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JULY 8, 2020

To provide platform clients a greater ability to grow and be transparent with global payments, cloud banking company Mambu and B2B cross-border technology firm Currencycloud have joined forces with an integration, according to an announcement.

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JULY 10, 2019

Some of the biggest industry trends, including faster payments, open banking and bank-FinTech collaboration, have found their ways into the Canadian market, the B2B payments space is not immune to disruption from these shifts. According to Lansdowne-Higgins, among the biggest challenges in accounts payable today is the data silos.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, ClearBank has begun offering multicurrency bank accounts through an application programming interface (API), and LoanDepot is considering going public. ClearBank Introduces Multicurrency Bank Accounts. EVO Rolls Out Express Deposit B2B Push Payments With Visa Direct.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Cloud-based clearing bank ClearBank has begun offering multi-currency bank accounts using an API, according to a press release. Beginning in the fourth quarter this year, the bank will allow users to access over 30 multi-currency accounts.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

When it comes to global business travel forecasts for 2024, the good news is that airfares look set to stabilise across key routes around the world, said B2B travel platform American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) recently when releasing its Air Monitor 2024 report.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

For years, any attention given to solving B2B payments friction was typically focused on the payer. Yet, as innovators have chip away at friction points, they have recognized the value of incorporating a supplier’s accounts receivable (AR) experience into their solutions. “The person receiving it is just happy to get paid.”

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Though credit cards were not originally designed to address the needs of corporate payers, advances in commercial card technology have positioned the payment tool as one that’s gaining traction in the accounts payable department. This, he noted, is Mesh’s entryway to the market of cross-border B2B payments.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This new financing will help us to accelerate the development of the company both in terms of products, with the addition of local currency accounts, payment card, integration with accounting software, and geographically, as we will target new markets in South-East Asia,” Statrys Founder and CEO Bertrand Theaud said in the announcement.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

In a move that lets small businesses take card payments and monitor income, accounting platform Clear Books has integrated with Stripe. The connection enables small businesses with a Clear Books account to take invoice payments by credit and debit card, according to an announcement.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

However recent analysis from Iron Pillar , as reported recently in the Times of India, suggests that such a slowdown may not be detrimental to the B2B FinTech startup arena. Finland’s Enfuce announced more than $11 million in new funding for its B2B financial services offerings, with Maki.vc leading the investment.

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APRIL 7, 2020

This has resulted in business-to-business (B2B) offerings such as mobile apps that help provide small business owners better overview and management of their companies’ bank accounts, as well as their accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR). Around The B2B API World. Read the full story in the Tracker.

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MARCH 5, 2019

WorldFirst is looking to expand its B2B payments position through an acquisition of CurrencyVue, the company said on Monday (March 4). CurrencyVue offers a foreign exchange risk management platform that integrates with companies’ existing ERP and accounting systems. and the U.K.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Across Asia, an ongoing boom in global eCommerce volume, coupled with a convergence of market conditions, has made cross-border B2B trade a booming business — and a potentially lucrative one for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). One of the biggest challenges in cross-border trade for any kind of business relates to foreign exchange.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

UnionPay International is expanding its support for cross-border B2B payments through an integration with wholesale eCommerce market Yiwu Market, based in China. According to a press release issued on Monday (Jan. Exports made up 80 percent of that volume. market and allow tourists from China visiting the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Cambridge Global Payments , a FLEETCOR firm, and Beanworks Solutions are continuing their collaboration to bring together solutions and offer a full accounts payable (AP) offering to clients, which can streamline their payable workflow spanning between buying and payment for firms that have international business, according to a Tuesday (Nov.

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MAY 12, 2017

The cross-border B2B payments market, on the other hand, is fraught with friction, despite being much larger in size — accounting for nearly 80 percent of global cross-border payment revenue, according to a 2016 report by McKinsey & Company. Struggling with frictions. Take Forex payments, for instance. Taking an API approach.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

However, with cloud storage and computing a requirement for many businesses, with the surge of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and with B2C services like Amazon Prime embracing the B2B opportunity, recurring B2B electronic payments are an increasingly complex challenge for these service providers and the businesses paying them.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

CSI Kick Start, a FinTech incubator operated by corporate payments company CSI globalVCard, said it has officially kicked off its second year of searching out B2B payments innovators. The company said Thursday (Jan.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

More than $874 million in fresh funding landed at B2B startups this week across a range of market segments and geographies. See all of the latest B2B fundraises below. million in the B2B eCommerce startup, MENAbytes reports said. Funds and accounts advised by T. SaaSOptics. Clix Capital.

