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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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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. As Poovala told Webster: “We had to get a debit card by actually creating our own startup. It’s been 20 months, and we tried to get a debit card from some of the largest banks.

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The Commercial Card Embraces A Season Of (Major) Change

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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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PARS For A New Course In B2B Payments

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How to streamline payments between buyers and suppliers who are unaware that new technology can significantly enhance operational efficiencies? Boost Payment Solutions is one company that seeks to bring electronic payments to the B2B realm, as both an acquirer and a FinTech with an exclusive focus on commercial credit cards.

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ADP: Pandemic Prompts Firms To Replace Checks With Pay Cards

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The pandemic has spurred businesses — by necessity — to use digital means to interact with their employees and to keep operations humming. Before the pandemic struck, she said, pay cards were potentially “just another choice” for the employee. And the great shift to digital is also changing the way employers are paying their employees.

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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. Opening Access To Capital.

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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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