PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The B2B payments ecosystem experienced a sudden and dramatic acceleration of change upon the onset of the global pandemic, and its impacts reach far beyond the mere digitization of the B2B transaction. How that is achieved is a matter of innovation and experimentation. The Coexistence Of Rails.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

23) that they have entered a strategic partnership to launch Visa Commercial Pay, billed as a suite of B2B payment solutions for enterprises making the shift to digital transactions, and, specifically, virtual cards — and away from paper-based manual processes. Visa and Conferma Pay said Monday (Nov. Consumerized Experience .

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Historically, corporate travel and expense ( T&E ) management has been viewed as an entirely separate function from other B2B payment workflows. As a result, the lines that once separated T&E from other B2B payment workflows are blurring, according to Conferma Pay CEO Simon Barker and Barclays President of Payments Marc Pettican.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Expense management company DiviPay is rolling out what it says is Australia’s first Mastercard virtual commercial card for corporate payers, and the first solution in the country that combines payments with expense management automation.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

When the B2B payments industry began considering what to expect for 2018, commercial cards weren’t often on the radar. Yet, 2018 was certainly a big year for commercial cards, and for credit card giants’ B2B payments aspirations overall. Visa Acquires Fraedom.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Though credit cards were not originally designed to address the needs of corporate payers, advances in commercial card technology have positioned the payment tool as one that’s gaining traction in the accounts payable department. This, he noted, is Mesh’s entryway to the market of cross-border B2B payments.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

From a lack of supplier acceptance of electronic payments to outdated infrastructure within accounts payable (AP) departments, the B2B payments ecosystem still has much room for improvement on multiple fronts. Moving the needle in the journey away from paper checks isn’t a one-sided battle, either. An Ecosystem Approach.

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MARCH 11, 2020

B2B FinTechs are once again showing off the versatility of the corporate card. While QuickBooks is piloting card payments on invoices powered by PayPal , Airwallex is readying the launch of its own corporate card — both physical and virtual — designed to enable cross-border payments. QuickBooks Adds Card Payment Support.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Financial service providers looking to enhance B2B payments offerings must turn their attention to the user experience. That focus led UMB to recently announce a partnership with Fraedom , a deal that sees UMB’s corporate customers being migrated to the Fraedom expense management platform linked to commercial cards.

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MARCH 31, 2020

No one payment rail can solve every point of friction in B2B payments. This week’s look at payment rail innovation explores how corporates and FinTech providers embrace variety to ease friction in card acceptance, employee payroll and invoice payments. Plastiq Eases Card Rail Friction. Payroll Rails Offer Employee Relief.

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MARCH 21, 2017

Bank will enable its corporate customers to use their commercial cards via the mobile Apple Pay , Android Pay and Samsung Pay solutions, reports said Monday (March 20). According to the bank, this makes it the first to support mobile payments for Visa commercial card transactions. Bank Corporate Travel Card, while U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The B2B payments discussion often centers around innovators’ efforts to kill the check. There is no straight line to killing the check, but in the path to B2B payments innovation, a plethora of possibilities emerges. B2B Payments’ Innovation Agenda. According to Phalen, that includes speed, transparency and global scale.

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B2B Cross-Border Payments Payer 59

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APRIL 21, 2020

Since then, the mandate has been expanded, and today, all invoices, including those in B2B transactions, must be electronic. “Nobody will take your money unless it’s cash or secured by a bank-to-bank transaction,” he said, adding that for many payers, “cash is still king.”

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

As payments giants like Visa and Mastercard shift the innovation spotlight onto B2B transactions, developers of new accounts payable solutions are ushering in a growing trend: designing payment tools not just for the payer, but for the B2B supplier as well. Below, PYMNTS looks at the latest in AP that does exactly that.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

According to Bank of America ’s new vision of the future, those trips — and other B2B payment activities such as buying supplies — would go much more efficiently if plastic was replaced by mobile wallets. Bank of America’s corporate cards are now compatible with such mobile wallets as Apple Pay , Google Pay and Samsung Pay.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

When it comes to strengthening the B2B payment proposition, oftentimes, tackling friction for only one side of a transaction is no longer sufficient. As solution providers position innovative commercial payment solutions in the market, they're increasingly having to benefit both buyers and suppliers.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

At the dawn of 2020, commercial cards made up only a fraction of overall B2B payments volume, even as corporates continued their slow-but-sure payments digitization efforts away from the paper check. But in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the corporate card seemed to unlock more value for businesses large and small.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

There is a mountain of friction in commercial payments today that seems to have held the industry back from the kind of rocket-pace innovation propelling retail and consumer payments into the future. During his opening keynote, Phalen made a case for why commercial payments have indeed made significant headway in the last decade.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

All eyes are on the small business community in the commercial card world as industry players increasingly explore how card products can help Main Street recovery and stay in business. In a statement, American Express said it is "cooperating with a regulatory review of small business card sales between 2015 and 2016.".

