PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

With trade shows canceled and enterprise digitization accelerated, 2020 was a big year for the adoption of B2B eCommerce. Even before the pandemic hit, the B2B eCommerce landscape was heating up as businesses sought greater efficiency. The Rise of the Marketplace.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Separately, research finds B2B payments as the key driver behind surging instant payments volume in the years ahead. In addition to the expanded Accelerate program, Mastercard is also embracing blockchain for B2B use cases. B2B Payments To Drive Instant Payments Adoption. European Union Next To Ease Crypto Adoption.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Kevin Phalen , head of global business solutions at Visa , told Karen Webster that the consumerization and the digitization of the B2B space are enabling firms to get the job — moving money — done with efficiencies previously unknown. B2B is poised to make the same leap. But the solutions they deploy, maintained Phalen, must be fast.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

When it comes to global B2B procurement, nothing is simple. The Track BPS is an evolution from the strategy of owning the underlying rails upon which money moves, according to James Anderson , executive vice president of Global Commercial and B2B Solutions. Driving B2B Payments' Evolution. said Anderson. A World Of Opportunity.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

India's Tradologie is looking to make the country a "self-reliant and self-sustaining powerhouse" through a B2B platform that facilitates uninterrupted trade for both local and foreign parties. Working with the enterprise, he said, can help with the addition of layers to soothe friction in the B2B onboarding process.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The takeover signaled an evolution of the company's business model from a traditionally business-to-consumer (B2C) seller, to one that includes business-to-business (B2B) operations. It was also indicative of a growing trend of B2C merchants expanding into the B2B realm in an effort to take advantage of a surging market.

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JULY 29, 2020

“Fundamental changes to the B2B payments landscape are taking place today, faster than ever before, helping the ecosystem eliminate inefficient B2B payments processes.”. Access to capital hasn’t been this tight since the market meltdown of 2008, so motivated players are finding better, faster ways of moving B2B funds especially.

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Strategic Treasurer

AUGUST 10, 2022

B2B Payments: 2022 Survey Results. The B2B Payments Survey gathers data from treasury and finance professionals on payment challenges, security, technology, and complexity, probing global respondents on their plans, perceptions, and practices. September 13 | 2:00 PM EDT. Register Now. Tuesday, September 13, 2022. Sponsored By.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

With B2B eCommerce proliferating, the market is rapidly evolving to make way for new business and payment models in response to customer demand. We're in the golden age of B2B eCommerce," he told PYMNTS in a recent interview. Along with the adoption of B2B eCommerce came the proliferation of different kinds of buying models. "A

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While optimizing B2B payments is often about combating friction at the moment of transaction, the truth is, the B2B payment experience often happens way before any money is ever actually moved. There are many ways that onboarding a new B2B customer can be a headache for suppliers that sell goods and services online.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In B2B payments, the path to making transactions as seamless and invisible as possible is often about closing the gap that separates buyer and supplier. While a growing population of B2B FinTech solutions has helped to connect B2B buyers and sellers, more platforms can create more friction on either end of the equation.

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CFO Selections

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

What do you need to think about when transitioning a portion of your business from a B2B model to a B2C model? This type of major strategy shift requires a full-scale examination of every facet of the organization – sales, marketing, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and R&D.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

There are a lot of moving parts in B2B payments that are keeping corporate finance executives busy as they work to modernize and optimize their operations. In 2020, many of the biggest pain points in B2B payments were revealed, particularly when transactions move across border. But it's an end-to-end workflow.".

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

When it comes to B2B payments fraud, it’s not a matter of if it happens, but when. While eliminating paper is a much-needed first step to combatting B2B payments fraud, electronic payments aren’t immune to the risk, either. “Everybody needs to be suspicious,” he said.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

23) that they have entered a strategic partnership to launch Visa Commercial Pay, billed as a suite of B2B payment solutions for enterprises making the shift to digital transactions, and, specifically, virtual cards — and away from paper-based manual processes. She said 89 percent of B2B buyers are making more online purchases than last year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

When B2B commerce requires sales representatives, phone calls and fax machines, both purchasing and sales workflows can quickly get bogged down. There is an inherent value in building B2B eCommerce platforms from the ground up. Build Versus Buy. Out-Of-The-Box.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

For years — decades, even — B2B payment leaders and innovators had been talking about the digitization of corporate payments within accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) departments. The coronavirus crisis has accelerated B2B payments digitization to new heights. More Work To Be Done.

