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Is B2B FinTech Heating Up At The Wrong Time?

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deals were also joined by B2B companies. Affirm, for instance, secured $275 million last May and, soon after, announced plans to link businesses operating over Shopify with financing. The B2B FinTech space is making a name for itself among investors, researchers at Innovate Finance found. Is This Good News Or Bad News?

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Suppliers To Usher In Dynamic Discounting

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Some B2B payments players have predicted that, on the accounts payable side of the transaction, higher interest rates will lead companies to extend their payment terms and to seek out AP technologies that offer integrated supplier financing solutions to help with that cash flow crunch on the supplier side.

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Baby Steps In Digital B2B Payments

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Corporations have been chastised in recent years as floods of new data reveal the ongoing prevalence of paper checks in B2B payments. But if the financial services sector is going to actually service its corporate clients, then it must acknowledge that checks will remain in the mix — at least for the foreseeable future. “It

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Robotics Process Automation Rakes In The VC Cash

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In a week of multiple nine-figure venture capital funding rounds, B2B FinTech has proved it plans to end the year on a high note. Below, PYMNTS breaks down the more than $912 million raised by B2B FinTech firms this week. For instance, its LaaS platform lets businesses provide invoice or payroll financing to their customers.

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Pandemic Wake-Up Call Drives Integrated B2B Platforms

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Corporate finance teams were not simply tasked with finding ways to continue operations in a remote work environment as a result of the coronavirus crisis. There were cases where some of these finance teams could not even understand what their cash visibility looked like.”. The Biggest Pain Points, Revealed.

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A Wakeup Call For SME-Serving Banks

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New data on the struggles facing small business borrowers — from frustration surrounding the rejection of a bank loan to unexpected, sky-high APRs linked to alternative financing — means banks have a long way to go to fill in the gaps for entrepreneurs when it comes to their cash management, payments and expansion needs.

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Corporates Must Tread Lightly With Delayed Supplier Payment Tactic

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Hackett analysts found that top performers are widening the gap between typical firms when it comes to cash management: Those top performers are now three-times faster than the average corporate at converting working capital into cash. Meanwhile, days sales outstanding (DSO) increased by 4.4 percent, reaching 39.5