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Yet, with AP solution providers enticed by the high payment volumes and values of the B2B arena, emerging solutions can sometimes be too large for the mom-and-pop shop on Main Street. “Buyers and sellers in the B2B world, they do not share interests, many times,” he said. “There’s a conflict of interest.

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MARCH 23, 2017

So when consumers are cautiously embracing mobile payments, it’s no wonder that corporate payers are even slower at taking up the technology. The bank announced earlier this week that some of its commercial cards are now compatible with Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay. Bank has lent support for mobile B2B payments.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

Strategic Treasurer and Bottomline Technologies recently published a joint report on the B2B payments landscape: B2B payments + WCM Strategies. Combine that with the finding that B2B payments are becoming increasingly complex, with two-thirds of respondents saying they originate payments with at least three banks. Globalization.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

But Scott Wolfe, CEO of Levelset (formerly known as Zlien), told PYMNTS that market fragmentation is holding up B2B cash flows, even as larger contractors or lenders want to disburse payments down the supply chain. Small businesses are the fabric of the construction industry,” he said. They’re also in the thick of these payment pains.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

With payment bigwigs like Visa , Mastercard and American Express pushing further into the B2B payments space, commercial card adoption is being driven by more than growth in the number of card products available. “It streamlines payments and ease of paying by card,” Weiss told PYMNTS in an interview.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

But to understand where B2B payments innovation is going, Jay Dearborn, president of corporate payments at WEX , said the industry must first take a look in the rearview mirror. “To Indeed, Dearborn said, comparing the B2C and B2B payments spaces “isn’t useful for us as an industry” due to just how different the two ecosystems are.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

Bank is mobilizing Mastercard commercial card products, the financial institution (FI) announced on Wednesday (April 11). Bank Corporate Travel Card said it will now support mobile payments for corporate customers using business travel cards that run on the Mastercard network. In a press release , U.S. According to U.S.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Their partnership will create a platform in which Visa’s Payables solutions and card technology integrates into MineralTree’s AP management tool and will be offered to financial institutions so they can support their own corporate clients’ commercial card payment needs.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Bank of America is adding mobile wallet functionality to its suite of commercial card products, the bank said Wednesday (Sept. According to Bank of America, mobile wallets can enhance payment security by tokenizing account numbers, effectively using a physical commercial card to generate a virtual card for a particular purchase.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Accounts payable company MineralTree just gave a big show of support for commercial cards when it announced this week it is partnering with American Express (Amex) to offer companies an integrated platform to support supplier payments via virtual commercial card. But the hurdle of card adoption persists.

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MARCH 14, 2018

Today, alternative small business (SMB) lending company Fundbox is launching Fundbox Pay, a solution the company says will move its credit offering closer to the B2B transaction itself. Late and delayed B2B payments have turned many small business suppliers into a sort of “free bank” for their corporate customers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The last decade of B2B FinTech innovation not only led to an explosion of product options for businesses to manage a variety of processes, including accounts receivable (AR), accounts payable (AP) and accounting. Customer Choice. Scale is required to innovate, but it’s not enough to have a better solution,” he said. Innovation Ahead.

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Accounts B2B End User Payer 53

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

Commercial cards make up just a fraction of the supplier payments space, but the rise in virtual card technology – and the efficiency and security that come along with it – could help card issuers grab a larger slice of the B2B payments market. One-time use makes cards very secure and less susceptible to fraud.

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MAY 31, 2017

The company announced Tuesday (May 30) that it is enabling tokenization across its North American commercial card program, allowing businesses to let their own cardholders pay with a mobile device. As that figure rises, the number of corporate mobile payers is also expected to increase. To do this across all of our U.S.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

According to the firm, B2B transactions were a key driver of ACH transaction growth in the third quarter of the year, leading NACHA Chief Operating Officer Jane Larimer to describe the ACH Network as “thriving.”. ACH may be the most popular ePayments rail option for B2B transactions in the U.S. today, but it’s not the only one.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In an interview with iTnews, American Express VP of Global Commercial Services Becky Cook pointed to the broader, changing payments landscape and how it’s affecting corporate payers. “Every aspect of payments is facing ongoing innovation — who, how, when, where and even why we pay is changing,” Cook said. ”

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JUNE 20, 2017

PNC Bank is linking its corporate clients with a new mobile solution that links users of its Visa commercial cards into mobile wallet solutions Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay. Instead, the mobile pay app creates a virtual card number unique to each transaction. labor force. .” ” U.S.

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Commercial Card Online and Mobile Banking Payer Card Issuer 44

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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Plastiq allows businesses and consumers to pay Klarna with their credit cards, while Klarna will then pay their bills on the appropriate payment rail. The tool also helps companies pay bills that typically aren’t paid via cards, such as rental payments.

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