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JUNE 19, 2020

It also has implications on the B2B side of operations, said Remitr CEO and Co-founder Kanchan Kumar. Launching online and expanding into the international market can be effective for B2B exporters, too, and introduce the need to expand supply chains across borders. Even worse, the U.S.’s “That’s a huge pain point.”

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AUGUST 25, 2016

PayPal has only recently launched its B2B payments services through a few partnerships aimed at facilitating invoice payments. Now, the company is taking a solo approach to the space with the rollout of a new service aimed squarely at freelancers and B2B sellers. Reports on Wednesday (Aug.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

It was another stellar week for B2B FinTech startups, which announced a collective $191.8 B2B Payments. B2B payments automation firm Nvoicepay revealed a $10 million investment Wednesday (Oct. million in venture capital and growth equity investment this week. PayCommerce. ” SME Banking. . ” SME Banking. IbanF irst.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Disruption is hitting both the B2C and B2B arenas, and while it would seem they are two opposite ends of the spectrum, these ecosystems share commonalities in the kinds of trends that force sellers to modernize their market strategies. B2B eCommerce sales in the U.S. alone are expected to hit $1.2 trillion by 2021.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

This month’s Deep Dive explores the frictions currently afflicting the B2B cross-border payments and P2P remittances spaces, as well as the solutions being developed to accelerate transactions and reduce pain points. International B2B Payments Pains. Limited connections between FIs can cause delays and higher costs as well.

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JULY 10, 2019

The service automatically extracts data from invoices, PDFs and other trade documents and automates accounts payable while storing payables information for reconciliation and accounting. The invoice processing solution augments Cambridge Global Payments’ existing offering of global payments and foreign exchange management solutions.

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DECEMBER 20, 2020

And because of that, the report says, the import supply chain can move onto standard open account terms, with Indian banks or international partners working on funding to make sure exporters are paid at shipment while importers pay later. PrimaDollar, which has already launched in the U.K. The market there is different than in the U.S.,

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MARCH 8, 2019

8) that it will acquire global cross-border money transfer company Transfast, which works with both P2P and B2B payments. The addition of Transfast adds to our leading position in meeting business, government and consumer payments needs – whether B2B, P2P or other flows. Microsoft disclosed on Friday (Mar.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It may be an open road for open banking as, three years after the rollout of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), bank-FinTech collaborations and new initiatives unlocking bank account data continue to flourish. But it may not always be smooth sailing ahead. business customers, the FIs revealed.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Old-school business-to-business (B2B) transaction methods like sending and waiting on checks and physical invoices are more difficult to stick with now that many offices are closed and financial teams are working from home. How B2B Sellers Overcome International AR Challenges. trillion worth of sales by 2024. About The Playbook.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

In B2B, cross border payments are about much more than dollars and cents. That ad hoc system might work well for a $200 or $500 purchase, he told Webster, but it works less well for a business, where personal accounts are not an efficient means of conducting business, and where transactions can reach onto the tens of thousands of dollars.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

FLEETCOR , which works in global business payments, announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire cross-border payment firm Associated Foreign Exchange (AFEX) to help boost its own payments network, a press release says. The company normally focuses on providing international accounts to businesses underserved by banks.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Key features include the aforementioned fully digital business accounts, along with quick application processing, according to the release. Alex Cheung, managing director and head of Institutional Banking Group at DBS Hong Kong, said the 340,000 SMBs in Hong Kong account for "more than 98 percent of the total business community" there.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

In B2B payments, added Visa Direct Vice President of Global Segments and Market Development Tim Summers , businesses don't care exactly how funds get from Point A to Point B, but the rails that facilitate the movement of funds must do so seamlessly. When we think about rails, we think about them as a means to an endpoint," he said.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

While expanding internationally is the easy part, the challenge often comes in the back-office financials like invoicing , cross-border payments, accounting and reconciliation. Sameer Gulati , founder and CEO of Ordway , said this is an acute pain point that continues to grow as more small- to medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) scale abroad.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Others, meanwhile, have turned their attention to the accounts receivable end of a B2B transaction. B2B FinTech-as-a-Service provider Rapyd is partnering with Visa to wield the payment giant’s offerings on its own platform, used to help developers integrate payments and FinTech functionality into their commerce solutions.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

“We are leaving behind siloed accounts and manual transactions and building towards fully automated and point-to-point money movement,” CEO and Founder Stephany Kirkpatrick said in a statement. Accounts payable (AP) and receivable (AR) technology firm Bottomline Technologies announced its open banking-powered service in the U.K.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

CardUp’s business model is charging the card for payment and delivering funds to the end supplier’s bank account through bank transfer. The supplier does not need to sign up to CardUp or have a CardUp account to receive the money, so there is no disruption to their operational processes.

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