April 14, 2015
Oracle To Dethrone SaaS Leader Salesforce By Year’s End
Oracle’s cloud services may account for just 5 percent of its revenue today, but the company plans to be the world’s largest cloud service provider by the end of the year....
April 14, 2015
Zoho Tackles The Headache Of Expense Management
Expense management and reporting is largely seen as a headache by employees today, with some describing it as a “necessary evil” in one recent survey. In its effort to provide...
April 14, 2015
Debt Collection Technology And The Maze Of Regulatory Compliance
For the third year in a row, payment technology service provider BillingTree has released new insights into the ways collection agencies do business. The ARM Industry Operations, Technology & Payments...
April 14, 2015
Taming The Virtual Card Beast in Corporate Payments
The Trend I’ve counted at least 15 companies whose primary value proposition is converting a corporation’s payables to settlement via virtual cards, rather than check or ACH. Many of these companies...
April 13, 2015
Alternative Lending Still on the Decline for SMEs
Following a long winter, small business lending continues to thaw. March figures show approval rates are improving—reaching new heights, according to the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index. Big banks and...
April 13, 2015
The Year of Payments – 2015 – One Quarter In
According to the Chinese lunar calendar, 2015 is the Year of the Sheep. Sheep, so says the Chinese astrological calendar, are gentle, calm and cute – animals seen as symbols...
April 13, 2015
Late-Pay Problems Spread To The US — And Big Suppliers
As lawmakers in the U.K. consider cracking down on the recent practice by big companies of waiting 90 to 120 days to pay smaller suppliers, it turns out the practice...
April 09, 2015
Millennials Ready For Nontraditional Lending and Payments
Millennials, those born between 1980 and 1994, are embracing alternative banking with gusto. Compared to earlier generations, they more likely to use mobile wallets online peer-to-peer lending and alternative payment...
April 09, 2015
Snapdeal Snaps Up Indian Bill Payment Service
With its latest acquisition, Snapdeal is a very big deal in India. The online commerce company, which counts Softbank and eBay among its investors, announced yesterday (April 8) that it...
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.