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B2B Payments
Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable Emerge As Lucrative VC Targets
February 19, 2021

Though it was not the most lucrative week for B2B FinTech funding, the latest investment rounds came from a variety of markets, including Saudi Arabia and Sweden. Newly backed technologies include solutions for the accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) side of B2B transactions,...

B2B Payments
How Finance Automation Backs A Complex Business Model
February 19, 2021

Reveal is no stranger to the value of data. As an eDiscovery solution provider for law firms and legal professionals, the company provides aggregated data and analyzes troves of data in their discovery and investigation efforts in an automated way using artificial intelligence (AI). Get...

Security & Fraud
Robinhood Retail Stock Trade Surge Spotlights Need For Digital ID Verification
February 19, 2021

If there’s one trait that most business executives share, it’s a love of predictability. Volatility is an enemy of most banking professionals, but they sure have their share of it these days. And it used to be a sworn enemy of stockbrokers, but the recent...

B2B Payments
No Remittance Data Means Lots Of B2B Payments Friction
February 19, 2021

For all of the talk of accelerated digitization and modernization of the enterprise over the past year, corporates still face plenty of friction in their business-to-business (B2B) payment workflows. These pain points lurk anywhere in the payment cycle, impacting buyer-supplier relationships, reconciliation, cash allocation and...

Faster Payments
Report: Request For Payment Seen By Banks As Real Time Payments Game Changer
February 19, 2021

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B2B Payments
Beeline, Brightfield Team Up On New Overspending AI Solution
February 18, 2021

Beeline, which works in software solutions for sourcing and managing an extended workforce, has announced it is furthering its relationship with Brightfield through the rollout of a new service to tackle labor sourcing overspending via artificial intelligence (AI), according to a press release. Get the...

Bitcoin
Bitcoin Daily: Social Shopping Platform Personas Adds Bitcoin Payment Option; Hackers Demand $20 Million In...
February 18, 2021

Social shopping platform Personas Social has rolled out a bitcoin payment system, according to a press release. The company will now accept bitcoin payments for purchasing content on its Peeks Social platform. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Investments
Stripe Reportedly Gets $115 Billion Valuation From Investors
February 18, 2021

Stripe is reportedly valued at $115 billion by investors in “secondary market” deals, according to a Forbes report, which noted that the amount is more than triple the $36 billion valuation the company garnered at the time of an April 2020 investment from venture firms....

B2B Payments
Deutsche Bank, 2C2P Roll Out Collections System In Thailand
February 18, 2021

Deutsche Bank has introduced a modern payment system for its Thailand customers to support local collections via 2C2P, a payments platform provider in Southeast Asia. 2C2P is based in both Bangkok and Singapore and operates throughout Asia, the United States and Europe, according to a...