, will join American Express as the company’s new president of merchant services, a press release announced.
In her new role, Taylor will report to Global ...
September 10, 2020For many small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), surviving the pandemic has necessitated a transformation of their brick-and-mortar stores into virtual showrooms. But simply enabling consumers to shop online doesn’t cut ...
September 9, 2020The social distancing and stay-at-home orders intended to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak have been devastating to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), with tens of thousands expected to ...
September 1, 2020American Express is bringing out a new option pitched to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs): the opportunity to Pay Over Time for holders of Green, Gold and Platinum Business Cards ...
August 21, 2020It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. We have ...
August 19, 2020COVID-19 has left entire industries rethinking their rewards programs before all of that that stored-up goodwill loses its value — along with the customer relationships that such programs are meant ...