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Company Spotlight
What 46 Percent of Small Businesses Want But Can’t Get
May 14, 2014

Small and microbusinesses are vulnerable – especially when it comes to getting credit. And in the absence of traditional forms of credit, many turn to credit cards for working capital. But 46 percent of SMBs say they don’t or can’t. MasterCard and Corporation for Enterprise...

Loyalty & Rewards
Yogurty’s Sweet mWallet Expansion
May 14, 2014

Yogurty– a leading merchant of frozen yogurt so tasty that you won’t forget its not ice cream, but you also wont’ feel tricked into eating it–has announced an increase in mobile wallet integration just in time of the summer FroYo season. Yogurty’s  mobile app lets...

B2B Payments
Square Adding Feedback Tool For Merchants
May 14, 2014

Square, fresh off announcing the discontinuation of their mobile wallet, is pressing forward with their 2.0 reinvention with the release of a new feedback tool for Square merchants. Square Feedback is a new a tool that turns a company’s digital receipts into an opportunity to solicit...

Alternative Finances
The Alibaba Infographic: Everything You Need to Know
May 14, 2014

How did Alibaba go from its humble roots as an idea cooked up in Jack Ma's apartment in 1999 to potentially the most humongous IPO in history in just 15 years? Very strategically, as it turns out. And, we’ve made it as easy as a...

B2B Payments
Faster Development of Web-Based Healthcare Payment Solutions
May 14, 2014

VMware, Inc. announced that Navicure, Inc. a healthcare payment solutions provider for hospitals, physician practices and billing companies, is achieving faster product development times by reducing the time required to provision test and development environments. Navicure IT took a two-phased approach to streamlining that process from...

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CFPB Looking to Kill Card Mail
May 14, 2014

Mailboxes once were full of junk mail, but much of that went away when the Direct Marketing Association let consumers opt out of unsolicited commercial mailers. Banks and credit card issuers, however, have been required for the past decade to mail their customers annual privacy...

B2B Payments
Bad Invoicing Practices Costs African Nations Billions
May 14, 2014

A recent study found that the fraudulent misinvoicing of trade in several African countries has resulted in the loss of tens of billions of U.S. dollars. The research shows that the tax authorities in five countries lacked the trade, tax and deals data to curb...

B2B Payments
White Labeled E-Invoicing Portal Now Available
May 14, 2014

Heartland Payment Systems and VersaPay Corporation are offering a new payment portal service directly to small and mid-sized companies for invoicing customers. Small and mid-sized companies won’t have to go through their banks to offer invoicing services to their clients. Payments processor Heartland Payment Systems...

B2B Payments
TomTom Brings Fleet Management To Spain
May 14, 2014

TomTom Telematics will power a new fleet management service in Spain for leasing company, Northgate Flexible Renting to help its customers cut fleet running costs. NorthgateData will use TomTom Telematics’ track and trace technology to help firms boost productivity, cut fuel and maintenance costs, and...