PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Chicago-based Signature Bank is rolling out a technology platform called Finrails AP to simplify B2B payments, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. Finrails AP offers businesses a cloud-based accounts payable (AP) solution that automates B2B payments on a secure digital dashboard using numerous payment methods.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Instead, taking a look at the latest solutions to emerge on the market shows various applications for speed in commercial transactions, from faster deposits for small businesses, to virtual cards enabling faster invoice payments for suppliers. Chase Accelerates SMB Bank Deposits. Community Banks Go Real Time.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

21 percent of business leaders say payment authorization and authentication are requirements when choosing a treasury management platform , a report by Citizens Commercial Banking found. million was stolen from one company via accounts payable (AP) fraud , the Chicago Tribune reported. 45 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The Playbook also calls out “three-way invoice matching — in which staff must compare invoices to purchase orders and goods received notes,” and the frustrations that brings, but automation can reduce these stresses by matching these invoices automatically. Platforms Streamlining Mass Payables.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Businesses of all sizes struggle with capital management, regardless of whether they employ staff or seek out third parties to handle their cash flows, accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) processes and other related tasks. Factors Affecting Working Capital Needs. Automating Capital Management.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We discover a basic truth upon reading PYMNTS November 2020 CFO’s Guide To Digitizing B2B Payments done in collaboration with Comdata : many treasury operations need digital triage. B2B invoices generally take 37.4 Corporate Treasury Needs More Love. are still conducted with checks.”. APIs Fostering Connectedness.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Smooth accounts payable and receivable processes depend on the ability to easily access, manage and interpret payments data, but complex workflows and old-school tools can get in the way. Businesses that want to get these kinds of AR and AP updates and streamline their reconciliation processes may turn to banking partners for help.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If at that time, someone would have asked Citi Managing Director and Global Head of Domestic Payments and Receivables Anupam Sinha how long it would take for corporate treasury organizations to fully embrace digital , he said his answer would likely have been something along the lines of, “Don’t hold your breath.”. he explained.

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PYMNTS

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. Open Banking. While Canada has not yet enacted open banking regulatory requirements, much like the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Economic challenges brought on by the COVID crisis have heightened the need for businesses to manage supply chains more efficiently, and in many cases that means turning to banks for the help they need. Banks can provide alternative, low-cost and less document-intensive forms of financing, like supply chain financing,” Gupta said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

When it comes to treasury market offerings, banks have historically started wholesale and retail lockbox businesses. In turn, a company may receive a deposit in their bank account a couple of days later and have to pull the remittance information from the supplier site.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

Between treasury management, accounting, invoicing, cash management and all the other money tools corporates have access to today, it’s a wonder CFOs can keep their heads on straight. It’s changed the game, not only for corporate clients but for the FinTech players developing and offering these treasury solutions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

debt collectors seek a bigger role in recovering SMB aid, Fides expands bank connectivity for treasurers and jobless claims dip slightly. PayJunction Debuts Digital Invoicing for Virtual Terminal Clients. The Treasury has faced questions as of late over how to minimize the losses for taxpayers under the scheme. ActiveWorx, Inc.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

We have deep dives on the financial health of Main Street small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), digital accounts payable (AP), and GoodRx ’s initial public offering (IPO). . FinCEN Files Show Banks’ Use Of AI And Machine Learning Effective In KYC/AML . 23) after the firm had an IPO at $33 per share. 22) at the earliest.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Such legacy payment methods are usually tied to paper-based invoices and manual tracking and reconciliation procedures, which impede payments from being processed in a timely manner. Suppliers whose invoices have not been paid quickly may deliver another invoice, leading buyers to mistakenly pay for two.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

This challenge often emerges with small businesses (SMBs) that are not large enough to fit into a bank’s corporate and treasury services unit, and are, therefore, forced into being serviced with consumer-targeted products. The financial services space often encounters the conundrum of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Separate research from Coveware found companies paid an average of $84,116 to recover their files in Q4 2019, reports said, adding that public entities accounted for about one-tenth of 2019’s cases. Analysis of BEC complaints filed in 2019 found that BEC scams accounted for nearly half of the $3.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Solution providers in accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) are increasingly servicing not only their corporate customers, but their customers’ own business partners with their technologies. At what point in the workflow can I prevent an invoice from going past due in the first place?”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Invoice and purchase order manipulation, company credit card abuse and fraudulent use of company checks all surface as cautionary tales for corporates’ internal financial processes. consumers in the first half of 2019 , according to new analysis from Parliament’s Treasury Select Committee. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The PYMNTS December 2019 Next-Gen AP Automation Tracker details explosive innovation in real-time payments for business, driven in no small part by accounts payable (AP) professionals. Close to one-quarter of AP pros surveyed also want to bring ePayables and virtual cards online for treasury operations. Digitize to Actualize.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

