Payments Data news and trends

Your Business Has Its Payments Data. Now What?
B2B Payments // March 13, 2025

A company’s transactions aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet. Those numbers, it turns out, can be kernels of actionable intelligence. In today’s digital operating landscape, if businesses are still treating payments data as just another line item, they could leaving money on the table. Smart...

Payment Data Is Back-Office Automation’s Hidden Gold Mine
B2B Payments // February 26, 2025

In the world of B2B payments, the shift from paper-based payments to digital solutions is often framed as a move toward efficiency and cost reduction. But beneath the surface lies a more profound transformation: the potential to harness vast amounts of payment data to drive...

47% of Retailers Say False Declines Impact Consumer Satisfaction
Checkout Conversion // January 14, 2025

Payment failures are a major challenge for merchants, especially as they expand globally. Consumers expect seamless transactions, and payment declines can lead to abandoned purchases, lost sales and damaged loyalty. According to a PYMNTS Intelligence report, “How Open Payments Boost Performance,” in collaboration with Spreedly,...

Making Sense of Your Company’s B2B Payments Data
B2B Payments // November 01, 2024

For most of its history, payments data has been primarily paper-based. This relegated B2B payments data to mere record-keeping minutiae and made the task of unlocking it a highly manual, administrative burden. But with the news Thursday (Oct. 31) that Melio raised $150 million in a...

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Payment Data Is Back-Office Automation’s Hidden Gold Mine

February 26, 2025
In the world of B2B payments, the shift from paper-based payments to digital solutions is often framed as a move toward efficiency and cost reduction. But beneath the surface lies a more profound transformation: the potential to harness vast amounts of payment data to drive strategic business growth. While reducing manual processes and eliminating paper […]

47% of Retailers Say False Declines Impact Consumer Satisfaction

January 14, 2025
Payment failures are a major challenge for merchants, especially as they expand globally. Consumers expect seamless transactions, and payment declines can lead to abandoned purchases, lost sales and damaged loyalty....

Software, Not Spreadsheets, Solves Healthcare’s Cash Flow Bottlenecks

October 24, 2024
For smaller healthcare providers, manual processes dominate the back office — and when it comes to reconciling remittances with deposits, pain points emerge that rival any sprain or bruise. Cash...

Bank of America: Collaboration and Innovation Will Drive the Future of Payments

May 31, 2024
Payments modernization, depending on the financial services company, will be synonymous with upgrades. But it also needs to be synonymous with innovation, collaboration and business outcomes. As Wally Mlynarski, head...

Quick Reads
Walmart Files Patent For Blockchain Payment System

April 20, 2018
To store payment data, Walmart may be looking to the blockchain. The retailer drafted two patent applications that reference a platform powered by blockchain technology for vendor payments and digital shopping, CoinDesk reported. The applications were initially filed in October of 2017, reportedly drafted by the same team at Walmart. While the retailer wants to give customers […]