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Can Virtual Cards Overcome Their ‘Achilles Heel’ of Supplier Acceptance?
B2B Payments // June 11, 2024

Virtual cards promise a revolution in B2B payments, offering efficiency and certainty in transactions, yet their adoption remains stymied by a critical bottleneck: suppliers’ reluctance to accept them. Despite a clear economic advantage, the uptake is far from the potential growth projected on the horizon,...

Why B2B Payments Tomorrow Will Look Like B2C Payments Today 
B2B Payments // May 20, 2024

The world of regular payments frequently leads the business-to-business (B2B) payments landscape in leveraging innovation.  That’s why, with the news last week (May 15) that Visa is launching a suite of disruptive new products and services built for the entire payments ecosystem, forward-thinking enterprises are already starting to...

Virtual Cards Close Middle-Market Cash Flow ‘Unpredictability Gap’
B2B Payments // May 07, 2024

Virtual cards are at a tipping point. That’s the sentiment expressed by several finance leaders in the B2B space, as the current environment of stubborn inflation and strict access to capital affects the payment needs of every company, especially the middle market. When access to...

Middle Market Emerges as Underserved Opportunity for Financial Services
B2B Payments // April 30, 2024

The financial services industry tends to think at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to business customers. Solutions providers, banks and credit card companies tend to pay a lot of attention to small business, as they do during the current Small Business Week (April 28 –...

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Virtual Cards Close Middle-Market Cash Flow ‘Unpredictability Gap’

May 07, 2024
Virtual cards are at a tipping point. That’s the sentiment expressed by several finance leaders in the B2B space, as the current environment of stubborn inflation and strict access to capital affects the payment needs of every company, especially the middle market. When access to working capital is paramount, virtual cards can provide an element of security […]

Middle Market Emerges as Underserved Opportunity for Financial Services

April 30, 2024
The financial services industry tends to think at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to business customers. Solutions providers, banks and credit card companies tend to pay a lot of...

Virtual Cards Set to Transform Buyer-Supplier Relationships

April 23, 2024
Management guru Peter Drucker once said that “wherever you see a successful business, somebody made a courageous decision.” That’s the spirit behind the Certainty Project, a study from PYMNTS Intelligence highlighting...