PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2020

Tackling B2B payments friction is a journey, but when corporates take their transactions global, finding a remedy for cross-border B2B payments is a much more complicated process. ” Tackling B2B payments on a global scale calls for collaboration, McCarthy explained. . More Hurdles Ahead.

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Cross-Border B2B Innovation Payments 95

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

With nearly $90 million in new funding landing at B2B FinTechs this week, investors showed off a diverse range of focuses, from procure-to-pay to small business payments. Digital small business payment services provider Statrys , based in Hong Kong, announced $5 million in fresh funding. and Hong Kong.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

To enable greater efficiency and quicker access to working capital for buyers and suppliers, Mastercard has unveiled the rollout of the Track TM Business Payment Service in the U.S. ” The Track Business Payment Service allows suppliers and buyers to handle their payments in a more efficient manner, per the company.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Venture capital appears to be picking back up in the B2B technology startup community. This week saw an impressive $324 million in combined funding for a range of B2B FinTechs and other solution providers, including alternative lenders looking to support small businesses as they manage working capital instability.

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B2B Small Business Participant Non-Bank 90

Stax

MARCH 14, 2024

During the 2020s, almost all businesses will have been looking at b2b payments processing solutions to meet changing consumer needs. Online and contactless adoption multiplied, and digital payments rose. consumers using two or more types of digital payment methods increased by 8%. Learn More What are B2B Payments?

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The Fintech Times

MAY 3, 2025

Cross Rivers solution offers businesses a range of payment pathwaysfrom SWIFT for secure, standardised cross-border transactions to local bank rails optimised for domestic B2B and B2C transfers. Cross River also provides business banking accounts through Aion, including a High-Yield Business Account.

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International Payments Cross-Border Cross-Border Payments Same Day ACH 69

Fintech Finance

JANUARY 16, 2024

Balance , the digital payment platform, is announcing its new suite of products spanning the B2B transaction lifecycle. This is why our solutions now optimize across the transaction lifecycle, from order placement to payment Settlement.” Tackling this problem required going beyond the point of purchase.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Bottomline is taking the time to enhance its banking products, he added, with a focus on commercial and corporate onboarding capabilities, as well as the development of a "cash flow optimizer," which aggregates data and analyzes to provide actionable insights.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In a press release , Payment Rails said its white label platform supports business payments sent to more than 220 countries in more than 135 currencies. The firm’s co-founder and chief product officer, Ferhan Patel, said the tool aims to fill gaps left by companies’ own banks.

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API Cross-Border Payments Payment APIs and Integration Cross-Border 78

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And, much to the relief of corporates, the continuing focus on B2B payments innovation. Businesses have begun to shed the notion that they are slow to embrace new technologies, and that means the disruptive services and solutions coming out of the financial services space aren’t leaving B2B payments in the dust.

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B2B Cross-Border Blockchain Small Business 73

PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Is it prime time for real time, especially for B2B? The rise of Zelle , and any number of peer-to-peer (P2P) payment options, has increasingly brought consumers on board with the need for speed in payments — where settlement is marked by seconds and minutes, not hours or days. Where We Stand In The US.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The Visa Ready Program for Business Solutions is growing with the addition of the Extend platform into its offering. “Extend redefines the way commercial credit cards are issued and used for business expenses,” said Extend CTO and Co-founder Danny Morrow in a statement. In a press release Tuesday (Dec.

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B2B Payment APIs and Integration Commercial Card Payments 63

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

However, other notable B2B FinTech investments this week have come from startups targeting the inefficiencies of corporate banking, logistics and freight booking, and business payments. Modulr offers business payment services, providing companies their own account to facilitate faster and more streamlined transactions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

“The longer it takes for payments to move, the longer it takes for us to get paychecks, for small businesses to get funds,” said Federal Financial Analytics Managing Partner Karen Shaw Petrou in an interview with the publication. Keeping Checks In B2B Payments.

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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.

ACH 74

ACH Payment APIs and Integration Business Payments Checks 74

Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

APRON , the business payments powerhouse, has raised a $30 million Series B funding round to help more small business owners make it by digitising and simplifying the payments process, and bring greater security to these companies’ cash flow.

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Small Business Payments B2B Product 98

PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

QR codes have enjoyed mounting adoption in the consumer payments landscape around the world in recent years as FinTech solutions embrace end-user efficiency and take advantage of smartphone penetration. Their use for B2B payments, however, remains limited — but in the U.K., A B2B Opportunity.

