PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Barclays debuts a corporate trade finance platform, and Adobe introduces B2B data capabilities on its real-time Customer Data Platform. Plus, Zact introduces its expense management solution, Monit adds new small business Banking-as-a-Service features and Plaid teams up with Jack Henry.

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B2B Finance NOV Payments 91

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Small businesses have landed at the center of B2B FinTechs’ and financial service providers’ latest collaborative efforts. small business lending platform Funding Circle is reportedly considering whether to wield open banking to enhance its own product offering. Agora Services To White-Label Technology.

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Small Business Push-to-Card Credit Union Payer 77

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APRIL 27, 2020

Newtek announced on Monday (April 27) that its lender program, Newtek Small Business Finance (NSBF), has funded $518.2 million in PPP loans that will be funded later this week by the Small Business Administration (SBA), the release stated. The NSBF estimated it has another $24.9

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Small Business Finance Payroll Origination 59

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

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.

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Finance Small Business Underwriting B2C 142

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Venture capital (VC) is far from the only funding source for B2B FinTechs. Despite a growing array of options, venture capital remains a solid funding source for B2B FinTechs, with this week’s roundup accumulating $104.4 based small business financing company Qwil has announced $24.4 Camino Financial.

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B2B Finance Small Business Participant 52

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Investors continue to fuel the growth of the B2B technology startup community with another busy week in funding. In total, investors placed nearly $600 million for firms in the B2B payments, T&E, financial management and other B2B spaces. B2B payments FinTech Qolo has announced a $3.8

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Embedded Finance B2B Finance Payment APIs and Integration 67

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AUGUST 14, 2020

million in combined funding, B2B FinTechs remain resilient in today’s current market. Investments ranged across geographies and industries, but the biggest highlights landed on trade financing and early wage access innovators, as startups bolster their value by supporting small businesses’ and employees’ financial recovery.

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B2B Finance Cross-Border Participant 65

Fintech Finance

JUNE 13, 2024

Muse Finance , a leading financial technology company, is excited to announce the launch of musePay, its Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) integration with global small business platform, Xero. The integration between musePay and Xero works to ensure that businesses can manage their finances easily and smoothly.

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BNPL Finance Risk Risk Management 98

Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 10, 2024

SMEB , a banking and financial technology company dedicated to supporting small business, today announces the appointment of Amanda Harrison to Chief Revenue Officer. The post SMEB Hires Amanda Harrison as Chief Revenue Officer appeared first on FF News | Fintech Finance.

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Processors Issuers Small Business B2B 98

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

According to the firm, B2B transactions were a key driver of ACH transaction growth in the third quarter of the year, leading NACHA Chief Operating Officer Jane Larimer to describe the ACH Network as “thriving.”. ACH may be the most popular ePayments rail option for B2B transactions in the U.S. today, but it’s not the only one.

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Small Business Same Day ACH Wire Transfer NACHA 68

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In this week's B2B Data Digest, PYMNTS breaks down the numbers behind the latest cases of fraud, including the growing risks of small business loan fraud, a case of expense fraud, and the ever-persistent Business Email Compromise risk intensified by Brexit uncertainty.

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B2B Email Compromise NACHA Small Business 116

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

With only a few million dollars in combined investments, this week certainly wasn’t the most lucrative for B2B FinTech firms, but the variety and global reach of recent SMB FinTech investments offers a bright spot in an otherwise quiet moment for B2B venture capital. Nisa Finance. GreenSlate.

Small Business 77

Small Business Cross-Border Cross-Border Payments FinTech 77

PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

Hundreds of thousands of new small businesses (SMBs) open their doors every year in the U.S., The latest estimates from the Small Business Administration (SBA) peg the number of new SMBs at 414,000 each year, spurring job creation and economic growth for the country, with millennial entrepreneurs at the helm.

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Small Business Accounts Verification On-Demand 111

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Earlier this week, reports said two researchers from Bloomsberg University of Pennsylvania made their case for safe harbor rules and overall easing of regulatory penalties for small businesses hit by a cyberattack. Yet small businesses rarely have the resources to pay and survive fines of thousands or even millions of dollars.

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Small Business Cybersecurity Ransomware Compromise 78

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Flipkart has rolled out its Flipkart Wholesale operations, which serves as a B2B marketplace for small businesses and shops. Change the way you buy bulk products for your business with Flipkart Wholesale’s efficient technology and logistics,” Flipkart Wholesale said on its website.

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JUNE 2, 2020

As small-businesses' cash flow tightens during the pandemic, Alibaba Group is enabling SMBs to postpone payments for 60 days on cross-border e-commerce purchases.

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Cross-Border B2B Finance Small Business 106

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

CIT’s Southern California branch network, OneWest Bank , unveiled a new mobile app to help small businesses meet their financial goals. The business app of OneWest Bank lets small businesses digitally deposit checks, pay bills, schedule appointments, transfer funds between accounts at OneWest and find the closest branch.

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Small Business Mobile Banking Checks Finance 52

PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cash flow management challenges can burden small business owners struggling to pay vendors and employees, but a new report from Kabbage finds that entrepreneurs often go unpaid themselves. In a statement, Kabbage CEO Rob Frohwein said he is “familiar with cash flow challenges” related to running a small business.

