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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Financial data technology firm Validis is rolling out a new solution designed to automate month-end reconciliation processes for small business lenders and invoice financing firms. 7), Validis said it has rolled out DataShare Reconciliation for small business lenders offering Confidential Invoice Discounting (CID).

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MARCH 4, 2020

The boom in B2B FinTech has introduced a flurry of new solutions and platforms from which corporates and small businesses can choose. It’s a result, explained Gillette, of the legacy ERP no longer being suited to address the full range of businesses’ diverse financial and process management needs. The ERP’s Role in a FinTech World.

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MARCH 14, 2019

Cleo will also support the connectivity of Intacct with other enterprise platforms, including customer relationship management (CRM), fulfillment, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and more.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

It was another week of varied investments for B2B venture capitalists, who, in total, raised more than $79 million for the space. B2B payments, alternative SME finance, enterprise cybersecurity, data management and logistics all secured a financial boost — find out which startup scored the most in our breakdown below.

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APRIL 7, 2020

Few are investing energy in building taller silos for their data, bumpier and more friction-filled experiences for their customers, or slower and more opaque payments processes. And this is particularly notable in B2B payments, VoPay’s area of specialty.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

B2B startups are increasingly building themselves on top of troves of enterprise data, uncovering new ways to unlock and aggregate information across enterprise platforms, and introducing new ways to analyze and make use of that data. million was raised by B2B startups tearing down data silos.

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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. That idea understandably has immense appeal to SMBs, and APIs are the conduit.

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MARCH 27, 2020

Their use for B2B payments, however, remains limited — but in the U.K., While open banking FinTech innovation has initially focused on opening up bank account data to third party platforms, there is another component to the initiative with major implications for the payments landscape. A B2B Opportunity.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Information technology (IT) management solutions provider Kaseya, which targets managed service providers (MSPs) with its offerings, is linking up with small and medium-sized business (SMB) accounting firm Xero to help businesses gain greater control over their financial data. The companies said Thursday (Feb.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

With only a few million dollars in combined investments, this week certainly wasn’t the most lucrative for B2B FinTech firms, but the variety and global reach of recent SMB FinTech investments offers a bright spot in an otherwise quiet moment for B2B venture capital. South Africa incubator and investor AlphaCode awarded $1.1

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MAY 18, 2018

Visa’s latest fuel to the B2B payments innovation fire came in the form of its inaugural Small Business Hackathon earlier this year. Christopher Phillips started the company after hearing of invoice management challenges by his mother, a small business owner.

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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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JANUARY 20, 2021

Xero , a global small business cloud accounting platform, is working with South Africa’s Nedbank to give small- to medium-size business (SMB) clients a digital, application programming interface (API)-enabled bank feed to access financial data, according to an ITWeb report.

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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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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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JULY 29, 2019

That not only means combating disparities within a single financial process — for instance, integrating invoice processing with invoice payments in an accounts receivable function. But as B2B payments embrace digitization, opportunities to access financial data and move it between once-siloed platforms will increase.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

In B2B payments, that can mean discontent in the way traditional banks and FIs do business or a need for disruptive technologies to come to market faster than banks can offer. Deals were made with B2B invoicing and payments firm Viewpost, as well as health care blockchain company Gem and natural language search technology company ClearGraph.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Invoice financing company MarketInvoice is enhancing its product offering through a new collaboration with Euler Hermes. MarketInvoice said it is also integrating a risk mitigation solution that analyzes financial data to help businesses make better decisions about customers with which they choose to trade. 8) said the U.K.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Order-to-cash is an area of cash flow management that has the potential to significantly enhance a business’s financial performance. ” That business model means companies that would have previously invoiced a customer once a year are now splitting that bill into, for instance, 12 monthly bills.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

The tie-up is the newest of many strategic FinTech partnerships Barclays has announced in recent times, with MarketFinance providing invoicing financing products and Nimbla providing invoice insurance. “[SMBs] are the lifeblood of the U.K. Wells Fargo & Envestnet.

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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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JANUARY 3, 2020

Yet, the vast majority of small firms in India remain underbanked, according to SOLV CEO Nitin Mittal, who recently told PYMNTS that opportunities to drive B2B eCommerce in India are not only vast, but open doors to support digitization and financial inclusion for SMBs. Alternative Financial Data.

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JULY 23, 2019

But when SMB suppliers land a contract with a large corporate buyer, they are often forced to accept whichever payment terms and habits that customer imposes upon the buyer-supplier relationship, and unfortunately, that often means delayed and even late invoice payments for a vendor. Indeed, sluggish B2B payments can be felt the world over.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Doing so, said Brash, means the best-in-the-business for processes like invoicing, accounting and payments can all be found on a single portal for freelancers and entrepreneurs. But now that PSD2 and Open Banking are the new realities, traditional financial institutions are stepping into this world of collaboration, too.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Xero, Square Integrate For Faster Invoice Payments. In another FinTech integration announcement , small business accounting platform Xero announced that payments company Square will support connectivity that allows invoices sent via Xero to include built-in Square payments functionality.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Bectran, which works in B2B credit management for software-as-a-service (SaaS) programs, announced the release of its enhanced Cash Application solution, which will accommodate multiple data formats and financial data APIs, according to a press release.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

But aside from a government mandate, Mattias Hansson, CEO and co-founder of Zervant , told PYMNTS there are major factors behind encouraging entrepreneurs to invoice their clients electronically. For electronic invoicing to gain traction, it cannot create new challenges for small businesses. Integration.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

The advancement of enterprise digitization has given rise to a deeper understand of the importance of financial data for business leaders. It usually involves procurement of some time, you're going to speak to a couple of people, and there are going to be varying degrees of paying invoices.". Marrying AP With Banking.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

For much of the world, electronic invoicing is taking off — not only for the benefits it offers, like enhanced cash flow visibility, but largely because jurisdictions are implementing eInvoicing regulatory requirements to crack down on tax evasion. Data from FEDmanager estimates that of the 19 million invoices issued in the U.S.

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MARCH 19, 2020

It’s what enabled HostBooks to recently announce the launch of its mobile app, a key feature for SMBs that must gain access to financial data regardless of location, said Rana. “It is not efficient or smart to have separate accounts to track bills, invoices, payroll, expenses and more,” he noted. ”

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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. A closed-loop network not only facilitates buyers’ purchasing processes but enables sellers to retain data and automate key business functions.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

. “Xero subscribers will also be able to discover new apps in the Xero ecosystem and query their latest financial data, such as who owes them money or when their next bill is due.” The technology can respond to requests for balance information, send invoice reminders upon request and other tasks.

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MARCH 12, 2019

The deal marries Every’s services with Wave’s accounting, invoicing, payments and expense management offering, part of the firm’s broader strategy of building a holistic suite of SMB financial services. Acquisitions are an increasingly popular strategy for other financial services players, too.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Now, FinTech firms are able to collect bank data and add it to the mix of information from other sources, like accounting platforms, invoicing, sales, upcoming bill payments and more. and Europe, while Australia and the U.S. are headed in this direction, too.

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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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MARCH 20, 2020

This is particularly important in the supply chain finance arena, where heightened scrutiny of buyers’ supplier payment practices has elevated pressure on financiers to take a closer look at corporate balance sheets and potential indicators of financial trouble before any payables are financed. ” The U.S.’s

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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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