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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. In the U.S., Just 14 percent of U.S. But the U.S. experience is not universal: In the U.K.,

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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. This means accountants can spend up to 50 percent more time managing SMBs’ books, resulting in higher costs for the small business customer, Intuit Australia noted. Reports Wednesday (Sept.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

The seamless benefits of smart bank transfer can reduce cash management for cannabis firms, for example, contended Muller. The largest of enterprise cannabis businesses are still transacting in many cases in cash,” he told PYMNTS. Checks and cash aren’t going to work in this day and age.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Rather, Sinha explained, corporate treasurers and CFOs today are grappling with evolving business models and transforming cash management strategies. For some companies, that means a migration away from the traditional dealer-distributor model and toward B2B commerce and direct-to-consumer (D2C) strategies.

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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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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

There are several reasons for this, analysts say, but regardless, there is a clear need for tight cash management in the construction sector. Or the actual cash flows and job costs per project need to be handled a little differently [than other industries],” he explained.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

But the executive insights in the pages that follow offer a bit of roadmap for cash managers to see more restful nights. Navigating it all can seem overwhelming, and indeed, it’s enough to keep executives up at night. Among the Highlights. The high-level picture is fraught with challenges and rewards.

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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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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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JUNE 21, 2020

The new process also does away with manual paperwork and uses more efficient cash flow management to create a “seamless” process, according to the press release. Yvonne Yiu , head of global liquidity and cash management with HSBC, said the simplicity makes a difference for the customer.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

B2B payments company Happay, which provides prepaid card solutions to employers for the purposes of expense management, also recently announced a reaction to demonetization. The firm rolled out an express onboarding service for SMEs that are now scrambling for digital payment tools, unable to turn to cash as they once had.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Whether it’s last-minute reimbursements a small business needs to make or a lack of clarity in when employees should file their reports, a lack in expense management, Grant said, can “eat into cash flow in a major way.”

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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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OCTOBER 20, 2017

19), Bank of the West revealed news that it is adding new cash management solutions for its commercial banking customers. Bank of the West’s Commercial Banking Group announced the rollout of DirectPay Manager and Remote Cash Capture, two solutions aimed at facilitating cash flow management for corporate clients.

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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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OCTOBER 4, 2017

Payments software firm B2 Group is rolling out a mobile cash management solution for the corporate treasurer. 3) that it is rolling out its Mobile Cash Management (MCM) service, a tool that comes with a mobile app for smartphones and tablets. The company announced news on Tuesday (Oct.

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MARCH 8, 2017

With hundreds of billions of dollars changing hands each year, B2B banking and payments is a big, big deal. According to industry research, the B2B payments industry moves roughly $550 billion each year, making up roughly half of the $1.2 Enter the new PYMNTS.com B2B API Tracker™. trillion global payments market. .

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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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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Travelex , part of the United Arab Emirates-based Finablr , is rolling out a FinTech business-to-business (B2B) platform called Travelex Business, IBS Intelligence reported on Tuesday (Sept. The new platform will feature an API-led platform to offer customers cash management , cross-border payments and retail currency conversion.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

and will provide cash management services for such corporate customers. Santander Bank is rolling out a new solution for its corporate clients. The financial institution (FI) announced Tuesday (Dec. 12) that its Treasury Link solution is now live in the U.S.

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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

But shifting priorities among buyers and suppliers have elevated the opportunity for cards to meet changing cash management needs. Further, Leavitt added, the commercial card sits nicely within the B2B market’s demand for data. One hurdle for the rail revolves around data.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Trade finance, they said, could help boost efficiency in cash management and supply chain (via dynamic discounting on invoices). In the second annual survey conducted by C2FO focused on corporate treasurers based in Europe, responses showed that 75 percent of the 100 respondents wanted to invest in technology tied to trade finance.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

But cards are a rarity in B2B payments, and even rarer in accounts payable (AP) compared with other segments of the space like corporate travel. The model by which card payments are made, too, as push payments, doesn’t align well with B2B payments, either, BC Krishna explained. B2B payments today, in the U.S.,

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recent analysis from Juniper Research found that blockchain-powered cross-border B2B payments are expected to reach a $4.4 In a statement, TCH Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Development Steve Ledford said that RTP can benefit corporates by providing “real-time cash management” capabilities.

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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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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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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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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 25, 2016

The problem, researchers found, is that many executives aren’t aware that there are business processes within their control that also affect cash management. Inventory management, researchers said, is a particularly big missed opportunity for manufacturing firms to realize the power internal functions have on cash management.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

B2B startups saw a little bit of everything this week when it came to venture capital. And that goes for the industries covered, too, with treasury management’s Kyriba, blockchain’s BlockApps and enterprise security’s Druva landing on the board, to name a few. Expense Management. Enterprise Security.

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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. ” When billing on a recurring basis instead of a single time, manual accounting tactics can make cash management monumentally more difficult.

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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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AUGUST 16, 2020

Axle , which works in cash flow for the freight and logistics industry, has raised $27.7 million in a funding round, which it intends to go toward continuing the company’s work in automating processes and boosting cash management, according to a press release.

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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.

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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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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Jolly, head of finance and channels global transaction services at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in an interview with PYMNTS for a previous edition of the PYMNTS.com B2B API Tracker. “It “I think for our industry, APIs are a very positive innovation,” said Hubert J.P.

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