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B2B Payments
Commerce Connect Platform To Drive B2B Online Experience
May 01, 2014

Epicor Software Corporation, offering business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organizations, introduced Epicor Commerce Connect. Epicor Commerce Connect is an eCommerce platform management solution for Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) companies that help Epicor ERP customers develop unique websites and manage them....

B2B Payments
Cards, Regulation and Small Business Financing
April 30, 2014

Thirty percent of SMBs leverage business credit cards to finance their businesses. But the rules and regulations related to interest rates and APRs that protect consumers’ don’t apply to corporate cards. The result is a potentially devastating impact on the ability of SMBs to access...

B2B Payments
Vietnam’s Asia Commercial Bank to Deploy CyberSource
April 30, 2014

CyberSource, a global provider of eCommerce payment management services, today announced a partnership with one of Vietnam’s largest privately held banks, ACB (Asia Commercial Bank). The agreement allows ACB to launch CyberSource’s global payment gateway solution and fraud management tool, Decision Manager. This will help...

Loyalty & Rewards
Card Issuers Target The Affluent
April 30, 2014

Perhaps it should come as no surprise, but consumers today are a lot less likely to own a credit card and carry card debt. The Great Recession aside, issuers may have helped spark the change when they cut back on card approvals and credit limits...

Mobile Commerce
MoneyGram Signs Facebook App Deal With PicomoPay
April 29, 2014

Funds-transfer company MoneyGram on April 28 announced a deal in which U.S. consumers in May may begin sending transfers using PicomoPay’s Facebook application to more than 336,000 MoneyGram agent locations in 200 countries.   Social and mobile-payments platform PicomoPay enables consumers to conduct person-to-person payments...

Mobile Commerce
How Much Is Square Really Worth?
April 28, 2014

The payments version of the rumor mill has been going full tilt about whether Square’s running out of cash, whether it’s up for sale, and how much it’s really worth. Well, MPD CEO Karen Webster has a point of view on this whole topic that...

B2B Payments
Where’s The Money Going in B2B Payments?
April 28, 2014

One of the things that got us thinking that B2B innovation was the “next big thing” in payments, is the amount of investment and energy being funneled into solving the problems with businesses paying each other. So, we thought it would be fun to track...

Merchant Innovation
Yerdle And the Second Life Of Stuff
April 28, 2014

The new start-up will offer an online marketplace for free second-hand items.

Mobile Commerce
Credit Cards Now 2/3 Of All Non-Cash Payments
April 28, 2014

According to a new report by the Federal Reserve, pay cards are American’s favorite form of non-cash payment. 67 percent of all non-cash purchases were made on pay cards in 2012, up from only 43 percent in 2003. Within the pay cards family, debit cards...