July 15, 2014
The Not So ‘Hospitable’ B2B Crooks
We all know it, or at least we should, that cybercrooks target the areas of least resistance, and they’re very good at finding them. As it turns out, easy to...
July 14, 2014
Pricing Pitfalls And The Professional Buyer
According to a recent study by Oracle, 60 percent of B2B online buyers name pricing complexity as their main business challenge. Regular consumers expect to know what and when they...
July 14, 2014
Does The US Really Trail The Rest Of The World...
Financial Times columnist John Gapper got a check for a dollar in the mail which prompted him to write a piece that more or less portrayed the US as being...
July 14, 2014
June Investors Say “Yes” To Data And Security and “Meh”...
In another PYMNTS first, we’re going to bring you weekly scoop on ALL of the investments in the payments space – VC funding, strategic investments, buybacks, acquisitions – for both...
July 11, 2014
Innovation Investment Tracker | Week of July 11
Retail payments dominate this week, and data analytics and security, in particular, seemed to tickle the fancy of investors. Here’s what happened the week ending July 11th The Big Takeaways...
July 11, 2014
Why One Size Never Fits All in B2B Payments
“Using a P-card in accounts payable is like using a screwdriver to hammer a nail,” says NVoicePay CEO Karla Friede. “You can get it done, but it’s not very effective.”...
July 10, 2014
The 3D’s Of B2B Investments
The month of June saw roughly three quarters of a billion dollars invested in B2B ventures focused on data, development and developing countries. And the key driver? Wanting to keep...
July 10, 2014
The SMB Mobile Banking Vacuum
Mobile banking has become an almost indispensable aspect of consumer banking, yet only a third of SMBs use it as a tool to help them run their businesses. Is it...
July 09, 2014
PayPal Ups The Ante In B2B Payments
PayPal’s announcement about its Next Day Settlement Pilot is another sign that it intends to capture a leading position in both B2C and B2B payments. This “Express Lane” for businesses...
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.