PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

Although commercial card products can offer working capital benefits on both ends of the B2B transaction, adoption lags behind other digital payment methods in accounts payable (AP) departments. And with the pandemic all but wiping out business trips, the commercial card could be at a crossroads.

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Commercial Card Credit Limit Issuers Cross-Border 80

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Adoption of commercial cards in B2B payments has emerged as one of the hottest industry topics of the year thanks to new FinTech innovations and industry leaders like Visa and Mastercard making a push further into the market. percent of incoming payments volume for B2B vendors by 2020 — up just 1.5

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Commercial Card B2B Small Business Push-to-Card 68

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In addition, the release says that annual commercial spend in the Middle East and Africa tops $4 trillion, mostly done via payment cards. The commercial card has grown in popularity, too, with online card payments having received the biggest share of new B2B volumes since the pandemic began.

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Commercial Card Visa B2B Reconciliation 75

PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

At least, that’s what commercial card technology players believe, with this week’s rundown of the latest initiatives in corporate card solutions placing a focus on returning business trip volume. Amadeus B2B Wallet Expands Functionality. BNP Paribas Adds Virtual Cards To Coupa.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

That’s particularly true in accounts receivable (AR), with B2B suppliers not only needing money to flow in from their buyers, but high-quality transaction data for reconciliation, reporting and analytics. A Reconciliation Headache. According to Dean M. Data’s Favorite Payment Rails.

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Commercial Card Lockbox Reconciliation Push-to-Card 61

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Virtual cards and straight-through processing (STP) are poised to get more attention from buyers and suppliers as the pandemic recedes. Suppliers, he said, have traditionally been less amenable to commercial card payments, but are increasingly starting to accommodate buyers’ payment preferences.

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B2B Process Point-of-Sale (POS) Commercial Card 105

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The B2B payments ecosystem experienced a sudden and dramatic acceleration of change upon the onset of the global pandemic, and its impacts reach far beyond the mere digitization of the B2B transaction. The Coexistence Of Rails. Often, that means the cooperation of multiple rails at once.

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B2B Payer Payments BNPL 119

PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

From a lack of supplier acceptance of electronic payments to outdated infrastructure within accounts payable (AP) departments, the B2B payments ecosystem still has much room for improvement on multiple fronts. Moving the needle in the journey away from paper checks isn’t a one-sided battle, either. An Ecosystem Approach.

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B2B Payments Wire Wires 110

PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Historically, corporate travel and expense ( T&E ) management has been viewed as an entirely separate function from other B2B payment workflows. As a result, the lines that once separated T&E from other B2B payment workflows are blurring, according to Conferma Pay CEO Simon Barker and Barclays President of Payments Marc Pettican.

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B2B Payments Commercial Card Best Practices 91

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

There’s an imbalance in B2B payments — between buyers and suppliers, and between automation on one side of the cash flow equation and manual, paper-based processes on the other. Aquilina said that’s partly because historically, B2B payments innovation efforts — especially via FinTechs — have focused on buyers. Change Is In The Air .

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B2B Innovation Commercial Card Push-to-Card 79

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. This, he noted, is Mesh’s entryway to the market of cross-border B2B payments.

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B2B Commercial Card Cross-Border Cross-Border Payments 65

PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2020

FinTech Conferma Pay said Wednesday (May 6) that it has teamed up with Visa to integrate the payment network’s virtual cards into the Conferma Pay mobile app, provisioning commercial cards to their phones’ digital wallets. billion a month in the U.S. ” The Mechanics And The Roadmap.

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Reconciliation Commercial Card Contactless Payments Online and Mobile Banking 107

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 29, 2025

From a Press Release dated May 21, 2025, San Francisco, California Credit card giant Visa has announced the general availability of its new Visa AR Manager platform in the United States, marking a significant step in its mission to streamline business-to-business (B2B) payments and become the central hub for banks, fintechs, and enterprises.

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Payment APIs and Integration B2B Enrollments Automation 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

For B2B payments , the pandemic may be the final nail in the coffin of the paper check — and the plastic commercial card, too. With virtual payments, buyers gain from being able to increase their days payables outstanding by leveraging their credit lines on their commercial card products.

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Checks B2B Payment APIs and Integration Payments 93

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The company noted that the product offers a full view and management over business spending in addition to allowing for orchestration, reconciliation and data on spending, according to a Tuesday (Sept. Companies have Mesh Payment’s cardless payment offering take the place of their current corporate card set-up, according to the announcement.

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B2B Payments Cross-Border Commercial Card 73

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

B2B FinTech-as-a-Service (FaaS) unicorn Rapyd has partnered with Visa to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) expand their FinTech and payment services, Rapyd announced on Tuesday (Feb. Rapyd is also joining Visa’s FinTech Fast Track program “as an enablement partner,” and now issues Visa cards in the U.K.

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FinTech Commercial Card Cross-Border Cross-Border Payments 82

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

JPMorgan has announced it will use the service to streamline the delivery of electronic B2B payments for its commercial card clients. BPN’s offering is a great fit for JPMorgan’s commercial card clients and their suppliers,” said John Skinner, head of commercial cards at JPMorgan.”

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Payment Networks Business Payments Commercial Card B2B 76

Stax

MARCH 14, 2024

During the 2020s, almost all businesses will have been looking at b2b payments processing solutions to meet changing consumer needs. But what about in the business-to-business (B2B) sector? Industry data shows that the B2B payments landscape is rather diverse. Learn More What are B2B Payments? Not sure where to start?

