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AUGUST 8, 2019

The competition is heating up between payment technologies in accounts payable, with ACH and virtual cards seeing significant pushes in the B2B payments space to combat the dreaded paper check. Which will come out on top?

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

In the wake of the pandemic, B2B payments have had to evolve. Yet there’s a wide gulf between considering the great shift to digital B2B payments and actually making the leap. Comdata, she said, has mimicked the flow from claims to invoice to payment to reconciliation.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

With B2B payments being an increasingly attractive target for innovators, the landscape is growing crowded as more banks and FinTechs roll out their accounts payable (AP) automation solutions. “I think everybody recognizes that B2B payments are an enormous opportunity in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This week's roundup of the convergence of accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) takes a look at how B2B payments solution providers are considering both buyers and suppliers as a result of the pandemic. Paymerang Eyes The Supplier's Role In AP.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Historically, corporate travel and expense ( T&E ) management has been viewed as an entirely separate function from other B2B payment workflows. As a result, the lines that once separated T&E from other B2B payment workflows are blurring, according to Conferma Pay CEO Simon Barker and Barclays President of Payments Marc Pettican.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

To streamline B2B payments, MineralTree company Regal Software unveiled its RegalPay One offering in a Wednesday (Oct. Reconciliation also comes with the offering. The company noted that $27 trillion in B2B payments are conducted yearly in North America, while firms spend $510 billion on manual AP expenses in making those payments.

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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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DECEMBER 29, 2020

The B2B payments landscape has always been evolving, but change in the industry has never been more acute than right now. But the challenge of igniting B2B payments innovation may not be as arduous as many chief financial officers (CFOs) and others believe, said Josh Cyphers , president of Nvoicepay , a FLEETCOR company alongside Comdata.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

A perfect storm of market shifts catalyzed by the global pandemic has forever changed the B2B payments landscape. Billtrust CEO and Founder Flint Lane highlighted three shifts in particular that are igniting major change in the industry: first, the accelerated digitization of accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP).

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MARCH 10, 2017

The company said this week that it will roll out an accounts payable solution using a virtual card payment method, a solution, Edenred noted, that “offers security, speed and traceability” for easier supplier payments and reconciliation.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

And as FinTechs continue to challenge banks, but also offer new opportunities within the B2B space, they’re advancing a corollary to the build vs. buy question: How about partnerships? The question is seemingly an eternal one in the business realm: build vs. buy. Where The Banks Are Focused . Sassone pointed to the fact that half of all U.S.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

And he noted, too, that the “verticalization” of B2B is upon us. Deploying the right solutions hearkens back to the “jobs to be done” theory of innovation noted by Webster during an earlier B2B webinar. Accounts payable and receivable used to be concrete, separate operations. B2B Verticalization.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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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DECEMBER 2, 2020

There’s an imbalance in B2B payments — between buyers and suppliers, and between automation on one side of the cash flow equation and manual, paper-based processes on the other. Aquilina said that’s partly because historically, B2B payments innovation efforts — especially via FinTechs — have focused on buyers. Change Is In The Air .

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AUGUST 30, 2017

American Express is continuing its ongoing efforts to encourage businesses to pay suppliers with commercial cards in its latest accounts payable partnership. This integration allows companies to electronically pay suppliers right from their accounting software in RegalPay, simplifying and streamlining their B2B payments process.”.

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JULY 28, 2020

Although the enterprise continues to accelerate its digitization efforts, chief financial officers keep hitting roadblocks when it comes to modernizing workflows regarding accounts payable (AP) and embracing electronic payments. Strengthening B2B Ties. Expanding The Scope. Monetizing The Virtual Card.

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JULY 3, 2019

Cost containment solution provider Palmarius Advisors is rolling out an accounts payable (AP) automation solution designed to generate revenue and enhance spend control for corporate users. The company did not reveal details on how it mitigates accounts payable fraud or introduces business users to a new revenue stream with its tool.

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MAY 2, 2018

With so many payment rails – and with buyers and suppliers in so many different places on their digital transformation journeys – how can a company’s accounts payable department ensure that vendor relationships remain strong, while navigating differing payment needs? The solution is going to optimize payment methods.

