March 18, 2016
How Can SMBs Get Ahead Of The Payments Game?
Small and medium businesses (SMBs) make up nearly half of the private sector payroll in the U.S., but they face enormous challenges when it comes to managing their cash flows....
March 17, 2016
The Bottom Line Of B2B Customer Engagement
Multiple markets have been looking at how to improve suppliers’ standing with their corporate customers. Amid longer — and later — bill payments and the cost of accepting some payments technologies to...
March 17, 2016
WEX Enlists Basware For Faster B2B Payments
2016 may just be the year of collaboration in B2B payments. The latest players to partner up are Basware and WEX, which announced their tie-up on Wednesday (March 16) to...
March 17, 2016
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally For Cross-Border Payments
Align Commerce’s recent entrance into Brazil just ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio is no coincidence. The company, which uses a hybrid of blockchain technology and other payment...
March 17, 2016
SME Alt-Lending Headed For Crash, Firm Says
The alternative small business lending market has some of the hallmarks of the market conditions that led to the 2007 financial crisis, claims Bibby Financial Services Chief Executive David Postings. Get...
March 16, 2016
How Corporate Payments Disruptors Compete, And Coexist, With Banks
Foreign currency payments firm Midpoint got a bit closer to its small business accounting partner, Xero, this month when it revealed that not only had they extended their collaborative ties...
March 16, 2016
CFOs Get A Break From Hackers
Research shows that small and medium-sized enterprises are most vulnerable to cyberattacks, but the latest findings suggest that the CFOs and money managers at these businesses are getting a little...
March 16, 2016
Deutsche Bank, Bank Of China Link For Corporate Cash Management
In a first for the Bank of China, the financial institution has linked up with its first foreign bank for interbank cash management of a corporate client. Get the Full...
March 16, 2016
The Canadian Case For ISO 20022
When analysts from SWIFT and its ISO 20022 Registration Authority took a look at the various efforts behind adoption of the global messaging standard in 2014, a report found that...
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.
Embedded finance is a staple feature of FinTechs. Every firm surveyed has already embedded at least one capability, and embedded payments have become the default entry point. But the new story is what happens next: As FinTechs push beyond payments, the risks shift from external threats like fraud and regulation to internal strain and execution pressure.
Download “FinTechs Tap Embedded Payments to Deepen Customer Relationships,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and Marqeta collaboration, for more.