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B2B PaymentsBanks, FinTechs Find New Models To Mesh Their Strengths
The bank-FinTech collaboration model is often about wielding digital-native FinTech solutions to fit within bank offerings. Yet this week’s look at the...
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B2B PaymentsCoupa Bolsters Controlled Spending, Risk Management Capabilities
Coupa, which works in business spend management, is rolling out new capabilities to help with businesses’ spend visibility while lowering risk, through...
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Payments InnovationTokenization And Getting A 360-Degree View Into Consumer Spending
Tokens are incredibly powerful tools to secure data and safely transport it from one point to another. Now is the time to...
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B2B PaymentsJ.P. Morgan: Treasurers Are Critical To Helping Firms Plan For Business Resiliency
With the global pandemic tossing many organizations into a digitization crash-course, business continuity has remained top of mind for the C-suite. It...
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B2B PaymentsThe Role Of Digital Payouts In Mitigating The Insurance Industry’s Business Continuity Risks
The insurance industry is all about risk mitigation, and not only when it comes to underwriting policies. Averse to the risk of...
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B2B PaymentsCRIF Realtime Launches Tools For SMBs To Calculate Coronavirus Risks
To help small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.K. struggling because of the coronavirus pandemic, CRIF Realtime is rolling out a...
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B2B PaymentsHow Knee-Jerk Reactions Can Worsen Supply Chain Volatility
For many businesses around the world, the coronavirus pandemic is a brutal wakeup call as to the importance of supplier management and...
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B2B PaymentsSMB Loan Underwriting Prepares For Turbulent Times
After a long period of pulling back, lenders are finally beginning to find value in financing small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). But...
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B2B PaymentsHow Opening Bank Data Can Transform SMB Lending
Open banking’s impact on small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) continues to proliferate as traditional financial institutions (FIs) embrace the opportunity to unlock...
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B2B PaymentsAugmenting Trust With Technology In Global Trade Finance
In cross-border trade, trust has historically been a critical part of the equation. Corporate buyers must trust that their suppliers will deliver...
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B2B PaymentsPredictive Analytics Tech Takes On Supply Chain Unknowns
As board rooms and C-suite executives become more adequately well-versed on the strategic role supply chain management plays in business success, supply...
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B2B PaymentsUncovering Supply Chains’ Deepest Risks With Data Innovation
Supply chain risk never sleeps, and as global expansion becomes a more viable option for growing enterprises, so does the prospect of...
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B2B PaymentsSmall Business Loan Fraud Puts FinServ On High Alert
Though fraud technology has evolved to combat the monster of payments fraud, there is a growth threat for banks that innovators are...
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B2B PaymentsThe FinTech Friction (And Opportunity) In Global Trade
Although business lending requires the aggregation of data from a multitude of sources, there is typically only one financial institution managing the...
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B2B PaymentsSupply Chain Tech Supports Cannabis Cos’ Fight For Legitimacy
One of the biggest arguments in favor of federal legalization of marijuana is the opportunity for regulation to pull an industry off...
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B2B PaymentsTop Conglomerates Enter A New Era Of Supply Chain Disruption
Supply chain volatility is a difficult nut to crack, due to a host of risks that can be (or at least appear...
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B2B PaymentsCEOs Ramp Up Risk Mitigation As Trade War Threat Grows
As the trade war between the U.S. and China could escalate, CEOs are trying to figure out how they will mitigate the...
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B2B PaymentsTrade Disputes Make Long-Lasting Mark On Global Supply Chains
While the U.S. and China continue the tedious process of smoothing out trade tensions, possible new trade disputes are emerging between the...
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B2B PaymentsCFOs’ Risk Concerns Mushroom, But Cyberthreats Not In Focus
The Association of Financial Professionals released new data this week that revealed the threat of payments fraud continues to climb, particularly for...
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B2B PaymentsThe Convergence Of Trade Finance And Trade Credit Insurance
While use of trade finance continues to climb, the International Chamber of Commerce‘s Banking Commission has warned the financial services market that...
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B2B PaymentsZurich Insurance Partnership Tackles Supply Chain Risk
Insurance firm Zurich is introducing a new supply chain risk management service in conjunction with riskmethods, reports in Global Banking and Finance...
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B2B PaymentsMastercard Cybersecurity Toolkit Sheds Light On SMB Education Gap
Cybersecurity experts are urging small business (SMB) owners to not ignore the risks they face from cyberattacks. As SMBs become larger targets...
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B2B PaymentsBig Bankruptcies Wake SMBs Up To AR Insurance
When Sears announced its bankruptcy as 2018 came to a close, the headlines focused on the dramatic climb and fall of a...
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B2B PaymentsCash Flow A Tough Lesson To Learn For SMBs
Small businesses (SMBs) are often called the lifeblood of the economy. As it were, cash flow is the lifeblood of the small...
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B2B PaymentsHow Government Procurement Can Foster Private Sector Cybersecurity
Government procurement can bolster the strength of local small businesses (SMBs), and provide an example for technology adoption in areas such as...
