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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Automation’s long march to the present day finds automation grinding out new solutions to cash management issues during a topsy-turvy economic time. Cash Management Moving in Virtual Directions. B2B, Consumer Payments Experiences Merging. Automation addresses these issues.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

And that’s just a slice of the B2B subscriptions sphere, said Tyler Eyamie, CEO of subscription billing solutions provider Fusebill , in a recent chat with PYMNTS. That expansion also means challenges for the businesses in how they manage their accounts and finances, as well as their relationship with business or consumer subscribers.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Google and Intuit are pairing up to help Australian small businesses (SMBs) get a better grip on cash management. The Google Calendar App also integrates with QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Online Accountant, the companies said. Reports Wednesday (Sept.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

To remove the frictions inherent in B2B transactions, there will be no one rail to rule them all to connect corporates as they transact. The conversation marked the capstone of a month-long series of panels and individual interviews with a range of companies as part of PYMNTS’ deep dive into the state — and future — of B2B.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

But B2B payment habits continue to stifle suppliers’ growth plans across the globe, found the latest Working Capital Outlook Survey released by C2FO this month. there is evidence that B2B payment practices are improving. and EMEA told surveyors that they access cash flow from their operations. In the U.S., But the U.S.

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JUNE 21, 2020

That will allow businesses to eliminate the cumbersome old ways, which required them to sign onto their bank accounts to set up a direct debit instruction and then wait several days before it was ready. Yvonne Yiu , head of global liquidity and cash management with HSBC, said the simplicity makes a difference for the customer.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

the outlook of how accelerated transaction times might impact B2B payments and, more specifically, the issue of late payments to suppliers, remains unclear. When NACHA first released its Same Day ACH capability, only about 6 percent of the first 2 million transactions made in the service’s first 11 days were B2B payments.

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APRIL 8, 2019

the latest evidence has suggested that entrepreneurs are holding onto their financial confidence — though it may be changing the ways they manage company cash. Yet, amid talk of declining optimism and an impending recession in the U.S.,

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JANUARY 20, 2021

According to Rajiv Ramachandran , senior vice president of product strategy and management at Coupa , the pandemic was a “wake-up call” for many finance leaders who experienced a jolting breakdown of key functions. There were cases where some of these finance teams could not even understand what their cash visibility looked like.”.

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APRIL 11, 2019

Financial management platform Sage Intacct is integrating data from cash management tool Trovata.io to provide real-time visibility into cash positions for corporate users. Joint customers will be able to generate reports and enhance cash management process automation using Trovata.io

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

SMBs using the WePay platform can now see funds deposited into their Chase bank accounts the same day without extra fees, a feature resulting from JPMorgan ’s acquisition of WePay in late-2017. JPMorgan Chase announced a collaboration with WePay last week to enable faster deposits for small business joint customers.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

With the impending launch of Spring by Citi , Citi ’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) is increasingly incorporating the consumer payments experience into its broader B2B treasury management and transaction banking offering as it moves to support its institutional clients in their own journeys to meeting customer payment demands.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Just look at SAP Ariba , which integrated PrimeRevenue’s supply chain financing into its spend management platform, or Reckon , a small business accounting platform that recently rolled out an SME lending feature thanks to Prospa. Less common, however, is an SME financing solution that integrates into a commercial card offering.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Open banking and its promise of more elasticity in finance is enabled by application program interfaces (APIs) — lines of code that execute everything from simple peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers to industrial-sized B2B real-time payments.

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APRIL 23, 2020

Unfortunately, independent contractors have also frequently been left out of the picture for traditional banks and even newer FinTechs despite the recent influx of small business cloud accounting apps and other B2B FinTech platforms. Accounts payable is the money you owe your suppliers. Easing The User Experience.

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MARCH 2, 2020

As innovators drive forward, however, they can sometimes forget who’s really at the user-end of their technologies designed to combat business payments pain: the accountant. In the current fast-moving climate, accountants have struggled with the manual processes involved with managing their business client’s funds,” he told PYMNTS. “In

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MARCH 4, 2020

Business to business (B2B) application programming interfaces (APIs) are helping smooth the flow of data between companies, including businesses and their financial services software as well as between banks and their corporate clients. Around The B2B API World. Other banking integrations seek to revamp B2B payments.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Accounts payable company MineralTree just gave a big show of support for commercial cards when it announced this week it is partnering with American Express (Amex) to offer companies an integrated platform to support supplier payments via virtual commercial card. B2B payments today, in the U.S., Maybe you’re not a merchant.”.

