September 21, 2023
PayU: WhatsApp Partnership Provides ‘Significant Leap’ for Indian Shoppers
Indian payments company PayU offered more details on its partnership with WhatsApp announced Wednesday (Sept. 20). The Meta-owned messaging platform said Wednesday that it is bringing in-chat payments to India,...
September 21, 2023
Philly Fed Data Offers Snapshot of Main Street Small Business...
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve’s September Manufacturing Business Outlook Index offers up a monthly survey of manufacturers’ current business conditions and their outlook on what’s to come. And as such, the...
September 21, 2023
What’s Next for AI? Experts Say Going More Multimodal
So long, generative artificial intelligence (AI). We hardly knew ye. The buzzy technology is approaching legacy tech status, MIT Technology Review reported Sept. 15, with AI firms already rushing to...
September 20, 2023
AppTech Aims to Enhance Digital Commerce Platform With FinZeo Acquisition
FinTech company AppTech Payments has announced its intention to acquire FinZeo, a software development company focused on providing advanced payment and banking technology to businesses. The planned acquisition will enhance AppTech’s next-generation digital...
September 20, 2023
Can Generative AI Reinvent Commercial Transactions?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that customers will always want more choices, not fewer. That applies to business customers, too. So it stands to reason that in the future,...
September 20, 2023
Finastra and Microsoft Team on Trade Finance
Financial software firm Finastra has launched a trade finance partnership with Microsoft. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Sept. 20), combines Finastra’s Trade Innovation offering with a “full microservices architecture” using Microsoft Azure. “As the expectations of...
September 20, 2023
Meta Expands Verified Program to Businesses
Meta is expanding its verification program to businesses on its Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms. The program, first launched for creators earlier this year, is set to be tested in the coming weeks with businesses on...
September 20, 2023
Enterprise Retail Warms to Real-Time Payments for Vendors
The retail sector increasingly prefers real-time payments for their business-to-business (B2B) payments. Virtually all large firms in this sector used real-time payments at least once in the last year. Real-time...
September 20, 2023
A Growing Roster of Providers Speed Supplier Payments — and...
Even three years after the height of the pandemic, even as economies have reopened fully, supply chains are still operating in a less than optimal manner. And part of the issue...
Business cards offer numerous benefits to small businesses over other financing, including easier qualification, significantly higher credit limits, and perks such as cash back, travel and mileage-earning rewards. The latest “B2B and Digital Payments Tracker®” explores why 63% of small business owners using cards as their primary startup funding attribute their success to this method of financing.
Real-time payments already account for at least 15% of B2B payments volume in the insurance, manufacturing and retail industries. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 500 executives across the retail, insurance, manufacturing and real estate sectors examines how these industries are using real time payments today and their plans for the future. Read more in “The State of Real-Time Payments,” a collaboration with The Clearing House.