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OCTOBER 19, 2020

So said that in a traditional screening process, SMEs “would send PDFs of bank statements or PDFs or their audited or unaudited financials, and banks [would] take weeks to underwrite. And the cost of underwriting a large borrower vs. a small SME was virtually the same.”.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Usually, the auditing workflow involves looking at expense reports filed by employees, with a focus on identifying potentially erroneous or even fraudulent transactions. Digitizing and centralizing spend across various departments and workflows is the first step to enhancing the auditing process, said McCrossan.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As the peaks and valleys of blockchain hype continue to rise and fall, more doubt has surfaced over the future of distributed ledger technology, particularly in the area of B2B payments. Analysts point to the challenges associated with adoption and implementation of blockchain-powered B2B payment solutions as a key hurdle for the technology.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Deloitte will be the first of the “Big Four” auditors to break up its business after selecting a new auditing board to undertake the task, according to a report from The Telegraph. 11), Deloitte revealed it had set up an audit governance board to help to eventually separate the audit division from the rest of the company.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

And, payments made through PayCargo will now be able to be viewed on the AWB Changes feature in Unisys Diagnostics, the company’s solution for auditing and payment tracking. The platform lets clients have their cargo released the same day.

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JULY 6, 2020

The Big Four accounting firms will have to put their United Kingdom auditing and consulting practices in separate business units by 2024, but may keep them within the same parent companies, under regulations announced today by the Financial Reporting Council. The measures by the U.K.’s

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Today In B2B payments, NeweggBusiness integrates business financing and payment terms via Behalf, while Deutsche Bank expands its cash management offering into Australia. Plus, GE shutters its staff audit program, and Park Place Payments partners up for small business B2B payments. GE To End Rotational Staff Audit Program.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Venture capital funding landed at supplier payment and compliance automation firms this week, among other B2B innovators that raised money. The big B2B investment of the week was Tipalti , which landed $150 million in new funding on a $2 billion valuation. PYMNTS rounds up the latest funding rounds below.

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MARCH 15, 2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted last week to ease audit requirements for some small, publicly traded companies, the agency said in a statement Friday (March 13).

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JANUARY 26, 2018

The solution can also safeguard information linked to compliance, auditing and regulatory review, the company noted. While Ripple and other decentralized technologies are addressing payments, the transfer of funds is only a small part of a B2B transaction.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Firms auditing expenses through manual processes and outdated technologies risk missing the chance to flag erroneous or fraudulent submissions from vendors and employees. Deploying technology — especially artificial intelligence (AI) — can streamline the auditing process and boost cost savings significantly.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Today in B2B payments, accounts payable automation firm CPS finds a buyer. Plus, a new FinTech, OpenEnvoy, launches to combat B2B payments fraud, while PCMI collaborates on B2B payments automation, and OpenPayd launches an FX-as-a-Service solution. REPAY Inks Deal For B2B AP Automation Firm CPS. 27) announcement.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The September CFO Guide To Digitizing B2B Payments explores how corporate buyers are streamlining their B2B transactions with digital payments and supplier onboarding tools. Around The B2B Payments World. This month’s Deep Dive examines buyers’ data collection needs and how supplier onboarding portals can ease this work.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Even with the digitization of the invoice, fraud remains a rampant problem, and it's not only the buy-side of the B2B equation faced with the consequences. I'd be willing to be that any controller or CFO that doesn't have an automated auditing process is worried about it.". A Straightforward Challenge.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One exception may be in the T&E space, in which FinTechs are introducing ways for employees to make B2B payments and integrate transaction data into expense management systems, a reflection of the mobile nature of the traveling employee. The enterprise has been a bit skeptical about mobile payments.

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APRIL 26, 2020

Accounts receivable (AR) platform SurePayd is responding to the coronavirus pandemic by reducing the costs for its remote migration audit services for the next two months for companies that need to go on the cloud during the crisis, according to a press release.

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JULY 2, 2020

The former chair of the London Stock Exchange is calling for a thorough overhaul of audit standards in the wake of the $2.1 Auditors should be required “to find fraud rather than stumble over it,” Donald Brydon , appointed last year to overhaul audit standards in the United Kingdom, told the Financial Times.

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JULY 11, 2019

s so-called Big Four accountancy firms — KPMG, PwC, EY and Deloitte — have reportedly failed to reach audit quality standards set by the Financial Reporting Council , Reuters reported this week. Only 75 percent of the audits of the U.K.’s It will review a larger number of the firm’s audits in the coming year. All of the U.K.’s

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Parliament will commence an inquiry into the nation’s corporate auditing market, which is currently dominated by the Big Four accounting firms Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG, adding new pressure on an industry already being probed by other policymakers. Reports in Reuters on Sunday (November 11) said the U.K.

