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technology adoption
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2.6KB2B PaymentsTop Conglomerates Enter A New Era Of Supply Chain Disruption
Supply chain volatility is a difficult nut to crack, due to a host of risks that can be (or at least appear...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsCash Flow Worries Limit SMB Hiring
Some of the world’s largest conglomerates are raising concerns about an impending economic recession in the U.S., supply chain disruptions stemming from...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsThe Enterprise Headache Of A Decentralized Blockchain
For blockchain technology, the crux of many of its purported benefits for the enterprise is its decentralized nature, which, proponents of distributed...
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3.4KInnovationHyundai Wants Competitors To Use Its Hydrogen Fuel Tech
Hyundai Motor wants its rivals to help boost its hydrogen fuel-cell system technology. The automaker is looking for its competitors to buy...
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6.8KDigital PaymentsClosing In On Contactless Payments’ Tipping Point
Contactless payments have yet to achieve critical mass in the U.S., at only about 3 percent of transactions, according to NMI. Nick...
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4.9KSecurity & FraudOffloading Cyber Defense Amid Tech’s Great Unknowns
Cyber insurance firm Coalition just raised $40 million in funding to boost staff, and a data platform that analyzes and underwrites cyber...
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4.1KMPOS TrackerHow mPOS Powers Convention Payments
While mobile wallet use has yet to take off in the U.S., that could all change soon. Younger generations are more likely...
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13.6KInnovationHow 45 Pct Of Old-School SMBs Plan To Innovate
In today’s digital economy, with shopping as easy as the tap of a finger on a smartphone screen, brick-and-mortar retail businesses have...
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6.1KB2B PaymentsThe State Of Corporate Cybersecurity: Paranoia, Hopelessness
It is perhaps no surprise that the latest research on corporate cybersecurity is far from optimistic. In a time when experts highlight...
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4.8KB2B PaymentsSmall Firms Demand Higher Speed, Lower Costs In Global Payments
Small businesses (SMBs) are rarely early adopters of new financial technology (FinTech). However, with business owners and entrepreneurs often taking a page...
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5.2KB2B PaymentsReady Or Not, Faster Payments Will Impact Corporate Operations
Corporate payments still don’t have a clear role in driving the adoption of faster payment technologies and systems in the U.S. The...
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5.3KB2B PaymentsPayStand Rolls Out Automated AR Solution
B2B payments company PayStand is turning its attention to the accounts receivable (AR) side of business transactions with a new solution announced...
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3.8KB2B PaymentsSWIFT Set To Shutter Data Matching Tool TSU
Payments messaging company SWIFT is gearing up to close its Trade Services Utility (TSU), a workflow engine aimed at facilitating value-added supply...
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7.7KArtificial IntelligenceAI Enters The FI Fast Lane
It’s hard to find fault with one of the latest tests of artificial intelligence (AI). Medical diagnostic technology built by Google and a...
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4.6KInvestmentsMicrosoft-Backed Cybersecurity Co Aqua Raises $62M
Aqua Security announced that it has closed a Series C investment round of $62 million, led by Insight Partners. The company’s existing...
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6.3KB2B PaymentsThe Uber-ization Impact Of Supply Chain Finance
FinTech has revolutionized the way traditional banks can implement and roll out new products and services to their customers, with banks’ complex infrastructures...
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13.4KPayments InnovationMastercard On Enabling Apple’s ‘Digital First’ Credit Card
Does the Apple Card signal the age of the ‘digital first’ and…eventually….’digital only’ credit card? Mastercard’s Jorn Lambert, EVP of digital solutions,...
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9.4KIntelligence of ThingsNew IoT Security Bill Exposes Rising Data Protection, Safety Concerns
Approximately 20 billion IoT-enabled devices will be connected by 2020. These items are fast, handle an increasingly large amount of personal and...
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11.1KIntelligence of ThingsThe Move To Regulate IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) has firmly taken hold, with new applications — focusing on the support of consumer, business and industrial...
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6.6KB2B PaymentsSMBs Cross The Chasm Of Accounting Innovation
Small business (SMB) adoption of technology can be a process filled with growing pains and friction points, thanks to the cost and...
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5.7KB2B PaymentsDoubt, Confusion, Confidence: Where Crypto Stands In B2B Payments
Cryptocurrency has come a long way since bitcoin’s emergence as an unregulated, anonymous payment technology. Perhaps the most poignant moment in this...
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5.5KB2B PaymentsSMB Growth Stumbles Over Technology
While there’s been talk of an economic slowdown ahead, and declining optimism among the business community, the latest stats on small businesses...
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4.3KB2B PaymentsHow Intelligent Accounts Payable Is Changing The Face Of The ERP
Straight-through processing (STP) is the gold standard for accounts payable (AP) departments. It allows invoices to be received, reviewed and pushed through...
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5.8KPayment MethodsGiving Community Banks The Contactless Card Boost
Contactless has yet to catch on in the United States, despite years of promotional efforts and the success of the payment method...
