Mastercard today announced the launch of Mastercard Advanced B2B Analytics, unlocking greater value from supplier payments through new levels of visibility and control for issuers and corporates.
Announced in Purchase, N.Y., the card acceptance analytics platform provides dynamic, accurate and actionable supplier payment insights in minutes, helping issuers drive commercial card spend at scale, capture additional revenues and help corporate clients identify opportunities to optimize working capital.
Issuers and corporate buyers today often lack an insight-driven way to identify and prioritize supplier acceptance opportunities. Fragmented data and manual processes can slow conversion and prolong reliance on less efficient payment methods, despite growing demand for smarter payment experiences, with nearly half of suppliers expecting buyers to request card payments more frequently in the years ahead.
Advanced B2B Analytics helps financial institutions and their corporate customers identify supplier payment opportunities with greater precision by transforming accounts payable insights into actionable insights. Combined with consulting expertise from the Mastercard Advisors & Transformation team, the platform helps streamline procurement processes, reduce costs and accelerate commercial card acceptance at scale.
Through the innovation, issuers can enable their corporate customers to identify suppliers most likely to accept card payments using dynamic acceptance propensity scoring, gain insights from accounts payable intel through interactive dashboards, optimize working capital with greater visibility, scale commercial card adoption, and access Mastercard expertise and recommendations.
"Businesses today are sitting on vast amounts of payment data, but too often it remains fragmented and underutilized," said Marc Pettican, global head of Corporate Solutions at Mastercard. "With Advanced B2B Analytics, we're combining powerful insights with our deep commercial payments expertise to help issuers identify where card acceptance can deliver the greatest value, engage suppliers more effectively and drive measurable growth."
Absa Group and Emirates NBD are among the first financial institutions to offer Advanced B2B Analytics to their corporate clients, leveraging data-driven insights to identify supplier acceptance opportunities and unlock greater value from their payables. This capability will help clients optimize working capital, accelerate virtual card adoption and drive efficiencies across commercial payments.
"We understand that businesses need meaningful insights to make important decisions every day. Our partnership with Mastercard gives clients a smarter way to understand their payment ecosystems, unlock value across their supplier networks and improve cash flow management," said Pascalle Albrecht, Executive for Commercial Issuing, Product at Absa Business Banking.
By connecting payment, acceptance and performance insights, Mastercard is building toward a future where intelligence is embedded across the commercial payments lifecycle. Advanced B2B Analytics is the first foundational B2B capability to support that vision, with plans to extend intelligence to supplier and acquirer side.
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