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DECEMBER 14, 2018

B2B startups are increasingly building themselves on top of troves of enterprise data, uncovering new ways to unlock and aggregate information across enterprise platforms, and introducing new ways to analyze and make use of that data. million was raised by B2B startups tearing down data silos.

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MARCH 27, 2020

Their use for B2B payments, however, remains limited — but in the U.K., While open banking FinTech innovation has initially focused on opening up bank account data to third party platforms, there is another component to the initiative with major implications for the payments landscape. A B2B Opportunity.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

It was another week of varied investments for B2B venture capitalists, who, in total, raised more than $79 million for the space. B2B payments, alternative SME finance, enterprise cybersecurity, data management and logistics all secured a financial boost — find out which startup scored the most in our breakdown below.

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MAY 18, 2018

Visa’s latest fuel to the B2B payments innovation fire came in the form of its inaugural Small Business Hackathon earlier this year. Christopher Phillips started the company after hearing of invoice management challenges by his mother, a small business owner.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

We discover a basic truth upon reading PYMNTS November 2020 CFO’s Guide To Digitizing B2B Payments done in collaboration with Comdata : many treasury operations need digital triage. Companies shifting to digital payment methods are overcoming many of the challenges that have historically plagued business-to-business (B2B) transactions.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Invoice financing company MarketInvoice is enhancing its product offering through a new collaboration with Euler Hermes. MarketInvoice said it is also integrating a risk mitigation solution that analyzes financial data to help businesses make better decisions about customers with which they choose to trade. 8) said the U.K.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Order-to-cash is an area of cash flow management that has the potential to significantly enhance a business’s financial performance. ” That business model means companies that would have previously invoiced a customer once a year are now splitting that bill into, for instance, 12 monthly bills.

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Financial Data Invoicing Cash Management Technology 40

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Xero , a global small business cloud accounting platform, is working with South Africa’s Nedbank to give small- to medium-size business (SMB) clients a digital, application programming interface (API)-enabled bank feed to access financial data, according to an ITWeb report.

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Banking B2B Invoicing Accounting 67

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Yet, the vast majority of small firms in India remain underbanked, according to SOLV CEO Nitin Mittal, who recently told PYMNTS that opportunities to drive B2B eCommerce in India are not only vast, but open doors to support digitization and financial inclusion for SMBs. Alternative Financial Data.

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MARCH 4, 2020

The boom in B2B FinTech has introduced a flurry of new solutions and platforms from which corporates and small businesses can choose. It’s a result, explained Gillette, of the legacy ERP no longer being suited to address the full range of businesses’ diverse financial and process management needs. The ERP’s Role in a FinTech World.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

With only a few million dollars in combined investments, this week certainly wasn’t the most lucrative for B2B FinTech firms, but the variety and global reach of recent SMB FinTech investments offers a bright spot in an otherwise quiet moment for B2B venture capital. South Africa incubator and investor AlphaCode awarded $1.1

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MARCH 11, 2020

Bectran, which works in B2B credit management for software-as-a-service (SaaS) programs, announced the release of its enhanced Cash Application solution, which will accommodate multiple data formats and financial data APIs, according to a press release.

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JULY 23, 2019

But when SMB suppliers land a contract with a large corporate buyer, they are often forced to accept whichever payment terms and habits that customer imposes upon the buyer-supplier relationship, and unfortunately, that often means delayed and even late invoice payments for a vendor. Indeed, sluggish B2B payments can be felt the world over.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

But aside from a government mandate, Mattias Hansson, CEO and co-founder of Zervant , told PYMNTS there are major factors behind encouraging entrepreneurs to invoice their clients electronically. For electronic invoicing to gain traction, it cannot create new challenges for small businesses. Integration.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

The tie-up is the newest of many strategic FinTech partnerships Barclays has announced in recent times, with MarketFinance providing invoicing financing products and Nimbla providing invoice insurance. “[SMBs] are the lifeblood of the U.K. Wells Fargo & Envestnet.

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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 3, 2018

For much of the world, electronic invoicing is taking off — not only for the benefits it offers, like enhanced cash flow visibility, but largely because jurisdictions are implementing eInvoicing regulatory requirements to crack down on tax evasion. Data from FEDmanager estimates that of the 19 million invoices issued in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

In B2B payments, that can mean discontent in the way traditional banks and FIs do business or a need for disruptive technologies to come to market faster than banks can offer. Deals were made with B2B invoicing and payments firm Viewpost, as well as health care blockchain company Gem and natural language search technology company ClearGraph.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Xero, Square Integrate For Faster Invoice Payments. In another FinTech integration announcement , small business accounting platform Xero announced that payments company Square will support connectivity that allows invoices sent via Xero to include built-in Square payments functionality.