Small Business 58

Small Business Payroll Checks Finance 58

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

The financial institution released the results of its Small Business Payments Spotlight survey last week, which surveyed more than 500 small business owners and 500 consumers in the U.S. Bank of America said data breaches can be “devastating” to small businesses.

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Data Breach Small Business Breach Business Payments 72

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JANUARY 9, 2019

small business owners last year, it appears the trend may be over. are less optimistic about the national economy, with economic outlook dropping for the fourth month in a row, according to analysis from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). After record levels of optimism among U.S.

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Small Business Disputes Economy Credit Cards 67

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

New data from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) found the U.K.’s s alternative finance market grew by 43 percent in 2016, and researchers are pointing to small businesses (SMBs) as a key driver of that expansion. According to news from Reuters late last week, the survey, released on Friday (Dec.

Small Business 43

Small Business Finance P2P Research 43

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In the latest research of small business lending trends, researchers have found evidence to be optimistic. The research also offers a glimpse into the struggle for alternative lending players to prove their worth as an important source of financing for small businesses that can’t access a bank loan.

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Small Business Finance Research Credit Union 63

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The Australian government has announced a new initiative to support small business finance following a series of steps to crack down on bank mistreatment of SMBs. billion in small business loans from non-bank lenders to increase availability of working capital for the nation’s SMBs.

Small Business 58

Small Business Non-Bank Due Diligence Governance 58

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Global payments startup Veem is launching a new business-to-business (B2B) tool to simplify and automate domestic payments, the company announced in a Wednesday (Nov. Veem enables payments from a central platform, which can mean faster business transactions at a lower cost for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

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B2B Payments Funds Transfer Small Business 109

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Open banking and its promise of more elasticity in finance is enabled by application program interfaces (APIs) — lines of code that execute everything from simple peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers to industrial-sized B2B real-time payments. As the industry marks two years since open banking’s U.K.

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API B2B Payment APIs and Integration Cross-Border 53

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

It was a slow week for B2B FinTech venture capital investments, though the industry still managed to pull more than $46.8 The leader this week is a B2B payments and trade credit startup offering a point-of-sale financing solution for B2B buyers, while additional funding landed across RegTech, logistics and other startup verticals.

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B2B FinTech Participant Automation 70

PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

This week’s B2B Venture Capital roundup shows FIs are placing funding with their FinTech partners, too, including Nationwide and HSBC U.K., investing money in B2B FinTechs disrupting their industries. In total, more than $732 million was raised by B2B FinTechs this week. 10x Future Technologies.

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B2B FinTech Small Business Financial Inclusion 72

Fintech Finance

MAY 10, 2024

Zil US , a leading B2B payment platform, enables Austrian entrepreneurs and freelancers to easily pay US vendors and others worldwide. This cloud-based payment platform service allows Austrian businesses to open US payment accounts without a physical presence, streamlining global transactions for cross-border expansion.

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Facilitators Transactions Wire Transfer Cross-Border 105

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Not every week can be a home run for B2B startups. Software-as-a-Service earned some surprising investor attention, but it was small business financing that earned the biggest round of the week. million will be Tim McCormick, a veteran of the B2B software space and SaaSOptics’s new CEO. SME Finance.

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B2B Finance NOV On-Demand 74

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With more than $1 billion raised — and more to come — this week became the most lucrative for B2B FinTech venture capital funding. million in new funding for its technology targeting small businesses in the U.K. million in new funding for its technology targeting small businesses in the U.K. Digital Risks.

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B2B FinTech Small Business Participant 70

PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

With commercial cards an increasingly popular choice in the B2B payments space, industry innovators are exploring pockets of opportunity to drive adoption through mitigating friction. Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest in commercial card innovation as solution providers continue to drive up card usage in B2B payment scenarios.

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Commercial Card Finance B2B Small Business 52

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JANUARY 9, 2019

One way this shift has materialized is in how small businesses seek and hire financial professionals to join their companies. In a 2017 report from job hunting site Indeed , researchers found that “small business accountant” was nowhere to be found in the top-10 job positions sought after by most small business employers.

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Small Business Accounts Bots AI 71

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Chinese conglomerate Tencent is the latest to step into the blockchain trade finance space via its FinTech unit Tencent Financial Technology, according to reports in China Daily on Friday (Nov. Its focus on trade finance and SMB services marks Tencent’s recent restructuring and refocus on B2B operations.

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B2B Blockchain Finance B2C 60

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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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Caps B2B Participant Small Business 84

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The world is preparing to enter into a new year, and small businesses are getting their New Year’s resolutions lists in order. PYMNTS checks up on the health of the small business in the U.S., SMEs every year , said Amicus Commercial Finance in a recent report. 1.68% of small business loans in the U.S.

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Small Business Checks Finance Research 75

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

With $521 million raised this week among B2B FinTech startups, the industry continues to prove its appeal among venture capitalists. MaxWholesale targets India’s kirana stores, connecting the small, mom-and-pop retailers to a digital wholesale platform to restock their inventory. MaxWholesale.

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B2B Payment APIs and Integration Small Business Cybersecurity 72

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JANUARY 3, 2021

Finance Factory has rolled out its new automated credit review platform, which will be able to analyze 27 data points quickly and determine a borrower's fundability, a press release says. In addition, according to the release, the company is now paying its finance agent referral partners 25 percent commission rates.

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Finance Automation Credit Limit Small Business 97