April 03, 2024
FourKites and BuyCo Partner on Container Shipping Management Solution
FourKites and BuyCo partnered to offer a container shipping management solution that provides Fortune 500 shippers with visibility across inland and ocean shipments. With the integrated offering created by this collaboration, shippers can...
April 02, 2024
New Milestone for US E-Invoicing Could Pave Way for Paperless...
How B2B suppliers bill their customers is changing around the world. And with the announcement last week (March 26) that the first e-invoice had been successfully sent across the U.S. Digital...
April 02, 2024
Life Insurance Agents Go Digital to Connect With Young Buyers
In the age of smartphones and instant access to information, it’s no surprise that even the most traditional industries are undergoing a digital makeover. The insurance sector, once synonymous with...
April 02, 2024
Venture Capitalist Steve Singh and Growth Investors Acquire Direct Travel
Venture capitalist Steve Singh and a group of growth investors have acquired corporate travel management firm Direct Travel. The investors joining Singh in the acquisition include Durable Capital Partners, Madrona Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners and Blackstone Credit...
April 02, 2024
PairSoft Acquires APRO to Expand Procure-to-Pay Platform
PairSoft acquired APRO Software Solutions, saying the combination will expand its enterprise financial automation capabilities and global scale. The tie-up resulting from the acquisition will create a global procure-to-pay, order-to-cash and bank integration platform...
April 02, 2024
Supply Chain Chaos Threatens East Coast After Baltimore Bridge Collapse
When supply chains run smoothly, the economies they support do too. But when even the smallest disruption occurs, supply chains can quickly turn into the equivalent of a daisy chain...
April 02, 2024
Nuvei Sale Hints at Private Deals and Consolidation in Payments’...
2019, the year of the payments industry mega-deals, seems long ago and far away. Before the pandemic, the headlines were awash in waves of verticalization, where large firms scooped up...
April 02, 2024
ConnexPay Names VPay’s Ben Peters as CEO
Payments platform ConnexPay has named industry veteran Ben Peters as its new CEO. Peters, who has spent two decades in the payments and vertical software space, will replace ConnexPay founder Bob Kaufman, who is moving into...
April 02, 2024
Bank of America Identifies Four ROI Benchmarks for B2B Payments
Payments innovations that scale broadly in the B2C space aren’t always as widely adopted in the B2B space due to limited applicability. The principles of consumer payment innovations can offer...
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.