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MAY 10, 2017

Visa is teaming up with B2B virtual payments company CSI globalVCard to extend its services to Visa issuers. The tools support reconciliation, instant card issuance through CSI globalVCard’s mobile app, spend control and other AP technologies.

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MARCH 31, 2020

To make the complete payables process smarter, global payables automation company Tipalti unveiled its Tipalti Pi integrated payables intelligence engine, according to a press release. The solution identifies fraud and risk, bolsters decision making, automates manual work and eliminates accounts payable (AP) process errors.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Travel booking company Webjet , based in Australia, has launched a blockchain solution for the hotel industry to manage reconciliation in hotel distribution. According to Webjet, the company tested the solution in-house with its own B2B partners before rolling it out to market.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Considering the complexities of B2B transactions , cash is not a sustainable method of moving funds from a retail buyer to a cannabis brand distributor or wholesaler. But there are other pain points in B2B payments for the legal cannabis market, according to Doug Gordon , executive vice president and head of LeafLink Financial.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

American Express has struck a new partnership in its latest B2B payments push, announcing a collaboration with commercial payments firm WEX to support corporate use of virtual cards in accounts payable. In an announcement on Monday (Nov.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

These 16-digit credit card numbers are created for one-time purchases at set amounts, and the convenience, security and speed they provide are allowing them to take hold in the B2B payments space. The following Deep Dive explores how virtual cards benefit B2B payments, especially among smaller firms, which have limited resources.

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APRIL 7, 2020

The program can be used for everything from intercompany transactions, accounts payable and receivable, travel and entertainment (T&E) reporting, bank clearing and lockbox to general ledger cash accounts. The Transaction Matching software goes hand-in-hand with OneStream’s existing Account Reconciliation.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As B2B FinTech firms continue working to break down silos, and ease the numerous friction points of the B2B payments process for both buyer and seller, the opportunities for data integration are vast. B2B payments market. “This combination increases data accuracy, and shortens payment cycles.”

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JULY 3, 2018

New research suggests a vast divide between businesses that have embraced technology and electronic processes in the accounts payable department and businesses that instead prefer to retain those paper invoices and checks. While the gap is wide, researchers noted overall improvement in the perception of the accounts payable department.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

New analysis from corporate payments firm Bill.com suggests ACH payments are dominating the accounts payable department. Bill.com researchers found that other digital B2B payment rails are on the rise, too, including 3 percent of respondents who said they are using virtual cards more often than they did last year to pay their bills.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The AFP’s report found new lows in corporates’ use of checks for B2B payments, with more than one-third saying they aim to remain current with new payments technologies. Although new technology is appealing, treasury and finance professionals tend to stick with what works for them, and their vendors,” said AFP President and CEO Jim Kaitz.

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JUNE 11, 2020

While optimizing back-office functions like accounts payable and accounts receivable can support enhanced cash-flow management, B2B partnership collaboration is also critical to supporting the financial health of an organization. AscendantFX Eases Payment Instruction Hurdles. ”

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Business-to-business (B2B) payment practices are undergoing some of the most notable shifts as corporate buyers and sellers seek new transaction methods and tools to help them pay and be paid quickly. Companies are making significant changes during the COVID-19 pandemic as they work to move past its disruptions and restore smooth operations.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

The shift toward contextual banking has a tailwind in place as the financial institutions (FIs) that have been market leaders have been seeing strong deposit growth — and as corporate customers are growing those balances, they want to be able to see their account activity and cash balances visible within the same application on demand.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

More and more, B2B payment solutions are focusing less on single end-points of friction, and more on the overall picture of how money (and data) moves from one business to another. That means emerging services are multitasking, easing friction for both accounts payable and accounts receivable.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Most companies in other industries have simpler accounts payable (AP) responsibilities because they only need to make B2B payments to several dozen regular vendors, but claims processors do not have that same certainty and stability.

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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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DECEMBER 20, 2018

The payments industry has been talking about the digitization of B2B transactions for years, maybe decades, with not much of a nudge of that needle. In some ways, the lack of digitization is the result of the financial services industry operating on misconceptions about the best ways to ensure that electronic B2B payments gain traction.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

With speed being the most obvious value proposition of real-time payments capabilities, it’s not difficult to imagine that corporate payers would be eager to embrace faster payments functionality in their accounts payable (AP) departments. And for many firms, that’s exactly what they’re beginning to do. ”

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