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Finxact Raises $30M For Banking SaaS

Finxact announced that it has raised $30 million in equity financing, with participation from new and existing investors. New investors include the...

Multiple Cloud Tools Challenge Spend Management

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B2B Payments

Mixing AWS, Azure Creates Cloud Spend Challenge For Corporates

Corporates are quickly embracing the cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), leading to fierce competition between some of the largest enterprise cloud service providers...

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B2B Payments

OnPay Eyes Agriculture With Payroll Partnership

Small business payroll and HR solutions provider OnPay is targeting the agriculture industry with a new collaboration. The company said in a...

Mobile Payment Platform ShopKeep Closes $65 Million In Funding

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Investments

ShopKeep Closes $65M Growth Round

ShopKeep, a tablet-to-cloud and point-of-sale (POS) payment platform for retailers and restaurants, has closed a $65 million round of equity and debt...

vCom Enhances IT Spend Management Mobile App

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B2B Payments

vCom Enhances IT Spend Management Mobile Solution

IT spend management solutions provider vCom Solutions is upgrading its mobile app for iOS and Android devices, the company said this week....

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Earnings

Bottomline Technologies Reports 15 Pct Subscription and Transaction Growth

Bottomline Technologies posted fiscal first quarter results that showed subscription and transaction revenue growth of double digits as management pointed to opportunities...

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Retail

How Subscription Services Are Steering Consumers Away From Owning Possessions

To help consumers save on the costs of owning possessions, companies are offering more goods and services on demand with the subscription...

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IPO

Thinking ‘Differently’ Than Ant, Pintec Makes Its Post-IPO Plans

Pintec Technology Holdings Limited may not be a household name in the U.S., but it ended last week with a some very...

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B2B Payments

G2 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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Subscriptions

Amazon Pay, Zuora Partner On Subscription Billing

Zuora announced Thursday (Oct. 11) that it has been named a Premier Partner in the Amazon Pay Global Partner Program. Founded in 2007...

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Loans

Avant Brings SaaS Lending Tech To Banks

Avant is best known among its financial services peers as a FinTech firm, founded to throw automation and an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced...

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Global Payments Drops $415M On Food Service SaaS

Global Payments, Inc. announced it will acquire SICOM Systems from LLR Partners in a cash transaction valued at approximately $415 million. Founded...

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Regulation

IdentityMind On The Need For FinTech Compliance Marketplaces

Compliance and risk? The top of any FinTech’s to-do — and to-keep-doing — list. Automating that compliance is now a “need to...

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B2B Payments

APAC, North America Shine Through With B2B Funding

A week of more than $200 million for B2B FinTech firms across the globe shows that venture capitalists’ support for the space...

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Investments

Teamleader Closes $22M In Series C

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform Teamleader has closed $22 million in Series C funding, led by Keen Venture Partners, with participation from PMV and...

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B2B Payments

Subscription Mania Has Entrepreneurs In A Recurring Payments Whirlwind

Ever sign up for a free trial, then get burned when forgetting about the subscription by being hit with an automatic payment...

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Global Payments

Accenture Unveils FinTech Lab Startups, Billon Teams Up With FIS

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Accenture’s FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific. In addition, Europe’s Billon...

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Startup Check-In

DadeSystems: Integrated Receivables Can Enhance Treasury Offerings For Banks

Payments are the livelihood of any business, but the payments landscape has evolved from simpler times. Ten, even 15 years ago, businesses...

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Subscriptions

Car Subscription Market Set To Grow 71 Percent By 2022

Luxury automakers are upending their traditional business models with a new take on an old idea – a car subscription. BMW, for...

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B2B Payments

Why Banking The ‘Accidental Entrepreneur’ Takes Baby Steps

When you picture a small business owner, who comes to mind? The stereotype may be a young professional beaming at a storefront,...

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News

Five At Five: Facebook Adds To Its Marketplace

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at payments and commerce news you might have missed. Today’s stories focus on Facebook’s...

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B2B Payments

Neiman Marcus To Boost Visibility Of Inventory For Suppliers

Retailer Neiman Marcus is turning to technology to boost visibility into sales and inventory for its supplier base, the company announced this...

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Investments

BigCommerce Raises $64M Led By Goldman Sachs

BigCommerce, the eCommerce platform for retailing brands, announced news on Wednesday (April 25) that it has closed a $64 million round of...

