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The Competitive Advantage Of Commercial Card Acceptance

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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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Banks Missing Commercial Card Opportunity

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Commercial cards are tricky. While they may be instrumental in helping companies manage cash when their employees travel for work, commercial cards aren’t the top payment rail of choice for suppliers, so companies often pay invoices another way. Their use is hardly ubiquitous across categories of B2B payments.

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Enticing Suppliers, Buyers To Embrace The Commercial Card

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Commercial cards remain only a fraction of the B2B payments space, but FinTech firms, banks and other financial service providers continue to develop new solutions aimed at boosting adoption. For companies like SmartEquip and Unified Payments Group , that means introducing new ways to lift the burden of suppliers accepting cards.

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Corporate Card Innovators Dive Into Virtualization

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As FinTechs and other financial service providers drive commercial card adoption, virtual card technology becomes an increasingly popular focus of innovation initiatives, particularly as corporates demand solutions to support a remote workforce. Access Bank Taps Visa For SMB Debit Cards.

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MeaWallet Partners With Toqio to Expand Its Digital Card Capabilities

Fintech Finance

The partnership enables Toqio to expand its tokenisation services and integrate push provisioning technology into its card offering, meaning its corporate customers in the UK and Spain can now adopt and distribute Apple Pay and Google Pay compatible digital cards to their end users.

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Commercial Card Growth Led By V-Cards, Says Accenture

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With commercial cards continuing to press their way into accounts payable, a new report from Accenture suggests it’s the virtual card driving adoption of card-based B2B payments. for 2018 — meaning v-cards may secure a larger share of the corporate card spending space than physical corporate cards.

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Lloyds and Taulia Team Up to Offer Virtual Payment Cards

Finovate

. “We are passionate about helping businesses unlock new value streams and our clients are fast recognizing the efficiency and financial benefits of deploying virtual cards for supplier payments,” said Lloyds Head of Commercial Cards Linda Weston.