Posts Tagged ‘Payments’

In our nearly 20 years of working with the life sciences industry, we’ve spoken with countless pharmaceutical, medical device, and contract research organizations (CROs) about their relationships with clinical sites and investigators. We’ve listened to their struggles and the things they’ve done to try to make things better, including what’s worked and what hasn’t. We’ve […]

A new report published by Ipsos MORI, a market research company, and VocaLink, a global payments partner to financial institutions and governments, indicates that European millennials are struggling to adopt mobile payment technology. While more than half of the ~4,000 millennials from Germany, Italy, UK, and the Netherlands that took part in the study exhibit deep […]

Your company decided to use a new checking account for AP payments.  Now, the new bank account needs to be added to Oracle Cloud ERP.  Where to start? Over the upcoming weeks, I will be writing about the system configurations required for adding bank accounts for use in Accounts Payable Payments in Oracle Cloud ERP. […]

From the Home Page, the user can access the Payables landing page and work areas to perform tasks and monitor activities.  As seen in an earlier blog, there are three work areas under Payables.  They are Payables Dashboard, Invoices and Payments.  Today’s blog will show you aspects about the Payments work area. The user can […]

  Heavily regulated industries, such as financial services, are often slow to adopt new technology. That’s why it’s no surprise that social media is a scary place to play for financial institutions. But, as with most things in business, if you don’t play, you can’t win. 

  A few days ago, I shared a list, a much smaller list, of unicorn companies that sit in the healthcare and biotechnology industries. To refresh your memory, a unicorn is a technology-related organization with a valuation of more than $1 billion, typically a start-up, and with no real track record of success. In a recent report, […]

  Have you heard? Some retail establishments, in countries like the Netherlands, don’t accept cash anymore. As I mentioned in a previous post, digital money is making big waves – everywhere. While it’s starting to make a serious dent in the United States, the use of mobile payments are much more widespread in other countries. […]

  I really don’t like carrying cash. And, the only reason I do is because that’s all my barber accepts. I prefer using digital money. Huh, digital money? According to Investopedia, digital money is “any means of payment that exists purely in electronic form.” In other words, think of digital money as using any payment […]

Instead of opting to accept Apple Pay or Android Pay, Walmart has decided to launch its own payment service called Walmart Pay. The largest retailer in the world describes Walmart Pay as “a fast, easy and secure way for customers to pay with their smartphones in Walmart stores,” and it is compatible with both iOS […]

As a consumer, I like electronic payments because they make my life easier and they save me an extraordinary amount of time. As a retailer, electronic payments make it easier for people to buy from you with the touch of a button, thus growing the bottom line. Electronic payments are designed to make the buying […]

Digital has permeated almost every facet of our lives as consumers in an “always on” connected world. In fact, it’s even impacted how we, as a company, serve our clients across industries based on their top priorities and challenges to better reach and serve their customer base – and the financial services industry is no exception. Over on our new […]

There will undoubtedly be a wide range of financial services predictions and banking trends that will surface throughout the year which will make planning your organization’s top priorities in 2015 increasingly difficult. However, one thing is certain – risk and compliance continues to move to the top of the executive’s agenda. As financial institutions continue to experience an onslaught of cybersecurity threats, […]