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Plastiq Talks Commercial Cards, ePayment Trends

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Adoption of commercial cards in B2B payments has emerged as one of the hottest industry topics of the year thanks to new FinTech innovations and industry leaders like Visa and Mastercard making a push further into the market. These are optimistic observations for an industry where commercial cards have struggled to get off the ground.

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Commercial Cards Find Opportunity In Transparency, Lower Fees

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There is more than one way to drive commercial card innovation. For vendors, commercial card acceptance can be a matter of wielding technology to lower interchange costs. For vendors, commercial card acceptance can be a matter of wielding technology to lower interchange costs. A Focus On Transparency.

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AP Innovators Increasingly Turn Attention To Supplier Friction

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This week's look at the convergence between accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) finds this tactic expanding in the corporate card arena, while another FinTech aims to boost cross-border payment traceability for both payer and payee. Tat Capital Eases Card Acceptance For Vendors.

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BofA Links Corporate Cards To Mobile Wallets

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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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How Vendors Can Lower The Cost (And Risks) Of Card Acceptance

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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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Mesh Eyes Virtual Cards For Global B2B Payments

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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. “But in the cross-border space, it’s a different ball game.”

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Visa’s Kevin Phalen: Making The Case For B2B Payments’ Innovation Progress

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However, the real proof of progress in B2B payments, Phalen said, is in how industry stakeholders — including FIs, FinTechs and corporates — have overhauled how they think about those commercial payments challenges as they move forward to tackle them. Thinking Beyond the Payer. Payment Rails Converging.

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