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September 25, 2023
Sibos TV: Swift & Visa's Collaboration to Streamline International B2B Payments [Video]
YouTube
“Swift and Visa have announced a partnership to streamline international business-to-business payments, providing financial institutions and their customers with more choice when sending money across borders, while improving the end-to-end speed and transparency of their transactions. Chris Newkirk, Global Head of New Flows, Commercial and Money Movement Solutions at Visa and Thierry Chilosi, Chief Strategy […]
BigCommerce Revolutionizes the B2B Purchasing Experience with Launch of B2B Edition Invoice Portal
Businesswire
“BigCommerce announced the launch of its new B2B Edition Invoice Portal for large B2B suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers to modernize the invoice payment process…The B2B Edition Invoice Portal provides an out-of-the-box invoice payment experience that allows B2B merchants to incorporate invoice payments into a centralized online purchasing workflow.”
September 21, 2023
Transaction Trends: How Real-Time Payments are Driving Innovation in the B2B Space [Video]
Raconteur
“Sean Pitman, head of product and commercialization at Visa Direct Europe, explains how the B2B payments landscape is shifting as payments technology improves and the financial services sector works to keep up with modern expectations.”
September 19, 2023
Visa and Swift Team Up to Enhance Transparency, Speed and Security in Global B2B Money Movement
Visa
“Visa and Swift today announced a collaboration to streamline international business-to-business (B2B) payments by strengthening connectivity between their networks that move trillions in value globally.”
Oracle and Mastercard Enable Customers to Get Faster Access to Working Capital
PR Newswire
“Oracle and Mastercard today announced a new partnership to help enterprise customers automate end-to-end business-to-business (B2B) payment transactions…As a result, mutual Oracle Cloud ERP and Mastercard customers will be able to benefit from: Virtual Cards for Supplier Invoice Payments and Virtual Cards for Corporate Purchases.”
August 22, 2023
TreviPay Expands Payments Technology with Cross-Currency Capabilities for Business Buyers
Business Wire
“TreviPay, the global B2B payments and invoicing network, today released a new capability to support cross-currency sales between businesses, showcasing its commitment in orchestrating choice, convenience and efficiency in B2B payments to merchants around the world.”
August 16, 2023
Episode 216 - Fanning the Flames: Payments Post #5
Each month, Justin Pituch recaps the news that got Glenbrook talking in his Payments Post. In a "double feature" for June and July, Justin covered two major themes: 1) organizations responding to greenfield opportunity in fast payments and 2) organizations recalibrating their post-COVID fintech bets.
In this Fanning the Flames episode, Justin and Yvette Bohanan discuss these developments, as well as Justin's recent Payments Views posts on the pain of B2B and how ISO 20022 could help solve B2B data challenges.
August 11, 2023
Payments Post #5: Glenbrook's June/July Roundup
Payments Post was on vacation last month; your editor was making his way from Berkeley, CA to a new home in Chicago, IL. But now that I’m settled in the Windy City, I’m happy to present this “double feature” post, covering developments in both June and July. Two major themes span these two months: 1) […]
August 10, 2023
Visa and Conferma Pay Partner to Accelerate Expansion of Visa Commercial Pay Globally
Businesswire
“Visa, a global leader in digital payments, and Conferma Pay, the world’s foremost providers of virtual payments technology, announced an extension of their strategic collaboration aimed at further enhancing Visa Commercial Pay, a suite of B2B payment solutions, to help improve cashflow for businesses and eliminate outdated manual processes.”
August 3, 2023
Fast Payments, Rich Data
FedNow – the Federal Reserve’s new instant payment service – went live earlier this summer, and it could signal big changes ahead for B2B payments. Why? It comes down to data. B2B payments are rife with data challenges. In my last post, I described that the funds transfer component of a B2B transaction is often […]
Payments Views: Fast Payments, Rich Data
Glenbrook Partners, LLC
“FedNow – the Federal Reserve’s new instant payment service – went live earlier this summer, and it could signal big changes ahead for B2B payments. Why? It comes down to data. B2B payments are rife with data challenges.”
July 24, 2023
Mastercard Introduces a Fast, Safe and Cost-Effective Solution for Businesses to Accept Virtual Card Payment
Mastercard
“Today, Mastercard announces the launch of Mastercard Receivables Manager, a new, automated solution that streamlines the way businesses accept and process virtual card payments. The innovation complements Mastercard’s virtual card platform as the company provides choice in payments to players across the ecosystem and accelerates the digitization of B2B transactions across buyers and suppliers.”
July 18, 2023
Nuvei and Plaid Extend Partnership to New Regions and eCommerce Verticals
GlobeNewswire News Room
Nuvei Corporation, the Canadian fintech company, and Plaid, a data network that enables consumers to connect their bank accounts to more than 8,000 apps and services, announce today an extension of their existing global partnership to support a wider range of businesses with accepting bank-based payments for multiple use cases, including recurring payments and payouts, […]
July 17, 2023
B2B: Why the Pain?
B2B payments keep commerce moving, but B2B transactions can be incredibly painful for both senders and receivers. Check usage remains stubbornly high in the B2B space, even post-lockdown. Manual processes abound. So what makes B2B transactions so difficult, even as digitization transforms other business processes and areas of the payments world? And what technologies are […]
B2B: Why the Pain?
Glenbrook Partners, LLC
“What makes B2B transactions so difficult, even as digitization transforms other business processes and areas of the payments world? And what technologies are helping finance teams improve their B2B payments experiences? We’ll try to answer both questions at a high level in this piece.”
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