April 06, 2015
IBM Sells Off Supply Chain Software
Computer giant IBM may be ramping up its efforts in the B2B space, but the company has reportedly sold off its supply chain management software. Reports announced last week that...
April 06, 2015
UK Gains New Source For Supply Chain Finance
Within the U.K., small businesses are suffering from longer and longer payment terms imposed upon them by their large corporate buyers. It’s an issue that has forced lawmakers to impose...
April 06, 2015
The Trends Poising Mobile Payments For Success
The global mobile payment transaction forecast is expected to reach $4.6 trillion in 2019, compared to $1.8 trillion in 2014, according to a recent study. The percentage of consumers using...
April 06, 2015
US B2B eCommerce To Hit $1.13T In 2020
B2B eCommerce in the U.S. will top $1.1 trillion in revenue by 2020, making it more than 12 percent of all U.S. B2B sales, according to a new report by...
April 03, 2015
B2B Investment Tracker, March 27 – April 3
Small business lending is on the rise, according to a report released by Thomson Reuters and PayNet. It’s good news, but a closer look of the current state of SME...
April 03, 2015
Amazon Tests The Waters For Seller Invoicing
Amazon is reportedly inquiring its business customers as to how they would like to manage their orders and invoicing over the platform, but it is unclear what the eCommerce giant...
April 03, 2015
Samsung Business Takes B2B Technology To New Heights
Apple may have introduced biometric authentication to the masses when it added TouchID fingerprint recognition to the iPhone 5s, but Samsung is poised to bring even more advanced biometric technology...
April 03, 2015
Where First Data Will Be Five Years From Now
Just a few weeks ago, top payments industry players gathered at Harvard for Innovation Project 2015. Among the attendees, and panelist group for the “From Payments To Commerce” discussion, was...
April 03, 2015
Align’s Speedy B2B Payments Platform Moves To Beta Phase
Payments service provider Align Commerce has taken a major step toward achieving faster B2B payments across the globe. According to a company announcement published Thursday (April 2), Align’s new payment...
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.