PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Investment rounds poured in across Asia, North America and Europe, with a Chinese “corporate wallet” securing the largest investment of the week. million Series A investment led by Framework Venture Partners, while PenderFund Capital Management, Conconi Growth Partners and Royal Bank of Canada also participated.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Malaysia's microLEAP has secured $3.3 Reports in e27 said MAA Group provided the investment, which microLEAP plans to use for marketing, new staff hires and technological enhancements. million investment round, which it said it will use to expand its team and expand its product. In total, Qolo has now raised $6.8

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Southeast Asia led the way thanks to ridesharing firm Grab, which continues to expand its B2B financial services offering with its fundraising windfall — and it wasn’t the only small business lender to secure investment. Reports did not reveal exactly what the company plans to do with the new funding. Digital Risks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Recent reports in Citing Venture Intelligence data, LiveMint said B2B FinTech has secured $657 million in India so far this year, compared to $617 million for B2C FinTechs. B2B FinTech companies are more predictable than B2C firms,” he told the publication. “B2B company currently services clients across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

B2C trends are bleeding into the B2B space and forcing corporate sellers to become digitally savvy — and fast. More than $1 trillion is expected to be spent on cybersecurity solutions worldwide between 2017 and 2021 as companies address the need for protections and make major investments in digital fraud-fighting techniques.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This new set of APIs offers users a way to “integrate their financial institutions, accounting and enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) systems and their account on GlobalPay,” according to the release. APIs also utilize the latest level of regulated European internet security: strong customer authentication (SCA).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Data suggests the trend is global: North America VC investments for the quarter were fairly flat compared to Q2, and while Europe saw an increase in the number of deals for VC funding, there was a decline in the value of that collective funding. B2B FinTech’s Time. With that in mind, investors want in.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The largest round of the week went to OakNorth , but other significant investments landed at supply chain management, corporate accounting and small business finance players, totaling more than $821 million in total VC funding. The company announced a $30 million Series B investment round this week, led by Accel, said reports in Fortune.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

With its newest offering designed for legal cannabis businesses , AeroPay ‘s B2C and B2B payment tools aim to help companies in this market migrate away from manual and paper-based payment methods. Oxbury Bank , which secured its full banking license in the U.K. Steamchain Lands Investment For Blockchain Tech.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The new strategy aims to address the growing demand for fast and secure cross-border transfers and payments. . This foundation gives us the power to invest in our cross-border platform capabilities while continuing to return significant levels of capital to shareholders.”. The company announced on Monday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

The big B2B venture capital news of the week was Augmentum Fintech’s trio of investments, signaling the company’s focus on the B2B FinTech market — but it wasn’t the only firm targeting this startup space. Following, PYMNTS breaks down the latest investment rounds of the sector. Consero Global. In all, Previse raised $6.8

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

While it was a quiet week for the industry, B2B startups still managed to secure more than $190 million in funding, mostly situated in the U.S. A rundown of the latest investments follows below. The latest funding was led by Franklin Templeton Investments , reports in Crowdfund Insider said. and Singapore. Trucker Tools.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

The venture capital world lit up last week with reports that B2B tech startups are now seeing increased funding, raising money at a faster pace than B2C startups. This week, the streak continued, and while a limited number of deals emerged, significant investments were handed to B2B startups operating in the enterprise finance sphere.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It was a week of (mostly) Series A funding rounds for B2B FinTech firms, as startups secured new funding to tackle various parts of the broader business-to-business (B2B) payment process. based Mable has secured $3.1 With the Series A investment, Relative Insight said it will open an office in the U.S. Relative Insight.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Enterprise cloud company Deskera raised $60 million from Jungle Ventures, Cisco Investments, Tembusu Partners, Susquehanna International Group and InnoVen Capital, a press release said this week. The firm said it will use the investment to focus on operational expansion. billion, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

It was a busy time for B2B venture capital this week, and while funding ranged across verticals from expense management to SaaS, there was a clear theme in investment rounds: high-tech data analytics. AppZen said it plans to use the backing to focus on customer acquisition and to scale its existing team. Expense Management.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

one startup operating in a B2B FinTech industry rarely seen on the VC roundup landed the second-largest investment round of the week. PayStand is one of two startups chosen by new venture capital fund LEAP Partners I, run by LEAP Global Partners, for its first investments. Enterprise Security. But — surprise! —

