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APRIL 12, 2018

The corporate travel and expense management space is a bit of a conundrum. A surge in FinTech innovation, new industry players and the embrace of cutting-edge technologies – like artificial intelligence and mobile payments – positions the T&E market as an example of how B2B payments can, in fact, be innovative.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

Corporate travel and expense management has made leaps in adopting new technologies in 2016. Uber, Lyft and Airbnb are all taking off in the space, suggesting corporate travelers and their managers are ready to adopt innovations that make their lives easier — both to travel and to manage corporate funds.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Technology has created new challenges for corporate finance managers to handle employee spend, and unless they embrace the technology that can help them gain a better grasp of these challenges, CFOs risk missing out on growth opportunities, according to T&E firm Concur.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new generation of professionals have changed the way they travel for work and, as a result, how those employees want to book and pay for that travel. “Technology and demographic changes are transforming business travel. The Pew Research Center found millennials are already the largest generation group in the U.S.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Employees are naturally using the same technologies and payment tools while they travel for work as they do in their personal lives, and travel managers must keep that in mind when designing travel programs that meet both corporates’ and employees’ needs. ”

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MARCH 10, 2020

In B2B FinTech, spend management is a greenfield opportunity as innovators explore how to help corporates understand the nuances of how money flows out of the enterprise. As adoption of third-party financial software platforms grows, businesses are able to automate key aspects of their spend processes. The Data Friction of Silos.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

But the largest venture capital funding round went to an accounts payable automation firm in the U.S. Wholesalebox said it will use the funds to expand operations into new markets and scale its technology infrastructure. Travel Expense Management. with an $18 million investment. Baoku Online. B2B Payments.

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JUNE 16, 2020

To provide pandemic-related security functions and rescue services for corporate travelers, Expensify unveiled its Concierge Travel virtual travel assistant, according to a press release. In October, Expensify debuted the Expensify Card , which is integrated with its technology.

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MAY 15, 2018

Corporate expense management firm Chrome River is collaborating with India-based travel company Yatra , the companies announced on Monday (May 14). India’s expense management market is ripe for disruption, according to Yashwanth Madhusudan, co-founder and CEO of India industry player Fyle.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Online business travel booking and expense management company Serko is entering the “world of virtual card payments,” the company said this week, announcing a partnership with virtual card company Conferma. “Integration with Serko is key to getting mass adoption.”

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JUNE 14, 2017

On average, a lack of auditing, and a lack of automation in the process, means businesses pay 14 percent more than their negotiated hotel rates. According to Neufang, hotel spend makes up about 27 percent of overall travel costs, so missing out on savings has a significant impact on bottom lines.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Corporate payments firm WEX is pushing virtual card technology within Latin America and has announced a new partner to help the cause. The firm revealed this week that it is working with Argo , a corporate travel and expense management company operating in Brazil and Mexico, to offer a virtual card solution for corporate travel managers.

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JUNE 26, 2019

American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) is bolstering its corporate travel and expense management solutions through the acquisition of DER Business Travel. “GBT and DER are both people-driven organizations with a passion for providing the best technology and service to clients. .”

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MARCH 21, 2016

Uber has secured another deal to ease the expense management process for its corporate users — but so has rival Lyft. Our customers are telling us that they are very excited to have this functionality in DATABASICS Expense,” the firm stated, adding that the solution uses optical character recognition technology to capture receipt data.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Unifiedpost reveals acquisitions to build out its B2B platform, while Tally Solutions launches eInvoicing technology in India. Plus, Navisteps raises funding for its T&E tech, Pepperl+Fuchs strengthens supply chain innovation, and a Brexit deal is reached, with questions still looming.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Corporate payments solution provider WEX announced this week it is collaborating with Australia-based robotics process automation firm Troovo Technologies. Together, the companies said in a press release , they will integrate robotics process automation to generate virtual cards within the WEX platform for corporate spend management.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The past week has seen several initiatives in both the private and public sector adding fuel to the corporate payments digitization flame, while the latest industry research has also offered promising stats on businesses’ path for electronic, automated financial processes. announced last month.

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JUNE 24, 2016

When Tradeshift wanted to enter the mid-market level, it needed to create a business payments and expense management solution with a few characteristics. It needed to be intuitive, knowing that mid-market firms don’t always have the resources at hand to handle complex systems the same way major corporations do.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Enterprise software conglomerate SAP has launched a new initiative to promote IoT-connected cars, and its partnership with Hertz, Nokia and Concur Technologies will target corporate travelers. The companies said Monday (Feb.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Travelport , which enables corporate travel agencies with point-of-sale (POS) technology, is repositioning itself in response to heightened awareness and adoption of virtual cards (v-cards) in the business travel space. The company announced news on Monday (Dec.

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JULY 17, 2017

Luckily, as more business travelers deploy technologies like mobile payments, mobile booking and virtual cards, there is more data at hand with which executives can analyze and understand where inefficiencies in business spend exist. Everyone in the world is doing more with less.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Six corporate travel expense management and accounts payable (AP) solution providers are combining into a single company to form Emburse , according to a press release Thursday (Jan. With significant scale and disruptive technology, we’re redefining how organizations view travel and expense management and AP automation.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The virtual card can be a valuable payment solution for the enterprise thanks to the technology's security features and mobility. Yet this week's commercial card innovation tracker finds B2B financial service providers embracing the virtual card for a range of use cases, including fleet, corporate travel, and vendor payments.

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JUNE 2, 2017

India’s Tripeur, operated by Shorebird Technologies, raised new seed funding from Grace Grace Techno Ventures LLP, according to a recent announcement. According to Tripeur, it aims to help businesses and managers understand their corporate travel spend and how they can optimize it. Interestingly, though, the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Corporate expense management platform Captio announced a $1.12 The firm said it will use the latest funding round to help fuel expansion of its travel and spend management solutions. million funding round on Friday (Sept. BBVA and Toyota are among some of its clients, reports noted.

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JULY 18, 2016

Virtual cards are often discussed in the context of corporate travel, enabling travel managers and employers to have greater control over how much their employees spend and on what. One travel and expense management firm now wants to tap into the potential of virtual payments for its clients. ”

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JANUARY 21, 2020

As PYMNTS had previous covered, way back in 2017, cloud-based travel and expense report management solution Certify bought nuTravel in a deal designed to enable Certify to launch a new solution using nuTravel technology. That deal reflects larger and longstanding trends in travel in general, and T&E in particular.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

The ridesharing space continues to hit new milestones in the corporate travel space, with businesses choosing to spend their money on these services as opposed to traditional taxis. percent or more of the business ground travel transactions.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Talk is growing of the potential for virtual card technology to address several key points of friction in business payments, especially in corporate travel. based travel managers polled, only 16 percent are using virtual card numbers. But as the virtual card hype builds, some shortcomings have surfaced too.

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JUNE 19, 2018

Their latest report, “ Five Business Travel Payment Trends ,” concludes that mobile and virtual payments continue to gain traction in the corporate travel market. ” Researchers found that most corporate travel buyers (56 percent) in the U.S. use a central travel account (CTA).

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