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Financing Gets Flexible As eCommerce Sellers Brace For Seasonality Whiplash

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And the surge in eCommerce isn't isolated to the B2C world, either: as social distancing requirements and shutdowns migrate corporate buyers online, wholesalers, distributors and other B2B vendors are likely to face a similar holiday boon this year to fulfill rising customer demand. An Alternative To Banks.

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Citi: Accelerated Digital Migration Provides Insights Into B2B Behavior

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It’s not that automating invoice generation, banishing checks, automating the cash application process and systematically removing all the manual touches from accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) workflows weren’t unknown concepts among chief financial officers (CFOs) and treasury departments at the time.

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How Treasurers Are Guiding Firms Through The eCommerce Revolution

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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. Treasury is very well-positioned to handle all of these activities,” added Sinha. trillion by 2021.

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HSBC Enables PayPal For Supplier Payments

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“Our collaboration with PayPal will significantly expand the payments network accessible to our clients through HSBC, allowing them to send payments to a much wider range of counterparties in a fast and efficient manner,” said HSBC Global Head of Payments in Global Liquidity and Cash Management Tom Halpin.

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Cybersecurity Unicorn Steals The B2B Investment Show

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Cash Management. While Telr, based in Singapore and India, provides front-office B2C payment solutions to its business customers, the company has also grown a presence in the back-office, with cash management and logistics solutions linked into its overall offering. B2B Marketing. secured $10.3

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J.P. Morgan Looks Toward Payments Modernization

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Whether businesses were establishing their modernization roadmaps for the first time or simply accelerating the plans they already had in place, the COVID-19 crisis drove organizations to embrace technology at unprecedented levels in order to manage a remote workforce, supply chain disruptions and economic uncertainty.

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Deutsche Bank Links Faster Payments To Faster FX Management

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But Deutsche Bank’s report suggests corporates are headed towards real-time payments disruption — even if they don’t deploy real-time payments for their accounts payable operations. “As