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Wells Fargo: Using APIs To Cut Corporate Cash Flow Confusion
Wells Fargo: Using APIs To Cut Corporate Cash Flow Confusion
January 13, 2020  |  API

Banks need strong application programming interface (API) strategies if they want to retain their business clients. Business to business (B2B) APIs enable financial institutions (FIs)...

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Senate Affirms Trump’s Jovita Carranza As SBA Chief
Senate Affirms Trump’s Jovita Carranza As SBA Chief
January 12, 2020  |  B2B Payments

President Trump has tapped Jovita Carranza to lead the Small Business Administration (SBA), a move confirmed by the Senate in a bipartisan 88-5 vote, The...

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How Mom-and-Pops Can Survive Retail’s Apocalypse
How Mom-and-Pops Can Survive Retail’s Apocalypse
January 10, 2020  |  Retail

Serving the needs of Americas millions of micro-merchants and mom-and-pop shops is one of those business plans that always sounds much easier in theory than...

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Deep Dive: AP Processing Delays And How New Payment Innovations Can Help
Deep Dive: AP Processing Delays And How New Payment Innovations Can Help
December 31, 2019  |  Accounts Payable

Paper-based payment methods such as checks and cash are awkward and cumbersome in either business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions. The negative impact that these...

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Deep Dive: Why Manual Expense Reporting Systems Have Outlived Their Usefulness
Deep Dive: Why Manual Expense Reporting Systems Have Outlived Their Usefulness
December 30, 2019  |  Spend Management

Employee reimbursements can be frustrating for all parties involved, even as expense reporting goes digital. Approximately 38 percent of U.S. employees use their own funds...

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Law Enforcement Cracks Down On Corporate Payments Fraud
Law Enforcement Cracks Down On Corporate Payments Fraud
December 23, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Payments messaging technology provider SWIFT recently opened up its Know Your Customer (KYC) platform, the KYC Registry, directly to corporates. The initiative enables 2,000 corporate...

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The Power Of THREE: Inside Berkshire Hathaway’s New SMB InsurTech Platform
The Power Of THREE: Inside Berkshire Hathaway’s New SMB InsurTech Platform
December 23, 2019  |  SMBs

When people joke about boring professions and industries, one can bet that insurance will almost always be one of the top targets of such humor....

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How Open Banking, Faster Payments Change Banks’ Fraud Threat
How Open Banking, Faster Payments Change Banks’ Fraud Threat
December 19, 2019  |  B2B Payments

An explosion of FinTech innovation has jump-started traditional financial institutions’ (FIs) digitization efforts. M&A initiatives and partnerships, Open Banking business models and data integrations, and...

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Why Main Street SMBs Are A Greenfield For InsurTech
Why Main Street SMBs Are A Greenfield For InsurTech
December 19, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Insurance may not be the most flashy or exciting of industries, but its continued reliance on paper and inefficient underwriting processes makes the market a...

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