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Payment Initiation B2B Online and Mobile Banking Small Business 60

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Despite some drawbacks, legacy rails have mounds of potential to tackle a multitude of B2B payments friction points. For payments technology players, finding the opportunities to build upon existing infrastructure continues to open up new doors in B2B payments improvements. Adflex Eyes Card Rails For B2B.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

Don’t let the seemingly low value of $42 million raised this week by B2B venture capital firms fool you: VC activity in the space was strong, hitting key verticals like cross-border payments and SaaS. Find out who’s planning ahead in our breakdown of B2B venture capital from the week below. and international operations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

When it comes to B2B payments digitization, not every company will experience the same journey. The current picture is quite optimistic: Researchers estimated that roughly half the value of mid-market B2B payments is already digital, with 59 percent of firms reporting the use of electronic funds transfer (EFT) to pay their invoices.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

In the B2B world, the time is now for faster payments. In the Real-Time Payments Innovation Playbook , done in partnership between PYMNTS and Mastercard , financial decision-makers from nearly 400 firms across a dozen industries laid out a number of priorities for making their payment processes more efficient.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It's a distinction that showcases BELLIN's tm5 TMS as having all the requirements to integrate SWIFT gpi , SWIFT 's payment rail that facilitates traceable, real-time, cross-border corporate payments. blockchain is picking up steam as a payments rail, too. Outside the U.S., Mexico, Nigeria and Tanzania.

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Fintech Finance

MARCH 26, 2025

Many emerging middle-market companies are eager for more control over their business-to-business payments. From subscriptions to invoices, finance teams want a payment solution that keeps their company cards secure while maximizing rewards, productivity, and working capital. trillion in 2023.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Pakistan is taking a significant step toward promoting digital B2B payments in the country. 8) said business payments FinTech firm Haball is collaborating with electronic trading platform 1Link and Meezan Bank to develop a digital B2B payments solution. Banking Tech reports on Monday (Oct.

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B2B Money Laundering Non-Bank Payments 51

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

APRIL 16, 2025

From a Press Release Dated April 15, 2025, New York, NY Instacart Business has partnered with Balance, a B2B financial infrastructure provider, to launch an embedded invoicing and pay-by-invoice solution directly within the Instacart platform.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

The global pandemic has thrown businesses into an entirely new playing field and left many scrambling to act. Retail demand has risen sharply for items like home cleaning supplies and groceries, while dropping off in other product categories, leaving companies to adjust to these shifting purchasing patterns. About the Report.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

“If you speak to business owners or C-level executives from small or large businesses, they will all tell you that they are facing the same challenges when it comes to buying and paying,” he said. Many of those pain points are, by now, well-known in the B2B payments space. Spend Friction, From Employee Spend To AP.

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Business Payments Payer Payments B2B 52

Finextra

JUNE 13, 2025

The Rise of Payment Tokenisation To address this growing threat, an additional and effective approach is gaining traction in B2B payments security: payment tokenisation. These tokens are stored and managed outside the business’s systems, in highly secure external environments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

GTCR, which acquired Paya in 2017 and remains the company's largest shareholder today, encouraged the company to accelerate product and technological development, a capability supported through operating as a private firm. Transaction volume for organizations in product areas like durable goods and PPE were up too, unsurprisingly. "We

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Business Payments Payments Volume Caps 75

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

FinTech SumUp is launching its first card for business payments, in partnership with Mastercard , SumUp announced in a blog post on Tuesday (Feb. The new SumUp Card will enable merchants to quickly access money and monitor finances while making necessary business payments. The card will also help U.K.

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Visa Business Payments Point-of-Sale (POS) Payments 56

PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

The solution supplies economical, real-time, business disbursements, peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers and B2B supplier payments to accommodate every corporate demand. . The founders of Pungle — Paul Birkness and Braulio Lam — joined Berkeley’s executive team as chief product officer chief technology officer respectively.

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Business Payments Real Time Payments Payments ACH 53

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

For businesses, the world market was thrown into volatility, yet soon, new opportunities emerged. At the commencement of 2020, the commercial card was continuing to find its footing in a world of B2B payments in which supplier acceptance remained limited. Winter Blues. Summer Trips: Canceled. Autumn: What’s Ahead.

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Commercial Card Push-to-Card Small Business Card Issuer 98

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The expansion of traditionally consumer-focused FinTechs widening their solution scope to include B2B payments tools exemplifies just how massive the opportunity is for service providers to tackle friction. Around the world, B2B transfers are expected to reach a $218 trillion valuation in the next three years alone.

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Cross-Border B2B Cross-Border Payments Blockchain 53

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recent analysis from Juniper Research found that blockchain-powered cross-border B2B payments are expected to reach a $4.4 In a statement, TCH Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Development Steve Ledford said that RTP can benefit corporates by providing “real-time cash management” capabilities.

B2B 52

B2B RTP Cross-Border FPC 52

PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2018

B2B payments is at the center of efforts to innovate by FinTechs, banks and others, but corporates’ business-to-business payment processes remain complex, erroneous and a deterrent to growth. Yet this research clearly shows current processes for B2B transactions are letting them down.”.

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B2B SWIFT Payments Faster Payments 47

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Payments company Azimo , which has typically focused on consumer money transfers, is now stepping into the business payments space. and European businesses, reports in IBS Intelligence said. Azimo Business, which launches today (Friday, Oct. The solution will first roll out for U.K.

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Business Payments Cross-Border Payments Small Business 49

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

“Everybody likes to talk about the Uber effect, how when [you are] in an Uber and realize that the payment is just instant, you sort of start expecting that in all parts of your life,” said Shelly Swanback , president of product and platform at Western Union. Hurdles Facing Business Payments.

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Automation B2B Payments Fraud Detection 85