The fashion industry was hit particularly hard by supply chain disruptions and economic volatility, often culminating in excessively-long B2B payment terms for suppliers — or non-payment altogether. Earlier this year, a group of garment suppliers across the Middle East and Asia banned together to demand...
Late B2B payments are a universal issue, with businesses around the globe feeling the cash flow pressure from delayed invoice payments. Yet not all jurisdictions address the pain point in the same way. This week’s B2B Data Digest looks at the latest initiatives in Australia,...
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) point-of-sale credit is such a productive lending model that giant financial brands are getting into the act, adding debt consolidation, home improvement and unsecured loans to the core business of instant consumer credit that BNPL is built on. Consider Goldman...
Keeping the trade engines moving is vital to the recovery of the global economy, but even as deals are struck and sales are made, businesses aren’t guaranteed the cash flow to sustain their operations. Today, B2B payment terms are in dramatic flux, while supply chain...
August 19, 2020
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) point-of-sale credit is such a productive lending model that giant financial brands are getting into the act, adding debt consolidation, home improvement and unsecured loans to the core business of instant consumer credit that BNPL is built on. Consider Goldman Sachs’ MarcusPay, an instant-credit app that provides loans from $750 to […]
January 02, 2020
Call it a tale of two payments trends. Or: It was the best of cash flows. It was the worst of cash flows. The payments realm is a bifurcated one, where...
December 06, 2019
For Eyal Shinar, CEO of Fundbox, understanding the burden that cash-flow bottlenecks and delayed invoice payments have on B2B companies came through personal experience. His mother, who owned a small...
September 24, 2019
Allow us to be blunt: The B2B finance and invoice settlement system is broken. Well, that’s not entirely true – things tend to work pretty well for the largest firms...
August 21, 2018
The Tesla saga may have a ripple effect — up and down the supply chain. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that the automaker has had number of speed bumps, which has some of its suppliers worried about the firm’s financial condition. One of the key corporate events that has some of its vendors fretting is tied to the […]
