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Pioneering SME Card Launched In Southeast Asia
January 22, 2016

Southeast Asia is getting a groundbreaking card solution for small business owners, according to one bank. Malaysia-based Alliance Bank said it will look to sign up 10,000 companies in the nation for its new commercial card product, the Visa Infinite Business Credit Card, by the...

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Yes Bank Says ‘Yes’ To Prepaid For Corporates
January 22, 2016

Indian bank Yes wants to link its business customers to prepaid cards but isn’t doing so without some help. Yes Bank, reports said Thursday (Jan. 21), will be working with Zaggle to issue prepaid cards to corporate clients. [bctt tweet=”Indian bank Yes wants to link...

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B2B’s $2B Investment Week — With A Catch
January 22, 2016

My, how the B2B venture capital tables have turned. Amid talk of a VC slump and a unicorn bubble, B2B startups saw only modest attention towards the end of last year. But in 2016, the industry has hit the ground running, and the investment spree...

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Bending The Rules Of SMB Card Spend
January 22, 2016

SMBs need flexibility in running their day-to-day operations – with the option to cover emergencies, or expand resources. Here’s how American Express is making credit cards scale to the needs of SMBs as they grow.

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MyECheck Brings Real-Time Payments To Government Services
January 22, 2016

MyECheck, which develops and licenses cloud-based technology geared toward the banking and mobile payments industry, said Thursday (Jan. 21) that it is entering into an agreement with General Payment Systems, a payment processing outfit that is leveraged to the government payment space. The latter firm helps...

Uber, Lyft, Airbnb Aren’t The Only Ones Disrupting Corporate Travel
January 21, 2016

The face of corporate travel is changing. T&E has emerged as one of the most innovative areas in B2B payments, and travel technology saw massive interest among venture capitalists in 2015 — data from CB Insights published this month found $5.2 billion invested in the...

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Turkey Corporates Handed The eBanking Key: QR Codes
January 21, 2016

Corporations may want the same kind of fast, technologically advanced banking solutions as consumers do, but corporate banking also has more demanding thresholds for security and tokenization. One mobile business banking firm is tapping into the power of the QR code to meet those needs....

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Latest Stats Debunk The VC Slump Myth — Maybe
January 21, 2016

There is a lot of talk about a venture capital slump these days, but the real story isn’t so simple. FinTech unicorns — the startups valued at $1 billion or more — are occurring more frequently these days, leading some to believe a bubble is about to...

Japanese Banks Launch Cheaper X-Border Payments Venture
January 21, 2016

The world is moving towards borderless payments, and Japan is the latest to make its mark on that effort. Reports on Wednesday (Jan. 20) said some of Japan’s top financial institutions are collaborating to launch a cross-border payments system that will not only reduce friction...