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Subscription Commerce

NEW STUDY: The Four Secrets To A Successful Subscription Offering

Subscriptions are seemingly available for anything, from the more established Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings like the latest iteration of Microsoft Office to video-streaming services...

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B2B Payments

Salesforce’s $2.2 Billion Plans For France

Enterprise software conglomerate Salesforce is planning to invest more than $2.2 billion in the French market, reports in Reuters said on Tuesday...

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B2B Payments

For B2B SaaS Firms, Smart Data, Smarter Sales Efforts

Software-as-s-Service has its lures and challenges for providers in the B2B realm. Recurring revenue is great, of course, but the ever-present challenges...

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B2B Payments

HP Enters Cannabis Enterprise Software Market With Flowhub

HP is reportedly stepping into the cannabis industry with a new partnership to provide businesses with financial management software, according to The Washington...

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IPO

Zuora Closes Debut With $2B Valuation

Subscription biller Zuora has seen its value soar after its public debut — pricing its IPO at $14 and closing at $20....

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B2B Payments

Wurk Raises Funds For Legal Marijuana Payroll Tech

Wurk, a startup providing software for legal marijuana enterprises, announced new investment to the tune of $3.2 million provided by Poseidon Asset...

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B2B Payments

AI’s Effort To Pull Hidden Costs (And Risk) Into The Light

Corporate expansion – in size and geographic reach – is a complicated beast. Of course, business growth goes hand in hand with...

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Payment Methods

How Smaller Grocers Can Tap Into Digital Offerings

With Amazon, Kroger and other large retailers in the grocery business introducing digital technology, such as mobile self-checkout, how do smaller regional...

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Payments Innovation

Stripe Rolls Out Billing Amid Subscription Business Boom

To simplify the recurring billing process for Software as a Service (SaaS) and subscription-based companies, Stripe has rolled out Billing. The service combines...

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B2B Payments

US B2B Startups Dominate $337 Million Worth Of Funding

Combined, more than $337 million in funding will fuel growth for an array of B2B startups that revealed their latest funding rounds...

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API

Cloud Elements CEO: Too Many APIs, Not Enough Integration

APIs – that is, application program interfaces, or bits of code that allow two software programs to communicate with one another –...

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Retail

FedEx Launches New Returns Management Product For High-Volume Merchants

In an effort to help high-volume eCommerce retailers and merchants improve their customer experiences, FedEx has unveiled a new returns management product....

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B2B Payments

B2B FinTechs Get Creative With Enterprise Data

This week’s B2B FinTech venture capital roundup is all about data, and, as investors showed, there’s more than one way to offer...

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Retail

Beyond The Buzzword: Harnessing Platforms’ Real Power

Two decades ago, talk of platforms was mostly centered around software, often by academics and engineers in highly technical settings. Today, the...

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B2B Payments

Direct Commerce Addresses Cross-Border Compliance Needs For Procurement

Direct Commerce has enhanced its procure-to-pay platform to support jurisdictional compliance across borders in Europe, the company announced on Monday (March 12)....

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Retail

Food For Thought In (Edible) Supply Chain Management

Getting food from harvest to mouth, from field to fork may just be the oldest supply chain there is. And as far...

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B2B Payments

ASEAN’s FinTech Reputation Rubs Off On SMBs

Southeast Asia is now front and center on the world’s FinTech stage, and it’s no accident. Regulatory efforts to promote FinTech innovation,...

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B2B Payments

How The API Revolution Fuels Corporates’ SaaS Fatigue

Without a doubt, small businesses (SMBs) have more choice than ever before when adopting new technologies, and many of those new tools,...

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Payment Methods

Payworks Raises $14.5M To Grow POS Technology

Payworks announced that it has completed a $14.5M Series B financing round with CommerzVentures and Visa, as well as existing investors Speedinvest...

LendingTree: US Consumer Debt Approaching $4T

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Entrust Teams With Gemalto On Instant Issuance

Gemalto, the digital security company and payment card supplier, announced news on Wednesday (Feb. 7) that it is joining forces with Entrust...

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Today In Data

Today In Data: Visa, Mastercard And Apple All Release Earnings Results

Today in PYMNTS data, Visa earnings topped expectations, Mastercard saw positive outcomes and Apple underwhelmed market watchers in their recently released earnings...