March 05, 2015
Alibaba’s Taiwan Spat May Jeopardize B2B Clients
China’s e-commerce behemoth Alibaba is in the midst of a political scuffle with Taiwanese authorities. According to reports that emerged this week, the conglomerate is being pushed out of the...
March 05, 2015
Defying Online Fraud Post US EMV Migration
By the end of 2018, U.S. card-not-present fraud losses are expected to reach $6.4 billion. While the U.S. migrates to EMV to help prevent card-present fraud, the fraudsters are migrating...
March 04, 2015
Merkle Launches Its Data Service For Businesses
As it becomes ever more apparent that the business-to-business sector often demands the same services and buying experiences as those within the business-to-consumer market, some service providers are taking their...
March 04, 2015
Frontier Secures $390M For B2B SaaS Investment
B2B e-commerce is on the cusp of a major boom, and as PYMNTS reported last month, it is also fueling the Software-as-a-Service market. Software investor Frontier Capital is hot on...
March 04, 2015
Amplifi Slashes Time it Takes for Sellers to Go Digital
B2B suppliers are catching on to the importance of offering digital commerce solutions for their buyers, but not all are willing to invest the time, infrastructure and training into e-commerce...
March 04, 2015
Ericsson Delivers M2M Solutions to Emerging Markets
As the Internet of Things blankets the globe, industries will need to adapt to emerging machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, and that includes B2B operations. Emerging markets, especially, will need to take...
March 04, 2015
Saving Dinner For Diners And Restaurants From EMV
“Uh-uh. No way. Cold cucumber mush for thirty-something bucks?” –Phoebe Buffay, “Friends,” The One With Five Steaks And An Eggplant Every year, hundreds of perfectly nice meals are ruined when it...
March 03, 2015
Madison Logic Buys B2B Ad Network
Business-to-business competitors now realize the importance of marketing when it was once thought to be crucial only in B2C commerce. But as it turns out, buyers demand an easy-to-use and...
March 03, 2015
Cash Flow Management for the 21st Century
Cash flow management is becoming an increasingly greater priority for suppliers, especially as late payments continue to jeopardize small business operations. With the supply chain becoming even more global, and...
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.