B-to-B payments

Infosys has joined Visa B2B Connect, a four-month old Visa hub that cuts indirect processes and intermediaries out of global business transactions.

Intermediary banks play a vital role in the complex ecosystem of multi-currency payments, says Nvoicepay's Alyssa Callahan.

Online and cloud-hosted B2B services are on the rise, breaking apart traditional payroll and exposing pain points for technology developers to address.

Travelex is rolling out a suite of B2B payment services through a new API-based platform and sandbox.

Goldman Sachs, Elevar Equity and QED Investors are among institutions financing Mexican lenders that fund SMEs.

Telling staff the tech frees up time is an important part of bot-enabled payment strategy, says Troovo's Kurt Knackstedt.

A reluctance to embrace change is keeping supply chain payments slow and labor intensive, says Adflex's Pat Bermingham.

Mastercard and blockchain software provider R3 plan to test a new blockchain-enabled cross-border payments service to connect global faster payments rails supported by a Mastercard-operated clearing and settlement network.

Collections professionals are often overlooked because they are forced into a reactive and uncomfortable role. In reality, collections teams are very similar to the much more lauded sales team, says Billtrust's Derek Bluestone.

Brexit, the U.S.-China trade war, and warning signs of a recession are pressuring cross-border supply chains, accelerating the impetus to streamline payment processing for transactions that are still relatively large, recurring and paper-based.