Interest Rates

How Interest Rates Will Impact AP’s Thirst For Tech
How Interest Rates Will Impact AP’s Thirst For Tech
December 28, 2016  |  B2B Payments

This year was a period filled with payments innovation that saw no shortage of impact on the B2B payments space. For accounts payable professionals, that...

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Brazil Tries To Lower Rate For Card Purchases
Brazil Tries To Lower Rate For Card Purchases
December 20, 2016  |  Payment Methods

Brazil is taking steps under President Michel Temer to do something about the large spread between Brazil’s benchmark Selic rate and the average annual interest...

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Beyond The Fed, What’s Next For Market
Beyond The Fed, What’s Next For Market
December 15, 2016  |  Investments

The Fed’s decision is finally in. As had been widely, if not almost universally, expected, the Federal Reserve Bank boosted its benchmark rate today, the...

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Bank SME Lending Surges, Alt-Lenders Flop
Bank SME Lending Surges, Alt-Lenders Flop
December 14, 2016  |  B2B Payments

Marketplace lending platform Biz2Credit has published its latest small business lending index, and the numbers signal rough waters ahead for alternative finance. Reports Tuesday (Dec....

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Fed Stays The Course On Rates; Will Stocks Dip?
Fed Stays The Course On Rates; Will Stocks Dip?
November 22, 2016  |  Bank Regulation

The more things change, the more they may stay the same … when it comes to interest rates. Two words came from the Fed chair...

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EU Treasurers Prepare For Incoming Bank Fees
EU Treasurers Prepare For Incoming Bank Fees
November 18, 2016  |  B2B Payments

European corporate treasurers are ready to react to the threat of more bank fees on their corporate accounts, new analysis found. Reports Thursday (Nov. 17)...

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Interest Rates To Trump Trump Stock Rally?
Interest Rates To Trump Trump Stock Rally?
November 15, 2016  |  Investments

Remember interest rates? That little economic mechanism that people were worried about before Donald Trump won the presidency and stocks roared ever upward? Mind the...

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US Stocks Hem and Haw Ahead of Election
US Stocks Hem and Haw Ahead of Election
November 01, 2016  |  News

Nature abhors a vacuum, and they say on Wall Street that US stocks do too. Just a week remains before the end of a most polarizing election, and while...

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