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B2B Payments
How Emergency Assistance Foundation Is Tapping Digital Payment Tools To Speed Up Disaster Relief, Payments
November 02, 2020

When disaster strikes, nonprofits mobilize to extend grants and funding to partnering businesses, but payments can go awry when they use legacy B2B payment tools to disburse those funds. In the latest Digitizing B2B Payments Tracker, Doug Stockham, president of international disaster-relief nonprofit Emergency Assistance...

Acquiring
Inspire Bets $11.3B That Its Brands Can Run On Dunkin’
November 02, 2020

After first surfacing in reports about a week ago, the rumors it seems are true.  Private equity-backed Inspire Brands will be buying Dunkin’ Donuts and bringing it private for a whopping $11.3 billion. That represents a purchase price of  $106.50 a share, a 20 percent...

Partnerships / Acquisitions
Denmark’s Nets Merging With Italy’s Payments Giant Nexi
November 02, 2020

European payments rivals Nets of Denmark and Nexi of Italy have negotiated an “all-share” merger deal that would establish a large payments platform for the pan-European market, the companies said in a statement on Monday (Nov. 2). Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

B2B Payments
Visa’s Phalen: Better Collaboration Will Push B2B Payments Into The Digital Age
November 02, 2020

To remove the frictions inherent in B2B transactions, there will be no one rail to rule them all to connect corporates as they transact. But in pursuit of the ultimate goal of bringing buyers and suppliers together more seamlessly, there are many ways to get there....

Global Payments
Western Union CFO: Pandemic Tailwinds Fuel Digital Remittances
November 02, 2020

When the World Bank issued its 2020 predictions for the remittances market, it was bad news for service providers in the space. The report, released back in April, predicted the sharpest-ever decline in remittance volume, projecting a 20 percent drop in remittance activity. Get the...

B2B Payments
PROS To Work On B2B eCommerce Operation Launches
November 02, 2020

PROS, which provides artificial intelligence-powered solutions, will be expanding its strategic collaboration with Adobe to include Magneto Commerce, an eCommerce platform, with the goal of helping companies launch eCommerce solutions. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

B2B Payments
Suplari Rolls Out New Tools For Spending Insights, Predictions
November 02, 2020

Suplari, which works in spend agility, has debuted the next version of its Spend Industry Cloud, which has 175 different automated insights to help predict and manage costs, cash flow and investments, a press release says. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

eCommerce
Polish Investors Hopeful For eCommerce After Allegro IPO
November 01, 2020

Executives at MCI Capital, the biggest publicly traded private equity firm in Poland, are optimistic that a recent record-breaking initial public offering (IPO) in the eCommerce space bodes well for the industry, Bloomberg reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Partnerships / Acquisitions
Inspire Brands To Buy Dunkin’ For $11.3B
November 01, 2020

Inspire Brands will acquire Dunkin’ Brands, the parent of Dunkin’ and Baskin-Robbins, for $11.3 billion and assumption of debt, the companies announced Friday (Oct. 30) in a press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...