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Unlocking Innovation Beyond Payments Tops Week in B2B
B2B Payments // October 10, 2024

Innovation is no good to the businesses that fail to embrace it. But as advanced technologies to streamline payments and financial data management reshape competition in commercial payments, the transformation of business-to-business (B2B) payments is taking center stage this month as PYMNTS, together with industry...

Markaaz CEO: SMBs Need a ‘Golden Record’ of Truth to Access Lending
SMBs // October 10, 2024

If information is power, the lack of information creates a vacuum, especially in small business banking. As to what’s needed? Call it a single source of truth, a worldwide registry and roster of small business information, some of it self-supplied, that offers a real-time and...

Secure or Be Scammed: Business Identity Innovations Drive Ecosystem Growth
Authentication // September 25, 2024

How well do you know the organizations your business transacts with? And how well do they know your business? As the digital transformation accelerates, and businesses are confronted with escalating cyber risks and vendor identity fraud, it’s a question worth asking. The modern business environment...

Markaaz CEO Says New Take on Data Helps Banks Close Small Business Identity Gap
Authentication // July 11, 2024

How do you really know a business? The credit score can be misleading, especially for a small business that has weathered the pandemic. A profit and loss statement shows the cold numbers but doesn’t tell the whole story of the dynamics that a business may...

Interviews & Exclusives
Markaaz CEO: Two-Sided Platform Plugs the ‘Data Gap’ on Small Businesses

October 29, 2024
There’s a data gap that exists for small businesses — a lack of information about them that makes banks shy away from extending credit or spurs FinTechs to “offload” them from their platforms mere months after they’ve been onboarded. For the businesses and banks that serve these small firms, getting the right info in hand […]

Markaaz CEO: SMBs Need a ‘Golden Record’ of Truth to Access Lending

October 10, 2024
If information is power, the lack of information creates a vacuum, especially in small business banking. As to what’s needed? Call it a single source of truth, a worldwide registry...

Markaaz CEO Says New Take on Data Helps Banks Close Small Business Identity Gap

July 11, 2024
How do you really know a business? The credit score can be misleading, especially for a small business that has weathered the pandemic. A profit and loss statement shows the...

Quick Reads
Chicago, Mastercard And GCBA Launch Tech Pilot Program

September 16, 2016
The Windy City is looking to improve its digital infrastructure with the help of the Global Cities Business Alliance (GCBA) and Mastercard. The three-way partnership plans on identifying ways that the technology sector can help the public sector. The program is a pilot that will come at zero cost to Chicago taxpayers. It will promote […]