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Veterinary care company Bond Vet has launched a partnership with spend management provider Coupa.
The collaboration, announced Monday (Nov. 4), will see Bond Vet clinics employ Coupa’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform to manage their finances and supplies.
“As Bond Vet opens more clinics to meet the growing need for high-quality pet care, keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes...
With the holiday season fast approaching, small businesses are leaning into tech from targeted social media campaigns to eCommerce platforms to level the playing field against big-box retailers and capture consumer spend.
In today’s digital marketplace, small businesses are finding new opportunities by leveraging eCommerce platforms like Shopify, Wix and WooCommerce, which give small businesses...
The Lowe’s Digital Home Platform, announced by the home improvement retailer Monday (Nov. 4), gives members of the MyLowe’s Rewards program access to free, personalized information about products in their homes.
This includes warranties and manuals, maintenance recommendations and how-to content, and recommended subscriptions and replacement parts. The initial launch focuses on home appliances,...
Singapore’s banking regulator announced plans to promote tokenization in the financial services industry.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said the effort will include deepening the liquidity of tokenized assets by the formation of commercial networks, according to a Monday (Nov. 4) press release.
“MAS has seen strong interest in asset tokenization in recent years, notably in fixed...
On its surface, last week’s job report was anemic at best and confounding at worst.
And where there’s a cloudy picture on job prospects, the outlook for spending — and by extension, spending — remains muddied a bit, too.
But, connect the dots a bit, and the last few readings of sentiment on jobs indicate a (slightly) more positive mindset on the labor market. They say that perception is reality,...
From vendor pay to gig workers, enterprises are merging into the fast lane for payments.
And as enterprises adopt models that rely on agile, ad hoc transactions, instant payments, once considered an option for specific payment scenarios, are now emerging as a central pillar of enterprise payment strategies.
The latest PYMNTS Intelligence in “How Instant Pay Is Becoming the Standard for Ad Hoc...
The New York Times has reportedly seen digital subscriptions slow amid weakened consumer spending.
The media company added 260,000 digital-only subscribers during its third quarter, down from 300,000 in the prior quarter, Reuters reported Monday (Nov. 4). Analysts expected the publication to add 280,200 subscribers.
At the same time, an uptick in pre-election political advertising helped drive...
Amazon has launched an initiative to expand the reach of its Generative AI Innovation Center.
The Generative AI Partner Alliance, announced by Amazon Web Services Monday (Nov. 4), is designed to give customers access to a network of systems experts and consulting firms to help them deploy generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.
Introduced last June, the Generative AI Innovation Center...
From touchless digital payments experiences to connected vehicles, technology provides opportunities for innovation and collaboration across many industries, including payments.
Connected devices offer consumers the ability to quickly adopt digital payments. For instance, during the pandemic, consumer behavior started to shift the expectation of integrated experiences.
Julius Alexander III, head...
An object at rest stays at rest, Isaac Newton famously proved.
And for many otherwise-savvy B2B businesses, the object most likely to be perennially obstructed by inertia tends to be their accounts receivable (AR) function.
“As companies grow in size, they’re often manually trying to match payments and remittance through Excel spreadsheets and things that aren’t that efficient,” Corrie DeCamp,...