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JULY 3, 2020

Accounts payable (AP) teams and other financial functions of the enterprise were some of the hardest hit by the disruption caused by the global pandemic. “Companies are increasingly looking to more efficiently manage the accounts payable process,” he said.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Although it occurred under dire circumstances, 2020 was the year that many organizations finally ditched the paper check in B2B payments — or, at the very least, helped to move the needle toward electronic payments. B2B payments are messier than B2C payments," said Chanda. Empowering Finance Professionals.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

Digitizing and modernizing B2B payments cannot be a one-sided effort. Increasingly, FinTechs and the businesses they serve are pulling double duty with solutions that tackle both accounts receivable and accounts payable friction for each end of the B2B transaction. LogicGate Eyes AR's Role In Changing AP Behavior.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

When it comes to global B2B procurement, nothing is simple. The Track BPS is an evolution from the strategy of owning the underlying rails upon which money moves, according to James Anderson , executive vice president of Global Commercial and B2B Solutions. Driving B2B Payments' Evolution. said Anderson. A World Of Opportunity.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

The B2B payments ecosystem experienced a sudden and dramatic acceleration of change upon the onset of the global pandemic, and its impacts reach far beyond the mere digitization of the B2B transaction. The Coexistence Of Rails. Often, that means the cooperation of multiple rails at once.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

From a lack of supplier acceptance of electronic payments to outdated infrastructure within accounts payable (AP) departments, the B2B payments ecosystem still has much room for improvement on multiple fronts. Moving the needle in the journey away from paper checks isn’t a one-sided battle, either. An Ecosystem Approach.

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APRIL 8, 2020

With a launch that links enterprise resource planning (ERP) with accounts payable, among other systems, OpenText debuted its new OpenText™ Trading Grid™ The rollout brings together multi-enterprise cloud integration capabilities with data visualization and microservices architecture, according to an announcement.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

For years — decades, even — B2B payment leaders and innovators had been talking about the digitization of corporate payments within accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) departments. The coronavirus crisis has accelerated B2B payments digitization to new heights. More Work To Be Done.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Today in B2B, Bloomberg broadens its credit risk data pool, and two ERP solutions secure B2B payments integrations. Plus, Everlink strikes a partnership for real-time B2B payments. Everlink, FINTAINIUM Team Up To Offer Real-Time B2B, B2C Payments. Palette Software Integrates With Aptean ERP For B2B AP Automation.

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JULY 29, 2020

“Fundamental changes to the B2B payments landscape are taking place today, faster than ever before, helping the ecosystem eliminate inefficient B2B payments processes.”. Access to capital hasn’t been this tight since the market meltdown of 2008, so motivated players are finding better, faster ways of moving B2B funds especially.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

New Jersey-based invoice-to-cash platform Billtrust has upgraded the machine learning (ML) capabilities of its business-to-business (B2B) cash application software, the company announced Wednesday (Nov. The goal is to quickly convert payments to cash.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Buyers, too, are eager for change and need to adopt accounts payable (AP) methods that are easily managed by employees working from home. Frictions like these are pushing more businesses to rethink their legacy approaches to business-to-business (B2B) payments and adopting various digital options for sending money.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

I think when the pandemic hit in early March, it really put a gun to the head of many companies by taking what have been Byzantine processes around accounts payable or accounts receivable and moving to much more digital means,” Jay Dearborn , president, corporate payments of WEX Inc. told PYMNTS. And apparently, he’s not alone.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

"The Amazon experience" is now a worn-out catchphrase in the world of B2B eCommerce. But B2B eCommerce is not the same beast as B2C. The core difference between B2B and B2C is that in B2B, the individual researching and buying has a job to do,” King said. It's also accelerated the digitization of B2B sales.

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DECEMBER 13, 2020

Orlando, Florida-based B2B Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform Finexio is expanding its reach in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software space and will now be available on Microsoft AppSource via a direct integration for Microsoft Dynamics users, according to a press release.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Intelligent automation supplier Kofax has announced new innovations for its invoice and accounts payable (AP) solutions, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

Employing accounts payable (AP) automation solutions can help smooth onboarding and streamline the data collection and analyzing processes, removing the many friction points that are prone to legacy systems. How a business begins a relationship with a supplier can determine how lasting — and profitable — that bond becomes.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Historically, corporate travel and expense ( T&E ) management has been viewed as an entirely separate function from other B2B payment workflows. As a result, the lines that once separated T&E from other B2B payment workflows are blurring, according to Conferma Pay CEO Simon Barker and Barclays President of Payments Marc Pettican.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Small business lending emerged as a common theme in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup, and it’s no surprise, considering the role small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) play in supporting their local economies. Based in France, Memo Bank announced a $22.5 million investment round this week. The firm notched $78.7

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

The B2B payments landscape has always been evolving, but change in the industry has never been more acute than right now. But the challenge of igniting B2B payments innovation may not be as arduous as many chief financial officers (CFOs) and others believe, said Josh Cyphers , president of Nvoicepay , a FLEETCOR company alongside Comdata.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

There are a lot of moving parts in B2B payments that are keeping corporate finance executives busy as they work to modernize and optimize their operations. In 2020, many of the biggest pain points in B2B payments were revealed, particularly when transactions move across border. But it's an end-to-end workflow.".