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B2B PaymentsCompliance Execs Forge Closer Ties With Corporate Buyers
With third-party due diligence and supply chain security as increasingly critical components of organizations’ procurement operations, compliance executives are finding important positions...
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B2B PaymentsThe Financial Opportunity In Supply Chains’ Rising FX Risks
Foreign exchange (FX) volatility can be detrimental to businesses with heavy reliance on cross-border operations. Trade tensions between the U.S. and China,...
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B2B PaymentsThe Security Threat Of Bank-FinTech Collaboration
When the data of 15 million T-Mobile customers was stolen in 2015, the mobile firm’s CEO immediately went into damage control mode....
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B2B PaymentsBanks Prep For Brexit-Induced Corporate Loan Defaults
U.K. banks are looking to prepare business clients ahead of Brexit in anticipation for tightened access to financing, Reuters reported on Tuesday...
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B2B PaymentsAktis Platform Boosts Banks’ Corporate Governance Transparency
Data intelligence firm Aktis is rolling out a cloud-based platform for banks to benchmark and analyze their market positions compared to industry...
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B2B PaymentsLand Gorilla On Pulling Lenders Into The Fold Of Construction Payments Friction
Construction FinTech has evolved to target an array of financial friction points, with delayed payments, a mountain of paperwork and a crowded...
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B2B PaymentsSMBs Unaware Of FX Management Tools, Volopa Says
A company no longer has to be a massive, multinational conglomerate to be exposed to foreign exchange fluctuation risks. Small businesses are...
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B2B PaymentsFlockgen Eyes The Human Connection In B2B Relationships
“Know your customer” and “know your supplier” are critical components of B2B partnerships and expanding supply chains. Technology has made it easier...
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B2B PaymentsTrade Ledger Launches In Europe To Take Advantage Of Open Banking
Australia-based Trade Ledger is launching its open banking and lending platform for corporates in Europe, the company announced Tuesday (July 3). Trade...
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Risk ManagementTurning Currency Volatility Into A Global FX Strategy
Supply chains are globalizing even as rising protectionism threatens to place new challenges and barriers on those trade partnerships. Exposure to the...
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B2B PaymentsCorporate Treasurers On The Lookout For FinTech, PSD2 And Brexit
Corporate treasurers gathered for the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) annual conference last week, and there, treasury professionals made clear where their...
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B2B PaymentsOANDA API Opens Real-Time FX Tech To Third-Party Apps
Foreign exchange solutions company OANDA is enhancing its application programming interface (API) that opens up its foreign exchange (FX) technology to third-party...
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B2B PaymentsWhy Banks Need FinTech To Address Their Own Complicated Treasuries
Banks are finding it more difficult than ever to ignore potential FinTech partnerships that could better serve their corporate customers. When it...
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B2B PaymentsTreasurers Failing To Use Tech To Combat FX Risk, Deloitte Finds
In its biennial exploration of the evolving role of corporate treasurers, Deloitte is keeping tabs on how treasurers are embracing technology and...
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B2B PaymentsCubeLogic Embraces Trade Credit Insurance
Business intelligence company CubeLogic has announced its support for Trade Credit Insurance as part of an overall risk mitigation strategy. The company...
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B2B PaymentsTreasurers Trust Big Data For Real-Time Risk Assessment
Risk management is complex territory for many businesses, especially those with complex partnerships, vast supply chains and global footprints. But Big Data lands...
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B2B PaymentsHow Third-Party Partners Became So Risky
This week, enterprise security startup CyberGRX announced a new funding round, with investors at Bessemer Venture Partners leading the way for $20...
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B2B PaymentsLondon (Barely) Retains Crown As Top Financial Hub
London may be on the cusp of falling down from its post as top financial center of the planet, finds a new...
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B2B PaymentsWith Third-Party Risk, No Corporation Is An Island
Globalization means businesses are forced to work with unfamiliar partners — exposing themselves to new forms of risk. The latest research shows...
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B2B PaymentsCiti Warns Treasurers To Update Approach To FX Risk
Citi released a new report this week warning corporate treasurers to improve their FX risk mitigation efforts. The bank said Thursday (Mar....
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B2B PaymentsReval’s Treasury Tools Find A Buyer
Reval offers treasury management solutions that have now become the target of an acquisition. Reports on Thursday (Oct. 6) said Reval has...
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B2B PaymentsClearinghouses Too Risky, Say Global Finance Officials
The International Organization of Securities Commissions and the Bank for International Settlements’ Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructure (CPMI) released joint reports...
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B2B PaymentsStartups Protecting The Enterprise On All Fronts
B2B FinTech startups struck out this week, but that doesn’t mean venture capitalists ignored the B2B startup space altogether. This week was...
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B2B PaymentsHow To Mitigate The Shock Of Brexit-Like Events
Any company with a budget (that is, every company) engages in some type of financial planning. Globalization has enterprises of all sizes...
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What Treasurers Overlook When Managing Risk
Risk mitigation is often thought of in the context of FX volatility and global trade. OpenLink wants corporate treasurers to have something...
