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For years, B2B FinTech players have pressed businesses to adopt electronic payments. With adoption rates now rising, accountspayable (AP) departments have improved their positions within the enterprise as strategic functions, with the potential to offer greater insight into company operations. less to process a single invoice.
Accountspayable (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 accountspayable process,” he said.
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 accountspayable 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.
The competition is heating up between payment technologies in accountspayable, with ACH and virtual cards seeing significant pushes in the B2B payments space to combat the dreaded paper check. There are a lot of treasury management issues out there that need to be addressed,” he told PYMNTS in a recent interview.
Among these new services, the top focus is real-time payments (55 percent), followed by same-day ACH (44 percent) and blockchain-based networks (35 percent), according to Bottomline Technologies’ 2019 B2B Payments Survey. They understand the payments space, they understand the settlement systems, they understand accountspayable,” he said.
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. How do you get information from your suppliers?
If at that time, someone would have asked Citi Managing Director and Global Head of Domestic Payments and Receivables Anupam Sinha how long it would take for corporate treasury organizations to fully embrace digital , he said his answer would likely have been something along the lines of, “Don’t hold your breath.”.
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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. Cost is only one consideration. Where The Banks Are Focused .
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Yet for finance leaders of the enterprise, adoption of digital assets poses plenty of risks and challenges, not least of all the inability for their current treasury infrastructures to manage crypto in an integrated and compliant way. But it may not be smooth sailing ahead. We’re not just talking about the digitization of fiat,” he said.
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As treasury management becomes increasingly digital, a bank’s corporate banking clients face challenges when it comes to modernizing treasury workflows. The vast majority of treasury organizations want simple, tech-driven solutions that don’t require them to go out and make use of new products. Many-To-Many Markets .
This week's B2B Data Digest looks at the latest figures behind such fraud targeting corporate finance teams. 21 percent of business leaders say payment authorization and authentication are requirements when choosing a treasury management platform , a report by Citizens Commercial Banking found. Barrenechea in a statement.
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AP Optimizer is a big win for our customers and is part of our strategy to provide an integrated offering to manage accountspayables,” said Jeff Jones , head of Corporate Payment and Treasury Solutions for U.S. Bank, according to the release. Digital invoicing has become popular throughout the pandemic, with WEX Inc.
With a focus on its broader treasury management offerings, People’s United is adding MineralTree’s invoice-to-pay solution and FIS’s integrated payables technology to streamline business clients’ accountspayable processes. Five Star Bank Taps Corserv Card Tech.
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For years, any attention given to solving B2B payments friction was typically focused on the payer. Yet, as innovators have chip away at friction points, they have recognized the value of incorporating a supplier’s accounts receivable (AR) experience into their solutions. “The person receiving it is just happy to get paid.”
Equity investments reigned this week, thanks to backing for accountspayable (AP) automation firm MineralTree and treasury management company Kyriba , but it was the logistics market that saw the largest venture capital round — and secured another unicorn for the B2B startup space. MineralTree. Existing backers.406
Together, the companies will link TD Bank business customers to Paymode-X with Visa Payables Solutions, a tool to streamline payables that supports card, ACH and check payments in the accountspayable (AP) department. ” This is TD Bank’s latest FinTech collaboration targeting the corporate segment.
CIT Group will add a new level of B2B payment functionality to the software from workflow solutions provider Fintainium , aiming to make accountspayable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) functions easier on small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a press release.
Treasury or cash management services that used to be fast enough may therefore no longer be adequate as businesses fight to stay afloat during the economic downturn. This form of fraud represented 60 percent of deposit account attacks in 2019, for example, and it cost businesses and banks $15.1 Breaking Away From Checks .
As the corporate treasurer takes on a more strategic role in the enterprise, treasury and cash management technologies can often be stuck in the past, failing to keep up with financial execs’ needs. “And from there, you have to go to your ERP system, your accounts receivable and accountspayable data, and normalize that data.”
PYMNTS December 2020 Global B2B Payments Playbook done in collaboration with Worldpay makes a simple, somewhat baffling observation: “Many B2B payments are [still] being made over the same rails that firms have leveraged for decades, utilizing familiar payment tools and being supported by the same pre- and post-payment systems.”.
Accountspayable (AP) is undergoing its own digital shift as companies modernize a B2B payments ecosystem that until recently was surprisingly paper-based despite five solid years of serious innovations on the part of financial institutions (FIs) and FinTech. A Digital Trifecta. Speed, convenience, security.
Late payments have always plagued business-to-business (B2B) commerce, but the problem is coming to a new head. Accountspayable (AP) tools that provide quick, detailed oversights of businesses’ financial statuses and payments obligations can help pick up the pace of payments by keeping invoice approval processes on track.
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Chicago-based Signature Bank is rolling out a technology platform called Finrails AP to simplify B2B payments, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. Finrails AP offers businesses a cloud-based accountspayable (AP) solution that automates B2B payments on a secure digital dashboard using numerous payment methods.
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Postal Service have added yet another hurdle to the payment method, which can affect everything from accountspayable (AP) to payroll to insurance disbursements. With payment innovators looking to migrate B2B payments away from paper, a growing number of payment rails and technologies are helping to ease the pain of the shift.
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