March 23, 2015
Mobile Pay Scores With Business Users
As mobile payment technology slowly secures deeper integration into mainstream purchasing practices, industry experts are finding that business users of mobile payment may prove crucial to the successful penetration of...
March 20, 2015
Business Travelers Eager To Explore Apple Pay
Apply Pay still has a long way to go to obtain the mainstream mobile payment status it hopes to. But the high visibility of Apple and its payment technology could...
March 20, 2015
P2Bi Crowdfunding Hits $50M SME Loan Milestone
If anyone has doubts about the rise in popularity of alternative small business financers, one only has to look at the numbers. Crowdfunding platform P2Binvestor, for instance, has just released...
March 20, 2015
B2B eCommerce Startups Flourishing in India
A slew of new startups in India has industry experts wondering whether B2B eCommerce is ready to take off on the same path taken by traditional retail eCommerce. According to...
March 19, 2015
Telefonica Reports M2M Solution Adoption Drive
Telefonica has reached a significant milestone in its machine-to-machine facilitation, the company announced Tuesday (March 17). According to the Spanish telco conglomerate, Telefonica’s M2M connections now reach more than 500...
March 19, 2015
China Gets On Board With B2B eCommerce
China’s eCommerce conglomerate Alibaba has made headlines in the B2B community for propelling digital procurement solutions, and according to recent data, the rise of Alibaba has likely encouraged small corporations...
March 19, 2015
MarginMax Ramp Makes B2B Price Optimization Easy
Close on the heels of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s bold declaration that every corporation of the future will need to adopt a SaaS business model, B2B service provider Zilliant has...
March 19, 2015
Facing Pressure, Diageo Caves To Angry Suppliers
Just three months after announcing plans to extend the payment terms of new contracts from 60 to 90 days, beverage conglomerate Diageo has reversed its tune. Diageo, which owns popular...
March 18, 2015
Jamaica Zooms Past SME Lending Targets
Jamaica had set a target to lend $3 million to micro-, small- and medium-sized businesses in the 2014/2015 fiscal year. According to the nation’s Ministry of Finance and Planning, MSME...
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.