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With over two decades of experience in product management and strategic marketing, she previously led Citis APAC CommercialCards Travel Products division and held senior roles at American Express. In Singapore, Hazel Oh takes on the role of Vice President of Account Management for the APAC region. said Jim McCarthy, CEO at Thredd.
Leavitt , founder and CEO of Boost Payment Solutions , said commercialcard programs are now coming to the forefront of AP departments’ priority lists when delaying payments is no longer the most viable, or effective, cash management option. Optimizing Card Spend. “We’re seeing a lot more of that mentality.”
In B2B payments, the commercialcard has experienced a dramatic spike in adoption this year as organizations accelerated their digital transformations and, unable to physically enter the office, began to rely on electronic payments to conduct their business. Winter Blues. Spring’s SMB Support. Spring began in dramatic fashion.
For digital laggards, the coronavirus pandemic will serve as a harsh wake-up call regarding the importance of digitization and automation, with commercialcards uniquely positioned to address many of the pain points companies face today in these unprecedented times. A Surge In CommercialCard Interest.
A proven leader with a track record of success in both public and private sectors, Hazel was most recently with Citi, heading APAC CommercialCards Travel Products. We are very excited to be fueling the growth of fintech career opportunities globally and are looking forward to further expansion in 2025.
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. One area of development that J.P. Following The Consumer Trend.
Tribe Payments has been chosen by SetldPay to provide their issuer processing, with the company also benefitting from Tribe’s Risk Monitor and 3D Secure solutions. SetldPay provides solutions for any kind of prepaid card program including gift cards, fuel cards, travel & FX, B2B and commercialcards.
Although commercialcard 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 commercialcard could be at a crossroads.
Codat and PayTech have partnered to transform how commercialcardissuers support clients to optimize their supplier payments through spend analytics. Spend analysis is a critical service to help commercial clients optimize working capital by offering recommendations on how to best manage supplier spend patterns.
Banks trudging along slowly with digital advancements are getting a push from virtual card technology providers touting the concept of mass distribution for commercialcardissuers.
But companies large and small are still making purchases, and with the pandemic fueling the need for contactless payments, commercialcard technology adoption is on the rise. Speaking with PYMNTS, Chung discussed the importance of organizations being able to consolidate card spend data even when working with multiple issuers.
The collaboration combines Boosts cross border payment solution for enterprise-level business, Boost 100XB , with TransferMates globally regulated payments infrastructure to help increase industry-wide commercialcard usage and adoption. based BINs to expand the reach of those programs into cross-border payments.
Boost Payment Solutions , which works in optimizing payment cards, is partnering with Visa to give commercialcardissuers, cardholders and suppliers more automation and flexibility in their experiences, according to a press release.
Supreme Court ruling in favor of the card networks during a case in 2017, and with Australia in the midst of pondering either swipe fee limits or an outright ban. However, missing from much of this regulatory debate is the issue of interchange fees on commercialcards. ” The CommercialCard Debate.
The suite of Mastercard payment solutions aims to enable businesses to save time, reduce costs and manage business expenses in more streamlined ways, with corporate clients able to further access Mastercard's In Control for Commercial Payments , a platform that helps companies add end-to-end virtual payments for an enhanced user experience.
As a result of the new collaboration, Boosts cross-border payment solution for enterprise-level business, Boost 100XB, will be combined with TransferMates globally regulated payments infrastructure to help increase industry-wide commercialcard usage and adoption. They will also have access to over 140 currencies. .
Commercialcard innovation continues to make big waves in the accounts payable (AP) department, as corporates and cardissuers alike explore new ways to drive business spend on cards beyond business trips or ad-hoc purchases. American Express commercialcards have been a staple for many corporates over the years.
Leavitt, founder and CEO of Boost Payment Solutions , this is among the largest priorities for today’s accounts receivable departments, and commercialcards are stepping up to meet that demand. The drive for payment information is a key factor behind suppliers’ gradual path toward commercialcard acceptance.
Cardlay , a pioneering Danish fintech company, and Visa , a global leader in digital payments, are excited to announce a collaboration aimed at setting new standards for fast and efficient spend management for commercialcardsissuers and their clients.
Much of what commercialcard innovators seek to address is a massive pain point for adoption: supplier acceptance. Such was the strategy of JPMorgan in its latest corporate card initiative. Check out the latest in corporate card innovation below. JPMorgan Taps Boost For Corporate Card Acceptance.
Commercialcards 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 cardissuers develop more robust rewards programs, and the ability to integrate card spend into back-office spend management and analytics platforms.
