B-to-B payments

Kabbage gets into payments — and in Square and PayPal's face

10/24/19

The online platform lender Kabbage is making the move beyond just providing working capital loans to small businesses, putting it in direct competition with alternative acquirers and payment companies.

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U.S. Bank launches bill-pay platform to support faster payments, chatbots

10/18/19

U.S. Bank wants to disrupt the way consumers pay their bills by offering billers a new platform fit for faster payment rails, new messaging formats and digital assistants.

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MetaBank sees consumer demand for faster payments

08/27/19

A new study released by the prepaid issuer MetaBank finds that most consumers want businesses to use faster payment methods when sending them money for refunds, rebates and claim payments.

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Investors boost Divvy's business expense payments platform

04/30/19

The venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates has led a $200 million funding round in Divvy, a business payments and expense management platform provider.

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Community bankers alarmed after big banks backtrack on faster-payments pricing

04/10/19

In 2016, a big-bank consortium said that it would charge the same prices to all institutions, regardless of their size. But now the group has added a large caveat to that pledge.

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Pot banking support grows; Equifax, Fair Isaac partner to sell data to banks

03/27/19

Mainstream firms are joining the push to let cannabis firms use banks; the companies say they can help banks make lending decisions quicker.

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Citi's challenge in cross-border payments: Outsmart the tech giants

03/26/19

Billions of dollars in investments are pouring into digital payments, but the hefty numbers obscure a regulatory and competitive squeeze that could shut banks out of the profits for good.

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JPM Coin's focus on B2B breaks the bitcoin mold

02/14/19

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.

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Can blockchain jolt energy payments? What about real estate?

12/24/18

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

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Cross-Border B2B: A Payment Line Up for Grabs

10/12/18

While businesses' ability to transact internationally has expanded, the act of settling payments has gotten more complex, expensive and time-consuming. That means opportunity for companies that can provide solutions.

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