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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

APS Payments , which works in omnichannel B2B payments, is integrating tech with enterprise resource planning (ERP) product Sage X3 to allow for quick and secure payments, according to a press release. And, users can access Level 3 B2B processing, offering greater payments controls and lower rates, according to the release.

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MAY 21, 2020

In an interview with PYMNTS, Xavier Ginesta , chairman at Voxel Group , which focuses on B2B payments, said that friction exists for B2B payments within the travel space — but that friction can be eased with eBilling and ePayments. He said that technology can help relieve some of the pain points of B2B travel payments.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

And in eCommerce, a majority of Main Street small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have added new digital functions amid the pandemic, while in corporate payments, B2B transactions are shaking free of hardcopy methods as firms have moved operations online. In auto sales, CarLotz, Inc. , All this, Today in Data.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Cash flow has never been more critical to businesses as it is right now, and both the private and public sectors are taking action to ensure B2B payments continue to flow through the supply chain. ” Despite the initiative, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on B2B payments flow has been inconsistent throughout the globe. .

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AUGUST 11, 2020

From a lack of supplier acceptance of electronic payments to outdated infrastructure within accounts payable (AP) departments, the B2B payments ecosystem still has much room for improvement on multiple fronts. Moving the needle in the journey away from paper checks isn’t a one-sided battle, either. An Ecosystem Approach.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Though 2020 was full of volatility, the B2B FinTech landscape persevered with venture capitalists and other investors for a lucrative year. Highlighting the increasing interest in this startup space is this week's B2B venture capital roundup, which recaps the final two weeks of 2020 in B2B FinTech investments. Deliveristo.

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AUGUST 30, 2020

New delays at the United States Postal Service (USPS) have complicated B2B payments further even as they were already disrupted by the pandemic, The Los Angeles Times reported. Paper check payments have long been a hold-out in B2B payrolls, even as much of the world goes digital.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, BlockCard is teaming with peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful for a new crypto debit card, while the Federal Reserve Board has modified the terms of its Main Street Lending Program (MSLP). Fed Adjusts Main Street Lending Terms to Help Small Businesses.

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MAY 5, 2020

APIs allow banks and technology providers to coordinate development much more easily, enabling the creation of innovative new products and services for functions such as B2B payments. Developments From Around The World Of B2B APIs. For more on these and other B2B API news items, download this month’s Tracker.

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MARCH 17, 2020

A dramatic decline in B2B transactions globally has leaders considering how to move forward, according to data from Tradeshift announced in a press release. Tradeshift, according to a press release, has been working with those companies to disburse advice on the matter, hoping to get the supply side working again.

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MAY 20, 2020

Most businesses have been hit hard by the global pandemic, but perhaps no segment has been more crippled or left with a future more uncertain than the Main Street local establishments that rely on daily sales for traffic. Also looking to give Main Street merchants an easier way to set up digital shop online is OfferUp.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Today in B2B payments, ICICI taps AlignBooks for small business banking, and Bookkeeper360 raises funding for its accounting technology. Plus, Everpeaks launches a logistics platform, the ECB raises concerns for banks over pandemic fallout, and Biden considers antitrust posts. AlignBooks, ICICI Bank Team for Streamlined SMB Banking.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Main Street businesses are optimistic about their longer-term survival — meaning that they believe their businesses will be around two years from now. That’s important, given the fact that Main Street SMBs are responsible for driving a significant portion of the economy, employing roughly 40 percent of the workforce.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

B2B payments innovation continued to heat up in 2019, with an ecosystem focused on transaction speed and data integration finding new opportunities to build innovative solutions that address some of the biggest B2B payment friction points. The Moving Target of B2B Friction. B2B Payments Digitization’s Next Frontier.

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JUNE 4, 2020

The Federal Reserve will launch the Main Street Lending Program, which is geared toward mid-sized businesses, this week. Federal Financial Analytics Managing Partner Karen Petrou said, per the report, “It’s only the ‘ Main Street ’ program if the Main Street in your town looks a lot like Park Avenue.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

million in combined funding, B2B FinTechs remain resilient in today’s current market. Real-time cross-border B2B payment FinTech Vitesse has announced $8.3 B2B payments startup Routable has emerged from stealth mode, and is launching with a $16 million investment round. million in Series A funding.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Yet, with AP solution providers enticed by the high payment volumes and values of the B2B arena, emerging solutions can sometimes be too large for the mom-and-pop shop on Main Street. “Buyers and sellers in the B2B world, they do not share interests, many times,” he said. “There’s a conflict of interest.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

The country is the latest nation to help push B2B payments into the digital age. The main contractor must fetch the eInvoice from (the platform). The main contractor must use (the platform) to reject an invoice, while the subcontractor is also required to use (the platform) to issue rectification documents and new invoices.”.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