That’s surprising for several reasons, and here’s a good one: nearly 70 percent of accounts payable (AP) professionals say suppliers value payments speed above all. Contrast that with the fact that well over 40 percent of B2B invoices are still paid by paper check. Making Money Faster with APIs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2020

In addition, the deal will allow better reconciliation of payments with the matching invoices. Risk will be less of an issue because of the increase in transparency and tighter control on foreign exchange payments, along with the currency exposures for those with stake in procurement and treasury.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Blackbaud Purchase Cards are designed for “social good organizations” to digitize their accounts payable processes and enhance spend management for employees. Regions Bank has teamed up with the company to issue Visa cards to employees at social good organizations to make payments while traveling on behalf of their firms.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

The scheme apparently unfolded the way many BEC scams do — with a fraudster posing as a legitimate vendor, and where payments had been wired into scammers’ bank accounts. percent of an enterprise’s non-payroll business spend is accounts-payable based and 3.7 percent is travel and expense (T&E)-based.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

s Nationwide Building Society did not disclose how much it invested in BankiFi , but it did say that it’s support to the open banking FinTech comes as Nationwide plans to launch a business current account. digital bank Mercury announced $20 million in Series A funding in a blog post. ZenBusiness. Everledger. Engage:BDR.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

Manual, paper-based AP procedures can stand in the way of this, though, because these methods require staff to spend time and resources handling invoices and typing details into company systems. Thirty-seven percent said invoice processing was among the three most inefficient parts of their companies’ financial operations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The last decade of B2B FinTech innovation not only led to an explosion of product options for businesses to manage a variety of processes, including accounts receivable (AR), accounts payable (AP) and accounting. The pace of change is a challenge for banks and businesses alike,” said McCarthy.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

A market that Praeger’s firm, AvidXchange, is in the business of serving by offering invoice automation and payment processes services solutions for those “Mighty Middle” businesses in North America. Currently, the firm boasts integrations into 130 accounting and other back-office systems across 5,500 customers in North America.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

The solution is called Finlync SAP-DL Integrator , and the idea, said Finlync in an interview with PYMNTS, is that the ERP system is the central home to critical data like purchase orders and invoices, business partner payment information and the like. Finlync told PYMNTS that, in B2B payments especially, fraud is on the rise. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

Michael Praeger, CEO and co-founder of AvidXchange , said it’s past time to bring automation into the space to optimize invoice management and payment processes. In May, the startup announced a partnership with Premier Community Bank in Bradenton, Florida, which Praeger said will extend its reach into this difficult vertical.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2016

88% of finance professionals anticipate a rise in payments fraud , said TD Bank in its latest analysis. TD Bank Head of Corporate Products and Services Rick Burke said corporate treasurers need to begin a dialogue with their banks and financial services partners to integrate adequate security controls within their corporations.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

Michael Praeger, CEO and co-founder of AvidXchange , says it’s past time to bring automation into the space to optimize invoice management and payment processes. In May, the startup announced a partnership with Premier Community Bank in Bradenton, Florida that Praeger said will extend its reach into this difficult vertical.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2016

Bank’s head of receivables solutions for treasury management. Offerings from FIs, like mobile banking and electronic payment support, can help encourage businesses to make the shift to ePayments, the executive said, but legacy payment technologies also need to be addressed. The B2B payments space, on the other hand, not so much.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Bank has rolled out its new AP Optimizer, which is a digital tool that works to simplify invoice processing and payments for businesses, according to a press release. Bank, according to the release. Digital invoicing has become popular throughout the pandemic, with WEX Inc. With AP Optimizer, the release stated, U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

Large companies may receive thousands of monthly invoices that must be processed quickly and economically, and firms of all sizes need to track payment obligations and issue funds. The accounts payable (AP) automation market is expected to grow from $1.6 The accounts payable (AP) automation market is expected to grow from $1.6

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Businesses that have stuck with paper-based accounts payable (AP) processes are feeling the heat as the COVID-19 pandemic makes it unsafe for staff to conduct manual invoice and payment processing from their offices. Invoice processing can be slow and expensive for companies with inefficient AP systems. and took 8.6

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Simply Treasury

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Treasury management is “anticipation”. Today, not being of " investment grade " quality is an enormous handicap in the bank lending market. Unfortunately, invoices do not get paid in profit, but in cash. By working on accounts receivable, accounts payable and stock, you can improve the reliability of cash flow forecasts.

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