February 23, 2015
Working Capital At The Touch Of a “Green Button”
When Tungsten Corporation announced that it had completed the acquisition of Tungsten Bank earlier this year, it meant the B2B supply chain network servicer would take on the burden of...
February 23, 2015
How MasterCard Is Taking Biometrics To The Masses
It’s been a little over a week since The White House Cybersecurity Summit, during which U.S. President Barack Obama called upon tech and financial companies to band together to protect...
February 23, 2015
Target’s Canadian Woes Worsen With Supplier Spat
The dispute between Target Canada and its suppliers fighting to get paid since the retail chain went bust in the nation has reached a new peak since those suppliers brought...
February 20, 2015
Shutterfly B2B Grows Tall
Online photo service Shutterfly revealed major B2B business in its fourth-quarter earning results this week. The company’s fourth quarter FY2014 earnings report revealed that its business-to-business sales spiked by 67.2...
February 20, 2015
World’s First Duty-Free Online Store Offers B2B Concierge Service
As the self-proclaimed world’s first duty free-authorized online marketplace, DutyFreeZone.com sells products without the import fees, a feat once reserved for the globe-trotter. Now, DutyFreeZone is looking to pay even...
February 20, 2015
PYMNTS B2B Investment Tracker, Feb. 12-19
B2B venture capitalists are putting their money where the trends are. Some of this week’s biggest funding headlines highlight the significant investment in B2B companies focusing on emerging markets and...
February 20, 2015
Business Model Mayhem
In many B2B software as a service (SaaS) markets and technology-enabled services, competitors compete on service, technology, geographic reach, and relatively transparent pricing. This is especially true in the procurement...
February 20, 2015
Nation of Georgia Provides Insight for World Bank’s E-Procurement Plans
The launch of the Georgian electronic Government Procurement system seems to have, once again, shown the undeniable benefits of e-invoicing. A World Bank report released Wednesday (Feb. 18) is applauding...
February 20, 2015
Walmart Makes It Easier for India Stores to Restock Online
Walmart has steadily boosted its e-commerce offerings within India in recent years. But Thursday (Feb. 19), the retailer announced perhaps its largest effort yet, in the form of an online...
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.