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Strategic Treasurer

DECEMBER 6, 2022

B2B Transaction Modernization: Real-Time Payments. 2022 B2B Payments Survey Results Report Strategic Treasurer’s B2B Payments survey, developed in partnership with Bottomline Technologies, sought to understand the shifting technologies, strategies, and practices used by organizations across the Business-to-Business (B2B) payments landscape.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

"The Amazon experience" is now a worn-out catchphrase in the world of B2B eCommerce. But B2B eCommerce is not the same beast as B2C. The core difference between B2B and B2C is that in B2B, the individual researching and buying has a job to do,” King said. It's also accelerated the digitization of B2B sales.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

In a geographic market as large as Africa, fragmentation within the food and agriculture industry has created plenty of points of friction and inefficiencies that disrupt B2B trade workflows — for both farmers and their buyers. Multi-Sided Pain Points. Data And Digitization.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

JCB , a Japanese card provider, is developing a blockchain B2B payment offering specifically for netting trades between two parties. Even though Japan’s B2B payments space accounts for $10 trillion in yearly volume, cash transactions are still in the lead as is the case in a number of markets.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

With the pandemic accelerating businesses' digital shift , small retail buyers have shifted their buying operations to the B2B eCommerce realm, and for many, the online marketplace operates in lieu of a procurement solution. Yet in the B2B realm, there are some unique challenges. Visibility And Security.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

From a lack of supplier acceptance of electronic payments to outdated infrastructure within accounts payable (AP) departments, the B2B payments ecosystem still has much room for improvement on multiple fronts. Moving the needle in the journey away from paper checks isn’t a one-sided battle, either. An Ecosystem Approach.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

As B2B eCommerce accelerates its technological innovation, and as adoption grows, it continues to look toward the world of B2C to implement optimized end-user experiences – for both the buyer and the seller. Extending trade credit directly at the point of sale is a major opportunity for B2B sellers to similarly drive up sales.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And here we are, millennia later, exploring space and streaming Netflix, yet over 40 percent of business-to-business (B2B) payments are still made by paper — the same “technology” that replaced clay tablets. After all, B2B eCommerce will be a $1.1 Where’s the Trust? China’s eCommerce titan Alibaba is capitalizing on that.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

New Jersey-based invoice-to-cash platform Billtrust has upgraded the machine learning (ML) capabilities of its business-to-business (B2B) cash application software, the company announced Wednesday (Nov. The goal is to quickly convert payments to cash.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

The process of B2B procurement between diamond vendors and jewelry retailers is often stuck on legacy processes like phone calls, emails and paper check payments, creating the same kinds of bottlenecks and inefficiencies that plague other markets. A B2B eCommerce Evolution. B2B eCommerce operations, dubbed Jewel Fleet.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Steady digitization in stale B2B payments and the open banking movement are two closely related and increasingly exuberant expressions of money’s digital makeover. Impacts expected from open banking on the laggard B2B payments space are hard to understate. It’s worth the effort, as the growing number of B2B payments use cases prove.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

B2B online commerce technology company NuORDER has unveiled its NuORDER Payments offering. Digital payments [are] the norm for eCommerce, but B2B payments have been stuck in the dark ages for too long,” NuORDER Co-Founder and Co-CEO Heath Wells said in the announcement. 26) announcement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This week’s round-up of the latest innovations in payment rails for B2B payments shows a key focus on real-time transactions and embrace of emerging, faster payment rails. Plus, blockchain makes new inroads in the B2B arena. Transcard Embraces Track for Real-Time B2B Payments. Volante Explores the Real-Time B2B Value Prop.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Salesforce has rolled out its new Revenue Cloud product, which will work to simplify B2B purchasing for customers, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

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. Sassone pointed to the fact that half of all U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2020

New York private equity firm GenNx360 Capital Partners has acquired B2B Industrial and the assets of AMW Packaging Supply , which will give the company a boost in the industrial packaging space, according to a press release. B2B Industrial is based in Illinois, while AMW is based in Arizona.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Businesses also may find paper checks to be untenably slow and cumbersome to issue or receive from far-flung partners, and such trends are causing a growing global momentum for adopting swifter, more streamlined accounts payable (AP) tools and business-to-business (B2B) payment methods. Alibaba On Digitizing Cross-Border B2B Payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

Today in B2B payments, ActiveWorx launches its B2B payment optimization tool, while PayJunction debuts an eInvoicing feature. ActiveWorx Introduces B2B Payments Offering on AP Platform. has rolled out B2B payments optimization offerings on its platform. ActiveWorx, Inc. ActiveWorx, Inc.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It was a busy week for B2B venture capitalists who spread their wealth amongst a wide range of B2B FinTechs, with investments totaling more than $164 million. India-based B2B eCommerce company SOLV secured an investment from SC Ventures , the companies announced this week, although they did not reveal the value of the funding.

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