B2B

  • Bankers Call For Overhaul Of RBS Fund Program

    March 2, 2020 Bankers Call For Overhaul Of RBS Fund ProgramBankers in the U.K. are asking for government intervention in what they call a “farcical” program meant to help business banking after the program experienced a number of setbacks, including ...
  • Virtual Prepaid Tackles Biz Payments Friction Beyond AP

    March 2, 2020 Corporate payments innovation has cast a wide net to tackle the many pain points businesses experience today, with accounts payable (AP) one of the most popular targets for disruptors. But supplier ...
  • Pulling Accountants Into The Corporate Payments Innovation Fold

    March 2, 2020 FinTech innovation has opened the floodgates for a stream of new platforms and products designed to help small businesses and corporates more efficiently manage money and make payments. But the pace ...
  • Reconciliation Troubles, Supplier Inexperience Exacerbate Late Payments

    March 2, 2020 Reconciliation, Invoice Expertise Mean Late PayLate payments are a reflection of a broader challenge in B2B payments: Large corporate buyers can wield their market power with small suppliers that lack leverage to negotiate faster payment ...
  • Wirecard Collabs To Digitize Business Banking In Philippines

    March 2, 2020 Wirecard, Philippines, UnionBank, business banking, B2B, SMBs, digital,Germany-based FinTech services firm Wirecard is partnering with the Union Bank of the Philippines to improve banking services for corporate customers, Wirecard announced on Friday (Feb. 28). A Memorandum of Understanding ...
  • FinTech Niyo Eyes Financial Inclusion With India Payroll Tech

    March 2, 2020 FinTech, Niyo, India, payroll tech, National Payments Corporation of India, financial inclusion, b2bNeobank Niyo has partnered with the National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI) to advance financial inclusion and introduce financial services to more than five million blue-collar workers in India by 2022, ...
  • UK Moves Closer To Big Four Accountancy Breakup

    March 1, 2020 The UK's regulator wants to split up the Big Four accounting companies.The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the U.K.’s audit regulator, announced plans this week to break up the dominance of the largest four accounting firms, Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC, according ...
  • BoE Gov Says Crypto Could Slow Bank Loans

    February 28, 2020 BoE Gov Says Crypto Could Slow Bank LoansThe Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Jon Cunliffe, said on Friday (Feb. 28) that digital currencies could potentially dry up lending for banks and affect the economy ...
  • US Lawmakers Explore How Blockchain Can Help SMBs

    February 28, 2020 US Lawmakers Explore How Blockchain Can Help SMBsTo explore the positive impacts of blockchain on small businesses, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business plans to hold a hearing next week. Witnesses scheduled to appear ...
  • Southeast Asia Tips The B2B FinTech Funding Scales

    February 28, 2020 With more than $1 billion raised — and more to come — this week became the most lucrative for B2B FinTech venture capital funding. Southeast Asia led the way thanks to ...
  • AP Automation Braces For Open Banking, Globalization

    February 28, 2020 As B2B FinTech firms continue working to break down silos, and ease the numerous friction points of the B2B payments process for both buyer and seller, the opportunities for data ...
  • How Bookkeeping Capitalizes On Young, Digital-First SMBs

    February 28, 2020 An entrepreneur who opens a coffee shop or launches a FinTech startup isn’t in business to crunch numbers and file taxes. Yet, the burden of financial management, from tedious data ...
  • Cashfree Adds Bank Partners For Real-Time Corporate Payouts

    February 27, 2020 Cashfree Adds Bank Partners For Real-Time Corporate PayoutsCashfree, the leading payments program for businesses in India, has announced partnerships with a number of the country’s main banks to strengthen its bulk disbursal program, Payouts. Those businesses include HDFC Bank, ...
  • Shark Tank Star Out $400K In Invoice Fraud Scam

    February 27, 2020 Invoice fraud scams continue to target businesses of all sizes and industries, with experts warning of a major spike in various iterations of business email compromise scams. One of the latest ...
  • PayFit Expands Payroll Tech Into Employee Expenses

    February 27, 2020 PayFit Expands Payroll Tech To Employee ExpensesEuropean FinTech PayFit has introduced a new receipt capture technology to help corporations with reporting of payments and expenses, according to a release. The company has been consistently growing; it recently ...
  • Office Depot Turns To B2B eCommerce To Boost Revenues

    February 27, 2020 Office Depot, B2B, eCommerce, Revenues, CompuCom, Business Solutions Division,In an effort to boost revenue after disappointing Q4 earnings, Office Depot is turning its attention to business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce, according to reports. The company reported that total net sales were ...
  • Coronavirus’s Potential To Change Healthcare Supply Chains Forever

    February 27, 2020 Hand sanitizer shortages. Face mask counterfeiting. And some of the most dramatic disruptions in supply chains around the world. The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the markets in more ...
  • What Open Banking Means For China, Challenger Banks And SMBs

    February 27, 2020 bank data onlineSmall businesses continue to embrace digital banking. At the same time, digital banks are looking to capitalize on their growing small and medium-sized business (SMB) customer base, with open banking ...
  • Grab: How Alt Data Is Closing Southeast Asia’s $175B SMB Credit Gap

    February 27, 2020 It’s no accident that technology companies that have historically not operated in the financial services space are expanding into the small business lending arena. With more SMBs embracing digitization, the ...
  • ADP: Winning Gen Z Employees With Faster, Flexible Payroll

    February 27, 2020 February Debit TrackerBusinesses and governments want the speed and convenience of issuing and accepting digital payments, but, at the same time, they cannot afford to alienate cash-dependent consumers. Debit payments are being ...
  • Pilot.com Outsources The CFO For SMBs

