August 13, 2024
Optimizing Bank Relationships Challenges the Real-Time Treasury Executive
A strong treasury department sees its banks not just as service providers, but as growth partners. Against that backdrop, the digital transformation of the banking sector is increasingly reshaping —...
August 13, 2024
Citi Digital Assets Exec Shobhit Maini Reportedly Leaving Bank’s Market...
The head of digital assets for Citi’s markets unit is reportedly stepping down. Shobhit Maini, who has held that job since 2021, is leaving the banking giant after more than...
August 13, 2024
Oracle Adds Pricing Rules to Supply Chain Management Platform
Oracle has added new user experience (UX) enhancements such as pricing rules for order management to the Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM). These upgrades are built with...
August 13, 2024
NFIB: Small Business Optimism Grows Amid ‘Plague’ of Cost Pressures
Small businesses in the United States are pessimistic about their prospects, but less pessimistic than two years ago. The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Small Business Optimism Index rose...
August 13, 2024
Home Depot Looks for B2B Buffer Against Softening Consumer Spend
Home Depot currently gets around half of its sales from professional builders and contractors. According to the company’s executives on Tuesday’s (Aug. 13) second-quarter 2024 earnings call, the world’s largest...
August 13, 2024
Centime Adds High-Yield Bank Account to AP Automation Solution
Centime added a fully liquid, high-yield bank account to its accounts payable (AP) automation solution. With the new offering, businesses can earn interest on AP float, use those earnings to...
August 13, 2024
Vista Equity Partners Buys Procurement Software Firm Jaggaer
Investment firm Vista Equity Partners acquired procurement software company Jaggaer. “This new partnership with Vista underscores Jaggaer’s strong momentum and the compelling value our intelligent software delivers by helping our...
August 13, 2024
Cyber Insurers Escape Impact of CrowdStrike Outage
Last month’s worldwide tech outage disrupted organizations from airlines to banks to hospitals. However, one sector that seems to have escaped the impact of the event is the cyber insurance...
August 13, 2024
Lili Teams With Dun & Bradstreet on Business Banking
Lili, a small business-focused financial platform, launched a business banking collaboration with Dun & Bradstreet. “More than three-quarters of small business owners are concerned about their ability to access capital,...
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.