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JUNE 6, 2019

auditing giant to overhaul operations amid growing regulatory scrutiny on the industry. PwC is reportedly planning to ramp up its auditing operations by hiring 500 more auditors across the U.K., The company will also deploy a digital audit team, strengthen training operations and review existing clients. .”

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JUNE 23, 2017

We break down all the B2B FinTech funding rounds below. Hubdoc provides an application that uses machine learning and cloud computing to analyze financial documents for reporting, auditing and reconciliation purposes. though, is a particularly bright star this week, as more than 60 percent of that funding went to London startups.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

B2B technology startups continue to gain valuable attention among venture capitalists. In a recent report , seed investors explored why their focus has turned to enterprise startups as opposed to consumer-facing technology firms after the publication’s analysis revealed that today’s seed investments favor B2B startups over B2C.

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MARCH 7, 2018

B2B FinTechs are playing an especially prominent role in this trend, analysts noted. We saw more and more B2B FinTech models proving out at the banks, coupled with larger and later-stage investments as the FinTech world scales up,” explained Julian Skan, Accenture practice senior managing director, in a statement. “We

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JUNE 5, 2020

The new announcement will bring together CaseWare PBC Requests, CaseWare ReviewCompTax, CaseWare Audit and CaseWare AnalyticsAI as one product suite, allowing accountants to take their services entirely to the cloud in bulk. And errors are done away with through automatic updates of information, the press release states.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

A number of large accounting groups have turned down requests to audit Greensill Capital as the SoftBank -backed firm mulls a stock market listing, the Financial Times (FT) reported. The United Kingdom-based organization has become one of the most highly valued private finance firms in the nation as of its 2011 establishment.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Revolut launches a new solution for its business customers, and MonetaGo collaborates to combat trade finance fraud. Through 100 percent invoice integration, the service boasts improvements to savings, and offers a compliance audit feature that can help vendors cut spending.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

This week, the largest funding round went to a B2B startup developing autonomous trucking technology to boost fleet efficiency, with other rounds landing at small business bookkeeping, workforce communications, and IBAN fraud mitigation startups for a combined $236 million-plus landing at B2B startups.

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MAY 1, 2020

Mnuchin: All PPP Loan Recipients Will Face Audits. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said per reports that firms that borrow money via the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) can expect to be audited prior to forgiveness of the loans. ” JPMorgan Chase Submits Nearly $18B In PPP Loans.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Blockchain seemed to be stuck in pilot phase in 2017, but in 2018, the financial services industry finally saw a stronger flow of real-world, working blockchain applications — many of which targeted pain points in B2B payments, including the time and lack of transparency in cross-border transactions.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In a statement, Coatue Management Senior Managing Director Thomas Laffont said that artificial intelligence (AI) enables AppZen to deploy more sophisticated analytics and automation within its expense management solution, which allows businesses to assess expenses, automate expense report audits, and identify savings opportunities. “AI

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

B2B payments friction isn’t only experienced on the payer side. These hurdles can also stifle electronic payments adoption in the B2B arena. That friction is all about data, and the freight bill audit pay process that involves analyzing a carrier’s invoice to assess its accuracy. Failure to Act.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

In the B2B realm, the movement to get suppliers paid on time may become a struggle, mired as AP management is in the paper chase of manual effort. These are firms that have failed audits or are about to fail audits.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is calling into question the Internal Revenue Service’s corporate auditing performance. But according to the report, the IRS rarely uses this new method and is not examining past audits in order to more efficiently prioritize which cases to more closely examine, Bloomberg said.

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MARCH 1, 2020

s audit regulator, announced plans this week to break up the dominance of the largest four accounting firms, Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC , according to the Financial Times. and would essentially ask for the firms’ audit and consulting operations to be separated. The FRC also said there should be a ringfencing of audit costs and profits.

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MARCH 13, 2018

Forty percent of audits inspected by the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators (IFIAR) included serious problems, according to news from The Financial Times on Monday (March 12). The IFIAR found accounting lapses in about 40 percent of the 918 audits of public companies inspected in 2017. In the U.K.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

For tax and auditing purposes, using transaction data provides a more accurate data trail of where an employee is and where he or she is spending corporate funds. But there is another element to employee tracking that employers should be wary of. “It means we have more control over the underlying data,” Scott said.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

When it comes to B2B payments and supply chain management , many of those opportunities have surfaced as a result of some troubling vulnerabilities that have come to light in the midst of the pandemic. Accounts receivable isn't the only way to improve the buyer-supplier relationship in the flow of B2B transactions.

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