” Opportunity On Main Street. The low-hanging fruit for technological disruption of business insurance is on Main Street, he said, largely because businesses with 100 or fewer employees can be serviced in a fairly standardized way. “We can do that all automatically.” It’s a major expense.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Singapore-based financial services company DBS has launched an industry-first, QR code-based solution for B2B payments and collections, the company announced on Monday (Jan. The results indicated that almost 90 percent of B2B payments in the F&B industry made via cash or bank transfers.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Amid the widespread, and widening, impact of the coronavirus, the latest data from the Main Street Index show that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have enjoyed steady growth in business formation, hiring and wages. The Main Street Index is also highly correlated with U.S. Given the fact that Main Street represents 28.3

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Business-to-business (B2B) transactions are often painfully slow for both buyers and sellers. Advanced transaction methods can accelerate the pace of B2B purchasing by moving away from manual processes reliant on paper checks and invoices in favor of those conducted through digital channels. Around The B2B eCommerce World.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Recent surveys have found that many bankers and small business (SMB) owners are unaware of how to use business-to-business (B2B) APIs securely and optimally. The February B2B API Tracker explores the hesitancy toward APIs, as well as how third-party providers are using them to provide new business services. Around The B2B API World.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Long story short: Those trends are combining in a way that could bring more B2B presence to the sharing economy. At least that’s the gist of a recent report out of Denver, where, according to the city’s main local newspaper , a Denver startup called venUse aims to become an Airbnb of commercial spaces. Sharing Challenges.

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APRIL 29, 2020

Checks will continue being fixtures in B2B payments so long as they work well for both retailers and suppliers, yet businesses are also examining how digital technologies could be used alongside them to increase supply chain efficiency. They must therefore examine new B2B payment technologies with more caution. “On

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

B2B payments innovators and Warren Buffet have something in common: They are both obsessed with rails. Making B2B Payments Rails Hot. Today, a host of innovators are making B2B payments rails sexy again too. Last Thursday in New York, we had that debate, live, as part of the closed-door B2B Payments Summit hosted by PYMNTS.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Thus the tipping point may be in the offing, enough so that it becomes the title of our latest report on B2B payments, spotlighting the opportunity for innovative payment methods to upset the tried and true methods that could use a bit of shaking up. And if so — why? It’s well known that paper dominates the corporate payments landscape.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

11), Visa executives laid out a roadmap to displacing cash and checks across the global stage, digitizing payments through click to pay, tap to pay, digital wallets and cross-border flows – along with capturing a sizable slice of B2B spend, too. B2B Potential. At its investor day presentation Tuesday (Feb. The Consumer.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

EVO Payments noted a recent study determined 76 percent of polled Main Street SMBs said they had cash flow shortages over the last four months. Moreover, over 90 percent of surveyed Main Street SMBs desire access to instantaneous fund settlement. “In Companies can have a deposit happen at all times — even on non-business days.

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MARCH 14, 2018

That seems to be the idea among banks both big and small when it comes to APIs , as several players from around the financial services industry recently increased their investment in APIs, rolling out new solutions aimed at making B2B payments more efficient. . Around the B2B API World . BofA Banks on B2B APIs . And in the U.K.,

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Portland, Maine-based FinTech leader said from his view, at least one corner of the payments industry has reached a tipping point and is never turning back. “I told PYMNTS.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

B2B Payments Problems. A main vulnerability stems from B2B payments. B2B payments takes in a variety of industry and methods, but, in general, those payments and the processes associated with them are slowly becoming digitalized. That could lead to new types of phishing attacks, or attacks that are more frequent.

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MARCH 8, 2017

With hundreds of billions of dollars changing hands each year, B2B banking and payments is a big, big deal. According to industry research, the B2B payments industry moves roughly $550 billion each year, making up roughly half of the $1.2 Enter the new PYMNTS.com B2B API Tracker™. trillion global payments market. .

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One exception may be in the T&E space, in which FinTechs are introducing ways for employees to make B2B payments and integrate transaction data into expense management systems, a reflection of the mobile nature of the traveling employee. The enterprise has been a bit skeptical about mobile payments.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

India-based mobile payments company MoneyOnMobile is expanding into the B2B payments realm. On a recent trip to Kolkata, I met our local agents who expressed a need to have a business-scale transaction service growing their revenue by attracting B2B payments,” he said. The company revealed Thursday (Jan.

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MAY 1, 2020

These are just a few of the questions we sought to answer in Main Street On Lockdown: Reinventing The Road To Recovery edition. Will small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) follow consumers’ lead and digitize their operations to meet their new demands? Or will they revert back to their pre-pandemic habits and miss the opportunity for growth?

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Old and new tech are both coming into play in B2B API. And recently, B2B API players have been tuned in, paying close attention to the cryptocurrency’s rising and falling star. Around the B2B API world: In a bustling global economy, business payments need to fly far — and fast. A digital U.S.

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