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2.0KB2B PaymentsUS Air Force Launches SMB IT Procurement Program
The United States Air Force is implementing a new program designed to promote procurement of goods and services from the small business...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsCorcentric Lands Financing For M&A Expansion
Procurement and financial process automation firm Corcentric announced a new credit facility that it secured as it prepares to invest in expansion....
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2.1KB2B PaymentsSingapore Alt-Lender Merges With eProcurement Platform
Two Singapore-based FinTechs are combining their services to create a unified supply chain financing tool. Reports in Vulcan Post on Thursday (Nov....
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3.5KB2B PaymentsBusiness Buying Habits Are Shifting, But It’s Not Necessarily All About Speed
Business buying habits are shifting, and while B2B eCommerce may be about speed and convenience when professionals want to purchase office supplies,...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsShell Companies Eyed In Fraud At Aegean Marine
Payments fraud on the high seas, perhaps, as a global shipper may have been involved with fake transactions and shell companies. Elsewhere, ransomware...
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1.9KB2B PaymentsCannabis Logistics Finds Opportunity In Uncharted Territory: WAYV
FinTech innovation is often a layered process, taking existing infrastructures and processes, and developing new tools to improve upon them. In the...
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2.1KB2B PaymentsWAYV Lands Seed Funding For Cannabis B2B Procurement Platform
With cannabis legalization expanding around the globe, marijuana-targeting FinTech startups are a growing breed, too. The latest to secure venture capital is...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsHow Supplier Churn Can Stifle B2B Payments Automation: Symbeo
Accounts payable (AP) automation certainly has the potential to transform the invoice-to-pay process by allowing employees to turn their attention from monotonous,...
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3.0KB2B PaymentsAsia Corporates Replacing ACH With Cards, Citi Finds
Corporates across the Asia Pacific region are increasing their use of commercial card products, according to a new report from Citi. Reports...
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2.9KB2B PaymentsLevaData Eyes Procurement’s Slow March Toward Data Analytics
Enterprise digitization is beginning to see a troubling trend. While executives may understand the importance of key technologies like data analytics, artificial...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsValueSelling Eyes The Influences Of B2B Buying Behavior — Besides Amazon
The business-to-business (B2B) buying experience has changed; there’s no doubt about that. The business-to-consumer (B2C) commerce landscape has had a massive influence...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsUkraine Defends Cost Of eProcurement Project ProZorro
Ukrainian government officials are defending payments made to their digital procurement platform provider, following claims of wasted funds as detailed in the...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsAccenture Debuts Blockchain Procurement Solution In Thailand
Business services conglomerate Accenture is expanding its blockchain solution offerings with the development of a procurement platform launched in Thailand. The company...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsG2 Crowd On Avoiding The Costly Mistakes Of SaaS Procurement
Software company 1E raised eyebrows in 2016 when it released a report warning that businesses have wasted a collective $28 billion in...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsSoftware Procurement Plays Favorites With B2B Investors
Cybersecurity is likely to remain a favorite among B2B investors into the foreseeable future, so it’s no surprise that the industry landed...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsSievo Calls On Procurement To Broaden Analytics Horizons
They say “you’re biggest competitor is yourself.” In corporate finance, though, it may not pay to look at financial performance in isolated...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsKoble Reflects On What Trade Disputes Mean For B2B Matchmaking
Understanding who one is doing business with is the first step to mitigating a myriad of risks, including non-compliance, non-payment, violated contracts...
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3.4KB2B PaymentsUK Finance: Invoice Fraud A Threat To Business
Invoice fraud looms as a threat to businesses in the U.K., contends UK Finance, with thousands of fraud cases and tens of...
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1.6KInternationalUK’s Payment Systems Operator, NPSO, Details RFP Must-Haves
The New Payment System Operator (NPSO) announced on Monday (Sept. 24) the initial details for a new procurement process for the clearing...
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2.2KB2B PaymentsSuplari Customizes AI Analytics For Procurement Teams
Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Suplari is targeting the procurement and finance functions in the enterprise with its newest offering. The company announced...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsSAP Ariba Tapped To Digitize LATAM Cosmetics Supply Chain
SAP has been chosen by cosmetics company Grupo Boticário to digitize its cosmetics supply chain, reports said on Wednesday (Sept. 19). Based...
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2.9KB2B PaymentsUiPath Lands $3B Valuation For Robotics Process Automation Tech
A robotics process automation (RPA) startup has just secured a $3 billion valuation as B2B FinTech continues to explore how the technology will...
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1.9KB2B PaymentsGovernment Procurement Preps For No-Deal Brexit
The U.K. is making preparations in case a Brexit deal doesn’t go through by the March 2019 deadline. In July, Brussels rejected the U.K.’s proposals...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsAmazon B2B Seeks Dominance — But Grainger Isn’t Rolling Over
Amazon’s B2B business is growing up fast, as trade conflicts build and inject risks and threats into the larger industry landscape. Meanwhile,...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsSpend Analytics No Longer Enough For Procurement: Accrualify
Spend analytics has broken through as an essential part of corporate procurement strategies. Businesses need to know how much money they’ve spent,...
