B-to-B payments

Blockchain is a bigger opportunity for business transactions than consumer transactions, according to Mastercard president and CEO Ajay Banga, who is poring over the technology to build use cases for corporate users.

Fleetcor is diversifying its core fleet card business, adding digital gifting and expanding business payments technology and analytics.

Automated business payments is key to rightsizing inventory purchases, writes Matt Clark, COO of Corcentric.

Business payments are notoriously resistant to automation and innovation, though there are some signs of digital processing showing up in the education and science market.

The move creates more room for developers to work on new payment types and build additional use cases.

Bank services provider FIS has connected its Trax corporate payments platform to Citigroup via a series of application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling treasury payments to flow in real time and improving cash management for corporate customers.

The bank that can effectively enable a corporate customer to manage its working capital and order-to-pay cycle, pay its employees, and provide analytics and insights to forecast cash flow will win the lion’s share of profits, writes Jessica Cheney, vice president of strategic solutions for Bottomline Technologies.

Using an automated solution to process virtual card payments is the first step in overcoming the challenges of this payment technology, writes Ed Jordan, CFO of Billtrust.

Bill.com's efforts to crack one of the last bastions of paper checking with automation has drawn a fresh $100 million investment round.

Following an antitrust review that lasted almost a year, the approval would appear to cement The Clearing House's status as the front-runner in a race to modernize the U.S. payments system.