The bonds available for investors come in many different varieties. They can be separated by the rate or type of interest or coupon payment and being recalled by the issuer or have other attributes. Zero-Coupon Bonds do not pay coupon payments and instead are issued at a discount to their par value

Most bonds share some common basic characteristics including: Face Value The money amount the bond will be worth at maturity. It is also the reference amount the bond issuer uses when calculating interest payments. For example, say an investor purchases a bond at a premium $1,090 and another investor buys

American Express is working with Coupa on a new partnership to use virtual cards for Coupa’s B2B solution, a press release says. Coupa Pay, the Coupa B2B solution, will be available for customers of AmEx’s virtual cards, in a move meant to streamline the old payment processes which the release calls “outdated, complex, and inefficient.”

Mastercard has added new B2B payment features in the Asia Pacific, intending to bolster its services for businesses looking for diverse payments methods, a press release says. The Mastercard Track Card to Account Transfer, the release says, will let businesses use commercial cards to pay suppliers even if the suppliers

Alibaba and its large grocery play have grabbed some global interest recently as the eCommerce massive has invested $3.6 billion for a controlling stake in the “hypermarket” operator Sun Art Retail Group. The deal will provide Alibaba a controlling 70.94 percent equity activity in Auchans’ A-RT Retail, which itself owns about a 51 percent equity pastime stake in Sun Art. “As the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the digitization