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But B2B payment habits continue to stifle suppliers’ growth plans across the globe, found the latest Working Capital Outlook Survey released by C2FO this month. there is evidence that B2B payment practices are improving. In the U.S., Just 14 percent of U.S. But the U.S. experience is not universal: In the U.K.,

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

When it comes to invoicing, micromanagement stands in the way of corporate progress, and is the false light at the end of the tunnel. Nowhere is that more apparent than when the CEO or other executive in charge of approving transactions examines every invoice, whether in paper form crossing their desk or through emailed PDFs.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

offers small and medium-sized businesses a way to manage cash flow by offering solutions like invoice and expense management, reports explained, adding that the company currently serves about 3,750 SMEs in the country. The company secured $650,000 from Kae Capital and Khosla Impact, reports said Monday (Nov. Numberz.in

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JULY 21, 2017

Small business accounting and cash management took home the gold this week, with two startups raising a collective $93 million in funding. But the streak of B2B FinTech investments continues for startups of several industries, including cybersecurity, alternative finance and more. Canada and India. based Karmic has raised $17.2

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

19), Bank of the West revealed news that it is adding new cash management solutions for its commercial banking customers. Bank of the West’s Commercial Banking Group announced the rollout of DirectPay Manager and Remote Cash Capture, two solutions aimed at facilitating cash flow management for corporate clients.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

“We’ve seen companies that get nailed from a cash flow perspective,” Grant said. “Maybe clients haven’t paid that invoice, but they’re obligated to the employee to reimburse quickly.”

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Trade finance, they said, could help boost efficiency in cash management and supply chain (via dynamic discounting on invoices). In the example of C2FO’s own offerings, suppliers look for early payment on their invoices (and buyers offer their own approved invoices) uploaded onto the online marketplace.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

Unisys has partnered with PayCargo , which works in electronic invoicing and settlements for shipping companies, to deliver a new payments platform for cargo providers that a press release touts as more secure and faster.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

JPMorgan Chase is the latest financial institution to team up with a B2B payments FinTech. 19) announced news that JPMorgan is partnering with Bill.com to integrate its B2B payments technology into its own Chase platforms early next year. It’s not JPMorgan’s first FinTech partnership in its effort to boost B2B services.

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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. Faster Payments. Plus, those back office platforms aren’t always integrated with each other, either.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Open banking and its promise of more elasticity in finance is enabled by application program interfaces (APIs) — lines of code that execute everything from simple peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers to industrial-sized B2B real-time payments. That idea understandably has immense appeal to SMBs, and APIs are the conduit.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

The NBA’s Orlando Magic may not be the first franchise that comes to mind when one thinks of B2B payments technology, but Viewpost changed that with its announcement Tuesday (Dec. Viewpost is like Facebook for B2B payments,” said Orlando Magic Vice President of Finance Jeff Bissey in a statement. “It

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MAY 19, 2017

Find out which startup landed the cash, along with the other B2B startups that saw their share of investments this week, below. Supply Chain Management. supply chain management company AKUA announced $3 million in Series Seed financing this week. Cash Management. B2B Marketing. Based in the U.S.,

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MARCH 4, 2020

Business to business (B2B) application programming interfaces (APIs) are helping smooth the flow of data between companies, including businesses and their financial services software as well as between banks and their corporate clients. Around The B2B API World. Other banking integrations seek to revamp B2B payments.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

small businesses are losing billions of dollars every year because they aren’t properly managing company cash flow, a new survey finds. billion every year, collectively, because they spend so much time managing company finances like invoices, employee expenses and financial forecasting. Reports Tuesday (Feb.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Millions of dollars worth of unpaid invoices are written off by U.K. Researchers released the statistic this week to highlight the growing issue of late B2B payments in the U.K. Invoice finance is becoming a popular way for companies to remedy the issue. That’s a lot of money that SMEs in the U.K.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

But shifting priorities among buyers and suppliers have elevated the opportunity for cards to meet changing cash management needs. Further, Leavitt added, the commercial card sits nicely within the B2B market’s demand for data. Bending the Card Rails. One hurdle for the rail revolves around data.

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MARCH 27, 2019

Accounts payable (AP) automation company Tipalti is expanding its reach into the market by partnering with three new B2B companies, which will extend Tipalti’s solutions to their own customers.

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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.

