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Adflex Unveils Payment Links To Help Supply Chain Merchants

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Connected to Adflex’s payment platform, suppliers can “send a payment link via email or SMS,” enabling buyers, in turn, “to settle invoices quickly and securely from any geography, encouraging timely reconciliation and reducing cash flow problems caused by late payments,” Bermingham wrote.

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Flywire: ‘I Wish For Embedded Payments To Become Ubiquitous In 2021’

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Most of the examples we know of today are on the B2C side. That’s no surprise, given the pace of innovation in B2C versus B2B payments over the years. Virtually all cloud-based subscription services use some form of embedded finance. There is no separate payment motion involved to utilize the service.

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GoCardless Brings Direct Debit Supplier Payments To Australia

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.” He added that the goal of the integration is to lessen the time it takes for businesses to chase down payments for outstanding invoices, and to accelerate cash flow for customers. Businesses that sign up for GoCardless can have debits triggered on invoice due dates. Xero and GoCardless already collaborate in the U.K.,

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How New B2B Payment Models Tackle The Buyer-Supplier Conflict

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Yet the current trade credit landscape comes with significant challenges, especially for the supplier, with Floate pointing to the requirement for vendors to take on the financial risk until after an invoice is actually paid. New Payment Models Emerging.

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Deep Dive: AP Processing Delays And How New Payment Innovations Can Help

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Paper-based payment methods such as checks and cash are awkward and cumbersome in either business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions. Such legacy payment methods are usually tied to paper-based invoices and manual tracking and reconciliation procedures, which impede payments from being processed in a timely manner.

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Citi: Accelerated Digital Migration Provides Insights Into B2B Behavior

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It’s not that automating invoice generation, banishing checks, automating the cash application process and systematically removing all the manual touches from accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) workflows weren’t unknown concepts among chief financial officers (CFOs) and treasury departments at the time. “The

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Deep Dive: The Risk-Reducing Case For Push Payments

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In a P2P situation, a Venmo user can send money to a friend’s account, while a B2C transaction might involve a restaurant pushing payments to disburse wages to waitstaff, placing the funds directly onto employees’ prepaid debit cards or into their bank accounts. B2C push payments can deliver quick funds to consumers.

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