By Jon Pavelich, Head of Information Security, Peloton Technologies Running a small business is hard enough without criminals working against you. Yet that’s exactly what Canadian owners are up against. According to a joint survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) and Interac, half of Canadian small businesses experienced attempted or successful fraud in the pastContinue reading “Three Payments Fraud Threats Your Small Business Can’t Afford to Ignore”
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How Credit Card-Enabled Bill Pay Actually Works
Series: Bill Pay by Card for Small Businesses How Bill Pay by Card Works Behind the Scenes for Small BusinessesBy Craig Attiwill, Founder & CEO, Peloton Technologies What is Credit Card-Enabled Bill Pay? Credit Card-Enabled Bill Pay allows a business to pay supplier invoices with a credit card even when the supplier doesn’t accept cardsContinue reading “How Credit Card-Enabled Bill Pay Actually Works”
The Quiet Shift in How Businesses Pay Supplier Invoices
Series: Bill Pay by Card for Small Businesses What Is Bill Pay by Credit Card — And Why Is It Growing So Quickly?By Craig Attiwill, Founder & CEO, Peloton Technologies What is bill pay by card? Bill pay by card allows a business to pay invoices with a credit card even when the supplier does not acceptContinue reading “The Quiet Shift in How Businesses Pay Supplier Invoices”
The Unified Payments Trend at Events and Markets — Why It Matters
By Craig Attiwill, Founder & CEO, Peloton Technologies Across North America, markets and seasonal events are evolving—not just in scale, but in how they sustain themselves financially. Increasingly, organizers are moving away from flat vendor fees and toward revenue models that a small percentage of vendor sales. It’s a structure that lowers the barrier toContinue reading “The Unified Payments Trend at Events and Markets — Why It Matters “
Why Small Businesses Should Care About Stablecoins
By Craig Attiwill, Founder & CEO, Peloton Technologies If you’re a small business owner, you’ve probably noticed how much payments have been in the news lately—credit card fees, open banking and – often – digital currencies. One word is coming up time and again: “stablecoins.” It might sound like something built for Wall Street orContinue reading “Why Small Businesses Should Care About Stablecoins”
Strike payments off your list of cross-border business headaches… and why not get the best rates on FX while you’re at it
By Craig Attiwill, Founder & CEO, Peloton Technologies Doing business across borders is no small feat. Multiple vendors and suppliers, vastly different time zones, complex regulation and language barriers. These are just a few of the complexities businesses face. And with US$290 trillion in payments expected to cross global borders by 2030, we know thingsContinue reading “Strike payments off your list of cross-border business headaches… and why not get the best rates on FX while you’re at it”
Three tips to kick off your payments journey – and they don’t include Shopify!
By Craig Attiwill, Founder & CEO, Peloton Technologies It’s quite common for a growing business to find itself in a tricky situation due to the payment choices made when first starting out. We see this regularly at Peloton. A business owner reaches out because they are bound up in a service that has become tooContinue reading “Three tips to kick off your payments journey – and they don’t include Shopify!”
What a difference a day makes
By Craig Attiwill, Founder & CEO, Peloton Technologies Recently, the US, Canada, and Mexico all enacted shorter settlement times for securities trades, moving from two days, implemented in 2017, down to one business day (T+1). As U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler says about the move, “time is money and time is risk.”Continue reading “What a difference a day makes”
International Women’s Day 2024: Invest & Inspire
“By 2028, Canadian women will control $4 trillion in assets, almost doubling the $2.2 trillion they control today.” 1 As we celebrate the strides made in empowering women economically, it’s essential to recognize the remarkable evolution that has taken place in the world of finance and investment. Women now control a significant portion of householdContinue reading “International Women’s Day 2024: Invest & Inspire”
Ecommerce or Not Ecommerce? That is the Question.
First of all, how are we spelling “ecommerce”? There’s e-commerce, ecommerce, and eCommerce… But which is correct? As of now, there’s no clear consensus across the board. Because it is a relatively new word, though it is in the dictionary, organizations across the world tend to pick their own preferred spelling. So for the restContinue reading “Ecommerce or Not Ecommerce? That is the Question.”