Integrated Payments news and trends

Unified Commerce Emerges as Key Factor in Customer Experience
Payments Innovation // August 15, 2024

Advances in banking and payments are transforming business operations. Taken together, the integration of these two functions is changing, well, everything. “Customers are looking for financial operations that work in concert with their business needs, combining the latest technology with legacy systems in a way...

APIs Unlock Financing For Underserved SMBs
B2B Payments // July 20, 2021

Open banking-fueled FinTech solutions continue to explore more pain points to solve for businesses. This week’s look at the latest in Open Banking and bank-FinTech collaboration finds tools to connect small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to financing and ease integrated payments for third parties. Chase...

How APIs Ease Treasurers’ Reliance On Banks
B2B Payments // April 23, 2020

The complexity of payment workflows within and between mid-market and large corporate entities can be so immense that many treasurers aren’t able to pinpoint exactly where the friction exists. Financial technology today is on the path to tackling some of the biggest hurdles in B2B...

Wirecard Partners With Klarna For Payments
Payment Methods // March 12, 2020

German payments company Wirecard said on Thursday (March 11) that it is partnering with Sweden’s FinTech startup Klarna for integrated payments. The collaboration will bring three digital payment methods — Pay Now, Pay Later and Klarna Financing — to merchants’ checkout process on Wirecard’s commerce...

Interviews & Exclusives
81% of SMBs Are Open to Adopting Integrated Payments

December 18, 2024
Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) across the U.S. face struggles due to fragmented and inefficient business-to-business (B2B) payment systems. While many SMBs recognize the potential of integrated solutions to streamline operations, cost concerns and security challenges remain obstacles to adoption. A PYMNTS Intelligence report, “More Than Half of SMBs Would Switch to an Integrated B2B […]

Unified Commerce Emerges as Key Factor in Customer Experience

August 15, 2024
Advances in banking and payments are transforming business operations. Taken together, the integration of these two functions is changing, well, everything. “Customers are looking for financial operations that work in...

The Invisible Opportunities In Integrated Payments

October 17, 2019
Consumers may not spend much time thinking about payments, but they certainly have expectations for them. High expectations, in fact: As the 2010s are drawing to a close, customers demand...

Putting B2B Payments’ Biggest Fallacy In Context

August 02, 2018
Speed? Not the most important thing when it comes to B2B payments. Turns out transparency is king, and according to Barry Rhodes, EVP and head of payments at iGTB, FIs...

Quick Reads
Wirecard Partners With Klarna For Payments

March 12, 2020
German payments company Wirecard said on Thursday (March 11) that it is partnering with Sweden’s FinTech startup Klarna for integrated payments. The collaboration will bring three digital payment methods — Pay Now, Pay Later and Klarna Financing — to merchants’ checkout process on Wirecard’s commerce platform. “We are proud to team up with Wirecard to […]