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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Visa has announced that it will sell cross-border payments company Earthport’s foreign exchange (FX) business to Pollen Street Capital’s Currency Holdings, according to a report. That’s B2B Connect.”. “If Sheley added that Earthport would power both high-value and low-value, high-velocity payments.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

clearing bank ClearBank is introducing multicurrency bank accounts for businesses to move funds based on foreign exchange prices in real time. ClearBank Dives Into Multicurrency Accounts Via API. In the U.K.,

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Visa partnership offers users secure, cross-border payments in multiple currencies while taking advantage of Airwallex’s competitive foreign exchange rates. B2B transfers are expected to reach a $218 trillion valuation in the next three years alone.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

These O2C challenges are only compounded for businesses that conduct cross-border B2B payments, as these firms must manage shifting foreign exchange (FX) rates, varying international regulations and other variables to ensure that orders, invoices and payments are accurate. O2C And The Data Problem.

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JUNE 15, 2020

GTreasury , a treasury management system provider, is working with Goldman Sachs on a new solution to offer easier, more transparent B2B payments both at home and internationally, according to a press release.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

B2B payments and international money transfer company B2B Pay has announced plans to become a regulated financial institution, and is looking to investors to fuel its growth. bank Barclays announced support for B2B Pay as part of its Tel Aviv Barclays Accelerator program. In 2016 U.K.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In this week's roundup of payment rail innovation, PYMNTS finds B2B payments use cases serve as an important driver of adoption, with FinTechs and financial service providers embracing payment rails old and new to enable real-time B2B payments and foreign exchange. B2B Drives ACH Volume Up. and abroad.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

It was another stellar week for B2B FinTech startups, which announced a collective $191.8 B2B Payments. B2B payments automation firm Nvoicepay revealed a $10 million investment Wednesday (Oct. What would a B2B venture capital roundup be without an alternative finance player landing on the board? PayCommerce. IbanF irst.

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JUNE 26, 2020

B2B payments hub Qolo has introduced a new all-in-one payment solution, aiming to address issues with speed, security and costs for B2B payments, a press release says. According to the company, this is accomplished through a rules-based structure that looks at advanced card processing and cross border and foreign exchange capabilities.

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JULY 12, 2019

Though not the busiest week in B2B venture capital funding, investors presented a clear preference for corporate expense management and B2B eCommerce, with additional funding going toward logistics and small business banking firms for a total of $203.5 million raised this week. Ireland and Italy.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Disruption is hitting both the B2C and B2B arenas, and while it would seem they are two opposite ends of the spectrum, these ecosystems share commonalities in the kinds of trends that force sellers to modernize their market strategies. B2B eCommerce sales in the U.S. alone are expected to hit $1.2 trillion by 2021.

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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.

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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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MAY 24, 2016

And among those selected is a B2B payments company, the outlet said on Monday (May 23) following a visit to the launch of the Accelerator program in Tel Aviv. Among them is B2B Pay, which provides free International Bank Account Numbers (IBAN) for companies exporting into Europe.

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JULY 10, 2019

Some of the biggest industry trends, including faster payments, open banking and bank-FinTech collaboration, have found their ways into the Canadian market, the B2B payments space is not immune to disruption from these shifts. Faster Payments. Bank-FinTech Collaboration.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Statrys is a payment offering is targeted to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), entrepreneurs and upstarts that need flexible banking and developed foreign exchange offerings that can let them expand around the world.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Interestingly, though, in the cross-border payments context, card technology — specifically, virtual commercial cards — can be an effective solution to the challenges and friction points of global B2B payments. This, he noted, is Mesh’s entryway to the market of cross-border B2B payments. ”

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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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The unit provides small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with cross-border supplier payment services , enabling those companies to pay vendors in their local currencies to mitigate against foreign exchange risk and fees. Western Union said via a spokesperson that it does not comment on M&A speculation.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

With B2B eCommerce now a booming segment thanks to accelerated digitization in the last year, cross-border trade volume is expected to rise. He told PYMNTS that this trust deficit creates especially large pain points in an already complicated B2B payment process. But global trade is a complicated operation, to say the least.