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6.0KB2B PaymentsStreamlining The B2B Side Of Retail With Data
There is a chain reaction set off when a consumer makes a seemingly simple purchase online. While the shopper will click “buy,”...
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12.7KB2B PaymentsCorporate Finance’s Interest In AI Doesn’t Lead To Adoption: Oracle
Last year was the year of artificial intelligence (AI), declared Brighterion CEO Dr. Akli Adjaoute for PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. The technology is...
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8.1KB2B PaymentsHow Inefficient B2B Payments Systems Hobble Business Growth
Business confidence remains strong in the U.S., riding on the optimism of a strengthening economy that brings new opportunity for revenue growth....
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6.2KB2B PaymentsThe Limitations Of Tech In Supply Chain Digitization
Digitization inevitably means technology adoption, a truth that extends into the realm of supply chain digitization. Corporates looking to streamline, enhance visibility...
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5.0KB2B PaymentsEY, Kinaxis Link Up For Supply Chain Digitization
Professional services and accounting firm Ernst & Young (EY) and supply chain management firm Kinaxis are joining forces to modernize their joint...
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5.8KB2B PaymentsSupply Chain Digitization Stumbles Over Collaboration
Supply chains continue to lag in digitization and technology adoption, with hurdles often relating to the costs, lack of understanding, or implementation...
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5.0KB2B PaymentsYoung SMB Owners: Bigger Goals, But Less Clarity On Finances
When considering the differences across age groups of entrepreneurs, digitization and technology adoption often come to mind first, with younger small business...
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5.8KB2B PaymentsHow Accountants-Turned-Advisors Can Manage The FinTech Deluge
Technology may be enabling automation in small business (SMB) accounting and financial management, but rather than cutting out the need for human...
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8.4KB2B PaymentsRight Networks Eyes SMB App Connectivity With Propelware Acquisition
Small business (SMB) cloud accounting firm Right Networks has announced the acquisition of Propelware in an effort to connect its accounting technology...
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5.5KB2B PaymentsDigital Disruption Jumps To Top Of C-Suite’s 2019 Concerns
A new report from consulting firm Protiviti finds corporate c-level executives have shown a sudden spike in their concern over the “digital...
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6.1KB2B PaymentsWhat Corporate Finance Tech Adoption Will Look Like In Two Years
It’s that time of year again, when experts muse and analysts forecast for the year (and years) ahead. In corporate finance, the...
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4.0KMPOS TrackerNonprofits Up Their Payments Game With mPOS
It’s the season of giving, and that means many consumers are in the spirit to donate to a good cause — without...
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6.1KMPOS TrackerIs mPOS The New Nonprofit Nonoptional?
The holiday shopping season is here — and to capture profits, retailers need to ensure that customers’ payment experiences are as smooth as...
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4.3KB2B PaymentsDriving Connectivity In The Increasingly Complex Global Supply Chain
Only a small fraction of organizations say they are able to have full visibility into their supply chains. According to Geodis research,...
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8.3KB2B PaymentsCFOs Held Back From Driving Digital Transformation
Like many positions in corporate finance, the role of chief financial officer (CFO) is facing new pressures in a climate of innovation...
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4.6KB2B PaymentsAmazon, WeWork Halt Alexa For Business Pilot
Amazon and WeWork have reportedly pressed pause on their partnership to introduce Alexa for Business into workspaces, reports in CNBC said this...
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8.3KIntelligence of ThingsTRENDING: Why Grocery Stores Want Autonomous Vehicle Delivery
Investment in Intelligence of Things (IoT) is expected to surge in the coming years, with companies projected to increase spending on the...
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3.6KMobile Order AheadCan Campus Dining Graduate To Safer, Swifter Payments?
Offering mobile order-ahead on college campuses takes more than just a great app and meal plan payments — it also requires tight...
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9.5KArtificial IntelligenceIn The Age Of Algorithms, Will Banks Ever Graduate To True AI?
It’s the age of algorithms, but not all algorithms are the same — and not all of them constitute true AI. A...
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7.9KB2B 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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5.5KB2B 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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6.0KPartnerships / AcquisitionsCommunity Banks Debut FinTech Alliance
In the United States, a consortium of collaborators across FIs and FinTech firms has taken shape. Across the Pond, joint efforts among...
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4.5KB2B PaymentsTreasurers Understand — But Aren’t Living Up To — Rising CFO Expectations
Treasurers and chief financial officers may both have their sights set on corporate coffers, but their roles are not one and the...
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7.0KTravel PaymentsThe High Price Of Payments — And Innovation — In Travel
It’s that time of the year: crowded airports, missed connections, maybe the surprise of an upgrade (to stretch out those legs after...
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4.0KB2B PaymentsCannabis Logistics Finds Opportunity In Uncharted Territory: WAYV
FinTech innovation is often a layered process, taking existing infrastructures and processes, and developing new tools to improve upon them. In the...
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9.7KBrexitBrexit A Boon For Blockchain?
As U.K. gears up to leave the EU, questions arise over cross-border trade and payments. Might technology be a salve? One study from...
