Extend news and trends

Extend Launches ‘Team Budgets’ to Improve Spend Management
Spend Management // March 27, 2024

Virtual card/spend management platform Extend has debuted a feature dubbed “team budgets.” The new offering, announced Wednesday (March 27), is designed to help its customers organize and control spending by letting employees send and manage secure virtual cards.  “With the rollout of team budgets, those customers gain an even...

Extend and Concur Invoice Collaborate on Virtual-Card-as-a-Service Solution 
B2B Payments // December 05, 2023

Extend, a virtual card and spend management platform, has announced its integration with Concur Invoice, providing customers with a virtual-card-as-a-service solution.  The partnership allows seamless vendor payment management within the Concur Invoice platform, with BMO being the first card issuer to enable virtual cards for vendor payments within...

BMO Debuts Virtual Card Mobile Wallets With Mastercard and Extend
Mobile Wallets // August 28, 2023

BMO has teamed with Extend and Mastercard to offer clients new virtual card creation capabilities. The collaboration, announced Monday (Aug. 28), lets BMO (Bank of Montreal) commercial bank customers in the U.S. and Canada create and push virtual cards to employees’ mobile wallets such as Apple Pay, letting them spend...

HSBC Teams With Extend to Offer Virtual Cards
Partnerships // December 14, 2022

Extend has teamed with banking giant HSBC to offer customers virtual cards. It’s the second partnership for the virtual card and spend management platform Extend in the last week, arriving in anticipation of a boom in the virtual card industry, with transactions projected to reach...

Interviews & Exclusives
Virtual Cards Boost Money Mobility for Corporate Spend Management

August 08, 2022
Consumers have grown accustomed to the idea of low-friction digital payments and account transfers, and businesses that are not keeping up with the push for money mobility ubiquity risk frustrating customers and losing their business. Digital wallets and peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps continue to grow as a regular feature of consumers’ everyday lives. A nearly […]

Extended Warranties Make Their Case For Consumer Conversion

May 19, 2021
A little extra confidence goes a long way when it comes to the consumer shopping experience. It can often make the difference between an abandoned shopping cart and a consumer...

On The Agenda: Five Things Retailers Can Do To Drive Conversions This Holiday Season

November 24, 2020
The holiday shopping season isn’t just going to be very different than any that have come before it. In some ways, it already is. For many consumers, the holiday-shopping rush...

Extend CEO: Extended Warranties Can Reassure Consumers In A Post-Pandemic World

June 19, 2020
The global pandemic has digitized consumers’ purchase patterns, as ordering online from the safety of one’s home suddenly feels a good deal safer from a public health viewpoint. And as...

Quick Reads
Extend Debuts Bill Pay to Streamline Invoice Payments

October 28, 2024
Extend has introduced a feature that allows businesses to streamline invoice payments with virtual cards. Bill Pay is designed to simplify companies’ account payable processes while optimizing cash flow, maximizing card rewards and improving security, the virtual card/spend management platform said in a Monday (Oct. 28) news release. “Traditional payment methods pose significant challenges for finance […]

Extend Launches ‘Team Budgets’ to Improve Spend Management

March 27, 2024
Virtual card/spend management platform Extend has debuted a feature dubbed “team budgets.” The new offering, announced Wednesday (March 27), is designed to help its customers organize and control spending by letting employees send and...

Extend and Concur Invoice Collaborate on Virtual-Card-as-a-Service Solution 

December 05, 2023
Extend, a virtual card and spend management platform, has announced its integration with Concur Invoice, providing customers with a virtual-card-as-a-service solution.  The partnership allows seamless vendor payment management within the Concur...

BMO Debuts Virtual Card Mobile Wallets With Mastercard and Extend

August 28, 2023
BMO has teamed with Extend and Mastercard to offer clients new virtual card creation capabilities. The collaboration, announced Monday (Aug. 28), lets BMO (Bank of Montreal) commercial bank customers in the U.S. and Canada create...