Новости за 05.10.2021

Customer experience management startup Quadient has launched an update to its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product Quadient Impress that makes it easier for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to fully embrace digital processes, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 5) press release. Quadient Impress offers a multi-channel document delivery and automation tool for SMBs that now includes delivery […]

The report “Digital Banking: The Brewing Battle for Where We Will Bank,” a PYMNTS and Optherium collaboration, surveyed 2,225 U.S.-based consumers to gauge their impressions of, and intentions to use, digital banking services. See also: Digital Banking: The Brewing Battle for Where We Will Bank Eight-two percent of consumers connect to their account(s) through some […]

National healthcare provider Carbon Health is acquiring remote patient monitoring (RPM) company Alertive Healthcare in a move to offer extended home-based and remote care services, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 5) press release. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The tie-up is intended to help Carbon Health grow its omnichannel care delivery strategy and […]

Online food ordering company DoorDash Inc. has filed a lawsuit against New York City stemming from a new law mandating that food delivery companies share customer data with restaurants, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 5) report from Reuters. The food delivery company argued that the city’s law violates customer privacy and provides an uneven playing field […]

As businesses continue to struggle against supply chain and labor shortages, the growth of PepsiCo’s food and beverage categories has outpaced the market as a whole, even as the brand has raised prices to accommodate these challenges.   In the third quarter of 2021, the consumer packaged goods (CPG) giant PepsiCo saw its net revenue rise […]

Today in B2B payments, Grasp and Traxo team up to improve access to “invisible” corporate travel plans, and Koffie Labs expands into Georgia and Pennsylvania. Plus, how collaborative commerce boosts the consumerization of business payments, Crezco nets $4 million in seed funding and Higo brings in $23 million in fresh capital.  UK Open Bank Platform […]

The well-known proverb — necessity is the mother of invention, or in this case, “innovation” — has been the North Star guiding businesses as they navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. And for European retailer Selecta Group, whose business depended on vending machines located in places like offices, malls, and hotels — places where people didn’t go […]

End-to-end financial system Payhawk on Tuesday (Oct. 5) announced it’s now offering 3% cash back on all payments.  The company also announced a new integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, streamlining all administrative work around managing company spending. It is also providing Single Sign-On for enterprise clients. These new tools and features are aimed […]

PayPal’s coupon service Honey is now offering cash back, giving U.S. customers another way to redeem Honey Gold points while online shopping. PayPal announced the new program on Tuesday (Oct. 5), saying it will allow users who link their Honey and PayPal accounts to redeem Gold points for cash through PayPal, as well as credit […]

Best Buy is launching a new nationwide membership program, Totaltech, that offers unlimited technology support, along with access to products that could be hard to come by as the holiday shopping season kicks into full gear. For the annual price of $199.99, members get unlimited, round-the-clock tech support, exclusive pricing, free shipping and other perks. […]

Bank debit and checks remain two of the top methods companies use to send payments — but with check use rapidly declining, debit is poised to take a greater stake in the B2B payments world.  Debit-supported account-to-account (A2A) money transfers could help companies smooth out friction points in their B2B or B2C payment processes. This […]

Cloud-based business management platform Sage announced Tuesday (Oct. 5) it acquired U.K.-based SMB accounting proposal management software company GoProposal, the fourth addition Sage has made in the past 12 months.  The GoProposal acquisition expands Sage’s U.K. foothold, as the GoProposal team will join Sage’s global accountants team based in Manchester, U.K. GoProposal also has a […]

With online sales outgrowing and steadily cannibalizing their in-store counterparts, it should come as no surprise to see retailers investing in efforts that will make their physical store experiences look and feel a lot more like their apps and websites. In fact, that’s exactly what Gap, Inc. is doing via its acquisition of Context-Based 4 Casting […]

When we think of those struggling between paychecks, people making six-figure incomes don’t typically enter the picture. But PYMNTS research continues to find that an alarmingly high percentage of the well-compensated aren’t making it financially from one check to the next. That’s one of several important revelations from the September edition of Reality Check: The […]

As the world has become more digital and commerce has increasingly moved online, the decades-old electronic data interchange (EDI) technology has garnered a sullied reputation, especially with more direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands looking to sell products through enterprise retailers. “It was formed with pre-internet assumptions, and because it’s a standard, it’s very hard to change,” Roger […]

The clamor for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) continues to heat up, with third-quarter sales of $10.7 billion, up from $1.3 billion in the previous quarter and $1.2 billion in the first, DappRadar data shows. Sales of NFTs largely happen across one of the many blockchains, although some take place off chain at auction houses like Christie's […]

Scanco Software, which works in warehouse, manufacturing and supply chain management solutions for Sage, has partnered with digital B2B payments network CoreChain Technologies to streamline the B2B payments process, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. The integration of the CoreChain payment networks with Scanco’s software offerings will also open up new supply chain […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are helping merchants and online platforms get smarter about detecting risk. The bad guys have high tech too. Deepfakes are gaining ground, along with synthetic identities. Major payments players are fighting back with a unity of sophisticated AI, ML and a mountain of data that outsmarts cyberthieves before […]

When hackers stole cryptocurrency from the accounts of 6,000 Coinbase customers between March and May of this year, the trading platform said the perpetrator used a familiar method: phishing. The breach marked a classic example in which both factors — passwords and SMS confirmations — were compromised, as Simon Law, CEO at LoginID, said in […]

Over the past 10 to 15 years, there’s been a shift in spend management — the administration of approvals, payments and all the accounting and reporting for all non-payroll spend. Spending used to run through a procurement department, so procure-to-pay processes were the norm. Today, however, spending is more decentralized, with employees using corporate cards […]

With the weather getting cooler and leaves on the trees turning to orange and red, consumers and retailers alike are gearing up for the holiday shopping season, with buy now, pay later (BNPL) providers hoping the good fortune seen over the past several months can continue. As students prepared to return to the classroom in […]

Within B2B payments – marked by paper checks, PDF invoices and an ongoing scourge of late payments – there’s no lack of imagination in mulling what commercial transactions could be. They could be more efficient – and more transparent and faster, too. Direct links between the two sides of the cash-flow equation – the accounts payable […]

Regions Bank will buy Sabal Capital Partners, a financial services firm, to boost its lending capacity in the small-balance commercial real estate market, according to a press release. Sabal works as one of the biggest originators of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac small-balance commercial real estate loans, the release stated. It’s also increasing its presence […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw over $6 billion in losses to his personal wealth in several hours Monday (Oct. 4) when the popular social media site and its various associated apps were down, Bloomberg reported. This comes just a day after a whistleblower came forward, accusing the company of putting profits before safety, according to […]

To get a sense of just how pervasive buy now, pay later (BNPL) has become in the fabric of U.S. commerce and embraced by consumers across the country, consider this: 29 million consumers have used the payment option to make a purchase in the past year. And the desire to use BNPL is certainly there: […]