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Businesses also may find paper checks to be untenably slow and cumbersome to issue or receive from far-flung partners, and such trends are causing a growing global momentum for adopting swifter, more streamlined accounts payable (AP) tools and business-to-business (B2B) payment methods. Find the full story in the Playbook.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This week's roundup of the convergence of accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) takes a look at how B2B payments solution providers are considering both buyers and suppliers as a result of the pandemic. Paymerang Eyes The Supplier's Role In AP.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

With B2B payments being an increasingly attractive target for innovators, the landscape is growing crowded as more banks and FinTechs roll out their accounts payable (AP) automation solutions. “I think everybody recognizes that B2B payments are an enormous opportunity in the U.S.

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MARCH 19, 2020

Tackling B2B payments friction is a journey, but when corporates take their transactions global, finding a remedy for cross-border B2B payments is a much more complicated process. ” Tackling B2B payments on a global scale calls for collaboration, McCarthy explained. “There’s just so much inefficiency.”

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

To streamline B2B payments, MineralTree company Regal Software unveiled its RegalPay One offering in a Wednesday (Oct. The company noted that $27 trillion in B2B payments are conducted yearly in North America, while firms spend $510 billion on manual AP expenses in making those payments. 14) announcement.

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MAY 21, 2020

In an interview with PYMNTS, Xavier Ginesta , chairman at Voxel Group , which focuses on B2B payments, said that friction exists for B2B payments within the travel space — but that friction can be eased with eBilling and ePayments. He said that technology can help relieve some of the pain points of B2B travel payments.

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JULY 17, 2020

Several B2B FinTechs topped the list in Q2, however, including commercial card startup Brex, which raised $150 million, as well as global business account service provider Airwallex with $160 million and small business alternative lender Fundbox with a $200 million raise — the largest of the quarter. TradeDepot.

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APRIL 17, 2020

With only four investment rounds, B2B FinTechs were able to secure more than $181 million in fresh funding — an impressive sum amid turbulent times. For exceptions, the platform routes the document for human intervention.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

And he noted, too, that the “verticalization” of B2B is upon us. Deploying the right solutions hearkens back to the “jobs to be done” theory of innovation noted by Webster during an earlier B2B webinar. Accounts payable and receivable used to be concrete, separate operations. B2B Verticalization.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

Amid market volatility, organizations are finding it imperative to accelerate their accounts receivables while extending accounts payables and still maintaining positive buyer-supplier relationships. Accounts receivable and accounts payable are two key functions of the enterprise with significant impact on cash flow.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

And as FinTechs continue to challenge banks, but also offer new opportunities within the B2B space, they’re advancing a corollary to the build vs. buy question: How about partnerships? The question is seemingly an eternal one in the business realm: build vs. buy. Where The Banks Are Focused . Sassone pointed to the fact that half of all U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The global pandemic has, no doubt, changed the B2B payments landscape forever. In Australia, Adrian Floate , managing director of Cirralto , says the COVID-19 crisis has fast-tracked B2B payments modernization. Electronic payments and digital business processes have been fast-forwarded by as much as 10 years in the last few months.".

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

A perfect storm of market shifts catalyzed by the global pandemic has forever changed the B2B payments landscape. Billtrust CEO and Founder Flint Lane highlighted three shifts in particular that are igniting major change in the industry: first, the accelerated digitization of accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP).

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

In the bid to modernize B2B payments , accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) need to work together. percent of B2B trade in the Middle East is offline,” he noted. “So Yet challenges persist, and they are widespread among firms large and small. When we look at the offline processes, 99.5

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APRIL 24, 2020

B2B FinTech investments appear to be relatively strong, too. Plus, an accounts payable technology company announced a $127 million equity round. In France, Libeo , which offers invoice processing automation technologies for small businesses in need of accounts payable optimization, secured $4.32 KarbonCard.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And here we are, millennia later, exploring space and streaming Netflix, yet over 40 percent of business-to-business (B2B) payments are still made by paper — the same “technology” that replaced clay tablets. After all, B2B eCommerce will be a $1.1 Where’s the Trust? China’s eCommerce titan Alibaba is capitalizing on that.

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