According to reports, customers are voicing complaints that Curve was not transparent enough when sending cards to users. The publication pointed to Curve’s online community message board, in which users are reporting they were unknowingly sent a business credit card while expecting a consumer card. “I
Yet, according to Kris Carrera, general manager and business line executive of Credit Payments at FIS , the middle market is often underserved — particularly when it comes to commercialcard products. Once that occurs, they continue to face obstacles in understanding exactly what drives commercialcard adoption for this customer base.
There is more than one way to drive commercialcard innovation. For vendors, commercialcard acceptance can be a matter of wielding technology to lower interchange costs. For vendors, commercialcard acceptance can be a matter of wielding technology to lower interchange costs. A Focus On Transparency.
Commercialcards 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.
One way to cut the paper chase is for companies to embrace commercialcard products, which can speed payments and aggregate information alongside those payments, while reducing errors and eliminating security risks typically associated with ACH transactions.
With commercialcard adoption on the rise as more organizations make the shift to digital payments, cardissuers continue to drive innovation with their corporate card products. “It is not a high-growth area,” Squeri said of the corporate T&E spend segment, according to the report.
Commercialcards 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.
Commercialcards are tricky. While they may be instrumental in helping companies manage cash when their employees travel for work, commercialcards 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.
Commercial and consumer cards issued in the U.S. Commercialcard spending is up 11.7 percent, compared to consumer card spending, which grew by 10.1 Commercialcard spending was $1.39 Consumer card spending was $4.74 Visa ’s commercialcard was 43.2 generated $6.13
Changes to commercialcard regulations could be tripping up small businesses in Australia, according to reports on Friday (Sept. Paying with a commercialcard means up to 55 days interest-free (an offer from the cards’ issuing banks). An interchange fee cap means less profits for the banks.
Issuer processing powerhouse Enfuce today announces a groundbreaking partnership with Síminn Pay , the fintech arm of Síminn, the largest telecom service provider in Iceland. The new open loop Mastercard credit card, sponsored by Enfuce, is a virtual card compatible with Apple Pay and Google Pay.
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 commercialcards to their phones’ digital wallets. It’s just more appropriate than ever,” he said, of the shift to virtual cards and mobile wallets.
percent per transaction, do not cover commercialcards, instead allowing individual Member States to decide whether the fee caps apply to these corporate cards. Payment Systems Regulator ruled last month that individual pay corporate cards are not considered commercialcards. regulator declared. “The
Marqeta , the global card issuing platform, debuted its new Tokenization-as-a-Service (TaaS) product, which allows cardissuers to access its tokenization technology, the Oakland, California-based company announced on Tuesday (Sept. The function is expected to debut next year and will integrate with J.P.Morgan’s systems.
Bank is offering a new service to corporate card managers in need over overseeing company cards around the world. Bank has launched a single platform through which commercialcard managers can manage card programs regardless of where those cards are. Bank issued the corporate card.
Bank will enable its corporate customers to use their commercialcards via the mobile Apple Pay , Android Pay and Samsung Pay solutions, reports said Monday (March 20). According to the bank, this makes it the first to support mobile payments for Visa commercialcard transactions. Bank Corporate Travel Card, while U.S.
With commercialcards 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.
“It’s widely acknowledged in the industry that for a long time, the benefits of commercialcards [for supplier payments] have been … weighted in favor of corporate buyers,” Reid said, adding that “among the innovations and trends we’re currently seeing is the industry’s attempt to redress that balance between buyers and suppliers.”.
JPMorgan Chase has become the first cardissuer to join the Visa and Billtrust Business Payments Network in an effort to streamline the delivery of electronic B2B payments for its commercialcard clients.
The collaboration combines Cardlay’s spend management technology with Visa’s payment network, data capabilities, and market position to drive innovation in spend management for commercialcardissuers and their customers. Headquartered in Denmark, Cardlay made its Finovate debut earlier this year at FinovateSpring.
New payment rails are again in the spotlight, with commercialcard and contactless payments emerging as the top focuses for innovators. Boost Payment Solutions is teaming with Visa for commercial payments acceptance, while EE is joining forces with Square to help U.K. merchants accept touch-free payments.
Which is why Visa’s mandate required that North American consumer issuers offer transaction-based alert services to their cardholders by October 2016. But there’s some discretion for issuers in implementing the mandate. But there’s a few things to consider when it comes to how to implement these transaction alerts.
At the dawn of 2020, commercialcards made up only a fraction of overall B2B payments volume, even as corporates continued their slow-but-sure payments digitization efforts away from the paper check. But in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the corporate card seemed to unlock more value for businesses large and small.
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