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4.3KDigital PaymentsVisa Takes VisaNet To Argentina
Visa has launched a new ePayment processing system called VisaNet in Argentina, the company announced on Tuesday (Jan. 29). The company said...
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3.6KB2B PaymentsIn The Middle East, Banks Embrace FinTech
Efforts in the Middle East by banks and other financial institutions to embrace FinTech are on the rise. As reported from Daily...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsRussia’s Electronic B2B Payments Expectations Go Beyond B2C
B2B payments always seems to be a step or two behind B2C payments innovation, on several fronts. It’s often struggling to make...
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3.2KPayment MethodsIn Hungary, Instant Payments Gain Traction
The new year dawned with individual country and company initiatives tied to instant payments, and moving beyond cash transactions. To that end,...
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5.5KB2B PaymentsCorcentric On Myth-Busting Electronic B2B Payments Adoption
The payments industry has been talking about the digitization of B2B transactions for years, maybe decades, with not much of a nudge...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsPeru Taps Vocalink In Payments System Overhaul
Real-time payments is a goal in Peru, as the automated clearing house there links with Vocalink. Retailers want real-time transactions, too, and SWIFT...
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3.6KB2B PaymentsCorporate ePayments Still At Risk For Employee Embezzlement
A new report from specialist insurer Hiscox recently revealed an unsettling trend about employee fraud and embezzlement: Most of the time, the...
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6.2KB2B PaymentsHow AP Automation Goes Beyond Cost-Cutting For Businesses Willing To Change
By its very nature, accounts payable (AP) is a cost center: It’s where money leaves the enterprise, after all. However, as with...
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4.5KB2B PaymentsCEOs, Finance Staff On Opposite Sides Of The Accounts Payable Fence
B2B FinTech solution providers are currently working on reducing the friction associated with implementing their solutions into enterprise back offices. As they...
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5.2KB2B PaymentsHarvard And Capital One Survey Mid-Market B2B ePayments Adoption
When it comes to B2B payments digitization, not every company will experience the same journey. That’s especially true for firms of varying...
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5.3KSmarter PaymentsNEW REPORT: How Smarter Payments Build Smarter, Safer Marketplaces
The rise of faster payment systems worldwide are not only enabling payments to move between parties at greatly enhanced speeds, but a...
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4.2KB2B PaymentsWEX Strikes Noventis Acquisition Deal
Commercial payments company WEX is looking to expand its offering by acquiring one of its partners, Noventis. A press release this week...
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4.8KB2B PaymentsKeeping Tabs On B2B Payments’ Tipping Point
Checks and ACH are entrenched payment methods when it comes to B2B, but that doesn’t mean they need to be enshrined. For Fortune...
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3.9KB2B PaymentsNACHA Taps AeroPay Express As B2B Payments Partner
NACHA has tapped AeroPay Express as its newest Preferred Partner for B2B Electronic Payment Enablement, the organization said Thursday (Sept. 13). As...
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6.1KSMBsPayPal’s Funds Now Gives SMBs Instant Access To Sales
When it comes to running a small business that accepts electronic payments, there are two words that business owners don’t like to...
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3.5KRetailHill Country And The Social Complexity Of Going Cashless
In the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington D.C., the Hill Country restaurant specializes in serving up the BBQ’s greatest hits — ribs,...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsDespite Carillion, Some Say No To Late Payments Legislation In UK
Amid the continued fallout of Carillion, let the market move construction firms to pay in ways more timely, says one prominent construction...
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4.4KPayment MethodsACH Network Payment Volume Jumps 6.2 Percent In Q2
NACHA — The Electronic Payments Association announced Wednesday (July 25) that debit and credit transactions totaled more than 5.7 billion in the second...
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3.2KPayment MethodsAirlines Go Cashless For Checked Bags
Airline passengers who want to pay in cash might find themselves spending more. American Airlines, which stopped accepting cash payments for snacks...
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3.0KB2B PaymentsCSI Digitizes Corporates’ Utility Payments With New Partnership
Corporate Spending Innovations, formerly known as CSI globalVCard, announced on Wednesday (June 6) a partnership with THG Energy Solutions in an effort...
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3.9KPayment MethodsCanPay Enables Cannabis Customers To Buy Online, Pick Up In Store
The grass is slowly getting greener in the commercial cannabis industry. This week, on May 17, debit-based cannabis payments solution CanPay announced...
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5.8KDigital PaymentsIn the Gig Economy, (Payments) Speed Thrills, But Added Fees Chill
In the latest Data Drivers, Hyperwallet SVP of digital markets Michael Ting weighs in on the evolving landscape for gig workers --...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsCitizens Tracks Mid-Market CFOs’ Real-Time Payments Plans
A new survey from Citizens Bank explores how mid-market CFOs in the U.S. are anticipating new technologies and market trends for the...
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4.1KB2B PaymentsCitizens Looks Toward Collaboration To Greet B2B Payments Disruption
Embracing electronic B2B payments is a two-way street: Payers and payees alike have to put in the effort to make the change....
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5.9KCashThe Financial Data Goldmine Of Order-To-Cash
Order-to-cash is an area of cash flow management that has the potential to significantly enhance a business’s financial performance. But ongoing reliance on...
