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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Considering the complexities of B2B transactions , cash is not a sustainable method of moving funds from a retail buyer to a cannabis brand distributor or wholesaler. But there are other pain points in B2B payments for the legal cannabis market, according to Doug Gordon , executive vice president and head of LeafLink Financial.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Alternative small business (SMB) finance company C2FO is integrating a new solution from Euler Hermes to help small businesses protect against the risk of unpaid invoices. Businesses will be able to purchase credit insurance on single invoices via a digital platform, while being able to analyze and manage credit risk exposure.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

While the B2B payments category was not the subject of its initial announcement, partner Lance Fenton told PYMNTS that he sees tremendous opportunity in the sector. One of the best things about B2B payments is it can work across verticals. Fenton said Serent has an advantage in understanding the healthcare vertical.

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JUNE 1, 2020

invoice insurance provider Nimbla is teaming up with the credit risk assessment firm Wiserfunding , according to a report in Crowdfund Insider on Friday (May 29). s SMEs if they combine the various innovations from the FinTech space, insurance and risk management sectors.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

The $24 trillion global B2B commerce opportunity, as PYMNTS readers know, is continually — and has been historically — plagued by the paper chase. The flow of commerce and capital gets bogged down in phone calls, applications, emails and inefficient risk profiling based on traditional credit models. focused B2B sales.

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MAY 4, 2018

Amazon Business is introducing a new invoicing feature that could impose cash flow pressure on sellers, according to AuctionBytes. sellers on the B2B eCommerce platform, advising them of the launch of Pay by Invoice. percent of the total invoice cost. The program reportedly launches on June 30 of this year.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Amazon takes advantage of cloud adoption with expanded call center functionality, while Sage collaborates on small business cash flow management. Meanwhile, Aareal Bank launches a new B2B payments platform, Cobase teams up for FX and eCapital acquires a commercial lender. 1) announcement. and Canada.

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JUNE 23, 2017

The companies said Thursday (June 22) that they are partnering to enhance credit risk solutions for lenders, with LexisNexis now integrating Cortera data into its Risk Solutions platform. ”

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

This week's look at the convergence of accounts payable and accounts receivable finds tools like commercial cards, trade credit, artificial intelligence and robotics process automation easing friction on both ends of a B2B transactions. Legal Cannabis Steps Into The World Of Trade Credit.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

As it turns out, in Europe, late payments in the B2B space seem to be a continent-wide problem. In a wide-ranging survey of B2B activity in Eastern Europe, trade credit insurer Atradius reported that payment delays tied to insufficient funds have been on the rise in the region, up 10 percent over last year.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Australia and elsewhere taking up the issue as more SMEs lose cash as their invoices go unpaid. If a customer defaults on a $100,000 invoice and the business that is looking to get paid has a profit margin of 5 percent, that business would need to sell an additional $2 million to make up the lost cash flow,” Daly said. “If

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

While optimizing back-office functions like accounts payable and accounts receivable can support enhanced cash-flow management, B2B partnership collaboration is also critical to supporting the financial health of an organization. With a focus on suppliers’ corporate customers, the tool also integrates a credit risk solution.

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JUNE 27, 2016

While last week was a fairly impressive week for B2B venture capital, investors swooped in on their dark horses to give an extra bump to B2B financial services startups. Apruve provides financial management solutions for small businesses that operate in the B2B eCommerce space.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

More than $874 million in fresh funding landed at B2B startups this week across a range of market segments and geographies. See all of the latest B2B fundraises below. FunBox works with other lenders to underwrite financing to self-employed, small merchants and new-to-credit customers, reports said. SaaSOptics. Clix Capital.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Amazon ‘s new payment option that allows business sellers to pay by invoice officially went into effect for third-party sellers on August 8. The eCommerce giant announced Pay by Invoice back in May. Instead, they’re invoiced and have the option to have an extended payment due date. percent of the total invoiced amount.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Clearing House 's RTP network is now several years old, and while the real-time payments capability is gaining traction, adoption in the B2B landscape remains muted. Just ask the estimated 42 percent of small- to medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) that continue to use paper checks to make B2B payments.

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MARCH 18, 2016

But as industry experts know, small businesses everywhere are being forced to deal with longer payment terms on their invoices and with corporate customers paying those bills off later. One thousand businesses responded to the Coface survey, which aimed to look at corporate credit risk mitigation, according to reports.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Invoice financing company MarketInvoice is enhancing its product offering through a new collaboration with Euler Hermes. Recent high-profile corporate failures reinforce the need to be increasingly aware of the risks of late or non-payment for goods and services provided on credit.”. Reports Thursday (Feb. 8) said the U.K.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

One illustration of this is a 6% overall drop in Asian businesses B2B trading on credit over the past year with variations in different markets, the trade credit insurer pointed out. Taiwan and Singapore saw significant drops, while China and Vietnam experienced an increase in B2B sales on credit, the firm added.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

More than $150 million in venture capital bolstered the B2B FinTech market this week, and while investors made big steps into areas like human resources, fleet management and artificial intelligence (AI), it was an old favorite that saw the most, and largest, investment rounds: alternative lending. B2B Payments. Alternative Lending.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

A series of reports over recent days show evidence that collecting on B2B receivables remains a stubborn problem. In one study, through its Payments Practices Barometer, Atradius found that, across respondents from Western Europe , there has been a boost in past due invoices after only a slight increase seen from 2016 to 2017.

