April 09, 2015
The New Face Of POS
The migration to EMV has given merchants a whole new reason to revisit point of sale features that help not only maintain compliance with new standards, but also increase the...
April 08, 2015
Supply Chain Finance Market Growing Worldwide
Globally, the supply chain finance (SCF) market is expanding and maturing. A new report from BCR Publishing, a news provider that specializes in the receivables finance industry, estimates a growth...
April 08, 2015
UK Consumers Spend Big Online
With online card usage doubling, consumer spending in the U.K. is shifting gears to become more online centric. The shift comes with declining in-store spending, which stood at £31.1B ($4.61...
April 08, 2015
Why UK SMEs May Say ‘No’ To Banks
While latest findings reveal an uptick in small business lending options among major banks, a recent survey from YouGov indicates that most small businesses aren’t getting the help they need...
April 08, 2015
The Future Of Corporate Payments
Across the corporate world, innovations in payments have largely been focused on efficiency – going paper-less and reducing costs. At the same time, there’s still a major need for greater...
April 08, 2015
SMBs Say Websites Best Marketing Tool
Small businesses say that company websites are still their most effective marketing tool, but social media is gaining ground, according to a new study by Thrive Analytics. Of the 1,100 small...
April 07, 2015
B2B Lessons From the UK’s Digital Marketplace
Last year, Britain combined the G-Cloud and Digital Services programs to form the Digital Marketplace. The goal was to create a clearer, simpler and faster market for the public sector...
April 07, 2015
UK SMEs Buried In Alt Lending Choices
When it comes to choices for alternative financing providers, the U.K.’s SMEs benefit from having ample choices — but does having more choices always make the lending process easier? Recent...
April 07, 2015
IndiaMART’s Tolexo B2B Platform Aims For $1B By 2017
Indian B2B marketplace IndiaMART believes its six-month-old Tolexo arm could pass $1 billion in gross merchandise value by 2017 and hit $10 billion in transactions by 2020, according to DNA...
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.