B-to-B payments

As blockchain and other emerging innovation pour into the B2B market, Bottomline Technologies believes bank collaborations with smooth deployment and user experience can lure anxious businesses away from checks.

The cross-border B2B payments startup is introducing a rewards program to help drive repeat usage and expand its network.

Virtual cards are showing potential to streamline business transactions, attracting a business payment collaboration between Barclaycard and SAP.

JPM Coin is not meant for consumer payments, but rather is a specific technology for a specific use case that the bank controls. Its value comes not from JPM Coin's appeal, but from JPMorgan's titanic wholesale payments business.

Technology startups using the Brex credit card for business expenses will soon migrate to the World Elite Mastercard for Business.

American Express and Bill.com have launched a system to handle the accounts payable process plus the ability to pay vendors through virtual account numbers.

Just as Silicon Valley companies are happy to supply their employees with millions of dollars in free meals and snacks at the office to supplement incomes, many Chinese companies are similarly, indirectly liberal outside the office, around expenses, writes Josh Anish, director of marketing at AppZen.

As the e-commerce payments ecosystem rapidly changes, banks have to find a way to be part of that landscape. This is especially valuable to banks whose customers shop online and could benefit from a loan.

Thin margins and lengthy payment cycles can make cash flow challenging, but the payment terms of an invoice can ease some of that pain, contends Brandon Spear, president of MSTS.

Payments processor Noventis has teamed with Nexus, a real estate industry accounts-payable specialist, to streamline B2B payments between building operators and their suppliers.