Pre-pandemic and pre-inflation, small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) were already grappling with managing cash flow. As Aharon Levine, head of payments at Melio, noted in a recent interview, part of the difficulties lie in the time and effort spent managing accounts payable workflows and getting...
B2B eCommerce furniture and home décor marketplace HomeRoots has announced that its payments solution will be powered by B2B payments firm Balance and will bring a buy now, pay later (BNPL) option to its customers. With this new option, HomeRoots customers will be able to...
Cross-border automotive trading platform Trade X has announced it will open a trade route in Mexico and allow that country’s dealers and fleet owners to trade with their peers in Canada and Nigeria. The company will also open other corridors to Mexico in the future...
Say the term “embedded payments,” and thoughts typically wander to the consumer side of commerce to such things as the invisible transactions in the background of an Uber ride or the one-click retail checkout on a phone. But as Galileo CPO David Feuer, Entrata CFO...
Billtrust CEO Flint Lane predicted that B2B’s modernization would not come in one fell swoop, underpinned by a global standard — a language of data, so to speak — that directly links buyers and suppliers, AR and AP departments. “There are just too many people...
Composable commerce provider Kibo has announced that its commerce platform is now available in Amazon Web Services’ AWS Marketplace. With the products available on this digital catalog of software that runs on AWS, retailers can now deploy them in a matter of minutes, Kibo said...
Business-to-business (B2B) payment technology company Shieldpay on Tuesday (Nov. 8) announced a partnership with eCommerce payment platform Checkout.com that will allow the latter to leverage Shieldpay’s payment engine and digital escrow capabilities. Shieldpay’s digital escrow will enable Checkout.com customers to hold funds in secure accounts...
Up until quite recently, treasurers and chief financial officers (CFOs) didn’t see any pressing need to go digital. “Three years ago,” Global Head of Visa Business Solutions Darren Parslow told Karen Webster of the embrace of new tech, “it was number six on the ‘top...
Historically, the process of buying and maintaining a vehicle has rarely been a one-stop-shop experience. It often involved engaging with a car dealer, a provider for auto parts and accessories like tires and wheels, and another for after-sale services, among others. Basically, “it was never...
