B-to-B payments

As the pandemic continues to expose vulnerabilities, executives need to alter and reshape their risk management strategies with purchase to pay in mind for future success, says Proactis' Jan van der Pouw.

Payoneer has integrated its payment orchestration platform into its core services, a year after obtaining the cloud-based technology through the acquisition of German payments provider Optile.

Banks have made great strides in applying digital technology to the world of checks, but companies that receive checks still have to physically receive them in order to digitize them, says Santander's Greg Murray.

While most payment firms consider checking a time-consuming expensive relic for business transactions, one San Francisco-based fintech is going the opposite direction by adding checks to its digital platform.

Business e-mail compromise is a particular risk, says Nvoicepay's Josh Cyphers.

Two years after launching Early Pay to expedite B2B payments via discounts, American Express is taking on more of the tasks that surround transactions.

It will take years to fully complete the project, but Mastercard has announced the availability of real-time account-to-account corporate payments for U.S. firms through its Mastercard Track Business Payment Service (BPS), with plans to add cross-border payments next year.

Even given the huge jump in digital transactions from e-commerce, card brands are holding out for COVID-19 vaccines as a path out of the payment declines that have accompanied 2020’s health and economic crises.

As the pandemic transforms the way corporations pay suppliers, many banks are watching nimble fintechs rush in with streamlined solutions customized for remote workforces. U.S. Bank didn’t want to risk getting cut out of that equation.

While we can’t know what the post COVID-19 landscape will look like, we do know that business expenses will ramp back up, and with them, higher expectations for digital payments from both suppliers and vendors, says Wex's Jay Dearborn.