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Europe and Africa Are Ahead On ISO 20022 B2B Payments; U.S. And Canada Lag
Europe and Africa Are Ahead On ISO 20022 B2B Payments; U.S. And Canada Lag
September 26, 2014  |  B2B Payments

If adopting the ISO 20022 universal financial messaging system for B2B payments is a chicken-and-egg problem, SEPA seems to have cracked it in Europe. Messaging...

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Visa’s Next Big Business: Tokens and Data
Visa’s Next Big Business: Tokens and Data
September 25, 2014  |  Hmmm

Apple Pay may be the catalyst that mobile payments needed to get the payments ecosystem cranking, but that’s not all it did. It’s launched a...

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Procurement’s Spend Visibility Challenge
Procurement’s Spend Visibility Challenge
September 23, 2014  |  B2B Payments

During a recent webinar on procure-to-pay (P2P) trends, participants were polled about what they saw as their greatest P2P challenge. The biggest, cited by a...

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Meeting Consumers’ Online Expectations
Meeting Consumers’ Online Expectations
September 23, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Online commerce has become more sophisticated over the years, with more and more consumers using the channel in new ways to buy and research products...

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Can Alibaba Dominate B2B Payments In A Way That Amazon Can’t?
Can Alibaba Dominate B2B Payments In A Way That Amazon Can’t?
September 22, 2014  |  B2B Payments

With Alibaba’s IPO completed last week, payments leaders are realizing the huge potential impact on B2B payments. Much more so than Amazon, Alibaba has focused...

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Europe’s Fertile Fuel Card Hunting Ground
Europe’s Fertile Fuel Card Hunting Ground
September 22, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Some 20 to 30 years ago, every U.S. oil company ran its own in-house fuel card operation. Today, most outsource those operations. That trend has...

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Kmart Launches Free Layaway Program
Kmart Launches Free Layaway Program
September 22, 2014  |  Cool

Layaway, which was all but dead a decade ago, is increasingly the competitive weapon of choice for discount retailers. Kmart is wrapping up a no-down-payment...

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Visa Dials Back On Monitise
Visa Dials Back On Monitise
September 22, 2014  |  Mobile

Startups today have found bank loans to help get them get off the ground have all but dried up. So many now turn to other...

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