September 04, 2014
The Majority OF The U.K. Gift Card Market Is B2B
Pop Quiz: Whole buys most of the gift cards in the U.K? It’s probably not who you would think, in fact, it isn’t who at all. According to the UK...
September 04, 2014
China’s DHgate Adds MasterPass For Cross-Border B2B Payments
China’s DHgate recently integrated and deployed MasterPass into its B2B eCommerce platform, becoming the first merchant in that country to go live with MasterCard’s digital-wallet service. In doing so, it...
September 03, 2014
Nouriel Roubini
[custommenu menu=”B2B_2014″] Nouriel Roubini Nouriel Roubini is the cofounder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an independent, global macroeconomic and market strategy research firm. The firm’s website, Roubini.com, has been...
September 02, 2014
Going Back To School For B2B Payments
B2B payments in education is big business and it doesn’t take hitting the books hard to understand why. The populations are large and purchases are generally limited to those approved...
September 02, 2014
Tipalti New Supplier Portal Adds Automated B2B Payments
Technology platform provider PulsePoint reportedly has been able to improve its publisher-payment processes using technology from Tipalti, a California-based specialist in automated payout services. The company now plans to expand...
September 01, 2014
Who Had An Innovative B2B Summer?
This summer, PYMNTS.com reported on numerous topics, industries and trends in the B2B world. Some were more common than others, which is why this column dissects what happened in healthcare...
September 01, 2014
Headed For IPO, Alibaba’s Mobile Business Zooms 10x
As Alibaba prepares for a roadshow to convince investors that its $20 billion IPO will be a good deal, the Chinese e-commerce giant has a big advantage: a tenfold jump...
August 26, 2014
PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker
Here’s what happened in the third week of August: The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $1.3 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types –...
August 22, 2014
As The Fed Works To Improve B2B Payments, Payments Industry...
In June, Federal Reserve Financial Services hosted a series of town hall meetings to discuss a variety of initiatives designed to improve B2B transactions, along with P2Ppayments. Among the goals...
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.