October 24, 2013
Mobile Banking Crossroads: Strategic Moves Banks Must Take to Remain...
Presented by PYMNTS.com, Monitise, and AlixPartners Financial institutions have spent the past few years implementing a wide range of mobile banking solutions as consumers continue to spend more time using...
October 17, 2013
Why Acquirers Are Failing The Shift From Hardware To Software
The world of acquiring used to be so simple. Merchants wanted to accept cards, acquirers and their channel partners sold the hardware solutions that made it happen. Money was made....
October 11, 2013
Report: Inflation Suspected In B2B Sector
By Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_) New Jersey-based outsourced billing solution provider Billtrust released the results of its September B2B Sales Index on October 11, revealing that business-to-business (B2B) invoice activity increased...
October 03, 2013
CSI, MasterCard Build on Partnership, Redouble B2B Efforts
On the 12th anniversary of their partnership, MasterCard and CSI are breaking news about how they will help banks and corporate users realize the benefits of virtual cards to manage...
September 19, 2013
NSBA: Online SMBs Abandon Credit And Debit
By Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_) The National Small Business Association (NSBA) released new findings on September 16 indicating that small business owners are increasingly looking to alternatives to credit and debit...
September 04, 2013
Netherlands Gets Adyen mPOS Devices Via Vodafone
Global payments company Adyen announced that mobile network operator Vodafone will now sell the Adyen Shuttle mPOS payment technology across Dutch B2B stores. Adyen’s mPOS device allows small to medium-sized...
September 03, 2013
Behind The Buzzword: How Merchants Should Approach Omnicommerce
There are plenty of ways merchants can justify taking a wait-and-see omnicommerce strategy. They can cite the high cost of investment, the lack of demand from customers or concerns consumers...
August 29, 2013
MasterCard’s Secret to Big Data Monetization Might Surprise You
By Pete Rizzo, Editor (@pete_rizzo_) “We feel India is a very important market for MasterCard, rich in analytics talent and expertise that will assist us in delivering big data solutions...
August 25, 2013
Celebrating The Bristol Pound’s First Birthday
By Chanel Smith, EMEA Editor (@PYMNTS_EMEA) The Bristol Pound is about to celebrate its first birthday as the UK’s first city wide local currency. The Bristol Pound was launched in...
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.