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Giving Suppliers A Voice — And A Choice — In The Commercial Card Migration

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Commercial card adoption is on the rise as B2B buyers embrace the opportunity to take advantage of working capital float and even open up new revenue streams through rewards programs. The knee-jerk reaction often is, 'I'm not paying to get paid,'" says Boost Payment Solutions Founder and CEO Dean M. Acceptance on Your Terms'.

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Commercial Cards Still Face Adoption Barriers

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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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How Virtual Cards Can Live Up To Their Faster Payments Promise

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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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Where Faster Payments Fits Between B2B Buyers And Suppliers

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And the interesting thing is that this conflict of interest dictates different payment preferences from each side.” ” Perhaps the most obvious reflection of this challenge can be seen in the commercial card space. Where Faster Payments Fits.

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B2B’s Summer Of Faster, Integrated Payments

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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. Faster Payments. Elevating the Commercial Card.

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Embracing The Long Road Ahead For Commercial Card Innovation

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The commercial card industry is progressing, and corporate treasurers say they want in on the innovative action. A survey just released by Capital One found that the majority of corporate treasurers plan to upgrade their commercial card programs within the year.

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BBVA Streamlines Expense Management For Card Purchases

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Spanish financial firm BBVA has created a Global Commercial Cards product that lets firms have more control over the utilization of business cards by staffers. The new offering is designed to assist business customers in streamlining and optimizing costs paid through the bank’s commercial cards, according to a Monday (Nov.