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AUGUST 16, 2019

With more than $200 million in venture capital funding landing with B2B FinTechs this week, investors had their eyes set on a variety of pain points in corporate finance. Small business finserv was a popular target this week, with startups securing funding for their SMB banking, lending and accounting tools.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Corporates have growing expectations for faster, more efficient and more secure B2B payments — whether their money is moving from one business unit to another or one country to another. Payments Speed and Security. As financial institutions gather for this year’s Sibos conference kicking off in London today (Sept.

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JUNE 22, 2020

37 percent fewer BEC attacks targeted the C-Suite in Q1 , according to new data from Abnormal Security. According to Abnormal Security Vice President Ken Liao, attacks targeting accounts payable departments are now more favorable than those targeting C-suite executives. ” $1.4

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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. The market is expected to secure 30 percent of those efforts between 2021 and 2023; at present, the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Private equity firms Yonghua Capital and Co-Energy Finance led the funding, and also saw participation from Stone Capital, Tangrong Capital and Shenzhen Grandland Group, reports noted. Alternative Finance. Based in Hong Kong, Qupital provides an invoice financing solution that recently caught the attention of Alibaba.

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Accountancy Today

APRIL 12, 2023

The solutions will support all aspects of SMEs’ finance needs in excess of £25,000, providing VAT, tax and working capital loans, asset and invoice finance, as well as asset-based lending.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

To illustrate the point, Love offered the example of one Codence client that uses a time-logging solution, which had to be integrated with an invoice module. Love noted that he sees APIs as a growing presence in corporate finance, as banks react to the demand among consumers and businesses to take control of their own data.

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MARCH 8, 2019

-based Yordex, a company that provides financial software for corporate users. In a statement, Bloc Ventures CEO and Co-Founder David Leftley said Yordex fills a market gap for companies that have “outgrown” cloud accounting tools like Xero but are not willing to migrate to a costly, complex ERP system.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Whether that's a lack of security if a piece of paper falls into the wrong hands, or simply the pain of having to manually store a document or capture its data, paper is far from the most efficient way to do business. Take the electronic invoice, for example. Physical documents introduce a trove of friction points for the enterprise.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

RPA is igniting chatter in the corporate finance community as professionals explore next-level analytics and automation functionality to enhance processes like accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash flow management and more. For instance, its LaaS platform lets businesses provide invoice or payroll financing to their customers.

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JUNE 13, 2016

88% of finance professionals anticipate a rise in payments fraud , said TD Bank in its latest analysis. TD Bank Head of Corporate Products and Services Rick Burke said corporate treasurers need to begin a dialogue with their banks and financial services partners to integrate adequate security controls within their corporations.

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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. As part of a slew of investments from CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund, WeConvene secured Series B financing , reports said this week.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

One startup, Colombia’s Portal Finance, also signals investors’ appetites for multitasking B2B FinTech startups. Portal Finance – which recently secured a $200 million commitment from Latin America’s largest financial institution, BTG Pactual – has a multi-pronged approach to linking small businesses to financing.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

20) said KeyFleet is rolling out KeyFinance, a division of the business dedicated to linking fleet managers using its solution to financing offerings. The company has reportedly already secured investments from 20 banks in the U.K. to finance the commercial funding. Reports in The Business Desk on Thursday (Sept.

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MARCH 1, 2016

seeing the greatest value of investments — with China and Germany also securing massive deals, too. Alternative finance dominated the FinTech investment space last year, and within that arena, the U.S. SoFi led the charge securing a $1 billion Series E round last August, just months after a $213 million round. reigned supreme.

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APRIL 25, 2016

According to analysts, adjustments in Amex’s Global Commercial Services (GCS) strategy — including new small business services, FX tools and other corporate finance products — helped bump up the numbers. A few other security companies are slated for their own floats, reports said, including Blue Coat Systems and Optiv Security.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

They’re entrusting that MSP to make sure their systems are up and running, and that the data is secure. That’s a lot of pressure on an MSP to make sure they’re not only able to maintain that infrastructure, but to make sure it’s optimal and secure.” ”

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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.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

Within the finance and accounting world, there seemed to be general resistance to the cloud, mainly circulated around security,” he said. Putting financial data in the cloud [could] be perceived as a major security risk.”. One accountant may be working with revenue teams, while another is working with billing and invoicing.

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JULY 16, 2020

Last week, the company announced its collaboration with SAP Concur to streamline invoice and expense management, with an integration enabling employees to pay invoices through the SAP Concur platform using American Express commercial cards. Nium Broadens Card-Issuing Reach. Privacy.com Sets Sights On Business Cards.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Yet, corporate finance especially is “operating, more or less, the same [way] it has for 20 years prior. Distributed ledger technology (DLT), in essence, is a distributed database that securely stores and organizes data. Much of the operations are limited by the time zone/region and cutoff times for various markets,” he said.

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MAY 1, 2018

B2B payments is at the center of efforts to innovate by FinTechs, banks and others, but corporates’ business-to-business payment processes remain complex, erroneous and a deterrent to growth. For more than two-fifths of professionals surveyed, their organizations received more than 2,000 invoices every month.

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The Finance Weekly

JULY 31, 2023

In a recent webinar sponsored by Datarails , the FP&A solution for Excel users, three distinguished finance leaders came together to discuss the impact of AI on corporate finance. They highlighted how AI technology is transforming the way finance and accounting teams work with data and make decisions.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

With Fraedom, that means integrating those expense management and reporting capabilities into other areas of corporate finance and banking. ” He explained that today, addressing corporates’ finance and payments needs reaches far beyond facilitating the movement of money.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Check out the startups that secured funding rounds this week below. Since its launch, the firm added working capital analytics and other tools for its corporate finance clients. Catfoss Finance. Also landing a bit of debt funding was India’s Cash Suvidha, which secured $2.5 Treasury Management. Alternative Lending.

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MARCH 21, 2016

From FinServ players reporting their anxieties about the blockchain to a small — but not insignificant — percentage of manufacturers still relying on the fax machine to reach corporate customers, this week’s data suggests businesses are not prepping for a new decade. . 25 percent more businesses chose invoice financing in the U.K.

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