| How Diversified Funding Readies Indiaâs Startups For The Future Indiaâs startup community saw a record year for venture capital funding, but analysts warn a slowdown could be ahead. With young companies in the country often facing dead-ends when seeking bank loans or deploying corporate cards, Caspian Debt Head Avishek Gupta said startups must diversify their funding sources with debt, equity and angel funding â not only to reinforce their financials, but to up their chances of future investment, too. |
| Commercial Card Innovation |
| Enticing Suppliers, Buyers To Embrace The Corporate Card In their journey to bumping up corporate cards' share of the B2B payments market, finserv players are targeting both buyers and suppliers with their solutions. For suppliers, firms like Unified Payments Group are lifting the burden of card acceptance. For buyers, NatWest, Visa and others aim to augment card services with value-added features. PYMNTS looks at the latest in commercial card innovation and disruption. |
| | State And Local Disbursements Report™ | | Why State And Local Governments Struggle To Shred The Paper Check Despite consumers' affinity for instant payments, many state and local governments use legacy methods like paper checks for disbursing funds to consumers. In the new State And Local Government Disbursements Report, PYMNTS talks with representatives from local governments in Oregon, Tennessee and Texas to find out why checks persist and what it will take to replace them. |
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