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Bureaucratic Fuel Is Pushing B2B Payments Toward Digital

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Though the process initially is focused on government work — business-to-government (B2G) — observers point to the likelihood that that the platform will attract business-to-business (B2B) transactions, as the platform is available for voluntary use for B2B eInvoicing, according to reports. From a U.S. s Digital Push. Both the EU and the U.S.

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Finablr’s BayanPay Awarded Payments License From Saudi Authority

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The business product is a digital payments gateway and services aggregator for B2B, B2C and B2G businesses in Saudi Arabia. BayanPay was founded in Riyadh in 2018. Finablr, founded in 2018, acquired a majority stake in BayanPay during the first half of 2019 for $30 million.

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TIE Kinetix Tackles Move To Paperless Business, Government

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In shifting to electronic invoicing for B2B and B2G, both Europe and the U.S. The European Commission has mandated that member states must accept electronic invoices on a common semantic model, XML, by 2018. For B2B and B2G invoicing that spans national borders, especially in the direction of U.S. will be digital.

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Dutch Government eyes mandatory B2G e-invoicing in 2016

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(The Paypers) Based on the EU directive 2014/55/EU, all public contracting authorities and the suppliers have to be able to receive e-invoices as from 2018.

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The US Government’s eInvoice Mandate: Better Late Than Never

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But it’s a significant milestone nonetheless that federal regulators will be required to pay suppliers via eInvoice by the end of fiscal year (FY) 2018, meaning 19 million invoices government agencies pay every year will have to be electronic. Of all the regulatory changes occurring in the U.S. This is a significant mandate because the U.S.

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How Government Procurement Can Foster Private Sector Cybersecurity

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.” Reports at the time highlighted the National Health Service (NHS), hit by the infamous WannaCry attack in 2017, with subsequent research by the Financial Times ( FT ) finding that one-quarter of NHS trusts in England and Wales failed to allocate any money on cybersecurity training in 2018.