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For businesses, the world market was thrown into volatility, yet soon, new opportunities emerged. For the corporate card, 2020 has been a season for dramatic shifts in how the payment tool is used and the value it adds to the enterprise. The year 2020 began inconspicuously — but in a few short weeks, everything changed.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed major card networks Visa and Mastercard to pause transactions involving card-based payments for commercial services like rent or vendor payments that are processed through third-party fintech companies, according to Reuters.
While commercialcard innovation certainly accelerated in 2018, progress can always continue. Morgan Managing Director and Head of CommercialCard Product Management Naney Pandit says should be a focus this year is in mobilizing the corporate card. But so far, mobile B2B payments have been slow to take off.
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Consumers around the world have become intimately familiar with the “card-not-present” method of payment. Now businesses in Asia have an option to embrace “card not needed” as the pandemic continues to accelerate business models. Ramsay said she believes commercialcards have been underused in Asia.
Visa and Billtrust are announcing a major new user for their BusinessPayments Network (BPN) as of today (July 31). JPMorgan has announced it will use the service to streamline the delivery of electronic B2B payments for its commercialcard clients.
JPMorgan Chase has become the first card issuer to join the Visa and Billtrust BusinessPayments Network in an effort to streamline the delivery of electronic B2B payments for its commercialcard clients.
Mastercard has added a new Account-to-Account (A2A) service to its Track BusinessPayment Service , to help businesses exchange data more efficiently and perform payments across multiple rails, a press release says. The Track BusinessPayment Service was rolled out in the U.S.
Spend controls were the focus of innovation in the commercialcard space this week thanks to feature and program launches. This week’s commercialcard innovation tracker includes a rollout of the next generation of authorization controls from Comdata Inc., Mastercard Adds B2B Payment Functionality With CommercialCards.
That can be attributed, in part, to the company's virtual card investments, according to Rettig, with the company's ability to support supplier virtual card acceptance "starting to pay off earlier than expected in the quarter.”.
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The company said in a press release at the time that its cross-border payment services, which first launched with a focus on large, global conglomerates, were now available to SMBs, letting U.S. firms of all sizes send payments to contractors and vendors through borders.
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