September 23, 2014
China’s Bustling Cross-Border eCommerce Market
With Alibaba last week having gone through the largest initial public offering in U.S. history, expect continued growth in international eCommerce trade coming out of China. Alibaba already is saying...
September 22, 2014
It Takes A (Security) Standard
Mobile devices and ways to pay are increasingly popping up in markets around the world, vastly revamping the payments ecosystem. But as enthusiastic consumers jump to take advantage of new...
September 22, 2014
Can Alibaba Dominate B2B Payments In A Way That Amazon...
With Alibaba’s IPO completed last week, payments leaders are realizing the huge potential impact on B2B payments. Much more so than Amazon, Alibaba has focused on B2B operations and has...
September 20, 2014
Alibaba IPO Is Done, So Now What?
Order imbalances may have delayed Alibaba’s initial public offering for a bit on Friday (Sept. 19), but the company made a ton of money nonetheless. It’s stock price opened at...
September 18, 2014
3M Looks To Grow Its B2B Commerce
With $30 billion in annual sales and operating in more than 70 countries, 3M has an active global B2B commerce program, selling products to a wide range of international wholesalers,...
September 18, 2014
Alibaba: From Start to Now (And Wow)
The Alibaba Primer Jack Ma turned his 1995 launch of Chinapages.com into a global internet presence that has dwarfed both eBay and Amazon by doing one thing very well: understanding...
September 17, 2014
Apple Pay As A B2B Option?
Much has been written, and opined, over the past week since Apple introduced Apple Pay and entered the payments market. But how might the service affect B2B payments? In essence,...
September 17, 2014
Zooz, Alipay Partner To Give Merchants Worldwide Access To Chinese...
U.S., European and Asian merchants wanting access to Chinese consumers and businesses now may enable customers in that country to pay using Alipay under a partnership payment-technology provider Zooz announced...
September 17, 2014
Why Banks Aren’t Better at B2B Payments
What really surprises Karla Friede, CEO and Co-Founder of NVoicePay about B2B payments isn’t how long it has taken for new things to get traction or even how difficult it...
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.