ePayments Archives - Page 16 of 21

Three Must Know Stats about Electronic Payments

By Andrew Bartolini January 8, 2015Best Practices, Solutions

For about a decade, the analysts at Ardent Partners have been researching and benchmarking technologies, processes, and performance within accounts payable including electronic or B2B payments. This is an area…

Best of 2014: AribaPay Looks to Simplify, Improve B2B ePayments

By Andrew Bartolini January 1, 2015Solutions, Technology

[Editor's Note: Today, the first day of 2015, we continue our best of 2014 series with our look at AribaPay, which originally appeared on October 3.] It’s an acknowledged fact that…

Payables News Weekly: Iron Mountain Puts in Takeover Bid, AmEx Launches New Card in India

By Andrew Bartolini December 16, 2014NewsNo Comments

We're getting into the final weeks of 2014, with only 15 days left before the start of the new year and nine days until Christmas. This doesn't mean the news…

ePayments and Marketing Spend: What You May Have Missed

By Andrew Bartolini December 12, 2014NewsNo Comments

As December winds down, some enterprises are finalizing their finances and working through budgets for 2015, while others prepare to close down for the week and a half between Christmas Eve and…

Payables News Weekly: Concur Acquisition Closes, MasterCard Takes on Bitcoin, and More

By Andrew Bartolini December 9, 2014NewsNo Comments

The worldwide economic situation became more interesting last week. The United States enjoyed a barn-burner of a jobs report on Friday morning—312,000 jobs were created in November, while the unemployment…

Five Important Advantages of Purchasing Cards

By Andrew Bartolini December 8, 2014Best Practices, Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

Purchasing cards (“p-cards”) have been around long enough to become a ubiquitous facet of a majority of enterprises. Generally strong when it comes to high-volume, low-dollar-value transactions and also utilized…

6 Steps to Effective Supplier Onboarding with Virtual Payment Cards

By Andrew Bartolini December 3, 2014Best Practices, TechnologyNo Comments

Technology implementations are never easy. There could be unforeseen integration issues with back-end systems or perhaps more customization is required than originally thought. In the P2P world, one of the…

Why Haven’t ePayments Completely Replaced Paper Checks?

By Andrew Bartolini December 1, 2014Best Practices, Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

Electronic payments offer many advantages over paying with paper check. Ardent Partners research has shown that, no matter the payment method (i.e., ACH, wire, card, networks, etc.), ePayments cost up…

More Compliance Management and Some Predictions for the Future: What You May Have Missed

By Andrew Bartolini November 28, 2014NewsNo Comments

Today begins the holiday shopping season in the United States. “Black Friday” sales dominate the landscape, with thousands of shoppers filling retail stores searching for deals on everything from cars…

Payables News Weekly: AvidXchange Grows; Ocean Shippers Try Creating eInvoicing Standards

By Andrew Bartolini November 25, 2014NewsNo Comments

Interesting news proliferated last week, but especially so in Asia in terms of the financial world. The People’s Bank of China cut interest rates to 5.6% in response to worsening…