PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Commercial cards account for only a portion of corporates’ overall spend, as checks stick around and ACH gains ground. However, their market share is on the rise as card issuers develop more robust rewards programs, and the ability to integrate card spend into back-office spend management and analytics platforms.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s an area of business spend friction that is driving a newfound resurgence in commercial card innovation that the card industry hasn’t seen in decades, with FinTech firms stepping in to take advantage of card transaction data. ” The Biggest Culprits Of Waste. Nixing The Personal Guarantee.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

New payment rails are again in the spotlight, with commercial card and contactless payments emerging as the top focuses for innovators. Boost Payment Solutions is teaming with Visa for commercial payments acceptance, while EE is joining forces with Square to help U.K. Nacha Adopts Eight ACH Payment Updates.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Commercial cards have struggled to gain widespread adoption in B2B payments, and new research from Mercator Advisory Group aims to explain why — and how to overcome those adoption barriers. But corporate buyers often prefer cards to obtain rewards points.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

One way to cut the paper chase is for companies to embrace commercial card products, which can speed payments and aggregate information alongside those payments, while reducing errors and eliminating security risks typically associated with ACH transactions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In this week's look at payment rails innovation, Visa embraces blockchain and digital currency to facilitate corporate and small business payments, while CardUp supports commercial card payments by mixing payment rails for easier supplier acceptance. Visa To Use Card Rails For Digital Currency B2B Payments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Their partnership will create a platform in which Visa’s Payables solutions and card technology integrates into MineralTree’s AP management tool and will be offered to financial institutions so they can support their own corporate clients’ commercial card payment needs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Faster payment initiatives, a focus on application programming interfaces (APIs) and data integrations and efforts to elevate traditional B2B payment tools like ACH and commercial cards all made waves this summer. Elevating the Commercial Card.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

The company highlighted the friction of the legacy ACH rail that can slow down transaction speeds, noting that its technology adds pre-authorization to ACH debit transactions and enables FIs to predict funds ability using intelligence technology. Plaid, Galileo Boost ACH Efficiency. Morgan Enhances Virtual Cards Via Marqeta.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Commercial and consumer cards issued in the U.S. Commercial card spending is up 11.7 percent, compared to consumer card spending, which grew by 10.1 Commercial card spending was $1.39 Consumer card spending was $4.74 Visa ’s commercial card was 43.2 generated $6.13

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

The solution was an important step in helping businesses embrace digital B2B payments, particularly when it comes to adoption of virtual and physical commercial cards. adding support for ACH and wire transactions. BPN addressed that pain point with commercial cards as key players like Visa and J.P. On Monday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The latest data from Nacha found a new record-high growth rate for adoption of ACH payments , with B2B payments showcasing a surge in adoption of the legacy payment rail that has recently turned to technologies that can augment the service, from the movement of transaction data with an ACH payment to the deployment of Same Day ACH.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Using FIS-run PayNetExchange to process ACH, checks and virtual cards and using Comdata to issue Mastercard commercial cards, Corcentric pulls in payment capabilities across a range of rails to support the last mile of the B2B transaction. The data makes that glaringly clear. Speed, for instance, is a strategic factor.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

A Commercial Card Strategy. When it comes to commercial card processing specifically, payment processors aren’t always going to offer Level II and III data capture, either, a vital component that lowers interchange fees for suppliers, removing one of the biggest barriers for card acceptance in B2B trade.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

ACH has often been assumed to be the payment rail poised to take over paper checks as the dominant rail in B2B payments. Accounts receivable executives told researchers that they anticipate ACH to make up 45 percent of the payments they receive by 2020, while checks will decline to 34 percent.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Leavitt told PYMNTS a big reason behind the resistance of commercial card use and acceptance has been a lack of understanding or knowledge about the true value of commercial cards as an alternative payment method. “A massive bright light has begun to shine on [the timing of payments] process.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

NACHA released new statistics late last week on growth of ACH transaction volume in the U.S. According to the firm, B2B transactions were a key driver of ACH transaction growth in the third quarter of the year, leading NACHA Chief Operating Officer Jane Larimer to describe the ACH Network as “thriving.”. In all, more than 3.3

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2016

The best way for suppliers to accept payment is ACH , argued the executive. For the supplier side, ACH is a no-brainer,” he stated, pointing to the flat transaction costs and the speed with which the payment clears. What will have a bigger impact, he claimed, is this continuing shift from paper check, to card payments, to ACH.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

