May 28, 2015
The Online Payments Jungle
When it comes to outfitting businesses to accept online payments, it is not a one-size-fits-all operation – especially when dealing with small- and medium-sized businesses. That’s what Mark Henkel, CEO...
May 28, 2015
Doha Bank Pioneers Qatar’s Digital SME FinServ
The world’s largest banks are facing growing pressure among regulators to increase their lending to small businesses, but the demand for SME financial services remains unfulfilled. That gap gives some...
May 28, 2015
Airbnb Enters The B2B SaaS Market
The emergence of mobile, on-demand services like Apple Pay, Uber and Airbnb have largely changed the way their perspective markets do business. But these disruptors have been challenged by regulators...
May 28, 2015
UK’s New Enterprise Bill Gets A Royal Introduction
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II delivered the annual Queen’s Speech Wednesday (May 27) making the launch of a new session for the UK Parliament. MPs gathered Wednesday morning at the...
May 28, 2015
Amazon’s Secret Weapon – Smart Politics And Smart Business
Last week, Re/code broke the news that 15-year Amazon company vet Maria Renz will be ascending to the role of technical advisor to the CEO – known more informally inhouse as...
May 28, 2015
Building Your Roadmap to Better Compliance and Customer Experience
In 2014 and 2015 the Federal Trade Commission cracked down on non-compliance, handing out fees in the millions to payments processors. Facing ever-new regulations, compliance teams reacted with a more...
May 27, 2015
Kenya To Sack Officials Over eProcurement Spat
Kenya is not fooling around when it comes to adopting digital procurement strategies within government operations. According to reports released Tuesday (May 26), President Uhuru Kenyatta has given accounting officials...
May 27, 2015
Supply Chain Service HighJump Strikes eCommerce Acquisition
Supply chains of today’s businesses are going global, and online commerce has a lot to do with that. The eCommerce revolution has left B2B and B2C retailers with a need...
May 27, 2015
Another Foreign Alt-Lender Joins Australian Market
Australia has been a hot target for alternative lenders as of late. While the nation’s alt-lending startup Kikka is pioneering domestic players in the market thanks to a partnership with...
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.