PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Singapore bank DBS is introducing a new solution for small businesses to embrace digital payments and better manage cash flow, according to an announcement on the FI’s website late last week. The solution is also integrated with PayNow , the payments solution created by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

Growing awareness of the cash flow pain caused by late B2B payments has led to increased calls to incentivize, and in some cases even mandate that larger corporates accelerate their invoice payment processes when working with small suppliers. In all, more than one-third of businesses surveyed admitted to this slip-up.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Small businesses combatting the practice of late invoice payments in the U.K. 18) said the Federation of Small Businesses wants the government to blacklist late payers from receiving government contracts, calling on Scotland to no longer award contracts to companies that pay their small suppliers “unacceptably late.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

Their use for B2B payments, however, remains limited — but in the U.K., Payments Initiation, which is enabled by PSD2, is driving the adoption of Open Banking” in the business banking and payments space, she told PYMNTS, pointing to the benefits of lower transaction fees, speed and elevated security as key drivers of adoption.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Yet, with AP solution providers enticed by the high payment volumes and values of the B2B arena, emerging solutions can sometimes be too large for the mom-and-pop shop on Main Street. That’s not to say that small- to medium-sized business (SMB) invoice payment challenges are any easier to overcome. Conflict Of Interest.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

Cash is king, and today, cash flow management is an imperative function for large corporations and small businesses — many of which continue to struggle with the market volatility and business disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Xero, Transferwise Team For SMB Cash Flow. AscendantFX Eases Payment Instruction Hurdles.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The B2B payments discussion often centers around innovators’ efforts to kill the check. There is no straight line to killing the check, but in the path to B2B payments innovation, a plethora of possibilities emerges. B2B Payments’ Innovation Agenda. According to Phalen, that includes speed, transparency and global scale.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Today in B2B payments, TripActions announces new funding that values the T&E startup at $5 billion, while OneSource Virtual launches invoice payment capabilities. Plus, iBanFirst launches B2B payment traceability tool, Georges rebrands with new funding, and HashCash partners with a bank on blockchain payments. Georges Lands $42.4

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

Although a recent uptick in B2B payments innovation has accelerated corporates’ migration away from the paper check, old habits die hard, and the legacy payment tool remains a mainstay in the accounts payable (AP) department. “Checks will be around for a while. .”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

No one payment rail can solve every point of friction in B2B payments. In a press release, Ripple said it will enable SCB to expand its existing Ripple-powered mobile app, which facilitates global payments for consumers, to its corporate users in an effort to connect small businesses to real-time, cross-border payment capabilities.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

. “The answer to this problem has to be more than the federal government offering low interest loans to business owners,” Alignable Co-Founder and CEO Eric Groves said in a statement. The B2B FinTech ecosystem seems to agree.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

NACHA has tapped AeroPay Express as its newest Preferred Partner for B2B Electronic Payment Enablement, the organization said Thursday (Sept. B2B payments today cause many significant challenges for AP/AR [accounts payable/accounts receivable] departments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This week, Mastercard announced plans to modernize its B2B payment ecosystem with Mastercard Track. The Mastercard Track Business Payment Service is said to be the first global open-loop commercial service created to automate payments between the world’s buyers and suppliers. Bento for Business estimates that the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

All eyes are on the small business community in the commercial card world as industry players increasingly explore how card products can help Main Street recovery and stay in business. Small Business Card Use On The Rise. Virtual Cards Drive B2B Payments Consumerization.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Though credit cards were not originally designed to address the needs of corporate payers, advances in commercial card technology have positioned the payment tool as one that’s gaining traction in the accounts payable department. This, he noted, is Mesh’s entryway to the market of cross-border B2B payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

However, while many believe B2B payments are stuck in the past, Kevin Phalen, the global head of Visa Business Solutions, has a more optimistic viewpoint. “I I would say we’re seeing the most change we’ve seen in this space in probably decades,” Phalen told Karen Webster as he opened this year’s PYMNTS B2B Payments Executive Forum.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

B2B FinTechs are once again showing off the versatility of the corporate card. Among those announcements includes a deepened integration with PayPal, which allows small businesses using QuickBooks to send out invoices with a feature enabling debit and credit card payment on those bills, facilitated by PayPal.

