Payments FinTech Ant International is investing in Latin American embedded lending infrastructure company R2. The investment, announced Thursday (Oct. 30), is aimed at expanding access to credit for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout the region. “R2 enables digital platforms to offer financing solutions quickly...
Finance platform BILL has launched a suite of AI agents for small businesses. The new offering, announced Tuesday (Oct. 28) includes features that autonomously collect and validate W-9s, reconcile receipts, accelerate user onboarding, and carry out routine tasks for what BILL calls “Fortune 5 Million”...
Cashflow management platform Lenkie has raised $62 million in new funding. The U.K. company’s Series A round, announced Tuesday (March 4), is aimed at helping Lenkie expand its payables financing business for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). “While the traditional borrowing experience remains slow, rigid,...
British payments technology firm PayPoint is expanding its partnership with U.K. bank Lloyds. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Dec. 4), is designed to provide banking and payments services to roughly 60,000 U.K. small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), combining PayPoint and Handepay’s merchant network, and Lloyds’ merchant...
July 05, 2017
Legislators in markets like the U.K. and Australia have begun to publicly combat late supplier payments to SMEs, but efforts in the U.S. have been far less vocal. But a new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives may get the discussion going around late invoice payments and SME cash flow management struggles. The Small Business […]
July 04, 2017
Eight months in, assessing the impact of what happens when you remove 86 percent of a country’s notes in circulation. India’s push toward digital payments has had effects both positive...
November 04, 2025
Global Payments’ new point-of-sale software, Genius, has been resonating with merchants since the launch of its configurations for restaurants and retail in the second quarter, executives said Tuesday (Nov. 4) during the company’s third quarter earnings call. The company also sees opportunities in its plans to become a pure-play merchant solutions provider and to enable […]
October 30, 2025
Payments FinTech Ant International is investing in Latin American embedded lending infrastructure company R2. The investment, announced Thursday (Oct. 30), is aimed at expanding access to credit for small and...
October 28, 2025
Finance platform BILL has launched a suite of AI agents for small businesses. The new offering, announced Tuesday (Oct. 28) includes features that autonomously collect and validate W-9s, reconcile receipts,...
March 04, 2025
Cashflow management platform Lenkie has raised $62 million in new funding. The U.K. company’s Series A round, announced Tuesday (March 4), is aimed at helping Lenkie expand its payables financing...