PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

Technology firm Ricoh is jumping into B2B payments with a new service aimed at digitizing accounts receivable processes. Electronic invoicing is considered key to improving B2B payments and processes. Digital invoices, the company added, enable real-time visibility into financial data and support mobilization of the enterprise.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We discover a basic truth upon reading PYMNTS November 2020 CFO’s Guide To Digitizing B2B Payments done in collaboration with Comdata : many treasury operations need digital triage. Companies shifting to digital payment methods are overcoming many of the challenges that have historically plagued business-to-business (B2B) transactions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

ACH, wire, virtual and physical cards, and other rails all come into the mix, particularly as each vie for a chance to take B2B payment market share away from paper. ” B2B sellers expanding into China, for example, have to support payments made via Alipay and WeChat, Levy explained. Paper checks may be the No.1

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

With FinTech innovators finally starting to give B2B solutions the attention they have longed for, there are now troves of platforms companies can access, from expense management to cash flow forecasting to supplier management. AvidXchange and Vroozi are only the latest B2B FinTech companies to collaborate.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

B2B payments in the healthcare industry are undoubtedly complex, thanks to the intricacies of coordination between healthcare providers, suppliers and insurance firms. In the accounts receivable (AR) function, Franco noted that Nurx implemented lockboxes in order to centralize the receipt of paper checks from insurance companies.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

But that accounts receivable bottleneck isn’t a liquidity problem isolated to the U.S. Indeed, sluggish B2B payments can be felt the world over. Of course, small vendors working with large corporates is a common scenario that demonstrates SMBs’ cash flow vulnerabilities on the supplier-side of a B2B transaction.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2020

And even as financial institutions began to smooth out the process, the initiative hit another snag Monday when reports emerged that the SBA’s computer systems had crashed. Bottomline Technologies. Biz2Ctredit said “existing partners” have already signed on to use the solution in the coming weeks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

The advancement of enterprise digitization has given rise to a deeper understand of the importance of financial data for business leaders. In other words, accounts payable transactions are highly interconnected to other areas of the enterprise as well as business partners outside of the company. Marrying AP With Banking.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Banks and FinTechs continue to discover new opportunities in unlocking corporate clients’ financial data, with banks embracing data integration for their own product development initiatives, and FinTechs finding new ways to collaborate with each other. AccountantsWorld Unlocks Payroll Data for FinTechs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

If you think of the rise of corporate America over the last century, the function of the accounts payable department probably doesn’t come to mind as one of the main players. In an age of disruption, innovation and near-constant change, accounts payable has become a way for businesses to retain control and strategy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

Companies must not only integrate solutions that can connect to their customers’ operations (for instance, a B2B supplier could gain a competitive edge if they were able to automatically provide a customer with remittance data following payment), but work to ensure financial technologies are interconnected.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

WEX is lending its B2B payments capabilities to the enterprise software services of Apptricity. WEX will link its corporate card capabilities into Apptricity’s existing travel and expense (T&E) management offering to manage employee spend on company cards and support enhanced spend management via analytics of financial data. “We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

For AccountsIQ, the latest embrace of open banking comes in the form of a collaboration with TransferMate , which has now integrated cross-border payments capabilities directly within AccountsIQ’s accounts payable portal. “In the middle market, businesses are becoming more international,” he said.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

If only commercial (B2B) payments could be as frictionless as retail payments, when consumers pay merchants. That’s an ambition shared by many an entrepreneur who sets out to innovate the massively huge opportunity that awaits in the B2B space. It’s what also drove Mike Galarza to found Entryless. Australia … the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The problem can be traced back to data: as organizations scale, either through organic growth or M&A, they’re taking on more financial management platforms and opening more bank accounts, leading to fragmented storage of financial data. Open banking is not a regulatory requirement in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

With companies paying suppliers on strategic schedules, real-time transactions aren’t always necessary — or beneficial — for the B2B payments space. NACHA found B2B payments made up 6 percent of the nearly 2 million same-day ACH transactions that occurred in the first 11 days the service went live. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

