B-to-B payments

Amex upbeat on consumer travel, less so on business

01/26/21

The card brand is betting on homebound consumers' eagerness to get out, but restrictions will need to ease. And corporate spending will take much longer to come back.

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Zelle small-biz payments volume jumps 30% from 2Q to 3Q

11/02/20

The person-to-person network is being used more often for purchasing, with consumer payments to small businesses up sharply.

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Heavy demand for fast payments in small banks' trial run

10/26/20

A California startup and a century-old Missouri bank, which began using The ClearingHouse's real-time payments network this summer, say businesses have embraced the technology to pay suppliers and gig-economy workers and quickly close real estate deals.

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Square's Jackie Reses, who led ILC bid and small-biz lending, steps down

10/05/20

Longtime finance entrepreneur Jackie Reses, who led Square Capital for the last five years, is leaving the company at the end of the month. Square has not yet named a successor.

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Amex, already small-business card king, wants more with Kabbage

08/17/20

American Express Co. is acquiring the teams and technology behind the online lender Kabbage Inc. as the credit-card giant seeks to provide more loans and other services to small-business owners.

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How Citi and Flywire sped payments to get PPE from China to Boston

05/04/20

The shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical workers is one of the most troublesome elements of the coronavirus outbreak, though prior work to declutter cross-border supply chain payments provides some hope.

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BNY Mellon’s early adoption of real-time payments paying dividends

01/27/20

The bank was one of the first users of The Clearing House's RTP network. Andrew Haskell explains how faster payments are helping the bank and its clients.

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Once banned, credit card surcharges gain momentum

01/09/20

Though many merchants remain wary of alienating their customers with fees, others now see an opportunity to recoup the growing costs associated with accepting plastic.

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As faster payments proliferate, is there a business case for banks?

11/20/19

If the deployment of faster payments came with a guarantee to boost a financial institution's bottom line, more banks and businesses would likely invest in bringing their legacy systems into a new age.

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Geopolitics weighs on Mastercard's global B2B ambitions

10/29/19

Mastercard is aggressively building a business payments ecosystem as it keeps an eye on political headwinds it has little control over.

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