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MAY 19, 2017

Find out which startup landed the cash, along with the other B2B startups that saw their share of investments this week, below. Supply Chain Management. supply chain management company AKUA announced $3 million in Series Seed financing this week. Cash Management. B2B Marketing. Based in the U.S.,

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

and will provide cash management services for such corporate customers. Corporate users can customize their dashboards for quick access to data on accounts, balances, transactions and other areas of corporate finance. The financial institution (FI) announced Tuesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

Accounts payable (AP) automation company Tipalti is expanding its reach into the market by partnering with three new B2B companies, which will extend Tipalti’s solutions to their own customers. The enhanced integration aims to strengthen control and communication for both ends of the transaction.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Traditionally, the cost and administrative burden of card acceptance has kept the tool from gaining traction in accounts payable. But shifting priorities among buyers and suppliers have elevated the opportunity for cards to meet changing cash management needs. One hurdle for the rail revolves around data.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Cloud-based clearing bank ClearBank has begun offering multi-currency bank accounts using an API, according to a press release. Beginning in the fourth quarter this year, the bank will allow users to access over 30 multi-currency accounts.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

B2B payments startup ePayRails has announced new funding to focus on further technological development of its Payment Hub. million in Series A funding led by Aspire Fund Management, which provided $2 million. In a press release Friday (Aug. 2), ePayRails said it secured $2.45

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AUGUST 7, 2020

With the new platform, cargo providers will have access to more convenient payment options like direct ACH debits, prefunded accounts or credit card payments, and will be able to deliver speedier payments and worry less about risk due to the more secure system, the press release says.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

HSBC is introducing virtual accounts for corporate and institutional clients, the financial institution said in a press release sent to PYMNTS on Monday (July 8). The bank announced that its Next Generation Virtual Accounts are now available to wholesale clients to support cash and multi-currency management.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

.” And while researchers found that, as a company grows, so do the difficulties in managing cash flow, the smallest of SMEs, startups, are struggling the most with daily cash management tasks, with 15 percent of startups saying that they found this issue to be an especially difficult challenge.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Used to be that managing a company’s liquidity and cash position was a matter of reconciling disparate bank accounts at the end of the day. Trade finance, they said, could help boost efficiency in cash management and supply chain (via dynamic discounting on invoices).

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Accounting and consulting firm Crowe Horwath LLP says businesses face a balancing act when it comes to cash flow management. Treasurers and money managers need to make the right decisions with corporate money for today, while ensuring the business will be in a good position tomorrow.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

According to Bank of America ’s new vision of the future, those trips — and other B2B payment activities such as buying supplies — would go much more efficiently if plastic was replaced by mobile wallets. B2B Payments Innovation. Who needs that? A successful business trip depends on preparation, and that includes payments.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

JPMorgan Chase is the latest financial institution to team up with a B2B payments FinTech. 19) announced news that JPMorgan is partnering with Bill.com to integrate its B2B payments technology into its own Chase platforms early next year. It’s not JPMorgan’s first FinTech partnership in its effort to boost B2B services.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2016

In an announcement on Wednesday (April 27), APEX Analytix revealed a four-step cash management strategy to combine data analytics and supplier management tools. Accounts payable and procurement are partnering with treasury to look at cash management more holistically,” the executive said.

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MAY 31, 2019

based B2B FinTechs led the way in this week’s investment roundup, with more than $212 million in new funding falling in the hands of startups targeting a range of enterprise operations. Accounts payable, cloud migration, Big Data and even legal management for startups raising new funding were all targeted among investors.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

However, other notable B2B FinTech investments this week have come from startups targeting the inefficiencies of corporate banking, logistics and freight booking, and business payments. by enabling corporate users to access all of their bank accounts in a single portal. In total, more than $360 million was raised by these companies.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

In this week's roundup of bank-FinTech collaboration and open banking initiatives, Citi embraces the unlocking of account data to third-party FinTechs, while WEX weighs in on opportunity for banks to take advantage of partnerships. WEX Talks Bank Partnerships To Advance B2B Payments. In a statement, Citi U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The Radius API checking account lets business customers use their own operating systems to handle their banking. They harness APIs for payments and cash management in lieu of signing into a different bank-powered system.

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