February 02, 2016
How To Compare Apples To Oranges In Corporate Finance
In life, you can’t compare apples and oranges. But in business, sometimes you have to compare dollars to miles — or euros to oil barrels or bitcoin to units of raw...
February 02, 2016
Another Reason Paper Checks Are Causing Pain
Between keeping track of state and federal regulations and managing cash flow, payday can be a headache for small business owners. Analysis says, however, that a lot of these entrepreneurs...
February 02, 2016
Optal Virtualizes B2B Payments For Asia
Asia is becoming even more of a key market for corporate payment companies. Only days ago, FinTech firm Ripple announced a partnership with SBI Group to launch a cross-border payments...
February 02, 2016
Gaming Industry Gets New eWallet Solution
The old parable of the chicken and the egg doesn’t seem to hold much water when applied to the decidedly modern sectors of mobile payments and online and mobile gaming,...
February 02, 2016
A Long View Of The B2B FinTech/Bank Landscape
Headlines herald a sea change in payments as traditional lenders link with tech-savvy startups. For FinTech CEO Max Eliscu, the founder of both LSQ Funding Group and Viewpost, the news...
February 01, 2016
Onfleet Hits Milestone With Millionth Delivery
While many, many firms are racing to be the next big thing in on-demand delivery, Onfleet aims at being the infrastructural power in the backend that makes it all run....
February 01, 2016
Investors Diversify Their B2B Funding
Last week, American Express and Dun & Bradstreet released new research that found the middle-market business landscape of the U.S. is seeing some changes. While manufacturing and wholesale trade continue...
February 01, 2016
Bottomline Assures Resilience Despite Slight Underperformance
B2B payments company Bottomline Technologies released its quarterly report for the second quarter of the 2016 fiscal year on Thursday (Jan. 28), and while the figures were slightly short of...
February 01, 2016
Xerox Split Follows In HP’s B2B Footsteps
Hewlett-Packard made a big move last year when, in June, the computer giant announced plans to split into two separate companies — one consumer-facing unit and another to focus on enterprise...
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.