PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

To do that, and to clear the next hurdle, Whisler said many financial institutions (FIs) still need to “modernize internally to be a 24/7 operation shop.”. As far as fees are concerned, she explained that existing competition from other providers, card networks and same-day ACH will likely keep fees in line. “To RTP Outlook.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

And by plastic, we mean credit cards. The ripple effects may be negative ones for card giants. As CreditCards.com estimated , a bit more than one-third of nearly 500 SMB owners in the United States have been tapping their personal financial lifelines, such as credit cards, to keep businesses operational. percent and 6.1

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AUGUST 11, 2020

There’s also a new Convoy fuel card that promises to save 63 cents per gallon, which will save drivers up to $12,000 a year, according to the release. “Extending Convoy QuickPay to cover non-Convoy loads, with low rates and a best-in-class fuel card, provides the industry’s leading option for savings.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Consumers around the world have become intimately familiar with the “card-not-present” method of payment. Now businesses in Asia have an option to embrace “card not needed” as the pandemic continues to accelerate business models. That option, which extends to commercial cards , is being presented by Singapore-based CardUp.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

As more financial service providers explore how to capitalize on corporates’ growing adoption of commercial cards, firms are looking at the card as a way to round out their products and services with a more holistic offering. Below, PYMNTS takes a look at the latest in commercial card innovation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

In B2B payments, the commercial card has experienced a dramatic spike in adoption this year as organizations accelerated their digital transformations and, unable to physically enter the office, began to rely on electronic payments to conduct their business. Winter Blues. Spring’s SMB Support. Spring began in dramatic fashion.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

For B2B payments , the pandemic may be the final nail in the coffin of the paper check — and the plastic commercial card, too. Onboarding , for example, can take weeks.” Traditionally, the benefits of card and check payments have resided on the buyer side of the equation at the expense of suppliers.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

The program is housed in an app that will provide users with a photorealistic AR experience in a 360-degree virtual environment, where they can interact with a number of displays that educate them on the features of their card. To begin, the users must scan their cards on their phones. According to the J.D. Power 2018 U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Citi Commercial Cards is introducing an intelligent virtual agent (IVA) capability at its U.S. The IVA is an example of the technology investment strategy being employed by Citi Commercial Cards to enhance its digital services. Citi’s Commercial Card cardholders can use their own words and speak in their own voices.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The ongoing pandemic poses challenges that have amplified businesses’ need to digitize their payment operations. Bringing Virtual Cards To A Virtual B2B World. Businesses have long relied on traditional tools, such as credit cards, to manage business expenses. data entry into our general ledger accounting system,” he explained.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018, solidifying debit as a staple payment type. They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible. shoppers made 72.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

While small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) continue to hustle to secure portions of various federal coronavirus relief funding, the commercial card industry is finding itself in a position to support SMBs and their cash flow needs, too. Boost Finds A Surge In Corporate Card Interest. Visa Fuels Supplier Card Acceptance.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As Nick Reid, director of B2B partner development at Conferma , said in an interview with PYMNTS, virtual cards can help eliminate those hidden costs. Against that backdrop, he said, the “sweet spot” of virtual cards comes along what he termed that “long tail of supplier spend.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

State mandates have also forced some businesses to close or limit on-premises operations, prompting such merchants to connect with consumers online instead. Shoppers may be reluctant to hand over their card details to every online retailer, as each transaction represents another risk that consumers’ information could be exposed in a breach.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Virtual credit cards are one of the more flexible electronic payment methods available, and the world continues its steady march toward greater digital payment use. Virtual cards can improve accounts payable (AP) processes, benefiting both buyers and suppliers by streamlining day-to-day payments, and providing greater control over cash flows.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

Resolved: The highest priorities for banks and credit card companies in today’s payments landscape are cross-border payments, relationships with FinTechs and cloud-based technology. 27) that they have formed a global partnership that will deploy and expand TransferWise’s multi-currency debit cards and mark the first use of Visa Cloud Connect.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

