March 24, 2015
UK Vows Late Payment Legislation Next Year
As PYMNTS reported on earlier this week, U.K. small businesses are losing hope that government officials can successfully tackle the issue of late payments. Despite a government-backed Prompt Payment Code, which...
March 24, 2015
B2B Wins Big at the 2015 PYMNTS Innovator Awards
The PYMNTS.com Innovation Project 2015 has officially concluded, but the show didn’t wrap up without first paying some much-deserved recognition to several of the most innovative, disruptive and pioneering payments...
March 24, 2015
Small Banks, Alt Lenders Continue SME Lending Slump
Biz2Credit’s most recent monthly analysis of small business lending in the U.S. was released last week, and the statistics show booming SME financing among the nation’s big banks. The February...
March 24, 2015
Uber Finds Its Place On The Expense Report
Business travelers have long preferred the convenience and flexibility of mobile taxi apps like Uber and Lyft, but corporate travel managers initially resisted, citing higher cost, but according to a...
March 24, 2015
Square’s $Cashtags Goes B2B
Square is making its latest move on the Small Business marketplace with another card processing service aimed at making it easier for SMBs to ditch checks in favor of cards....
March 23, 2015
FinTech Firm Kalixa Leaves Consumers for B2B
U.K.-based mobile point-of-sale firm Kalixa will be pivoting its operations away from the traditional consumer services industry, the company revealed in a blog post last week. According to the firm,...
March 23, 2015
New B2B eMarketplace Begins Rollout
Mobile operators group GSMA has begun the rollout of its new mobile-focused B2B online marketplace, and the venture has seemingly already caught on among industry players. The GSMA announced last...
March 23, 2015
Samsung Takes Aim At IoT With New B2B Unit
In an effort to become a main player in the adoption of Internet of Things technology, Samsung has revealed a restructuring within its services to cater to the B2B crowd....
March 23, 2015
UK SMEs Losing Hope For A Late Payment Victory
By now, it is no secret that the U.K. is in the midst of a late payments epidemic. Small businesses are speaking out against unfairly long payment terms, major corporate...
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.