Patrick Bermingham

Virtual Cards for Business Payments: What’s the Hold Up?

16 Sep 2019

From workforce expenses to high value transactions between buyers and suppliers, the market that supports the initiating and acceptance of card-based business payments is big and growing. According to Mastercard, Visa and American Express, commercial card payments hit a five year high of US $2 trillion[1] in 2018. Companies that cater to these typ...

Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

APMs for B2B payments...Buzzword or next big thing?

01 Jul 2019

Despite delivering convenience, speed and a better user experience in the consumer payments market, alternative payment methods (APMs) feature less prominently in the world of B2B transactions. It’s high time this changed. To understand why APMs are become increasingly important in B2B payments, let’s first clear up some confusion: What are APMs? ...

Innovation in Financial Services

Invoicing in the IoT: why connections are key to maximising business value

17 Jan 2019

Start-ups and established companies alike are increasingly interested in the industrial internet of things (IIoT), but many are missing a trick when it comes to payments. Businesses face many challenges when designing and implementing their own IoT payments solutions, most notably serious security risks and a lack of interoperability - and just on...

Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

The gateway that opens new business for ISVs

28 Aug 2018

Using an API-led integrated digital payments gateway brings new opportunities for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to capitalise on emerging business models and add value to existing clients. In today’s competitive commercial environment, innovation and disruptive ideas are changing the business model across many industries. A subscription-based...