B-to-B payments

American Express will become the exclusive issuer of Hilton Honors cobranded credit cards in January, taking over the entire portfolio it previously shared with Citigroup.

Since Zelle's earliest days as the clearXchange network, the banks behind the P-to-P platform have promised that it could have a role in the business world. U.S. Bank has begun the next chapter by offering Disbursements via Zelle.

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.

As the U.S. continues to shape its faster payments options over the next few years, the connections for such systems have to be able to deliver more information and services with every payment.

The benefits of adopting an end-to-end payments solution are substantial and will help businesses collaborate with vendors and customers, while saving time and money, writes Stephen Markwell, head of treasury services product strategy for commercial banking at JPMorgan Chase.

Providers leave out a majority of lower-volume companies that would happily accept an electronic payment or card, writes Sue Ellen Hodnot, vice president of sales for the west region at Nvoicepay.

The gig or sharing economy has transformed and disrupted the global workforce. It has redefined what we should expect from our payments, writes Ralph Perdomo, a research analyst and writer at Nvoicepay.

It's a common lament that businesses cling to checks and other forms of paper-based transactions while consumer payments rush into a digital future.

The product uses virtual card technology and offers a way to pay multiple invoices.

With the right focus and a little bit of pre-work, many companies can leverage ISO 20022 as the new global standard, writes Kate Risch Choi, a senior product manager for treasury and payment solutions at BMO Harris Bank.

Billtrust has long relied on its sales force to approach businesses directly with accounts receivable technology, and it's turning to banks to automate more steps in the process of handling payments.