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Stax

APRIL 23, 2024

ACH payments are a convenient way for business owners, individuals, and employers to use intuitive automated banking throughout their daily lives. Most small business owners and employers are turning to ACH payments instead paper check payments because of the ease and instant access the ACH network provides.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2018

While the same cannot necessarily be said about business customers, the findings do highlight the progress technology conglomerates have made in the financial services space: Traditional banks are no longer the only option for customers. This combination will be the driving force for getting businesses to adapt.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

But Scott Wolfe, CEO of Levelset (formerly known as Zlien), told PYMNTS that market fragmentation is holding up B2B cash flows, even as larger contractors or lenders want to disburse payments down the supply chain. Small businesses are the fabric of the construction industry,” he said. Regulation Steps In. In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Today, alternative small business (SMB) lending company Fundbox is launching Fundbox Pay, a solution the company says will move its credit offering closer to the B2B transaction itself. Late and delayed B2B payments have turned many small business suppliers into a sort of “free bank” for their corporate customers.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

However, the use of ACH payments in B2B transactions accounts for a large portion of payments made through the network and grew by 17.4% Since many businesses collect payments from their customers and handle their own business expenses, ACH payments are already a substantial part of business operations. in Q4 2021.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Investors backed a range of B2B FinTechs this week operating in areas including accounting, cross-border payments, virtual cards, expense management, cybersecurity and more. FinTech gearing up to launch small business banking services. FinTech gearing up to launch small business banking services. Back Office.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The way entrepreneurs are managing their businesses — and their businesses' finances — is changing, with complexities and pain points multiplying. Amid the market uncertainty of the pandemic, small business owners often have to do more with less, and they're expecting the financial technology solutions they use to do the same.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2017

TransCard CEO Greg Bloh knows that paper checks are a sticky challenge in B2B payments. There are still a lot of checks and traditional means of pain that businesses have not been able to move away from.”. There are still a lot of checks and traditional means of pain that businesses have not been able to move away from.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

He used his own experience as a co-founder of PayCycle and as part of the small business group at Intuit to boost that point. Why are smaller businesses so slow to adopt digital back-office and payments process? I’ve lived that mess,” he said. Moving From Cash.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2017

FinTech innovators are finally paying attention to the B2B sphere, and much of that focus has landed on the cross-border payments space — a notoriously clunky, expensive and opaque burden for many business payers. Traditional banks are often at the center of that global B2B payments friction. the executive added.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Adoption of commercial cards in B2B payments has emerged as one of the hottest industry topics of the year thanks to new FinTech innovations and industry leaders like Visa and Mastercard making a push further into the market. percent of incoming payments volume for B2B vendors by 2020 — up just 1.5 percent from 2017 volume.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2017

So when consumers are cautiously embracing mobile payments, it’s no wonder that corporate payers are even slower at taking up the technology. Still, adoption is slowly but surely on the rise, with businesses beginning to consider using the technology for their own payment needs, too. Bank has lent support for mobile B2B payments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

With speed being the most obvious value proposition of real-time payments capabilities, it’s not difficult to imagine that corporate payers would be eager to embrace faster payments functionality in their accounts payable (AP) departments. And for many firms, that’s exactly what they’re beginning to do.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Small business financial services firm Intuit is taking advantage of Apple’s move to roll out Apple Pay as a web offering, linking the electronic payment tool into its QuickBooks platform for B2B payments. Further, 64 percent of businesses said they see their invoices go 60 days or longer without being paid.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Embracing electronic B2B payments is a two-way street: Payers and payees alike have to put in the effort to make the change. But there is a third party involved in this transition that plays a huge role in businesses’ ability to put down the paper: the bank. There is a lot going on in B2B payments,” he said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Between the rise of blockchain technology, the market debuts of faster payments initiatives and the advancements in virtual card capabilities, small businesses have more choice and power when it comes to their payments needs. there is evidence that B2B payment practices are improving. In the U.S., But the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As payments giants like Visa and Mastercard shift the innovation spotlight onto B2B transactions, developers of new accounts payable solutions are ushering in a growing trend: designing payment tools not just for the payer, but for the B2B supplier as well. Vroozi Pay Eyes Vendor Relations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

In B2B payments, corporates’ continued use of paper checks confounds FinTech firms working to give businesses more affordable, faster and more efficient payment options. Yet, for many business payers, the reason for using checks can be quite straightforward: It’s simply the way payments have always been made.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Small businesses’ late payment pains know no borders. This week’s B2B Data Digest uncovers the global cash flow threat of extended supplier payment terms, with the matter reaching from the U.S. Australia, meanwhile, has kept the late payments challenge in the headlines as policymakers begin to single-out notorious late-payers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

Kate Carnell , the small business ombudsman of Australia, however, called the remark “stupid” and noted “there would be a lot of businesses trading insolvent” if firms didn’t possess the necessary funds to remunerate suppliers on schedule, The Australian reported.

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