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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. investments last year.

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To Improve Treasury Tech, Target The Developers

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But APIs can offer a different strategic advantage, especially to B2B FinTechs, according to A.J. Remlinger, Project Manager — Solutions for Business at foreign exchange technology firm OANDA. It’s a sentiment echoed throughout the B2B FinTech market. Certainly regulations like PSD2 and the U.K.’s

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Deutsche Bank Links Faster Payments To Faster FX Management

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Corporates may not be adopting faster and real-time payments technologies as fast as consumers, but that doesn’t mean the acceleration of payments isn’t impacting corporate finance.

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Asia’s Corporates Driving Treasury, Banking Digitization

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Large corporates across Asia are driving digital transformation of banking and treasury management in the region, according to new analysis from Greenwich Associates. ” In areas like foreign exchange management, trade, and cash management, working with FinTech third-party providers will be an important part of the digitization journey.

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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. Automation Anywhere. Existing backers, such as Xavier Niel, also participated in the funding.

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How Corporate Payments Disruptors Compete, And Coexist, With Banks

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This means Xero’s SME users can pay their international invoices via Midpoint’s FX services, which uses a peer-to-peer matching model, allowing payers to obtain the midpoint of the interbank market rate for foreign exchange costs at that moment in time. are spiking their FX fees for small business customers, largely via hidden fees.

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Saxo Finds Firms ‘Sleepwalking’ Through Payments Processes

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Money20/20 Europe is in full swing, and the event is wasting no time discussing the year’s most imminent topics in corporate finance. Saxo Payments reportedly decided to focus on one in particular with the release of a new whitepaper outlining the pain points of cross-border payments in the world of B2B.