One of the factors behind this may be financial leaders’ rising expectations for how payment systems should operate. In this sense, RTP may be seen as an integral part of wider efforts to streamline treasury and accounts payable operations, as well as shed the inefficiencies of manual and paper-based processes.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

With more payments and back-office workflows being digitized, companies have more data than ever before with which to work. For some finance professionals, it may seem an overwhelming task to make sense of financial data to understand where a company has been, where it is today and where it could be tomorrow.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

That’s what makes the marrying of front-office finances with back-office finances so valuable for this space, according to Teri Wilson, general manager at restaurant accounts payable technology firm Sourcery. At first glance, the synergies between a point of sale (POS) and accounts payable solution may not appear clear.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Cross-border payments, trade finance, smart contracts — blockchain has the potential to disrupt B2B processes, but FinTech players are only beginning to take these concepts onto a real-world stage. For one firm, Finlync , the key to unlocking the potential of blockchain in B2B processes is unlocking the underlying data of that activity.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

. “Basware’s networked source-to-pay solutions, eInvoicing and innovative financing services empower organizations with 100 percent spend visibility by enabling the capture of all financial data across procurement, finance, accounts payable and accounts receivable functions.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2020

Migrating the accounting function to the cloud can offer a slew of benefits for small businesses, thanks to the flexibility of software to operate across platforms. He noted that more small businesses will continue to embrace the cloud migration of accounting.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2016

In B2B payments, accounts payable automation is a hot topic, as are the challenges AP professionals face when it comes to paying suppliers and managing the data from those transactions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

Not only do they add an enhanced level of security and fraud protection to the accounts payable process, they also simplify processes and provide a mechanism for generating new forms of revenue to support the nonprofit mission.”. Speaking of the AP professional, that’s the third benefit: streamlined accounts payable processes.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

With the new funding, Wave will focus on building out its integrated financial service capabilities, deploying technologies like artificial intelligence to make better sense of all the financial data it captures. Wave’s approach to enhancing SMBs’ handle on cash management is a bit different. and she has Wave.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

But the aggregation of troves of data points is a monumental task – let alone sorting, analyzing and making sense of that information. The issue, said Alexander Rinke, co-founder and CEO of Big Data company Celonis , is that oftentimes, businesses approach the analytics process by relying on static data points.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But they can also be extremely expensive, charging high interest rates that may lead to default and can ultimately prove even more detrimental than helpful to the financial health of the SMB.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Another major hurdle unique to the purchase-to-pay space is the process’s deep touch points with an array of other back-office functions within the enterprise, including vendor management, product sourcing, accounts payable, accounting, inventory management, contract management, manufacturing and distribution, and more.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

Corporate accounting software is now a continually evolving space, but progress doesn’t occur in a vacuum: External forces and trends, from changing regulations to increased adoption of FinTech by the enterprise, force businesses to adjust how they record and report financial data.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

There is no shortage of FinTech firms that have emerged since the 2008 financial crisis aiming to facilitate access to small business capital, many of which target supplier and invoice financing specifically. As the industry grows, access to small business financial data is a critical component of risk mitigation and underwriting practices.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

” Accounts payable, accounting and other financial executives are often the first to notice discrepancies, anomalies or over-spend in the financial data, but silos within the enterprise prevent them from quickly connecting those issues to factors linked to purchasing and operations teams.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The process through which organizations, like universities, gain that spend visibility — that is, being able to integrate financial data across platforms — opens doors to other opportunities in the higher education industry. Yet, the effort to gain a deeper view into spend isn’t simply to avoid those threats, Rotoli noted.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

Modern commerce is fast-paced, and APIs enable Wells Fargo to offer the payment speeds and smooth financial data access their corporate clients need to compete. APIs are the mechanism for real-time interactions between different parties.”.

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