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Small Businesses Captured Outsized Gains From 2024’s Payments Innovations
Small Businesses Captured Outsized Gains From 2024’s Payments Innovations
December 19, 2024  |  SMBs

Payments innovations impacted small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in 2024. For years, SMBs lagged behind larger enterprises in adopting digital payment solutions, hindered by limited...

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Digital Upstarts Set Sights on Impacting Trade Finance
Digital Upstarts Set Sights on Impacting Trade Finance
October 22, 2024  |  Supply Chain

Back in 2019 — a lifetime ago, before the pandemic uprooted everything — PYMNTS published a report titled “The Trade Credit Dilemma,” spotlighting the $3.1...

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AWS and Mastercard Lead Industry Coalition to Fight Economic Crime
AWS and Mastercard Lead Industry Coalition to Fight Economic Crime
September 02, 2024  |  Fraud Prevention

The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) has formed an anti-financial crime group. The U.K.-based group announced the effort Monday (Sept. 2), noting it...

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Lloyds Forms Direct Lending Partnership With Oaktree Capital
Lloyds Forms Direct Lending Partnership With Oaktree Capital
July 18, 2024  |  Partnerships

Lloyds Bank and Oaktree Capital Management have teamed to support U.K. “middle-market sponsor-backed borrowers.” The collaboration, announced Thursday (July 18), will see Lloyds’ structured debt...

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Lloyds Bank Appoints Linda Weston as Head of Commercial Cards
Lloyds Bank Appoints Linda Weston as Head of Commercial Cards
April 15, 2024  |  Personnel

Lloyds Bank Business & Commercial Banking has appointed Linda Weston to the newly created position of head of commercial cards, effective in June. Weston will...

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Lloyds Offers New Merchant Tools Via Expanded FreedomPay Partnership
Lloyds Offers New Merchant Tools Via Expanded FreedomPay Partnership
October 11, 2023  |  Partnerships

Lloyds Bank said it has expanded its partnership with consumer-centric commerce platform FreedomPay. The British banking giant announced Wednesday (Oct. 11) that merchants using its Bank Cardnet...

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Banks Tap Virtual Cards to Help Businesses Streamline Expense Management
Banks Tap Virtual Cards to Help Businesses Streamline Expense Management
September 28, 2023  |  B2B Payments

Businesses have long relied on debit and credit card transactions, but digitization is ushering a new era of more secure electronic payment options, such as...

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Visa Debuts Virtual Card Solution With Lloyds Bank
Visa Debuts Virtual Card Solution With Lloyds Bank
September 27, 2023  |  B2B Payments

Visa has teamed with Lloyds Bank to launch a virtual card solution for businesses. “Available now to Lloyds Bank customers, Visa Commercial Pay addresses businesses’ payments and purchasing...

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Lloyds and Fiserv Team on Wholesale FX Rates to Merchants
Lloyds and Fiserv Team on Wholesale FX Rates to Merchants
September 19, 2023  |  Partnerships

Lloyds Bank formed a foreign exchange (FX) partnership with payments company Fiserv. The collaboration makes Lloyds the first bank “to widely offer wholesale FX rates...

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