With accounts payable (AP) solutions increasingly paying attention to supplier needs, commercial card technologies have expanded their focus on both the AP and accounts receivable (AR) side of B2B transactions. This week’s look at the convergence of AR and AP finds American Express and others...
Apple Card — the iPhone-based credit product launched last summer by Goldman Sachs, Apple and Mastercard — is expected to be a hot topic on Goldman’s earnings call Wednesday (July 15). A look at recent activity around the card shows a good deal of innovation...
Once reserved for only the largest and most sophisticated firms, automated enterprise resource planning (ERP) and accounting platforms are now accessible for even the smallest of businesses, and data from those systems is the new currency of operational efficiency. That’s particularly true in accounts receivable...
Commercial cards remain only a fraction of the B2B payments space, but FinTech firms, banks and other financial service providers continue to develop new solutions aimed at boosting adoption. For companies like SmartEquip and Unified Payments Group, that means introducing new ways to lift the...
July 15, 2020
Apple Card — the iPhone-based credit product launched last summer by Goldman Sachs, Apple and Mastercard — is expected to be a hot topic on Goldman’s earnings call Wednesday (July 15). A look at recent activity around the card shows a good deal of innovation and a fair amount of concern over rejection rates for […]
February 04, 2020
Once reserved for only the largest and most sophisticated firms, automated enterprise resource planning (ERP) and accounting platforms are now accessible for even the smallest of businesses, and data from...
October 28, 2019
Visa and Marqeta are teaming to ease global expansion of FinTech firms and digital card issuance in Asia-Pacific. Matt Dill, Visa’s global head of strategic partnerships and venture, tells Karen...
May 28, 2019
Contactless payments have yet to achieve critical mass in the U.S., at only about 3 percent of transactions, according to NMI. Nick Starai, chief strategy officer at the firm, tells...
December 12, 2018
The number of merchants accepting card payments around the world grew by 13 percent in 2017, to 69.2 million, according to a report. RBR, a research and consulting firm for banking and retail, released a forecast of payment card data through 2023, and found that card payment acceptance is growing at a fast rate. The […]
April 19, 2018
Samsung Pay continues its expansion into Canada, with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) personal payment cards now supported by the mobile payment system. RBC joins existing Samsung Pay partners in...
April 03, 2018
To simplify its path to EMV card acceptance, and to reduce PCI compliance scope, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has migrated its payments system in the U.S. to Ingenico Group’s Telium Semi-Integrated...
March 16, 2018
Thanks in part to new regulations and an increase in financial literacy, RBR projects that payment card acceptance will jump 40 percent to 85 million outlets around the globe by...
