B2B Payments

B2B Payments
35% of Firms Still Require CEO Approval to Pay an Invoice
February 07, 2022

Firms that process more than 20,000 invoices per month differ from other firms in a few ways. They are more likely to say they need their CEOs’ approval before they can make invoice payments, they are more likely to use electronic invoices and they process...

B2B Payments
BNPL for Business Enables Pricey IT Investments, Helps Retain Customers
February 07, 2022

While working at a tech company, Kush Kella, who is now CEO and co-founder of Vartana, was exposed to the market of hardware and software financing. He found out that it’s an established, old market with many banks playing in the space and offering traditional...

B2B Payments
PYMNTS Intelligence: Why Property Managers Must Move to Support Electronic Payments
February 07, 2022

The property management industry has positive expectations for the new year: A recent survey found that 80% of industry respondents expect their revenues to grow in 2022. The pandemic has indelibly marked the real estate space nonetheless, and not all of its impacts spark optimism....

B2B Payments
Indian B2B Logistics Firm Loadshare Nets $40M for Expansion
February 06, 2022

Loadshare, a B2B logistics firm based in India, has raised $40 million in a Series C funding round, a press release says. The funding will be used to hire more talent, build logistics tech and adopt more electric vehicles. The release says Loadshare operates an...

B2B Payments
Paper Checks: Can’t Live With ‘Em, Can’t Live Without ‘Em
February 04, 2022

Who’s buying checks today? Plenty of people, it turns out. Enough, in fact, to help lift the top line at one of the biggest companies in the business of printing them out for the first time in nearly a decade. In its full-year earnings call...

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Fender’s CFO on Using Machine Learning to See the Whole Picture
February 04, 2022

The role of the chief financial officer (CFO) has a lot of operational responsibilities today that it didn’t have 10 or 20 years ago. Today’s CFO looks at the operation, data and people. “In many ways, the CFO is no longer relegated just to the...

B2B Payments
U.S. Bank On Property Managers’ Push To Adopt Digital Payments
February 04, 2022

Digital payment methods still struggle to break the grip that manual solutions still have on the real estate industry. In The Treasurer’s Guide To AR Payment Optimization, U.S. Bank’s David Nielson discusses how commercial real estate providers can leverage online payment portals to streamline transactions...

B2B Payments
UK Merchants Cut Costs by Adopting Open Banking Payments
February 04, 2022

Traditional card-based payment options carry high costs and introduce “an awful lot of friction” into payment processes, often leading to a high rate of online shopping cart abandonment. That is the viewpoint of Brian Hanrahan, CEO of open banking payments firm Nuapay, which was acquired...

B2B Payments
Today in B2B: Connected Capital Focuses on European B2B SaaS Startups; Tribal Grabs $60M in...
February 03, 2022

Today in B2B payments, Connected Capital raises $176 million, while Tribal closes a $60 million funding round. Plus, online portals bring commercial real estate into the digital age, almost nine out of 10 businesses that sell on marketplaces get their payouts through them, and Bitcoin...