When the B2B payments industry began considering what to expect for 2018, commercial cards weren’t often on the radar. Yet, 2018 was certainly a big year for commercial cards, and for credit card giants’ B2B payments aspirations overall. Visa Acquires Fraedom.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

20) that UMB will begin offering Bottomline’s Paymode-X solution, integrated with Visa Payables, for business customers, allowing companies to pay their own suppliers with virtual cards as well as checks and ACH. In a press release sent to PYMNTS, the companies announced Wednesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

That focus led UMB to recently announce a partnership with Fraedom , a deal that sees UMB’s corporate customers being migrated to the Fraedom expense management platform linked to commercial cards. “In corporate America, people are not just eight-to-five,” she said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

With Visa and Mastercard each having made significant investments to capture more of the SMB segment through an array of payment rails, including card, ACH, and proprietary networks, SWIFT is joining a competitive landscape that aims to overhaul the payment rail status quo. Sila Raises Funding to Nix ACH.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Initially, this came in the form of purchase cards that gave managers the ability to allow their employees to make purchases on behalf of their companies, from office supplies to travel and expense spending. Leavitt says suppliers are indeed more difficult than buyers to convince of commercial cards’ value proposition.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Analysts and industry players generally have their bets set on ACH to help guide accounts payable toward electronic payments, and indeed, research suspects ACH payments will finally surpass paper checks in corporate payments (the Federal Reserve’s latest data found it already has).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

That’s because the payment rails and infrastructure likely already exist for sellers that accept card, ACH and other electronic payment methods from their individual customers. The card rails, in particular, offer a way for traditionally B2C merchants to ease their expansion into B2B payments, he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Commercial card technology can ease multiple pain points in B2B payments. But as today’s industry players reveal, the commercial card opportunity is often biggest in areas outside of the payment. Pleo Makes a Commercial Card Shift. We know the importance of cardholders’ preference for rapid self-service.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

With its solution designed to address friction in supplier commercial card acceptance, Nium ‘s InstaReM brand announced the expansion of BizPay into a new market: Australia. It’s a mixing of payment rails that aims to overcome one of the largest barriers to commercial card adoption. InstaReM Expands BizPay.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This week's look at the convergence of accounts payable and accounts receivable finds tools like commercial cards, trade credit, artificial intelligence and robotics process automation easing friction on both ends of a B2B transactions. Boost Gives Suppliers A Voice In Card Acceptance. CardUp Eases Card Adoption In Asia.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Other banks and B2B FinTechs, meanwhile, have found additional ways to wield the power of the commercial card this week. PYMNTS rounds up the latest in commercial card innovation below. Comdata Fuel Cards Facilitate Factoring. .” Brex Offers Work-From-Home Rewards.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Witness the rise of commercial card products and rebates over the past several decades, where Aquilina said “the focus really generated heat around the buyer and the cardholder that was absolutely not matched by banks on the supplier or merchant side.”. Suppliers have been pretty much forced to accept cards.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

When the commercial card first came on the scene, executives thought of the payment tool in limited terms: a piece of plastic their employees could use to make one-off purchases at the office supply or hardware store, buy a coffee while on a business trip or take a client out to dinner. ” Recognizing Commercial Card Advantages.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Though credit cards were not originally designed to address the needs of corporate payers, advances in commercial card technology have positioned the payment tool as one that’s gaining traction in the accounts payable department. “But in the cross-border space, it’s a different ball game.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

is partnering with Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) to help healthcare organizations pay suppliers with commercial cards, Boost announced today (Nov. Commercial cards have become an effective cash management solution, especially during the pandemic’s disruptive effects on how organizations choose to pay and hold cash.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

With the announcement that BPN is expanding to include support for ACH and wire transactions as well as card payments, Visa and Billtrust are casting a wider net of collaborators. Now, as Visa and Billtrust move to scale the solution , they’re doubling down on the concept of network connectivity.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The virtual card can be a valuable payment solution for the enterprise thanks to the technology's security features and mobility. Yet adoption remains limited, largely thanks to corporates' ongoing use of more traditional payment methods like ACH or even physical cards. Onyx Rolls Out Virtual Card Tech For Hospitality Sector.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But even if a business is sending ACH or accepting commercial card transactions, the processes and workflows associated with a B2B transaction remain complex, and they often cannot be remedied solely by adopting electronic payment methods.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In the absence of corporate travel and entertainment, as the road warriors stay (and work) at home, it may make sense that commercial card use would see a pause in the B2B space. But we’ve focused on finding new areas of spend for buyers to utilize their cards,” Leavitt noted. But in an interview with Karen Webster, Dean M.

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