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B2B Payments
Harbor Freight Tools Teams With TreviPay on New Business Buyer Payment Option
November 07, 2023

Retailer Harbor Freight Tools has partnered with TreviPay, a global B2B payments and invoicing network, to offer a new payment option for business and institutional buyers. The partnership provides a Harbor Freight Commercial Credit Card to give customers instant B2B credit with invoicing and commercial...

Retail
When Loyalty Programs Aren’t About the Spend
November 07, 2023

Loyalty programs have become a staple in the arsenal of brands and retailers striving to retain their customer base and attract new ones. These programs are seemingly popping up left and right, vying for the attention and allegiance of consumers.  However, the ones that truly...

B2B Payments
Bumper Crop of BNPL Offerings Seek to Transform B2B Payments  
November 06, 2023

Business payments, increasingly, are being transformed by a number of innovations that take their cue from the consumer realm. B2B transactions, of course, are complex and certainly considerable in size and scope — running into the thousands of dollars (or more), as buyers interact with...

eCommerce
ThredUP Says It’s Reeling in Premium Shoppers 
November 06, 2023

ThredUP is reeling in a more upscale clientele.   “We’ve done a really good job as a team of focusing more of our buyer efforts on a slightly more premium shopper,” said thredUP’s CEO James Reinhart during the company’s Q3 2023 earnings call on Monday (Nov....

News
Paymentus Sees Growth Ahead for Its Instant Payments Ecosystem
November 06, 2023

Paymentus noted in its latest earnings report that its instant payments network is gaining more adherents as wholesale business-to-business (B2B), healthcare and other firms seek to transform bill pay operations.   Earnings materials showed that revenues were up 18.9% to $152.4 million. Transactions in the third quarter...

Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Debuts ‘Turbo’ Version of ChatGPT
November 06, 2023

OpenAI debuted what it called the most powerful version of its artificial intelligence (AI) tool. The GPT-4 Turbo AI model, announced Monday (Nov. 6) at the company’s first in-person event, is the latest version of the AI offering OpenAI introduced in March and comes amid...

eCommerce
PayPal Teams With eCommerce Platform commercetools to Improve Checkout
November 06, 2023

Composable commerce platform commercetools announced a collaboration with PayPal to offer a wider range of payment options for customers through the PayPal Braintree payment platform. This integration will allow commercetools’ customers to seamlessly work with multiple payment providers, acquirers, and banks, according to a Monday...

Banking
BMO Financial Group Launches Digital Real Financial Progress Hub
November 06, 2023

BMO Financial Group has announced the launch of its Real Financial Progress Hub, a digital platform that provides customers with access to personal finance advice, tools and resources to help them achieve their financial goals. The hub lets customers to explore financial goals such as...

Retail
Bed Bath & Beyond CEO Departs Amid Investor Pressure
November 06, 2023

The CEO of Bed Bath & Beyond has resigned following pressure from an activist investor. The company, which rebranded from “Overstock.com” to Bed Bath & Beyond earlier this year after acquiring the bankrupt retailer, announced the resignation of Johnathan Johnson on Monday (Nov. 6). “Following the recent acquisition of the Bed...