June 01, 2015
B2B Payments Innovator Chosen For Backing By MasterCard
MasterCard and Silicon Valley Bank have made their selections for the upcoming round of Commerce.Innovated., a program aimed at helping commerce-focused companies grow their businesses. Yesterday (May 28), the companies...
June 01, 2015
Salesforce And Google Work Toward Making Big Data User-Friendly
Everybody is talking about Big Data. It’s a top priority for businesses big and small in 2015. Big Data may be the next big thing, but the truth is many...
June 01, 2015
Xero Inks Swedish Deal For Mobile Payments
Digital payments service provider Xero has been busy in recent months. Just weeks ago the New Zealand-based company announced a partnership with B2B mobile sales servicer Pepperi to integrate Xero’s cloud...
June 01, 2015
Global Spotlight: Turkey
Experts note that Turkey holds a unique position in Europe, both geographically and socially. The nation has one of Europe’s largest young populations, providing a large potential not only for...
May 29, 2015
State of B2B Commerce: Spending Up, Technology Rules
B2B sellers have a new focus for 2015: a digital customer experience. Following similar moves in other aspects of business interactions, sellers are putting the customer at the center of...
May 29, 2015
B2B Investment Tracker, May 22-29
Venture capitalists from around the world pumped their money into the B2B segment this past week. But it’s not just the investors that are going global. The startups getting backed...
May 29, 2015
Staples Hits The Ground Running With Small Biz Financing
It’s only been a few months since office supply store Staples revealed plans to launch into the small business financing industry, but according to the latest reports on the service,...
May 29, 2015
Foxconn Goes Big With Supply Chain Finance
B2B suppliers and buyers are going global, and as they do so, sellers need new tools to manage their operations. Among those demands include tools for supply chain financing and...
May 29, 2015
MasterCard, Silicon Valley Bank Team Up To Help Startups Grow
MasterCard and Silicon Valley Bank have made their selections for the upcoming round of Commerce.Innovated, a program aimed at helping commerce-focused companies grow their businesses. Yesterday (May 28), the companies announced the five startups...
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.