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JUNE 6, 2018

It became apparent, very quickly, Lifshitz noted wryly, that it wasn’t a market segment they could address in either a scalable or profitable manner given the diversity of those micro, zero employee businesses and the credit risk associated with them. Blue Vine’s only other product, invoice factoring, touch businesses much larger.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

The tie-up is an extension of a current relationship that will have Satago’s offering smoothly linked with Sage Accounting, which will offer clients automated invoice chasing, invoice finance and credit risk analysis in a single system.

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MAY 28, 2020

HighRadius Founder and CEO Sashi Narahari said in the announcement, “We launched the RadiusOne B2B Network to facilitate suppliers and AR teams to digitally connect with their buyers and AP [accounts payable] teams for faster processing of receivables and payments. Currently, the network has millions of active businesses.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

HDFC ERGO, India’s third-largest non-life insurance company and a joint venture between bank HDFC and insurance conglomerate ERGO, has introduced a new insurance product for B2B suppliers. According to the firm, trade credit insurance is particularly important in a globalized B2B trading environment.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

Late B2B payments may be a hot topic focused in western Europe, but with supply chains weaving their webs across borders, delayed invoice payments are now impacting businesses beyond the region. percent of respondents reported domestic B2B invoices being paid late over the last year. Lost Trust Is Difficult To Regain .

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MAY 10, 2018

Last year, the nation’s third-largest non-life insurance company, HDFC ERGO, announced a new insurance product for B2B suppliers that offers them trade credit insurance. The product provides credit for suppliers in instances in which their corporate customers have failed to pay an invoice. In the U.K.,

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Walford Trade Risk, a trade credit risk insurance provider, is rolling out a new product designed to help small businesses protect themselves against the risk of non-payment from their corporate customers.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Looking at the entire universe of companies, well beyond listed companies and including SMEs, Allianz Trade’s proprietary calculation of the global B2B liquidity gap is expected to remain stable at around US$30 trillion, with the US and Europe accounting for US$5 trillion each, and China representing a record US$12 trillion.

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JULY 28, 2017

“Even though the short same-day ACH settlement windows will reduce credit risk, financial institutions will likely want to continue putting businesses through a full ACH underwriting process,” wrote MineralTree CEO BC Krishna in an article in 2015 for American Banker on the potential impact of Same Day ACH on B2B payments.

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MAY 4, 2018

have brought attention to the nation’s plight against late supplier payments, but a new report from Euler Hermes warns this is a global issue — one that is worsening and raising the insolvency risk. In China, suppliers wait an average of 92 days for invoices to get paid. Regulators and analysts in the U.K. While the U.K.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

MarketInvoice is rebranding to reflect its expansion beyond invoice financing for small businesses. In addition to invoice financing, MarketFinance also connects small businesses to loans with between one- and three-year repayment plans. The company announced its new name, MarketFinance, in an announcement on Tuesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

No paper checks or invoices, no physical delivery constraints — one might assume it’s a much faster payments environment. Our idea was to take invoice to net zero, which has been part of the supply chain for hundreds of years, and apply it to this segment which is an obvious fit for it,” he said. “We

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MAY 1, 2019

While the cross-border B2B trade market has worked to address some major points of friction, from a $1.5 trillion trade credit gap to the continued reliance on paper trade documents and invoices, often the first hurdle that must be tackled is how to find the right corporate customers.

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APRIL 16, 2019

We have patterns across B2B customers, so if a consumer is looking like a high credit risk, we can accelerate the collections efforts across many of our customers. Adding collections to their suite of skills, Lane noted, is part of their bigger vision for taking on B2B payments from order to cash to collections.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

For invoice financing company Fundbox , the best way to navigate in a field like this is to stay focused on the task at hand. “We The firm also increased its line of credit that it offers SMB clients up to $100,000 and introduced more flexible repayment terms, expanding the repayment timeframe option from 12 weeks to 24 weeks.

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JULY 11, 2017

One of those collaborators is CRiskCo, a credit risk management company that deploys Big Data analytics to provide a business credit score to lenders and trade finance providers. Together, the businesses are going straight to the trading partners to protect a supplier against the risk of non-payment.

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