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The Economic – And Ergonomic – Value Of Commercial Card Optimization

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But as businesses hold onto their cash in preparation for more disruption ahead, an increasing number of firms are also taking a closer look at a different AP strategy that can support working capital needs without creating cash flow issues for valued suppliers. Optimizing Card Spend.

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Rounding Out SME Cash Management Offerings

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Just look at SAP Ariba , which integrated PrimeRevenue’s supply chain financing into its spend management platform, or Reckon , a small business accounting platform that recently rolled out an SME lending feature thanks to Prospa. Less common, however, is an SME financing solution that integrates into a commercial card offering.

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Spend Controls Fuel Commercial Card Innovation

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Spend controls were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to feature and program launches. This week’s commercial card innovation tracker includes a rollout of the next generation of authorization controls from Comdata Inc., Mastercard Adds B2B Payment Functionality With Commercial Cards.

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India’s ICICI Offers First Contactless Commercial Card

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Indian airliner Jet Airways is teaming up to bring SMEs in the nation a commercial card solution, a move reports said will bring India its first contactless business card. Reports on Thursday (May 12) said ICICI Bank will collaborate with Jet Airways to launch the Jet Airways ICICI Bank Business Advantage Card.

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Commercial Cards Lean Into Data Integration Opportunity

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Commercial cards remain a small, but growing, part of the B2B payments ecosystem, thanks in part to their versatility. SMBs use credit in a variety of ways,” he said, “as end-of-the-month, short-term financing, on a per-transaction basis or as a longer-term financing vehicle.”. T&E Goes Virtual.

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Corcentric Joins The B2B Payments Game

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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. But there’s more to choosing a payment technology than supplier acceptance.

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Rising Credit Card Use In UK Could Mean The End For ‘Petty Cash’

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Contactless transactions using commercial credit cards surged nearly a fifth higher in 2019 than they had been prior, according to the U.K. All card payments, including both debit and credit, were up 20 percent, according to Yahoo Finance UK on Thursday (Feb. subsidiary of HSBC, rising 24 percent.