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4 Priorities for Finance Teams in Late 2023

CPA Practice

The lingering (although receding) risk of a recession, stubborn inflation trends, economic policy debates, and geopolitical instability all create challenges for businesses and their finance teams. This unpredictability requires businesses to ensure maximum efficiency in their finance operations.

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Efforts To Address Late B2B Payments Go Global

PYMNTS

Though the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the impact of late B2B payments in the U.S. The bank also applauded recent regulatory efforts to curb late B2B payments to small suppliers under the Payments Time Reporting Bill 2020, which will require the largest corporates to report on their vendor payment practices. both due to U.S.

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Heightened geopolitical tension in 2024 will result in rising invoice fraud

Accounting Insight

The rise of invoice fraud will prompt closer collaboration between finance and security teams. To help this collaboration, businesses should take steps such as implementing AI and automation tools to detect any suspicious activities or anomalies within the Accounts Payable (AP) process.

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Wirex Rolls Out Beta Version Of Crypto Business Account

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Wirex, a cryptocurrency and fiat (real money) payments platform, is releasing a beta version of a regulated crypto-oriented business account, according to reports. The account will support both crypto and fiat payments, and users will be able to transfer funds using over the counter rates or using blockchain, SEPA or Swift.

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Crypto Goes After Intercompany B2B Payments

PYMNTS

Wirex , which providers consumers with an account to store both fiat and cryptocurrency, recently stepped into the corporate finance space with the launch of its business account. Yet many experts doubt that cryptocurrency can be the solution to these points of friction, especially when it comes to the B2B use case.

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Small Biz FinTech Leads Week’s B2B Funding Roundup

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With more than $200 million in venture capital funding landing with B2B FinTechs this week, investors had their eyes set on a variety of pain points in corporate finance. Small business finserv was a popular target this week, with startups securing funding for their SMB banking, lending and accounting tools. Lendingkart.

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Payments Initiation Opens The B2B Door For QR Code Payments

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Their use for B2B payments, however, remains limited — but in the U.K., While open banking FinTech innovation has initially focused on opening up bank account data to third party platforms, there is another component to the initiative with major implications for the payments landscape. A B2B Opportunity.

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