PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Amazon takes advantage of cloud adoption with expanded call center functionality, while Sage collaborates on small business cash flow management. Meanwhile, Aareal Bank launches a new B2B payments platform, Cobase teams up for FX and eCapital acquires a commercial lender.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

India’s small business finance space got some renewed attention by investors this week when local startup numberz.in offers cash flow management for businesses. announced seed funding. Owned by Paradime Technologies, numberz.in Numberz.in

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

14) said Intuit’s report found a lack of proper record-keeping landed at the top spot of the list of the biggest frustrations for small businesses’ accountants, with nearly three-quarters of professionals surveyed saying this was the most common problem they saw. Reports Thursday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Seed , which launched in 2015 to disrupt small business (SMB) banking, is emphasizing its focus on mobile-first solutions in the wake of revelations of its recent survey. 18), Seed revealed news that it is rolling out small business banking solutions and released the results of a survey of 423 small businesses in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

Recent data has warned that small business (SMB) optimism is beginning to drop after months of record highs. the latest evidence has suggested that entrepreneurs are holding onto their financial confidence — though it may be changing the ways they manage company cash. ”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

With more than $65 million placed with B2B FinTech firms this week, it wasn’t the most lucrative roundup for the industry. Yet, venture capitalists revealed revamped interest in the B2B eCommerce and procurement spheres, exploring technologies like blockchain to enhance supply chains and the buyer-supplier relationship.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Business owners may be experts in their particular industries, but that doesn’t mean they’re always familiar with some of the back-end processes of running a company, like cash management and investing. But there are other reasons a sale of a small business can hit a wall. That’s where SMERGERS comes in.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

As PYMNTS looks back at the biggest stories of 2018, open banking and APIs became a central focus of the payments and financial services industry in areas like corporate treasury and small business banking. Small businesses aren’t necessarily convinced of the benefits that open banking promises.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

WEX Talks Bank Partnerships To Advance B2B Payments. To meet the needs of is larger SMB customer base, Radius Bank announced the rollout of its new business banking platform and mobile app for small firms, developed as a result of the Narmi partnership. Finantier Joins Y Combinator With Open Finance Model.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Small business owners have historically faced a unique challenge in the banking world: Financial institutions (FIs) can sometimes fail to clearly define their small business services, blurring the lines between personal and corporate banking and forcing an SMB to fit somewhere within that ambiguity.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Until quite recently, small businesses (SMBs) have been stuck with their financial institutions (FIs) either providing them with sophisticated, expensive treasury management offerings or simply making do with banking services designed for individual consumers. So small businesses were stuck.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Small business accounting and cash management took home the gold this week, with two startups raising a collective $93 million in funding. But the streak of B2B FinTech investments continues for startups of several industries, including cybersecurity, alternative finance and more. Expense Management.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

In an announcement made Thursday (March 24), the bank revealed the rollout of its Deposit Express mobile app, geared specifically for small businesses and employees collecting paper checks while out in the field. Bank Head of Receivables Solutions for Treasury Management Sam Robb in a statement.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

the outlook of how accelerated transaction times might impact B2B payments and, more specifically, the issue of late payments to suppliers, remains unclear. When NACHA first released its Same Day ACH capability, only about 6 percent of the first 2 million transactions made in the service’s first 11 days were B2B payments.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Moody’s Corporation is partnering with the Foundation for Small Business Development (FFSBD) to connect small businesses with cash flow forecasting solutions and other financial resources. “Effective cash flow management is essential for every small business in the U.S.,”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

small businesses are losing billions of dollars every year because they aren’t properly managing company cash flow, a new survey finds. billion every year, collectively, because they spend so much time managing company finances like invoices, employee expenses and financial forecasting. Reports Tuesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

JPMorgan Chase is the latest financial institution to team up with a B2B payments FinTech. 19) announced news that JPMorgan is partnering with Bill.com to integrate its B2B payments technology into its own Chase platforms early next year. It’s not JPMorgan’s first FinTech partnership in its effort to boost B2B services.

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PYMNTS

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.