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3.8KB2B PaymentsIn New York, Late Payments Legislation Bows
New York, New York. If one can make It there ... they must be getting paid on time. Easier said than done where...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsB2B eCommerce Concerns Grow Amid Industrybuying Cuts
India-based B2B eCommerce company Industrybuying is reportedly shrinking its staff, unnamed sources told TechCircle on Friday (Sept. 7), raising concerns about the industry...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsCorporate Purchasing Takes Too Much Time, Says Soldo
Corporate expense management processes like filing expense reports and reimbursing employees are common time-wasters for businesses. But a new survey from expense...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsSoldo Eyes The Time-Wasting Strategies Of Expense Management
Inadequate expense management processes have businesses wasting time. Procuring goods and making one-off purchases is taking too long, says a new report...
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2.5KB2B PaymentsProcurement Jobs Remain Highly Tactical, Procurious Finds
A new survey from procurement and supply chain networking company Procurious suggests that procurement professionals’ jobs remain largely tactical, despite expectations for...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsTech Falls Short Of Procurement’s Expectations
Procurement’s digital transformation isn’t without its hiccups. Organizations are taking baby steps into eProcurement, digitizing supplier relationship portals, purchase orders, invoice management...
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3.1KB2B PaymentsWells Fargo Fires Employees Over Falsified Expense Reports
Fraud committed against enterprises hits firms large and small. Among the most noteworthy headlines this week, Wells Fargo’s latest scandal focuses on doctored...
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2.2KB2B PaymentsSignaPay Adds Financing, Procurement Features For Merchants
Payments processing company SignaPay is stepping up its presence within merchants’ back offices, introducing new features for businesses to manage finances. In...
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2.8KNewsFive At Five: New Amazon Payments Feature Rankles Some
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and conference news. Today’s coverage includes a look at why...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsHackett Research Links Procurement Digitization To Employee Retention
Companies in the midst of digitizing their procurement processes have another incentive to push forward. According to a new report from The...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsProcurement Digitization Doesn’t Have An Endgame
Organizations know by now that enhanced and efficient procure-to-pay processes can save money and boost efficiency. But how, and by how much?...
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CPOs Struggle To Prove Themselves A Strategic Asset To The Enterprise
Chief procurement officers (CPO), like many members of the C-Suite, are embracing their evolving roles of greater strategic importance within the enterprise....
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1.9KB2B PaymentsThe C-Suite Sounds Off On Cyberthreats, Financial Goals
From chief procurement officers to chief executive officers, the C-Suite is vocal about what it expects for its businesses, and for the...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsSpend Analytics’ Real-Time Visibility Problem
They say money talks, and if the procurement function is to show its strategic value to the enterprise, savings have to reach...
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Amazon’s Government Procurement Contracts Spawn Criticism
The U.S. government is increasing its use of eMarketplaces like Amazon for procurement at the local and federal levels, but Amazon’s government...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsShowpad Adds Apple Augmented Reality Tech For B2B eCommerce
B2B sales solutions provider Showpad is launching what it claims to be the industry’s first augmented reality (AR) solution designed to help...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsBefore AI Disruption, Procurement Leaders Say It’s Back To Basics
For a few years now, the procurement department has earned rising attention for its potential to become a strategic component of the...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsSmaller Firms Targeted For Big Hauls By Payments Fraudsters
Size matters when it comes to payments fraud, it seems. Recent stories show local companies targeted for big payouts, done through fake...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsWhat Separates Top Accounts Payable Performers From The Rest
Amid talk of enterprise digitization, discussions about paper invoices and checks persist. New research suggests a vast divide between businesses that have...
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1.9KNewsFive At Five: Facebook Grants More Data Access
Welcome to Five at Five, your daily look at the freshest payments and commerce news. Coverage includes the latest on Facebook’s data-sharing...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsZycus Ramps Up Customer Outreach In India With Salesforce
Source-to-pay solutions provider Zycus is teaming up with CRM software firm Salesforce to enhance its own digital transformation strategy, the companies announced...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsSupply Chain Digital Transformation Echoes Through The Enterprise
Large-scale enterprises are quickly realizing the importance of strategic supplier sourcing – and that means more than finding the cheapest prices on...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsMultinational’s Next Data Challenge: Know Your Vendor
Automation may be transforming the procurement department, but when it comes to the buyer-supplier relationship, human interaction is critical. In a survey...
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4.1KB2B PaymentsAI Finds Harmony With Accounting, Procurement Professionals
Artificial intelligence has received a mixed welcome from corporates exploring how the technology could disrupt their operations. While AI can deliver time...
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2.9KB2B PaymentsCorcentric President On B2B Payments Shift To Seamless
Over the past 20 years, B2B payments have slowly but surely become a target of FinTech innovation. Part of innovators’ motivation to...
