B-to-B payments

Amazon, Accenture and Mastercard are using digital identity, blockchain and mobile payments to crack a window into sustainability and inclusion, but they’re also gaining potential retail benefits by capturing consumers who crave information about the origin of products.

Walmart India will partner with the PhonePe network to offer a mobile payment option at Walmart's B2B cash-and-carry stores.

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.

A machine learning-driven analysis can aid with risk, financial performance and fraud prevention, according to Anant Kale, founder and CEO of AppZen.

Wire transfers have higher fees and fraud risk than other methods, according to Chen Amit, CEO of Tipalti.

The payments process isn’t about just checking a box or signing a check anymore; it’s about cultivating genuinely beneficial relationships for all involved that build trust and drive growth, writes Ravi Thakur, senior vice president of business acceleration at Coupa.

By adopting faster payments, businesses have more flexibility to make last-minute payments and emergency payrolls, or gain a larger window for early-payment discounts.

With managers able to approve employees spending via an app on their phone, it empowers employees, shows they are a trusted member of the team and gives them confidence that their employer is forward-thinking, investing in the latest technology to give them the tools they need perform, according to Nick Campbell, head of product strategy and innovation at Fraedom.

Business pay has always lagged consumer innovation because of complexity. But new advancements in underlying business technology should change that, according to Rob Eberle, CEO of Bottomline Technologies.

The new environment requires merchants to support a solid point of sale system, along with other business activities, writes CardConnect's Michael Mertz

Signature Bank on Jan. 1 will open its Signet Platform to support real-time settlement for commercial payments. The bank is collaborating with trueDigital Holdings, a New York-based blockchain infrastructure, exchange and settlement technology company.