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Fintech Review

MAY 4, 2025

Whether you are a B2B founder building a global marketplace, a CFO steering a SaaS scale-up, or a finance team tasked with managing complex payments, finding the best fintech tools is critical. Therefore, here comes Fintech Review’s Top 100 Fintech Tools and Platforms for Businesses.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Open banking, bank APIs and data sharing flourished in 2018, with small business and corporate financial services squarely in the path of this financial services trend as banks and FinTechs consider new ways to enhance business payments, accounting, treasury and financial management. Read what he had to say below.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

B2B FinTech venture capitalists are finally in the full swing of summer, with one of the hottest weeks in the industry so far. With headquarters in California, PayStand provides cash management and accounts receivable solutions to business customers using blockchain and SaaS tools. But — surprise! — Check out who it is.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The B2B payments industry continues its push to break businesses’ habit of using paper checks, but players are divided on what payment rail should take their place. The honest answer is there isn’t a single payment method that can solve all issues for businesses or address all of their concerns. The Case For Prepaid.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The stakes are high for businesses of all sizes, and the latest data on corporates in America makes that abundantly clear. Small businesses are anxious, and there is evidence that large corporates’ cash management and investment strategies are also being shaped by political uncertainty. That amounts to $28.9

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Instead, taking a look at the latest solutions to emerge on the market shows various applications for speed in commercial transactions, from faster deposits for small businesses, to virtual cards enabling faster invoice payments for suppliers. Chase Accelerates SMB Bank Deposits. Treasurers See Faster Payments Benefits.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Banks’ shortcomings when servicing small business clients have become an engine behind the FinTech boom. Other SME-serving FinTech companies are offering the digital payments and cash management solutions many traditional FIs consider too costly to offer small businesses. The Small Business Challenge.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

But cash forecasting is democratizing to smaller companies thanks to incoming technology, said TreasuryXpress CEO Anis Rahal. He told PYMNTS how forecasting technology is evolving into an incorporated part of the B2B payments process and why that’s a capability SMEs might want to keep an eye on. ”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This week's look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaborations explores how a range of banks is turning to partners and API connectivity to enhance small business services, from lending to payments. He added that Visa's banking clients will be able to enhance their own small business services as a result of the partnership.

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Payment APIs and Integration Small Business API Underwriting 60

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In a week of multiple nine-figure venture capital funding rounds, B2B FinTech has proved it plans to end the year on a high note. Below, PYMNTS breaks down the more than $912 million raised by B2B FinTech firms this week. Indonesia-based AwanTunai , also operating in the small business lending market, announced $4.3

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2016

Corporations have been chastised in recent years as floods of new data reveal the ongoing prevalence of paper checks in B2B payments. This segment of payments is notorious for its skepticism and slow adoption of new tools — even if those emerging solutions can save a business time and money. B2C To B2B.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

deals were also joined by B2B companies. Affirm, for instance, secured $275 million last May and, soon after, announced plans to link businesses operating over Shopify with financing. The B2B FinTech space is making a name for itself among investors, researchers at Innovate Finance found. Is This Good News Or Bad News?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

FISPAN ’s “sweet spot,” she said, sits with the small to medium-sized firm that is logging international growth and has outgrown small business banking services, accounting and ERP offerings. These corporates need to migrate off a small business banking system into a cloud-based ERP. Many-To-Many Markets .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

.” He pointed to corporates’ use of a business mail exchange as one source of public information that can be used by phishers to identify which email service a company uses, for example. B2C Brands’ B2B Risks. Businesses’ embrace of Microsoft is yet another reflection of this trend.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Last year, reports in The Wall Street Journal , citing unnamed sources, revealed allegations that American Express had quietly increased currency conversion fee rates for their small business customers, shedding light on the often opaque practice among financial service providers when charging FX fees.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

Only a small portion of micro-businesses will graduate to become small businesses, never mind medium-sized businesses. And yes, that’s partly because many of these businesses will fail. “Banks talk about the importance of the micro/small business category,” he recently told Karen Webster.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

bank Santander is hoping to bridge local small businesses to the Chinese market, and is kicking off a series of networking events that bring entrepreneurs to Shanghai. based small businesses in the baby products industry to Shanghai for networking. Head of International John Carroll.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Those changes have an impact on a company's overall cash flows, so it is imperative that businesses are able to automatically connect payroll data into back-office financial management systems. As these trends continue to grow, businesses will have to consider all of the cash flow consequences of a shifting payroll strategy.

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