Despite increasing innovation in the B2B space, continued reliance on manual processes and the resulting slow pace and high operating costs associated with managing receivables remain widespread pain points for firms, particularly small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Fewer than 10% of B2B payments are done...
The past decade-plus has seen an explosion in technical capability, at times outpacing Moore’s law of technology advancement. It’s fair to say that the present landscape is unrecognizable when compared to the days of dial-up. From cryptocurrency, the metaverse, and web3 more broadly — to generative artificial intelligence’s (AI) ongoing...
While much has been done to advance gender equality around the world, there is no debate that large gaps remain, especially in emerging markets. According to Orit Federlein-Doodai, head of HR, EMEA at PayU Global Payments, women in these markets face significant barriers in achieving...
With hail-able mobile stores, food brands are driving D2C sales, reimagining the ice cream truck. In an interview with PYMNTS, Ali Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of Conjure, the company formerly known as Robomart that creates mobile shops that can be hailed via app like an...
Bringing enterprise IT departments to the modern age to combat legacy systems from dragging an enterprise is vital to an organization’s survival. While other departments might be able to scrape by with outdated or aging infrastructure, this is not the case in IT — and...
Lion Group Holding Company is expanding into carbon trading and financing. The firm will add these green digital finance sector offerings to its current products, which include an all-in-one trading platform as well as initiatives around special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsorships, non-fungible tokens (NFTs)...
“If the FinTech ‘revolution,’ post-financial crisis, is in its early innings, then embedded finance is in its first inning.” Matthew Valente, head of product strategy at FIS, told PYMNTS in a recent interview that as traditional financial firms and FinTechs band together to offer everything from...
Leveraging the full value of item-level receipt data in a simple, secure way enables financial institutions (FIs), FinTechs and merchants to provide the rich, seamless commerce and banking experiences today’s digitally savvy consumers expect. For firms looking to integrate item-level receipt data, the potential to attract...
This week in grocery, grocers tapped retail media, and a U.K. grocer tested robotic delivery. BJ’s Wholesale Club, for one, a membership-only warehouse club chain with 234 locations across 18 states, announced Thursday (Dec. 1) that it is launching BJ’s Media Edge, a Microsoft PromoteIQ-powered...
