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Barclaycard partners with SAP to simplify corporate payments

Barclaycard Commercial Payments is integrating its business-to-business product, Precisionpay, into SAP Ariba, a B2B marketplace.

15 February 2019

News/retail

Top Image Systems board recommends Kofax takeover offer

The board of Top Image Systems is recommending a cash takeover offer from Kofax that will see shareholders receive a hefty premium over the content processing firm’s share price.

04 February 2019

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Mastercard ditches name in logo rebrand

Mastercard has taken the bold step of removing its name from its logo in a move it says is inspired by the rise of digital banking and a future where there will be less reliance on card payments.

10 January 2019

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Payments firm Countingup debuts invoicing feature

As a number of old-school banks struggle to maintain their technology, leading UK “challenger” business banking provider Countingup becomes the first to offer invoicing, automated payment matching and expense tracking.

09 January 2019

Company update/retail

E-invoicing firm Fitek expands into UK

Fitek, the Baltic and European fintech– and e-invoice solutions provider, has expanded to the UK market. The company is registered and its first employees are at work.

05 December 2018

Company update/payments

First National Bank of Omaha signs on with Bill.com

Bill.com, the digital business payments leader, and First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO), today announced a partnership to offer the bank’s customers digital back office automation with digital business payment services.

28 November 2018

News/payments

Visa takes stake in India's BillDesk

Visa has moved to strengthen its position in the fast-growing Indian market, making a minority investment in digital payments platform BillDesk. Terms were not disclosed.

19 November 2018

News/payments

Switzerland gets ready for QR bill payments

Switzerland has set out alterations to its upcoming QR-bill, which will replace seven different payment slips when it rolls out in June 2020.

16 November 2018

Company update/ai

Basware taps into machine learning

Basware (Nasdaq: BAS1V), the global leader in networked source-to-pay solutions, e-invoicing and innovative financing services has introduced new machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities across its suite of Source-to-Pay solutions.

08 November 2018

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Barclays introduces free mobile invoicing for SMEs

Barclays has become the UK's first high street bank to launch free mobile invoicing for small businesses within its app.

08 November 2018

Company update/payments

Tipalti integrates with Intuit QuickBooks Online

Tipalti, the leading global payables automation platform, announced today that its supplier payments automation solution has integrated with Intuit QuickBooks Online, and is now available through the QuickBooks App Store.

23 October 2018

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Payments revenue to hit $2.4 trillion by 2027

The payments industry remains one of the brightest spots on the financial services landscape, according to a report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Swift, which predicts global revenue to grow by more than $1 trillion by 2027.

18 October 2018

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Mastercard brings real-time bill payments to mobile banking apps

Mastercard is working on a new technology platform to support bill payments via mobile banking apps, created to help banks recover ground lost to multiple direct billing sites.

11 October 2018

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

TD Bank adopts Bottomline Technologies Paymode-X

TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank®, announced today that it is collaborating with Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ :EPAY ), a leading provider of financial technology that helps make business payments simple, smart and secure, to offer Paymode-X with Visa Payables Solutions to its U.S. business banking customers.

18 September 2018

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Mastercard and Amex invest in 'pay-later' platform Divido

Mastercard and American Express are among the big names to join a $15 million Series A funding round for Divido, a consumer finance platform for retailers, lenders and payment partners.

18 September 2018

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

China UnionPay to enter European market

The world's largest payment card issuer, China UnionPay, is reportedly planning to enter the European market in a move that could cause serious competition for Visa and Mastercard.

17 September 2018

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Mastercard unveils global trade platform

Mastercard has launched a global trade platform, powered by Microsoft Azure, that is designed to streamline and automate the procure-to-pay process for companies around the world.

12 September 2018

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

UK looks to improve bill payments with 'Request to Pay' initiative

The UK's New Payment System Operator (NPSO) is inviting billers to jump aboard its 'Request to Pay' initiative, which will give firms and their customers more control, flexibility and transparency in bill payments.

06 September 2018

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Wirecard Brazil releases new features for digital payments service

To facilitate entrepreneur’s financial life is a mission of Wirecard Brazil (Moip), a company that is part of Wirecard Group, the leading specialist for digital financial technology.

27 August 2018

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Barclaycard partners accelerator graduate to digitise B2B supply chain

Barclaycard is working with Silicon Valley startup Crowdz to digitise and speed up what is still for many firms a slow and clunky business-to-business supply chain.

17 August 2018