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Financing Gets Flexible As eCommerce Sellers Brace For Seasonality Whiplash

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And the surge in eCommerce isn't isolated to the B2C world, either: as social distancing requirements and shutdowns migrate corporate buyers online, wholesalers, distributors and other B2B vendors are likely to face a similar holiday boon this year to fulfill rising customer demand. Small Business, Big Challenges. An Alternative To Banks.

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B2B’s Mission To Replicate B2C’s Point-of-Purchase Financing Success

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Statistics estimates that retail eCommerce sales will hit $4.5 trillion in online sales — about 235 percent more than B2C’s current sales volume. However, in true B2B form, the industry lags behind its B2C cousin in terms of technological advancement. There is a lot of money to be earned. alone will reach $1.2

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Embedded Finance Tops B2B Tech Funding For The Week

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But it was an embedded finance FinTech that took home more than half of the funding announced. Its micro-financing portal targets SMBs that cannot access capital via traditional means. million only months after its previous funding round, according to Indian Retailer reports. PYMNTS rounds up all the latest deals below.

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B2B Finance As A Service Tops This Week’s VC List

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Investors also took a liking to accounting technology, alternative small business finance and eProcurement, with B2B FinTech startups raising more than $107 million in all. million to the company that deploys machine learning to accelerate supplier payments in the accounts payable department. Consero Global. OfBusiness.

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Fundbox Pay Expands To B2B Marketplaces

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In terms of payments technology and alternative lending, B2C and B2B may be respectively seen as digital versions of the hare and tortoise. trillion within two years, and will account for 13 percent of all U.S.-focused This is a major gap in a market that is three times the size of B2C,” he told Webster. focused B2B sales.

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Resolve Shakes Up B2B POS Payments

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The idea started in the B2C world, but it wasn’t long before online sellers were asking about its use for B2B — at least, according to Chris Tsai, co-founder and CEO of Resolve , in a new PYMNTS interview. According to Resolve and Tsai, buyers could end up paying zero percent interest if accounts are repaid within the agreed-upon terms.

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Can Better, Digital Credit Help SMBs Thrive?

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Those receivables, an asset to the business, are only an asset when they become cash in that SMB’s bank account. As much as 24 percent of monthly revenues for SMBs are tied up in accounts receivable or trade credit, which stymies cash flow. trillion within two years, and will account for 13 percent of all U.S.-focused

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