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JULY 8, 2020

To provide platform clients a greater ability to grow and be transparent with global payments, cloud banking company Mambu and B2B cross-border technology firm Currencycloud have joined forces with an integration, according to an announcement.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

CSI Kick Start, a FinTech incubator operated by corporate payments company CSI globalVCard, said it has officially kicked off its second year of searching out B2B payments innovators. The company said Thursday (Jan.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

To that end, Alan Koenigsberg, global head of new payment flows at Visa Business Solutions , said in a Masterclass interview with Karen Webster that the B2B space represents a landscape ripe with opportunity. To get a sense of the size and scope, consider the fact that there is $120 trillion in annual B2B spend across the globe, he noted.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

UnionPay International is expanding its support for cross-border B2B payments through an integration with wholesale eCommerce market Yiwu Market, based in China. According to a press release issued on Monday (Jan. Exports made up 80 percent of that volume. market and allow tourists from China visiting the U.S.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Remittence technology firm WorldRemit is stepping into the cross-border B2B money transfer market with the launch of WorldRemit For Business, reports in Africa News said Wednesday (June 12). WorldRemit for Business enables small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to pay employees and contractors across 140 countries.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

After receiving the green light, payments can be released straight from the Beanworks platform that is linked with Cambridge's live foreign exchange rates. Firms can start wire transfers and other payments with the Beanworks system as a result of the collaboration.

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MAY 12, 2017

The cross-border B2B payments market, on the other hand, is fraught with friction, despite being much larger in size — accounting for nearly 80 percent of global cross-border payment revenue, according to a 2016 report by McKinsey & Company. In comparison to P2P transfers, B2B payments logistically involve more heavy lifting, Laven said.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Businesses doing B2B trade between the U.S. And, according to 9fBank in China, the value of cross-border B2B payments involving China is slated to reach $1.5 and China are already spending billions of dollars in payment processing fees, while traditional wire transfers take several days to complete. trillion in just five years.

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MARCH 8, 2019

8) that it will acquire global cross-border money transfer company Transfast, which works with both P2P and B2B payments. The addition of Transfast adds to our leading position in meeting business, government and consumer payments needs – whether B2B, P2P or other flows. Microsoft disclosed on Friday (Mar.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

18) that it would improve its Sri Lanka operation with the launch of a new digital foreign exchange (FX) program, reports said. Like the others, it will be a location where two Asian clients can pay one another in local currency, and reduce the foreign exchange cost to one conversion, according to Deutsche Bank.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

For years, any attention given to solving B2B payments friction was typically focused on the payer. Pain points experienced by B2B vendors when collecting cash will inevitably seep into their own AP processes. However, that understanding has not traditionally been the focus of B2B payments service providers. and Turkey.

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MAY 31, 2016

Foreign exchange rates. The platform extends across parent company BitGold’s customer base, including consumers and enterprises, and runs the gamut of B2B payments across supply chain, services-oriented relationships and, importantly, across borders. Paper checks. Settlement times.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

FLEETCOR , which works in global business payments, announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire cross-border payment firm Associated Foreign Exchange (AFEX) to help boost its own payments network, a press release says.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

With the new partnership and solution, Mphasis customers can access new payments, working capital and Foreign Exchange services, with an aim toward meeting the needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Corporate payments are also a big driver in that space, with 17 percent of B2B payments expected to be real-time by 2025.

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MAY 1, 2018

B2B payments is at the center of efforts to innovate by FinTechs, banks and others, but corporates’ business-to-business payment processes remain complex, erroneous and a deterrent to growth. The vast majority (91 percent) said they used the Bacs system to make their B2B payments, though half said they used SWIFT more than four times a month.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

HSBC is increasingly relying on blockchain technology to facilitate its foreign exchange trading services, reports in Financial Times said Monday (Jan. 14), with more than three million FX transactions having already been processed by the bank in the past year via blockchain.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA Merrill) is introducing a new solution for other financial institutions (FIs) in the interbank payment system to automate foreign exchange (FX) conversion.

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