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On-Demand Matchmaking Takes Swing At SMB Logistics

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It’s a race that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), both B2C and B2B, can struggle to keep up with considering their limited resources to invest in warehousing, fulfillment, shipping and other logistics operations. You’ve got short-term seasonality demands. For the B2C business, this is clearly a lost sale.

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Market Volatility Gives B2C Sellers’ The Chance To Go B2B

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This is the opportunity MSTS identified when establishing its service, which can connect these buyers to sellers that have the inventory they need nearby and on-demand while still ensuring that those buyers can enforce their contract pricing, whether those purchases are made in-store or online. B2C Sellers’ B2B Incentive.

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How Disbursements Bring B2C-Like Innovation To The B2B Sphere

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While B2B payments innovation often takes a page or two out of the business-to-customer (B2C) payments world, the rise of the gig economy and freelance professionals have challenged the payments space to develop solutions that can appear to be a hybrid of corporate and consumer solutions. That goes for both the consumer and their workers.

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Bringg Brings Competitive Edge In On-Demand Climate

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The on-demand revolution is well under way, fueled by innovators like Amazon and Uber as well as the move to online and mobile channels. The idea for Bringg began back in 2010 during the on-demand and logistics revolution as it happened, Sion said. Sion gave a simple B2C example: pizza delivery. Enter Bringg.

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Everlink, FINTAINIUM Team Up To Offer Real-Time B2B, B2C Payments

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Everlink Payment Services is teaming with workflow solutions provider FINTAINIUM to offer B2B and B2C payments in real time, leveraging the ISO 20022 global standard, according to a press release.

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PayPal: Taking On Corporates’ B2C Payment Pain Points With Digital Wallets

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For corporates, moving money across borders is linked to no shortage of friction points, particularly as businesses elevate their demands for speed, visibility and predictability in their transactions. However, as Magats noted, the friction associated with B2C payments isn’t isolated to the recipient side of a transaction.

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Today In Digital-First Banking: Zelle Exceeds 1B P2P Payments; China’s Digital Yuan Tests Process 4M+ Transactions

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Zelle exceeded the one-billion transaction threshold over the past year, with the pandemic leading to higher demand. Everlink, FINTAINIUM Team up to Offer Real-Time B2B, B2C Payments. Plus, Bloomberg clients will now have the capacity to use the company’s terminal to look at Credit Benchmark’s risk data.

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