PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

At a high level, the same consumers whose day jobs are to manage a company’s payments and financial controls have become accustomed to the seamless and highly personalized commerce opportunities that are available in their daily lives. The consumerization of B2B payments is taking its cue from contextual commerce.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

NACHA has tapped AeroPay Express as its newest Preferred Partner for B2B Electronic Payment Enablement, the organization said Thursday (Sept. The group is focused on addressing issues like payments friction and access to cash flow, as well as security and risk management of ACH payments.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

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for customers of AmEx's virtual cards, in a move meant to streamline the old payment processes which the release calls "outdated, complex, and inefficient.".

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A summer lull in B2B venture capital appears to have given way to an impressive start to the fall season. This week, two massive deals landed with B2B payments innovators at Fundbox and Tipalti, but they were far from the only players to have secured new funding. Engage:BDR. Reports in L.A. OfBusiness.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Today, accounts payable firm MineralTree announced a collaboration with Visa with a goal of helping corporates pay their suppliers by virtual card. “The vast majority of B2B suppliers don’t accept cards.” But the executive said that many B2B commercial card solutions often ignore the supplier side of the transaction.

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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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PYMNTS

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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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Growth of FinTech funding seems unstoppable, with the latest analysis from Hampleton Partners finding enterprise financial services and integration, online financial services, enterprise financial software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) risk management as some of the hottest spots for investors this year. ANNA Money.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

B2B startups are increasingly building themselves on top of troves of enterprise data, uncovering new ways to unlock and aggregate information across enterprise platforms, and introducing new ways to analyze and make use of that data. million was raised by B2B startups tearing down data silos. In all, more than $87.8 Access Fintech.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Although they are vastly different beasts, shifts in the consumer payments ecosystem have significantly impacted the flow of B2B payments. Tackling that challenge is PSD2, the European regulatory initiative that opened the door for merchants to manage their multiple bank accounts through a single interface.

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JUNE 21, 2019

While there were no mega-deals in the B2B startup funding realm this week, it was still a busy time for companies and investors, with many funders targeting companies operating in less common markets. One of the largest investment rounds of the week went to China’s Haoqipei, a B2B eCommerce platform designed for the auto parts industry.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

It seems every year for the past five years or so, B2B payments analysts have pondered the future of the paper check — and tried to predict its demise. Simply put: Crooks love checks,” Mike Vigue, VP of product strategy, cyberfraud and risk management at B2B payments company Bottomline Technologies, told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

BlackLine , which provides account automation software, launched new products on Monday (Nov. Traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable. As a result, businesses are placing renewed focus on risk management, control environments and cash flow optimization.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Invoices submitted for financing by freight factoring firms account for more than one third of all invoices processed for funding, the IFA said. It’s another example of trucking and logistics regulation affecting accounts receivable and payable operations in the sector.

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Accounting Invoicing Accounts Payable Transportation 63

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

When it comes to B2B payments and supply chain management , many of those opportunities have surfaced as a result of some troubling vulnerabilities that have come to light in the midst of the pandemic. Analysts Eye AR Automation To Mitigate Risk. Today's market volatility has presented plenty of opportunities for the enterprise.

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Accounts Payable SAP B2B Auditing 78

PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2017

If the payment is made to an account that has infiltrated the client system, it is challenging to detect, especially if you are an organization who makes thousands of payments per day to hundreds of suppliers around the world. Kyriba is developing a bank account validation solution that will solve this problem.

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MAY 7, 2020

Risk management and payment technology provider linked2pay has debuted a new service, CustomerConnect, that is intended to cut down on late invoice payments, according to a press release. As such, virtual cards are becoming a critical and strategic B2B payment method for both buyers and suppliers.

Invoicing 60

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MARCH 12, 2020

This week, Bectran, which provides a B2B credit management solution, announced enhancements to its Cash Application automation capabilities. Equiniti Eyes APIs for Risk Management. According to the publication, however, that API service was also hit with disruptions amid ongoing turmoil for the bank.

Banking 77

Banking B2B Risk Management Finance 77

PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

Small Business Administration (SBA) is launching a new initiative to help small firms struggling with regulatory issues and is enlisting the help of accountants to do so.

Accounting 40

Accounting Compliance Auditing Credit Risk 40

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The release stated firms have more often been looking for data to validate their own internal counterparty and credit risk assessment. Firms can bolster risk management, loan and debt underwriting, portfolio optimization, supply chain risk management and investment idea generation, the release stated.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The future of the corporate accountant is in flux. FinTechs are developing ways to automate accounting tasks, forcing human accountants to provide more strategic, value-added services. That doesn’t mean corporate accountants are jumping ship, however.