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JUNE 22, 2016

In B2B payments, accounts payable automation is a hot topic, as are the challenges AP professionals face when it comes to paying suppliers and managing the data from those transactions. A closed-loop network not only facilitates buyers’ purchasing processes but enables sellers to retain data and automate key business functions.

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JUNE 26, 2020

The B2B FinTech ecosystem has responded to that shift, too, in the form of automated tools that aim not to replace the job of the accountant outright, but to take care of highly manual and tedious tasks that allow accountants to spend more time on value-added services. .

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JUNE 28, 2019

Corporate travel and expense (T&E) management solutions provider TripActions led this week’s B2B venture capital roundup with its announcement of new funding that propelled its valuation to $4 billion. PYMNTS looks at other industry players around the globe that caught investors’ attention below.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

If only commercial (B2B) payments could be as frictionless as retail payments, when consumers pay merchants. That’s an ambition shared by many an entrepreneur who sets out to innovate the massively huge opportunity that awaits in the B2B space. It’s what also drove Mike Galarza to found Entryless. Australia … the U.K.,

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JANUARY 13, 2020

According to reports Monday (Jan. We’re two years on from the introduction of open banking, but very few small firms have reaped any benefit from it,” said FSB Chairman Mike Cherry in a statement.

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JANUARY 5, 2020

The proprietary machine learning technology of the company takes in financial data from multiple sources, categorizing and digitizing it for accountants and bookkeepers. The solution processes and stores 45 new fields of small business financial information each second — from bank accounts, invoices, receipt photos and bills.

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Banking Invoicing Investments Financial Data 52

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The discussion around sharing financial data today is most often in reference to major industry happenings, like PSD2, Open Banking and the sudden influx of APIs in the financial services space. “Stand-alone businesses are concerned with their own financials,” he said. ”

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MAY 21, 2018

Small business invoice financing platform Fundbox is targeting the events industry through a new partnership with Eventbrite. Fundbox underwrites financing using financial data of customers using Eventbrite, including sales history. According to U.S.

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MARCH 12, 2019

The deal marries Every’s services with Wave’s accounting, invoicing, payments and expense management offering, part of the firm’s broader strategy of building a holistic suite of SMB financial services. Acquisitions are an increasingly popular strategy for other financial services players, too.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

This complicated process can involve everything from accounting and invoicing software to bank accounts. Today’s financial institutions (FIs) no longer need to worry about solely addressing all their clients’ financial-related needs, however. Managing these steps in separate systems can be friction-filled, Haider said.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Now, FinTech firms are able to collect bank data and add it to the mix of information from other sources, like accounting platforms, invoicing, sales, upcoming bill payments and more. and Europe, while Australia and the U.S. are headed in this direction, too.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Compared to their direct-to-consumer (D2C) counterparts, the heavy-lifting, hardworking B2B businesses of the world have always been chided for being a few clicks behind when it comes to embracing and investing in payments technology. B2B historically has been pretty behind, especially around payments,” Prados said. Social Commerce.

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JUNE 1, 2017

The feature allows individuals to quickly pull data related to invoicing, revenue and customer payment trends (just to name a few) from their dashboard. The analytics tool is designed for SMBs and startups without access to financial analytics platforms. Stripe is a leading innovator in the financial technology space.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

. “Xero subscribers will also be able to discover new apps in the Xero ecosystem and query their latest financial data, such as who owes them money or when their next bill is due.” The technology can respond to requests for balance information, send invoice reminders upon request and other tasks.

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Invoicing Accounting Accounting Firms Financial Data 68

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JUNE 13, 2018

A business may be able to aggregate invoice data, purchase order data, shipment data and so on, but in order to aggregate it and pinpoint exactly where business units are over-paying, and why, would take months without an automated solution. “That means they get behind in terms of approving and resolving invoices.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

SMBs about their attitudes surrounding Open Banking and, specifically, its reliance on data sharing between banks and third parties. While one-third of SMBs said they are “wide open” to Open Banking, one quarter said they are just the opposite and would not allow sharing of their financial data under any circumstance.

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MAY 25, 2016

Today, it is able to manage key business partner relationships, cash flow and financial data, and AP technology provides a deeper level of visibility into these areas than ever before, said the VP. InvoiceSmash, for example, was introduced this month with an emphasis on accelerating invoice processing times.

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MARCH 20, 2020

This is particularly important in the supply chain finance arena, where heightened scrutiny of buyers’ supplier payment practices has elevated pressure on financiers to take a closer look at corporate balance sheets and potential indicators of financial trouble before any payables are financed. ” The U.S.’s

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Banking Finance Risk Management Invoicing 93