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APRIL 29, 2016

In an announcement on Wednesday (April 27), APEX Analytix revealed a four-step cash management strategy to combine data analytics and supplier management tools. Accounts payable and procurement are partnering with treasury to look at cash management more holistically,” the executive said.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

B2B startups saw a little bit of everything this week when it came to venture capital. And that goes for the industries covered, too, with treasury management’s Kyriba, blockchain’s BlockApps and enterprise security’s Druva landing on the board, to name a few. Expense Management. Enterprise Security.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

26) that it is launching Invoice-Link , an app that allows pharmacies to manage invoices submitted by partnering couriers online. The solution imports those invoices, validates the delivery charges on the document and can use that information to generate reports to manage deliveries. The firm said Thursday (Jan.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

From sourcing to invoicing, B2B transactions involve a lot of steps before the actual payment. Using FIS-run PayNetExchange to process ACH, checks and virtual cards and using Comdata to issue Mastercard commercial cards, Corcentric pulls in payment capabilities across a range of rails to support the last mile of the B2B transaction.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

That’s because these companies are often working onsite and in the field, therefore having to issue invoices and accept payment on-the-spot, too. are sitting on $825 billion in unpaid invoices, with the average small- to medium-sized business (SMB) owed $84,000. Fundbox researchers estimated that small businesses in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

the outlook of how accelerated transaction times might impact B2B payments and, more specifically, the issue of late payments to suppliers, remains unclear. When NACHA first released its Same Day ACH capability, only about 6 percent of the first 2 million transactions made in the service’s first 11 days were B2B payments.

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JULY 16, 2019

Billie, a Germany-based startup offering invoicing and financing solutions for small businesses and corporates, announced about $33.6 Billie operates a platform upon which companies can send invoices to their corporate customers, collect payments and access invoice financing on unpaid bills.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Invoice financing company PeerPay is working with cash flow management firm CaFE to enhance small business (SMB) services. 20) that PeerPay, operated by FloFunder , is working with CaFE in an effort to bring greater transparency and predictability into small- and medium-sized business cash management.

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APRIL 1, 2016

Corporations have been chastised in recent years as floods of new data reveal the ongoing prevalence of paper checks in B2B payments. Bank’s head of receivables solutions for treasury management. The B2B payments space, on the other hand, not so much. The B2B space has, historically, had challenges.”. B2C To B2B.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Although the purpose of digitization in the finance department is, in many cases, to strengthen cash management, the effect of so many siloed systems can actually be quite different. As Berghald explained, that’s because each critical function — from invoicing to payment to accounting — all occur separately from each other.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Those pain points expand far beyond the retailer’s walls, too, as these businesses are forced to figure out how to utilize high volumes of cash to make payments to their B2B suppliers. Traditionally, B2B commerce is conducted over the phone and via email. An Emerging Late Payments Problem. “Sometimes they forget.

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MARCH 1, 2016

deals were also joined by B2B companies. The B2B FinTech space is making a name for itself among investors, researchers at Innovate Finance found. A breakdown of venture capital investment by verticals found that, together, data and analytics, wealth management, capital markets and payments made up 25 percent of all deals in the U.K.

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JUNE 10, 2016

in the alternative SME lending space, while B2B startups from the Netherlands and Spain also secured impressive rounds. Fresh with new backing, Satago is poised to launch its finance solution that combines invoice financing with an online credit control service for SMEs, reports added. ” Invoice Finance. . Procure-to-Pay.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Cross-border payments, trade finance, smart contracts — blockchain has the potential to disrupt B2B processes, but FinTech players are only beginning to take these concepts onto a real-world stage. For one firm, Finlync , the key to unlocking the potential of blockchain in B2B processes is unlocking the underlying data of that activity.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

Payment is done, B2B, with literally a flick of the wrist. Shifting the B2B Mindset Beyond the Fallacies. In the latest in a continuing series of discussions on the ways “how” can shift to “when” and “who” and “why” in banking, iGTB ’s EVP Barry Rhodes told Karen Webster that fallacies abound when it comes to B2B payments.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

The latest edition of the PYMNTS.com B2B API Tracker™ , a FI.SPAN collaboration, looks at the latest solutions improving the way B2B payments are exchanged and innovating the way financial institutions offer payment-related services for customers. . Here’s a snapshot of some recent notable B2B API news: . About the Tracker.

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APRIL 23, 2020

Unfortunately, independent contractors have also frequently been left out of the picture for traditional banks and even newer FinTechs despite the recent influx of small business cloud accounting apps and other B2B FinTech platforms. Dan Hogan, chief financial officer and chief operating officer of newly-launched U.K.

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JULY 2, 2020

Leavitt , founder and CEO of Boost Payment Solutions , said commercial card programs are now coming to the forefront of AP departments’ priority lists when delaying payments is no longer the most viable, or effective, cash management option. Optimizing Card Spend. “We’re seeing a lot more of that mentality.”

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