Commercial Payments

Commercial payments are essential, covering a spectrum of financial activities such as paying and receiving funds, cash management, and treasury functions—all of which are critical to supporting liquidity, risk, and operational control.

Digitalization

IBM Joins the Race to Payments in the Cloud

by Tim Sloane

September 24, 2020

IBM has announced that its Financial Transaction Manager software has been ported to operate in a Kubernetes container on the...

Commercial Payments

A Sleeping Digital Giant Wakes? 4 Key Trends Accelerating Payments Transformation in the US

by Lauren Jones

September 24, 2020

The US payments industry is undoubtedly ripe for change. Before the unprecedented shock of COVID-19, digitization and payments transformation initiatives...

Digitalization

COVID-19 is Changing the Way Consumers Pay. Here’s What That Means for Merchants.

by PaymentsJournal

September 24, 2020

It likely comes as no surprise to hear that COVID-19 has dramatically changed shopper preferences and behavior, and how consumers...

Digitalization

U.S. Postal Service’s Financial Problems Underscore the Importance of Digital Payments for B2Bs

by Steve Murphy

September 23, 2020

It is getting a bit repetitive with all the various postings about the pandemic's effect on accelerated digital financial processes—most...

Digitalization

Music, Payments, & Fintechs: Unpacking the Complicated Intersection of Payments & the Music Industry

by PaymentsJournal

September 22, 2020

In the abstract, payments seem easy enough. In exchange for a good or service, one person will pay another, either...

Cross-border Payments

Veem Secures $31 Million in Latest Round of Funding

by Steve Murphy

September 22, 2020

This release from The Fintech Times reviews the latest funding round for Veem, a 2014 startup, based in San Francisco,...

Debit

Europe’s Plans for a Card Network of Its Own

by Sarah Grotta

September 21, 2020

Years ago, the European Central Bank began to push the market to develop a payment network to rival the U.S.-based...

Digitalization

How Banks Can Best Support their Customers Amid Digital Change

by PaymentsJournal

September 21, 2020

The unexpected COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and subsequent widespread lockdowns meant in-person bank branches were no longer an option for consumers....