January 15, 2014
Western Union and Kimbia: Making Fundraising Simpler
Western Union Business Solutions, a division of the Western Union Co., last month struck a partnership with omnichannel fundraising platform provider Kimbia Inc. to provide organizations a service to help...
January 14, 2014
MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga Applauds Cashless Nigeria Policy
The rapid evolution of the payments landscape in Nigeria was highlighted as a global success story by Ajay Banga, the President and CEO of MasterCard Worldwide, at an address to...
January 10, 2014
AFP Survey: Firms Taking A Slow, But Steady, B2B Path
By: Eileen Goode (@eileengoode) When businesses are paying each other, checks remain the dominant vehicle, representing on average nearly half of all B2B payments. Their primacy, however, is slipping. In...
January 05, 2014
Can mPOS Move the Revenue Needle for FIs?
It used to be that small businesses and banks were two peas in a pod. Small businesses turned to banks when they started their businesses or wanted to grow their...
December 26, 2013
Payments Execs Forecast Trends For Year Ahead
As the last days of 2013 come to a close, payments firms across the country are busy reflecting on the experience they’ve gained to best position their strategies for the...
December 11, 2013
Billtrust, Open Scan Launch Tech Alliance
Outsourced billing services provider Billtrust has entered into a technology alliance with Open Scan Technologies that will help the two companies improve processing speeds for B2B payments, Billtrust announced in...
December 10, 2013
Alibaba And ShopRunner Say “Open Sesame” To Digital Commerce
Everybody knows the ancient story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. “Open Sesame” were the magic words that opened a cave where Ali Baba saw an abundance of gold...
November 07, 2013
Can mPOS Move the Revenue Needle for FIs?
It used to be that small businesses and banks were two peas in a pod. Small businesses turned to banks when they started their businesses or wanted to grow their...
November 05, 2013
Moving To Electronic Payments: Giving Up The Paper Without Giving...
It’s no secret that when it comes to payments, paper is more expensive and less efficient than its online counterpart. In a time when payment companies are under tremendous pressure...
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.