SME Finance

AP Automation At Pathetically Low Levels
AP Automation At Pathetically Low Levels
July 19, 2016  |  B2B Payments

Small business owners’ ears have been talked off by champions of business process automation. Saving money, saving time, reducing errors — it’s a no-brainer, so...

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MarketInvoice Raises $9.5M In Invoice Financing Boom
MarketInvoice Raises $9.5M In Invoice Financing Boom
July 19, 2016  |  B2B Payments

Invoice financing is a booming business in the U.K. Data released over the weekend by the Asset Based Finance Association said more than $943 million...

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Where SMEs Use Accounting Tools Worse Than Spreadsheets
Where SMEs Use Accounting Tools Worse Than Spreadsheets
July 19, 2016  |  B2B Payments

The dreaded spreadsheet: It’s often cited by FinTech players as one of the most cumbersome and least efficient manual accounting tools. Excel spreadsheets can be...

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For SMEs, It’s A Small World After All
For SMEs, It’s A Small World After All
July 19, 2016  |  B2B Payments

The U.K. referendum was a massive wakeup call to markets everywhere: The world economy truly is an interconnected web, and what happens at Point A...

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Where SMEs Should Rethink Their Priorities
Where SMEs Should Rethink Their Priorities
July 18, 2016  |  B2B Payments

Do small and medium-sized businesses have their priorities straight? In some cases, research suggests, business owners are a bit misguided and possibly stuck in the past....

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Western Union SME FX Tool Goes Cross-Border (Again)
Western Union SME FX Tool Goes Cross-Border (Again)
July 18, 2016  |  B2B Payments

It’s only been a few months since Western Union Business Solutions rolled out EDGE, a cross-border payments platform for SMEs, but the firm is already...

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Community Banks’ Leg-Up On The SME Lending Giants
Community Banks’ Leg-Up On The SME Lending Giants
July 15, 2016  |  B2B Payments

Small community banks may not have the ample resources that Wells Fargo or Bank of America have to develop high-tech, experimental solutions internally. But that...

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HDFC IDs Liquidity Squeeze In SME Supply Chain
HDFC IDs Liquidity Squeeze In SME Supply Chain
July 15, 2016  |  B2B Payments

Indian bank HDFC is exploring why small business growth in the country has flattened in the past few years, and one executive at the financial...

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Mobile Banking SMEs More Confident In Growth, Says Survey
Mobile Banking SMEs More Confident In Growth, Says Survey
July 08, 2016  |  B2B Payments

The travel and expense management space has earned a place as a top adopter of mobile solutions for the enterprise. But new data says other...

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