    February 27, 2020 Pilot.com adds new services.Bookkeeping service Pilot.com has launched three new programs — R&D Tax Credit, CFO Services and Extended Services — in a bid to expand its services, and outsource several different facets of ...
  • CarrierHQ Guides CA Trucking Fleets Through Indie Contractor Laws

    February 26, 2020 CarrierHQ Guides CA Trucking Fleets Through Indie Contractor LawsMotor carrier industry software and solutions developer CarrierHQ has announced a mobile-friendly portal that’s now accessible in California, amid the AB5 legislative environment, according to a press release.  The company provides ...
  • RBS Fund Takes Back £50M From Metro Bank

    February 26, 2020 RBS Fund Takes Back £50M From Metro BankAfter Metro Bank recently pulled back from plans to expand and decided to move away from lending for mortgages, the bank said it will return £50 million from the RBS bailout ...
  • Open Banking FinTech Enfuce Fights Fraud With Featurespace

    February 26, 2020 fraud preventionU.K. fraud prevention firm Featurespace announced on Wednesday (Feb. 26) that Enfuce — Finland’s largest FinTech startup — is implementing the Featurespace ARIC Risk Hub to protect its clients from cyberattacks. Founded ...
  • Accounts Receivable Innovations Ease AP Pain

    February 26, 2020 AP AR innovationMore and more, B2B payment solutions are focusing less on single end-points of friction, and more on the overall picture of how money (and data) moves from one business to ...
  • Commercial Cards Round Out B2B Financial Services

    February 26, 2020 As more financial service providers explore how to capitalize on corporates’ growing adoption of commercial cards, firms are looking at the card as a way to round out their products ...
  • Harnessing ERP Software And AP Automation’s Combined Power

    February 26, 2020 Successful companies know they must be agile and flexible to meet customers’ ever-changing demands, forge valuable long-term supplier relationships and operate smoothly. Many are turning to enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools ...
  • Vroozi Expands Procure-To-Pay Offering Into UK

    February 26, 2020 Vroozi and Strata to work togetherCloud-based purchasing platform Vroozi will expand in the U.K. and Ireland, and work with Stratas to automate purchasing in the area, according to a press release. Vroozi will launch a procure-to-pay ...
  • Funding Societies Adds Financing To SGeBIZ Procurement Platform

    February 26, 2020 Funding Societies to partner with SGeBIZ on payment solutionsSingaporean peer-to-peer (P2P) platform Funding Societies will partner with Singapore eBusiness (SGeBIZ) for a new way to provide financing solutions to customers, reports said. SGeBIZ offers an array of loan products ...
  • TripActions Unifies Corporate Travel Management, Payments

    February 25, 2020 TripActions Unifies Corporate Travel ManagementThe Palo Alto-based travel tech unicorn TripActions has secured a new, $500 million credit facility to help advance the introduction of its corporate card product, the company announced on Tuesday ...
  • Shell Launches Fleet Card, Telematics Suite In India

    February 25, 2020 Shell oil co.British-Dutch oil and gas company Shell launched a suite of business to business (B2B) fleet solutions in India that address issues unique to the country, according to reports on Tuesday (Feb. ...
  • Mastercard Names New CEO; Banga To Become Executive Chair

    February 25, 2020 Mastercard Names New CEO; Banga Moves To Executive ChairmanMastercard’s Ajay Banga is leaving his post as CEO to assume the company’s executive chairman position effective Jan. 1, 2021, as Chief Product Officer Michael Miebach prepares to take his ...
  • What New Payment Rails Miss About Solving B2B’s Remittance Challenge

    February 25, 2020 B2B payments’ innovation trajectory continues to accelerate as more end-point solutions emerge to improve the vast number of friction points in the industry. New technology solutions are stepping onto the market ...
  • New Corporate Payment Tricks For Old Rails

    February 25, 2020 This week’s look at the latest in payment rail innovation finds solution providers largely embracing the opportunity to develop new technologies for legacy payment rails. Some firms are focusing on ...
  • Oracle On ERP And AP Automation Integration

    February 25, 2020 Oracle On ERP And AP Automation IntegrationLegacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can both drain businesses’ time and resources and make accounts payable (AP)  processes overly complicated. But, integrating ERP and AP systems can help expedite ...
  • PayRailz Expands Credit Union Collaboration Initiative

    February 25, 2020 Payrailz has added new collaboratorsPayrailz announced the addition of four new investors to its credit union-sponsored payments CUSO, CU Railz. The new additions were Unify Financial Credit Union, from Torrance, CA, Evansville Teachers Federal Credit Union ...
  • Tipalti CEO Looks Back At A Decade Of Global AP Friction

    February 25, 2020 Tipalti Looks Back At A Decade Of AP FrictionBusiness-facing FinTechs have trailed behind innovation-targeting consumers – so looking back a decade ago, at the mere early rumbles of an eventual FinTech boom, it’s perhaps unsurprising that B2B FinTech ...
  • WeChat Pay, Network International Team On UAE Merchant Payments

    February 25, 2020 WeChat Pay, Network International Team On UAE Merchant PaymentsTencent Holdings, the company that developed mobile payment app WeChat Pay, has teamed up with Network International to allow for the service to be available across the United Arab Emirates, ...
  • Glantus Acquires JPD Financial To Support Buyer-Supplier Ties

    February 24, 2020 B2BFinancial automation and data intelligence solutions firm Glantus has acquired the audit credit recovery firm JPD Financial, creating a business with an approximate $12 million turnover, Glantus announced on Monday ...
  • BharatPe Lands $75M To Boost Indian SMB Loans

    February 24, 2020 BharatPe Lands $75M To Boost Indian SMB LoansIndian startup BharatPe has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round to help small businesses in India accept digital payments and provide them with loans, according to a ...