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How The Corporate Card Recharted Its Adoption Course

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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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Why Mexico’s SMBs Need A FinTech Operating System And Not Another Bank

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Emerging markets have their own challenges when it comes to banking, where big, traditional financial institutions (FIs) are anything but efficient. Consider the fact that in Mexico it can take four to six months to open a business account — and as much as a year to get access to a debit card.

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The Commercial Card Embraces A Season Of (Major) Change

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For businesses, the world market was thrown into volatility, yet soon, new opportunities emerged. For the corporate card, 2020 has been a season for dramatic shifts in how the payment tool is used and the value it adds to the enterprise. The year 2020 began inconspicuously — but in a few short weeks, everything changed. Winter Blues.

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Why (Win Or Lose) Apple Card May Already Be Changing Payments

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Tick down the list of offerings spanning decades (the Mac, the iPhone, the iPod, iTunes, the iOS operating system/ecosystem), and one can find that the ways we communicate, listen, stream and, indeed, interact with technology have all shifted. The digital card will be linked to Apple Pay. The digital card will be linked to Apple Pay.

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How SMBs Rethink Commercial Card Versatility

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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. In markets like the U.K.,

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Rate Hikes Hint At Tough Grappling With Card Debt?

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Against that backdrop, as reported by CNBC , credit card rates are eyeing (but are not at) record highs. Rates on credit card debt have crossed the 17 percent mark, as measured by annual percentage rates, and are up markedly from 16.1 Variable debt, of course, means that rates get reset, and are now being reset higher.

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The Competitive Advantage Of Commercial Card Acceptance

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Commercial cards account for only a portion of corporates’ overall spend, as checks stick around and ACH gains ground. However, their market share is on the rise as card issuers develop more robust rewards programs, and the ability to integrate card spend into back-office spend management and analytics platforms.

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