With commercial credit cards historically viewed as a payment vehicle for businesses to make one-off purchases for the office or while on a business trip, the small business credit card has yet to catch up to adoption volumes seen by other payment methods like direct bank transfers in the B2B payments space. Opening Access To Capital.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Customer loyalty and FinTech Paytronix wrote a blog post about the benefits of gift cards for restaurants, which can help ease the burden many are facing during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The answer for many has been simple: Promote gift cards.”.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Big chains and eCommerce operators tend to drive retail innovation — or make the most news when commerce fails — but small, local and even mom-and-pop operations are getting more focus these days via various forms of change, innovation and disruption. Take Google, perhaps, as the prime example. Ready to Buy.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

One example of this effort, which we expect to see more of in 2023, is biometric payments. A biometric payment is a point-of-sale technology that authenticates payments by pairing a payment card with a physical identifier of the cardholder. Both Visa and Mastercard rolled out pilot biometric payment cards in 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In an effort to kill the check — where B2B payments are anything but efficient — might virtual cards be the answer? As ePayables have emerged as an option in the commercial realm, Yarbrough noted that a virtual card can solve problems for both buyers and suppliers.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

FIs were fined more than $17 billion in penalties between 2009 and 2019 for improper AML procedures, for example, including major players like Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. This gives merchants the evidence they need to dispute chargebacks when credit card companies approach them to recoup their losses.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

One way to cut the paper chase is for companies to embrace commercial card products, which can speed payments and aggregate information alongside those payments, while reducing errors and eliminating security risks typically associated with ACH transactions. He offered an example in which a U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. Take payroll cards.

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MAY 6, 2019

As Nanu told it, the ongoing spread of faster payments can serve to not only build a stronger commerce and payments ecosystem for Asia and elsewhere, but make credit cards less important to the further growth of the world’s digital economy. InstaReM was then founded as a four-person operation in a single Singapore office. Credit Cards.

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APRIL 9, 2020

In Australia, the commercial card market is one example of how bureaucracy and legacy process have stifled access to important SMB financial services, despite a continued surge in banking innovation and digitization. “People don’t just want a physical credit card to swipe at the shops,” he said.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Many companies are becoming interested in replacing paper check payments with those conducted via virtual cards or other means, according to Meitra Aycock , senior vice president of corporate payment operations at B2B payments solutions provider Comdata. How Virtual Cards Help Build Better Construction Pr ocurement.

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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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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Yet, according to Kris Carrera, general manager and business line executive of Credit Payments at FIS , the middle market is often underserved — particularly when it comes to commercial card products. As such, middle-market businesses have different motivations than their smaller and larger counterparts for adopting commercial card solutions.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Embedded finance is the “embedding” of payment or banking software into non-financial services companies’ operations. Uber is one of the most prominent examples of a company reaping the benefits of the convenience posed through embedded finance experiences. Use Cases .

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

InstaReM was then founded as a four-person operation in a single Singapore office. The firm is now licensed to operate in 35 countries, and able to digitally transfer funds to more than 50. India, for example, was almost entirely a cash-remittance market half a decade ago. Yet, he noted, conditions in the world are changing.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Factoring company AeroFund International has launched a new division that offers businesses with virtual procurement cards, the company said this week. AeroFund has formed AeroPay Express , a unit that provides virtual procurement cards that act as a line of credit to business payers, as well as vendor management services.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Erik Dyson, co-founder of natural disaster response nonprofit All Hands and Hearts– Smart Response , and Lori Sylvia, its finance manager, recently spoke with PYMNTS about relief workers’ payment pain points, how card-based solutions have helped to safely disburse funds and the ways the offering has relieved both budget planning and financial woes.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 11, 2018

Recently, I’ve visited Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia for example, and am bemused how none of these countries has a strong mobile wallet operator. I am struck every day by the disparity in financial structures I see worldwide.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

Synchrony Financial’s run as the exclusive credit card issuer for Walmart came to an end in July, with reports that Walmart decided this past summer to switch to Capital One Financial. Retailers like Walmart are discovering that they can demand more from the card companies to land their business, noted the report.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Our green bond offering will help us accelerate the transformation of our infrastructure and operations to reach our environmental goals. The initiative builds on Visa’s sustainability goals, including its transition to 100 percent renewable electricity across its operations achieved at the start of 2020, Visa said. “As

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MAY 1, 2017

The fleet card industry is increasingly taking to the use of telematics in an effort to provide greater visibility and control over fuel card spend. BP fuel cards are the latest to heighten their use of telematics, according to reports, with a new collaboration between BP and TomTom.

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