Accounting 43

Accounting Corporate Finance Risk Management Forecasting 43

PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

” B2B payments is another area of corporate finance that some analysts expect blockchain to disrupt in a major way. Dun & Bradstreet research published in November found one-fifth of professionals surveyed said they have already implemented blockchain technology for B2B payments. ”

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Corporate Finance B2B SAP Finance 80

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Paymerang , which works in accounts payable (AP) automation, has debuted its new Invoice Automation Solution, which a press release stated will help organizations with efficiency, accuracy, visibility and getting rid of manual paper processes. The company recently debuted the new service at the Collegiate School in Richmond, Virginia.

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Invoicing Accounts Payable Risk Management Budgeting 112

PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2020

Due to the SAP Ariba Network, suppliers have access to better visibility for invoices and orders, with the ability to self-manage account information, submit invoices electronically and receive new purchase orders. accounts receivable and POS solution provider takepayments.

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SAP Invoicing Education Risk Management 144

PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

Today, B2B payment terms are in dramatic flux, while supply chain disruptions have led to bottlenecks that leave some vendors in short supply of cash. Broadening Risk Mitigation. The first and most obvious risk is credit risk, or the risk that a business will fail to repay financing. ”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

When it comes to business-to-business (B2B) transactions, paper checks are often the villain, cards an expensive but quick underdog, and ACH and its non-U.S. Rarely does the wire transfer come into play as an exciting, innovative payment rail ready to disrupt cross-border B2B payments. Thieves attempted to steal $5.3

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B2B Compliance Accounts Payable Accounting 46

PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

The State of Risk Oversight: An Overview of Enterprise Risk Management Practices ,” a new report released by the American Institute of CPAs ( AICPA ) and North Carolina State University’s Enterprise Risk Management ( ERM ) Initiative), surprisingly only mentions cyber risk a handful of times.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

That aims to boost their risk management and contract governance, transformation and remedial activities. I’m convinced that our proprietary software and expertise is the best in the market, and there lies the opportunity for us.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

Now the challenge is to bring digital, efficient forms of payments, and associated risk management, to one of the oldest industries in the world, one that predates recorded history. A lot of them do not have experience with risk management strategies,” Matheson said. Still Some Paper.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

As interest in corporate financial services heats up, financial institutions (FIs) are increasingly turning to these partners to enhance their B2B offerings, too. How do you improve risk management? Improve visibility into the actual status of accounts? Properly manage funds that are in motion?”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2017

This week, alternative finance companies raised more than $77 million in venture capital funding, accounting for nearly 70 percent of total funds raised by B2B FinTech startups this week. million in funding it just raised to continue growing in the fraud and risk management industry. SMB Finance. Enterprise Security.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

based B2B FinTech is making its debut on the market, with late supplier payments at the center of its initiatives. 13) introducing Solna’s strategy to address cash flow management struggles resulting from late supplier payments. Solna said its invoicing and risk management services will expand outside the U.K.

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Invoicing B2B Risk Management Startups 46

PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

In the past, however, the industry would think of fraud and risk management as separate processes and managing the data associated with payment details as well as credentials as a separate task. Whether companies are business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C), it is a big deal to add a new method of payment.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

Later this year, the companies also said they plan to integrate Lyft into GBT’s risk management and travel disruption tool Expert Care. In 2016, Amex GBT became the first corporate travel management company to partner with Airbnb, another major step into the sharing economy for the business travel industry.

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Transportation Compliance B2B Risk Management 47

PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

But last year, a new service arrived for B2B firms that provides another option: accounts receivable insurance. The company provides coverage to CFOs and financial officials to mitigate the risk associated with customer nonpayment, either by default or from a customer going out of business.

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Marketing B2B Cash Management Risk Management 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

SY Capital provides accounts receivable (AR)-based supply chain financing services to those kinds of companies, which Grace Tan , founding partner of Dignari Capital said is a ripe field for expansion. The release stated that supply chain finance has been effective as a way to fund SMBs and has been supported by the Chinese government.

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Finance Risk Management Economics Technology 94

PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

The rise in B2B FinTech has complicated the picture of treasury management, forcing it to rethink its position in the enterprise. The more payment, cash management, cash flow forecasting, ERP and other digital platforms integrated, the more difficult it can be for a company to envision its own financial health across all of this data.

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