PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In corporate finance, the predictions are largely about the adoption of the most cutting-edge technologies, from artificial intelligence (AI) to blockchain. However, AI isn’t the only tool to which these companies, and their corporate finance clients, should be paying attention. The latest report from Gartner, Inc.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Payment network innovation has largely focused on elevating the ability to transmit data along with funds, which has become a key benefit floated for corporates in the B2B payments realm.

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Fox Corporate Finance

AUGUST 9, 2023

From September 13 to 14, 2023, the IMPACT FESTIVAL, Europe’s largest B2B event for sustainable innovation, will take place in Frankfurt/Offenbach. September 2023 in Frankfurt/Offenbach appeared first on FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH. Read more The post FCF @IMPACT FESTIVAL from 13./14.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

Thielens said payments is a particularly interesting area, considering how much innovation has occurred in the last decade with payers (consumer and corporate alike), demanding greater choice and variety in how they make payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

some corporate accounting experts have questioned the largest auditing firms’ role in combating accounting errors and fraud after a string of corporate finance scandals. In the U.K., In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

This week’s B2B Venture Capital roundup shows FIs are placing funding with their FinTech partners, too, including Nationwide and HSBC U.K., investing money in B2B FinTechs disrupting their industries. In total, more than $732 million was raised by B2B FinTechs this week. 10x Future Technologies.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Today in B2B payments, the SBA releases guidance for the next round of PPP loans, while xSuite secures Peppol invoice certification. Plus, TripActions announces ERP integrations, FortisPay acquires Swype and Goldiam launches a B2B eCommerce platform in the U.S. Goldiam International Debuts B2B Website for US Retail Jewelry.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Corporates have growing expectations for faster, more efficient and more secure B2B payments — whether their money is moving from one business unit to another or one country to another. As businesses continue this shift, it is no longer safe to assume that corporates are not interested in faster payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Steve Troy, CEO of AeroFund Financial, says that’s a trend permeating many components of corporate finance today: Businesses don’t just need better tools – they need, in some cases, an entirely new way to manage finances. Troy noted that this is indicative of the B2B FinTech space coming in to disrupt the status quo.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Today in B2B payments, lenders land SMB relief support in U.S. Plus, Contour completes blockchain trade finance transaction, Liberis raises funding for SME financing, Pakistan eyes digitizing supply chains, and Ripple faces SEC charges. pandemic aid package. Pandemic Aid Package Provides Relief For Lenders To Help SMBs.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced this week that its head of international corporate finance will be departing the agency. According to an SEC announcement , Chief of the Office of International Corporate Finance Paul Dudek, in the agency’s Division of Corporation Finance, will leave today (Friday, June 30).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The corporate finance space is in flux, but how it’s changing depends on the market in which you stand. PYMNTS takes a quick trip across the globe to explore business finance trends in the U.K., Middle East and Asia and discovers new winners in enterprise SaaS, losers in small business banking and more.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In B2B payments and corporate finance, it wasn’t only bank-FinTech collaboration that made headlines in 2018. Here are some of the biggest stories of B2B payments collaboration from 2018. Last June, the company announced a partnership with B2B eCommerce platform Handshake to further that initiative.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

Wirex , which providers consumers with an account to store both fiat and cryptocurrency, recently stepped into the corporate finance space with the launch of its business account. Co-Founder Dmitry Lazarichev explained to PYMNTS why the company remains confident in cryptocurrency’s potential for corporate payments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

With more than $200 million in venture capital funding landing with B2B FinTechs this week, investors had their eyes set on a variety of pain points in corporate finance. Below, PYMNTS breaks down the latest in B2B FinTech funding. With an eye on the freelancer segment, neobank Joust has just announced a $2.6

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

This week, the largest funding round went to a B2B startup developing autonomous trucking technology to boost fleet efficiency, with other rounds landing at small business bookkeeping, workforce communications, and IBAN fraud mitigation startups for a combined $236 million-plus landing at B2B startups.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Demand for corporate finance helped propel China’s banks to new lending records in November, according to news from Reuters on Monday (Dec. That figure surpassed analysts’ expectations, especially considering China’s efforts to reduce risk tied to a surge in corporate debt. Chinese banks provided $169.27 billion yuan.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fraud never sleeps, and the corporate finance department cannot afford to stay behind on the ever-changing strategies of fraudsters. According to researchers, hackers infiltrate the email accounts of employees within a B2B supplier’s finance departments, including accounts receivable and procurement.