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Along with CB Insights, KPMG researchers found in their latest quarterly analysis that FinTech investment by venture capitalists declined across the globe in Q3 of this year. million Series C funding round with plans to use that money for B2B payments solutions. 17) that it secured $1.81 SME finance platform P2Binvestor.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

million landed this week (including the blockchain company that secured most of it) below. Sands Capital Ventures led the investment, which NepFin recently told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster will go toward expanding its origination team and investing in its underlying technology and data capabilities. We break down where $77.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

Check out the rundown of investments below, including the firm that secured a $1.8 The company announced this week it secured $20 million in funding led by MARCorp Financial, Crowdfund Insider reported. With the latest funding, PaySend said it plans to roll out additional services as it focuses on global growth.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Investing and incorporating innovation into business processes within the company, would help you save time, money, or other resources and will provide you a competitive edge over rival businesses that are shackled to legacy procedures. Finally, innovation is about acting in a unique way from everyone else in your industry or market.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

The price and complexity of more sophisticated payments collections technologies are among the tallest, Gray said, with tools like text-to-pay functionality simply not economical enough to warrant an investment — even despite a better customer experience. Accelerating Collections. from a pricing perspective,” she said.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

Accounts receivable company Billtrust landed major bucks, while a cross-border payments startup stayed mum about its own investment. Take a look at the investment breakdown below. Germany, Italy and Singapore have reportedly placed new investment in Eunimart, an India-based company that helps companies sell across borders.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek told Karen Webster that real time means that receivers will have funds available to spend within minutes, enabling new real-time, cross-border, cross-currency payments capabilities for C2C, B2C and B2B use cases. “We

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

Investors are fueling growth for B2B FinTechs across Asia, with startups in Indonesia, Singapore and India securing most of the more than $125 million raised in recent days. Reports Wednesday (March 29) said Accion Venture Lab led the seed funding round as part of its broader focus to invest in businesses that promote financial inclusion.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

A bit more than $783 million in investment activity marked last week’s fund flow. The biggest transaction in that space, and, indeed, across all investment activity, came from Ant Financial’s $200 million investment in Kakao Pay was the largest deal. The B2C industry is going through that exact same transformation now.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

False positives don’t just pose problems for B2C platforms like Uber or eBay – it’s also a growing issue for B2B organizations , where declined payments can damage vendor relationships. percent of platforms plan to increase teams dedicated to risk and fraud. percent plan to do so, and to a greater degree than adding team members (40.8

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

“But we’ve invested a lot of energy over the last year rethinking how commercial payments pain points have always been addressed, then creating solutions that go well beyond what’s been done in the past.” More FIs plan to join the Visa B2B Connect platform moving forward, Visa announced.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Burkhart said it comes down to whether the business is selling to consumers (B2C) or to other businesses (B2B). In a B2C environment, viral word-of-mouth may be beneficial to the business even if the free trial users don’t convert to permanent subscribers. To Webster, giving the consumer choices seems like a no-brainer.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It was only (relatively) recently that B2B payments finally secured significant attention and investment from innovators. “Toward the end of this year, we started to see more of a shift in investment toward the B2B side,” said Reetika Grewal, Silicon Valley Bank’s head of payments strategy and solutions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Beyond the macro, and drilling down to company specifics, Banga said that the acquisition of Vocalink proceeds as planned, with the first hurdle crossed, with the ball now in the UK’s court post EU review. Later in the call, Banga said that Masterpass exists not as a B2C effort but as a B2B effort.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Liquidity and cash investment plans would be made by 10 a.m. All of this means that the needle will move from C2C to B2C to B2B along the continuum of real time payments adoption, with ripple effects on cash management. Maybe not even weekly. Business ended at 5 p.m. and wrapped up for the week on Fridays. on Friday, he said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The payment firm’s $500 million investment in Uber just before its initial public offering (IPO) dropped 34 percent. And its investment in MercadoLibre, a Latin American retailer, dropped 10 percent. Here is what we’ve learned from the Libra experience that may be helpful to other innovators who have large plans to change the world.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

B2B payments has a reputation for being slower than B2C transactions to innovate, but that’s not without reason. What’s great about blockchain is the security layer that allows for financial documents to be easily placed on blockchain and kept safe and private. Purchase orders can be sent digitally,” he said, as an example.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The race to build a great and powerfully disruptive mobile wallet to knock down the card networks started long before anyone was even speculating about Apple’s payment plans. The plan was to call the network ISIS. Today, B2C payments are so much further ahead than B2B when it comes to digitization. and run on the Discover rails.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

That, along with tokenization and point to point encryption became the trifecta of payments security. Which suggests that the focus in payments needs to shift toward keeping customer data secure , not just the payment card information they carry around in their physical or virtual wallets. All pure goodness, with two big exceptions.

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