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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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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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OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fraud never sleeps, and the corporate finance department cannot afford to stay behind on the ever-changing strategies of fraudsters. P-cards were used to settle those fraudulent invoices, the allegations say, and the money went to those managers and the third-party vendor.

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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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DECEMBER 7, 2020

This week's B2B Digest looks at how corporate finance scams come in all shapes and sizes, from employee expense fraud to invoice falsification. Analysis of 295 cases of accounting fraud between 1996 and 2013 was compared to property crime rates in the areas where corporate fraud occurred.

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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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APRIL 30, 2019

” In the area of bill payments, for instance, these individuals can quickly become overwhelmed by the volume of invoices they have to pay. . “A lot of them process 50 to 200 bills a month — it really is like running a business.” “Those things are happening — fraudsters are getting more savvy about that.”

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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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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. trillion in 2017.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

According to Laura McGowan, director of services marketing at Ricoh Canada, the company has had to pivot its outlook on paper as companies digitize processes like invoicing and accounts receivable. “It’s The cost-savings benefits of digitizing areas like invoicing have been shouted from the rooftops — but with limited success.

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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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MARCH 4, 2020

The enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) system has been a staple of corporate finance operations for years, acting as a central repository of data and a hub to initiate a range of processes, from accounting to procurement. But the ERP of today doesn’t look like it used to. The ERP’s Role in a FinTech World.

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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. Reports said the startup plans to use the funds to grow its staff and expand into new markets.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

The competition is heating up between payment technologies in accounts payable, with ACH and virtual cards seeing significant pushes in the B2B payments space to combat the dreaded paper check. There has been a surge in B2B payments technologies in recent years in an effort to pull businesses, especially smaller firms, off of paper.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

” The launch comes as AP automation grows increasingly in-demand among corporate finance professionals. The solution integrates artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning, deep learning and other technologies to automate invoice processing for accelerated, accurate invoice payments.

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JULY 1, 2020

The plans considered could have involved the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF), set up to buy commercial paper from large blue-chip companies, being amended so that invoices could flow faster for SMEs. But in recent days, respondents to the Treasury’s inquiry had trouble identifying British SME suppliers.

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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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JULY 17, 2019

B2B payments and accounts receivable solution provider Optal is collaborating with Lloyds Bank , the companies announced Tuesday (July 16). Lloyds Bank will connect its own commercial clients to Optal’s B2B transaction optimization solutions with a focus on helping those clients’ B2B vendors accept card payments via Optal’s Invapay solution.

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APRIL 10, 2019

B2B payments company PayStand is turning its attention to the accounts receivable (AR) side of business transactions with a new solution announced today (April 10). In a statement, PayStand CEO Jeremy Almond said an accounts receivable automation solution has been the number-one demand from current corporate customers in the last year.

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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. 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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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a provider of back-office financial technology, it's vital to speak with chief finance officer (CFO) and finance executive end-users about what they need and which friction points are giving them the most pain. Finance teams have mountains of manual tasks to complete every day.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

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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APRIL 19, 2016

Some of the biggest names in banking participated in the Series E funding round for digital billing and payments company Transactis , a SaaS startup that aims to help corporations reduce their dependence on paper invoices, bills and other documents in favor of digital payments solutions. are electronic.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The announcement of Mastercard Track expanding into B2B payments last week represented a significant push for B2B payments modernization by one of the industry’s giants — and followed Visa’s own push in the B2B payments modernization space through the rollout of Visa B2B Connect in June.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Much of that innovation has been focused on corporate finance and payments, as top financial services players have introduced new blockchain solutions in an effort to disrupt and improve corporate payments. in blockchain development efforts.

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MARCH 7, 2019

based corporate finance operation, is broadening its position in the trade finance landscape through an acquisition of Global Technology Finance , which provides supply chain finance to value-added resellers targeting the technology sector, according to reports in Asset Finance International.

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JUNE 22, 2020

Corporate fraud continues to plague businesses large and small, and in this week’s B2B fraud tracker, many of the latest cases of nefarious activity within the enterprise can be traced back to the continued use of paper and legacy systems. The biggest story this past week, of course, was the revelation that as much as $2.1

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Key areas of corporate finance continue to lag in digital transformation, the report found. But invoice management is furthest behind, researchers said, with 66 percent of data received from supplier invoices manually entered into company systems. The Worst Offender.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

Several high-profile corporate collapses and initiatives from corporate accounting standard-setters have raised questions about businesses’ use of supply chain finance and whether the trade finance tool prevents investors and auditors from gaining a transparent view into company finances.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Investors this week placed more than $447 million in B2B FinTech startups, with the biggest investment rounds landing at companies that address more than one point of friction. One startup, Colombia’s Portal Finance, also signals investors’ appetites for multitasking B2B FinTech startups.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In an interview with PYMNTS, Prabhat Vira, president of Tungsten Network Finance, said that the goal of the pact is to extend the services offered to firms using e-invoicing to bring early payment and financing agreements to those larger firms and their suppliers, adding working capital financing tied to invoices.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Companies with the most digitized AP processes averaged faster invoice payments and processing times, as well as fewer invoice exceptions. It’s a major hurdle for many firms, particularly considering the continued use of paper purchase orders (POs), paper invoices and other physical documentation that demands manual data entry.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Banks’ risk appetite has lowered, while regulations, some financial institutions argue, have forced financiers to reallocate resources to compliance and risk mitigation efforts, draining the trade finance pot. For trade finance that means being able to seamlessly integrate information from invoices and trade contracts, for example.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

But in some instances, the benefits of AI may outweigh the risks, especially in areas like accounts receivable, and especially when the technology can address the long-lasting frustration of late invoice payments. Pay360 , a U.K. companies billions of dollars every year.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

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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APRIL 22, 2016

Plaid’s bank account authentication and data services are coming in handy to more corporate finance players. On Thursday (April 21), the company announced a new partnership with Jet Business Loans, an online corporate FinServ player.

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MAY 23, 2016

Banks may not always be up for overhauling their operations with a largely untested, disruptive technology, but new reports suggest the threat of fraud in one area of corporate finance is encouraging financial institutions to adopt distributed ledger technology in growing volumes.

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