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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

MARCH 7, 2018

B2B FinTechs are playing an especially prominent role in this trend, analysts noted. Anecdotally, these firms have been talking for years about the industry’s potential to make significant disruptions in areas like corporate finance, small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending and more. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

Separate research last month also examined how corporate finance expects are bracing for this digital disruption. Finance professionals spoke with Gartner, Inc. ” B2B payments is another area of corporate finance that some analysts expect blockchain to disrupt in a major way. ”

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

Rising corporate finance metrics don’t always mean good news. Find out which figures led to good growth — like digital corporate payments increases or a rise in SME hedging practices — and which signal bad news for corporate FinServ. The numbers are on the up this week! But don’t let that fool you.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

The possibilities are seemingly endless, particularly as the consumer payments world ushers in new technologies for the B2B space. “Whether it’s a year from now or three years from now, whatever is working in the consumer space will ultimately make its way into the B2B space,” Clark said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

It seems every year for the past five years or so, B2B payments analysts have pondered the future of the paper check — and tried to predict its demise. Simply put: Crooks love checks,” Mike Vigue, VP of product strategy, cyberfraud and risk management at B2B payments company Bottomline Technologies, told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In corporate finance, automation changed the game. Robotics process automation (RPA) is a recent favorite among some B2B FinTechs. Speaking with PYMNTS, Kryon CEO Harel Tayeb explained why robotics process automation has such vast potential in B2B payments. Automation initiated this capability for many organizations. “We

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2017

Investors diversified their funding to B2B companies this week, hitting several areas of corporate finance including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and supply chain management. B2B Payments. Find out who. With the inevitable comparisons to LinkedIn, Lynkos offers a business network platform, but the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

3) said corporate lending is a renewed focus for funds, like IFM Investors Pty and Metrics Credit Partners, looking to take advantage of corporates seeking funding from sources other than big banks. Reports in Bloomberg Friday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This week's B2B Data Digest looks at the latest figures behind such fraud targeting corporate finance teams. While much of the focus of B2B fraud typically lands on external actors, concerns about PPP fraud may raise awareness of some bad actors within the enterprise looking to steal money via loan fraud or other types of scams.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

percent equity interest in Hangzhou Zeshi Investment Partners, which will enable China Lending to launch its new supply chain financing services in the near future, including financing products design, related corporate financing solutions, investments and asset management, and more.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

Accrualify , which works in cloud-based solutions for mid- and enterprise-level companies, is launching a new corporate card in partnership with Visa , according to a press release. The intent of the card is to boost options for spend control for corporate finance teams.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

It’s never been easier for B2B businesses to collaborate and connect. Middle-market firms are particularly embracing the outsourcing model, according to Mike Cassity, CEO of Flockgen , an online platform that connects B2B businesses to partners and customers. ” That transparency is critical in B2B relationships.

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PYMNTS

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. 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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2017

Last month, the company partnered with accounts receivable technology firm VersaPay, positioning Ricoh not only in the document digitization space but directly in the path of digital B2B payments and transacting. Last week, the firm made another move in this direction by launching its eInvoice Presentment & Payment Service.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

Reports in Out-Law on Friday (June 29) said that the Lab’s analysis, intended as an exploration of blockchain’s role in corporate accounting, does show promise in some scenarios. But the group also acknowledges that blockchain technology is not yet sufficiently developed to actualize its effect in the corporate finance space.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

Financial technology innovation has opened the doors to massive transformation of corporate finance departments. While flashy corporate FinTech is exciting, innovation efforts have rarely focused on a mainstay of corporate finance teams: the financial close process, a crucial, but continually outdated function.

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Regent Assay

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Mark Harvie-Watt, CEO and Co-Founder of Supadü, said: “We selected Regent Assay because of their in-depth knowledge of the media industry and the B2B software sector. We look forward to collaborating more closely with them going forward and to expand its business opportunities all around the world including Japan.”.

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