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B2B Process B2C Credit Cards 88

Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 2, 2024

As part of its ongoing investment in its B2B network and in enhancing buyer and supplier capabilities, American Express has announced a new offering by Boost Payment Solutions , a global leader in payments, to provide commercial virtual Card processing services to U.S. merchants who accept American.

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Payment Solutions Point-of-Sale (POS) Payments B2B 98

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.

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B2B Commercial Card Push-to-Card Payments 53

Fintech Finance

MARCH 14, 2024

Visa (NYSE: V), the world’s leader in digital payments, Merex Investment, and PayMate have partnered to digitise B2B rental collections through Visa’s BPSP solution provided by PayMate. In addition to this, it also helps their tenants with enhanced working capital while making payments using commercial cards.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In this week's Commercial Card Innovation Tracker, PYMNTS rounds up the latest innovations that showcase how industry players are looking beyond the card itself — and toward API integrations and value-added features — to encourage corporate card use. Airbase Spend Signals Rising Card Adoption.

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Payment APIs and Integration Commercial Card Push-to-Card Visa 94

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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B2B Commercial Card Payments ACH 53

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

American Express is a top player in the commercial card space but is perhaps best known in the B2B space as a provider of solutions for larger corporates. The credit card giant has teamed up with a familiar face in the SME FinServ industry, however, to heighten its presence among smaller firms. Reports on Thursday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The payments industry has been talking about the digitization of B2B transactions for years, maybe decades, with not much of a nudge of that needle. In some ways, the lack of digitization is the result of the financial services industry operating on misconceptions about the best ways to ensure that electronic B2B payments gain traction.

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B2B Push-to-Card Payments Checks 65

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Financial service providers looking to enhance B2B payments offerings must turn their attention to the user experience. 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.

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Commercial Card Payer Reconciliation B2B 40

PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

The evolution of B2B eCommerce has historically been driven by the effort to bring a consumer-like experience a-la-Amazon into the corporate procurement world. Yet using the consumer eCommerce framework as the launchpad for digitizing B2B trade isn’t always going to suit enterprise needs. It’s not an unfounded strategy.

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B2B B2C Checks Payments Strategy 59

Fintech Finance

AUGUST 23, 2024

SetldPay provides solutions for any kind of prepaid card program including gift cards, fuel cards, travel & FX, B2B and commercial cards. A key USP for SetldPay is their automated funds flow that allows just-in-time funding to minimise pre-funding requirements and massively simplify reconciliation.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Expense management company Emburse has launched Emburse Cards for Abacus B2B customers to use as a real-time expense management service, according to a press release. ” The cards are optimized for small and medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) and large organizations.

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Commercial Card Reconciliation B2B Automation 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

Coupa has announced another bank partner to join its recently launched suite of B2B payments solutions known as Coupa Pay. 22) that they are now working together to integrate JPMorgan’s Single-Use Accounts (SUA) virtual cards into the Coupa Virtual Cards for Purchase Orders offering, part of the Coupa Pay suite.

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Card Issuer Issuers Reconciliation Commercial Card 75

Tearsheet

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Morgan as an early adopter for its B2B virtual card offering. To discuss this development and its implications for the B2B payments sector, we spoke with two key figures: Stephen Markwell, Head of Product Strategy and FinTech Partnerships for Global Banking at J.P. This partnership comes at a significant time for B2B payments.

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B2B Checks Payment APIs and Integration Push-to-Card 59

PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

When Sabre and Visa announced a new partnership in April to pair Visa virtual commercial cards with the Sabre Virtual Payments gateway , the goals were fairly big: create a virtual B2B travel payments solution that was faster, more secure and more transparent for buyers and suppliers. Travel is a complicated vertical.

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B2B Payment Gateways Issuers Gateways 57

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

James Anderson , executive vice president of global commercial and B2B solutions at Mastercard, said the idea was to build a new, secure kind of payment rail. Mastercard also recently rolled out the Track Card to Account Transfer in the Asia Pacific region, which will help businesses seeking more diverse payment styles.

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Visa Business Payments Payments Commercial Card 81

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

With data analytics now a paramount process of cash flow management, developers are tasked with making their most innovative B2B payments and finance technologies seamlessly integrate with ERP and accounting platforms. The issue, said U.S. ” U.S. . But it’s just one technology of many.

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Payments Data Payments Commercial Card Reconciliation 73

Fintech Finance

JANUARY 16, 2024

TreviPay , the most-trusted B2B payments and invoicing network, today announced the launch of its Universal Acceptance solution to expand supplier access to and faster implementation of TreviPay’s payments and invoicing technology, in partnership with Mastercard. The results are based on a comprehensive review of 300 global B2B buyers.

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Credit Cards B2B Visa Payment APIs and Integration 52

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

In Visa news, the credit card company is hitting back at rival Mastercard with the rollout of a B2B payments program just days after Mastercard announced its own B2B payments tool. They include virtual cards, accounts payable automation, data analytics and other capabilities, Visa said.

B2B 44

B2B Payment APIs and Integration Cross-Border Payments Payments 44

PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

Coupa is enhancing its B2B payments solution Coupa Pay with the help of several top players in the payments space. According to Thakur, “this will reduce suppliers’ labor-intensive reconciliation of virtual card payments, increase their operating efficiencies and help them get paid faster.”

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PayPal B2B Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border 43