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4.4KB2B PaymentsFastPay Acquires AnchorOps To Solve Media Agency Cash Crunch
The world of advertising and media has been turned on its head by the digital revolution, and among all of the challenges...
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5.8KB2B PaymentsA Global Approach To Local B2B Payments Digitization
Digitization of B2B payments is on the rise, but the trend is challenged by discrepancies across geographic markets, according to the latest...
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5.8KB2B PaymentsVirtual Cards’ Role In B2B Payments Digitization
Even as B2B payments progresses toward digitization, paper checks stick around. Analysts and industry players generally have their bets set on ACH...
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6.6KB2B PaymentsFed Looks To Keep Momentum Going On Payments Improvements
It’s been more than two years since the Federal Reserve issued its Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System paper, in which the...
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7.6KB2B PaymentsMaking The Perfect B2B Payment
When organizations take in and pay out purchase orders and invoices, what does the perfect payment look like? Bob Sneed, vice president...
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4.9KRegulationCLEARR And CHOICE On The Hill, But Not On Payments Regs
Capitol Hill offers the ultimate horse race. Following who’s up, down, in the running, out of the race and which bills might...
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4.5KB2B PaymentsTracking Corporate Spend, Even After The Invoice Is Paid
Within the enterprise, there is an initial invoice associated with any purchase, but the payments don’t stop there. According to Apptricity CEO...
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6.0KVISAVisa Beats 3Q Estimates As Payments Volume Leaps
Double-digit transaction growth and strength in Europe boosted Visa’s earnings beyond the Street’s expectations, while management also gave the lift to expected revenue...
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5.3KInternationalIndia’s Grand (De) Monetization Experiment
Eight months in, assessing the impact of what happens when you remove 86 percent of a country’s notes in circulation. India’s push...
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4.2KB2B PaymentsEconomic Climate Offers Prime Time For Small Biz ACH Adoption
Even the largest banks struggle in joining various payment schemes, analysts say. For small businesses looking to gain efficiencies by adding support...
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4.7KNewsMexico’s Capital City to Go Digital Via Mastercard
As technology paves the path for streamlined digital efforts and more people move into cities, the payment options in some urban areas...
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4.1KPayments InnovationNACHA CEO On The Need For … Innovation
In payments, speed thrills. But as NACHA CEO and President Jan Estep told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, speed isn’t everything. Innovation is key...
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6.0KSecurity & FraudSWIFT Releases Customer Security Guidance
SWIFT announced Monday (May 22) that it is setting global customer security standards and boosting its overall transparency on cybersecurity among users of...
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3.1KPayment MethodsSingaporeans Ditch Cash For Digital Payments
The number of consumers in Singapore who prefer electronic payments over cash increased 11 percent in 2016 to 87 percent. That’s according to...
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2.5KInternationalChina Trade Deals In Place For Payments, With Some Issues Outstanding
Trade deals are newly in place between China and the United States and touch on, as The New York Times reported, electronic...
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9.1KPayment MethodsVantiv Inks Deal To Buy Paymetric
Vantiv, the provider of payments processing services and related technology solutions for merchants and financial institutions, announced Tuesday (April 25) that it’s...
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3.3KPayment MethodsMizuho, Metaps, WiL And Mizuho Bank Rolling Out Digital Wallet Company
Mizuho Financial Group is teaming up with Mizuho Bank, Metaps and WiL to create a new service settlement using FinTech. According to...
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9.3KB2B PaymentsPayPool Jumps Into B2B Payments Waters
The B2B payments space has just grown, thanks to the new presence of PayPool. The U.S. company, founded just last year, made...
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10.6KB2B PaymentsPaper Checks’ Uncertain B2B Payments Future
It seems every year for the past five years or so, B2B payments analysts have pondered the future of the paper check...
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2.6KInternationalIndia Tries Lottery To Fix Cash Crisis
With India suffering from a cash shortage ever since the government took away high-denomination Indian notes to clamp down on fraud, the government...
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3.8KeCommerceVisa Says EU Proposal On Electronic Payments Could Hurt Online Shopping
An EU plan to require passwords or codes to authenticate electronic payments is raising the ire of Visa, which said Tuesday (Nov....
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4.9KB2B PaymentsCash Still King For Some (Not All) SMEs
The saying goes, “Cash is king,” and the rise of electronic payments technology has yet to dethrone cash. A new report by...
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3.8KB2B Payments
Viewing Payments As The Corporate Cash Flow Lever
Same Day ACH is on the cusp of entering the market, blockchain startups are making their visions a reality with bank partners...
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ACI Worldwide Amps Up Erste Bank Hungary Electronic Payments
One of Hungary’s largest banks, Erste Bank Hungary (EBH), is enhancing its electronic payment services by working more closely with partner ACI Worldwide. ACI...
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4.9KB2B PaymentsLifting The Veil On Virtual Cards’ Shortcomings
Here’s a dirty little secret about the B2B payments industry that Finexio CEO Ernest Rolfson told PYMNTS: Virtual cards are a letdown. Virtual...
