PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

WEX has reported a $400 million investment from a partner of Warburg Pincus , which the financial services tech firm will use to continue operations amid the global pandemic, according to a press release. In May, WEX tried to back out of the deal, claiming the adverse effects of the pandemic made it impossible.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Across industries and across the globe, industry experts continue to raise concerns about shifting B2B payment habits — often to the detriment of small vendors. But some analysis suggests supplier payment strategies are in flux to better support the working capital positions of corporates.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Although they are vastly different beasts, shifts in the consumer payments ecosystem have significantly impacted the flow of B2B payments. This is a great risk because if you don’t have the proper banking tools to get your funds to maintain your business operations, it can be very dangerous for business.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The world needs a FinTech operating system.”. And governments have an incentive to foster growth in debit payments because they want to collect tax revenue on cash transactions. The world doesn’t need another bank,” Poovala told Webster.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

According to Blue Star Capital , its investee company SatoshiPay has launched a new B2B payments platform to speed up cross-border payments, Proactive reported. The system will integrate currency exchange into every transaction, enabling customers to track payments in real time.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

With B2B eCommerce proliferating, the market is rapidly evolving to make way for new business and payment models in response to customer demand. There are significant opportunities for mid-market B2B firms to not only digitize their sales operations, but to also emerge into more agile corporations that scale to meet their buyers' needs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The fundraising was headed up by Advent International via Advent Tech and Sunley House Capital, an Advent affiliate. Quona Capital, a venture firm that is geared toward FinTech in developing markets, headed up the round, with Omnivore and LGT Lightstone Aspada taking part as well. CloudTrucks. million Series A funding round.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The mergers and acquisitions, the deal-making, the funding and IPOs among payments players may be just getting started. Scan recent headlines and you’ll see that Equifax bought Ansonia Credit Data; Corsair Capital bought B2B payments solution provider MSTS, and OnDeck was bought out. to go public.

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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. Mastercard Track Business Payment Services Launch.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

And those three years have given rise to a slew of new companies capitalizing on that initiative all over the world, as well as established companies making their mark. I’ve spent the last 15 years of my career in payments, and it’s something that has been an increasing problem throughout,” Soliman said in an interview with PYMNTS.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 12, 2017

As the year saw changes in financial regulation, startup culture, and trends in venture capital, innovation moved forward: blockchain labs were made, funding was fought for, mobile payment systems were integrated, and the limits of artificial […].

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Perficient

MAY 26, 2021

Fintech Generations is produced by Queen City Fintech (QCFintech), a premier global fintech accelerator program, and is part of the RevTech Labs operating companies. RevTech Labs alumni have raised over $2 billion in venture capital and have had more than $230 million in company exits. Beth Johnson, Chief Experience Officer, Citizens.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Small business lending emerged as a common theme in this week’s B2B venture capital roundup, and it’s no surprise, considering the role small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) play in supporting their local economies. Current investors from A91 Partners, MAJ Inevst, LGT Lightstone and Falcon Edge Capital also participated.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

Payment collections software company Ontario Systems has acquired SwervePay to help bolster its electronic payment capabilities, according to a press release. Ontario Systems aims to sell RevQ+ software on the market, which works with managing the collection of fees for court-ordered debt payment, income taxes and property tax.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The global payments ecosystem’s path to faster and real-time payments ubiquity is an evolution, not a revolution. Among corporates, there is an increasing demand that their global payment activity is able to keep up with the pace of doing business. Progress in Tackling Cross-Border Payments Friction.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

To that end, Ken Gavrity , head of enterprise payments at KeyBank , told Karen Webster that companies must re-examine the most basic operations in order to stay afloat and maybe even thrive – or face existential threats as they mull the great digital shift. Looking at Working Capital – and Security.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

16), at the same time that it launched a first-of-its-kind payments product, CT Cash, to help truckers manage payments. The CloudTrucks app helps truck owners and operators manage their businesses by optimizing their driving schedules for better pay rates, maximizing cash flow and reducing operating costs.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 31, 2017

But new businesses are often multi-jurisdictional from day one, multi-platform and technically sophisticated in everything from equity capital to treasury to accounting and payroll software. To my mind, it’s the one area, after payments, where banking may well be challenged in the short term. What impact does that have?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Payment innovators are embracing the opportunities to mix payment rails old and new in search of business-to-business (B2B) solutions that can tackle longstanding friction. Visa To Use Card Rails For Digital Currency B2B Payments. Velo Labs, Lightnet, Visa Collab On Blockchain SMB Payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Mastercard and ACI Worldwide are teaming up to “provide a wide range of real-time payment solutions globally.” This will address the opportunity created as the “account-to-account payments market continues to quickly expand,” a press release said on Tuesday (Sept. ACI is a payment-systems company headquartered in Naples, Fla.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We will introduce data innovation that embeds risk and control elements expected from SWIFT, creating peace of mind for business-critical operations. Last month, AscendantFX Capital, a Toronto-based cross-border payments provider, joined the SWIFT network.

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Payments Dive

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The digital payments company is aiming to cut costs by streamlining operations, reducing capital expenditures and pulling back on vendor contracts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Danske Bank , the Copenhagen-based retail bank, has partnered with FinTech firm Zenegy to roll out a new method for automating payments made with corporate cards, a report from Crowdfund Insider says. As people stay home to work more often, companies have adopted digital methods of payment.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Consumers are moving to digital payments and cryptocurrency in droves, and it’s inevitable that more central banks will issue digital forms of currency, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said in a televised interview on Monday (Nov. Paxos, PayPal’s partner, operates itBit. 23) Benzinga report.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

For B2B payments , the pandemic may be the final nail in the coffin of the paper check — and the plastic commercial card, too. Those pain points center around cash flow, manual processes (where employees match invoice and payment data), and the management of suppliers. Streamlining Payments For Buyers And Suppliers Too .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

From coordinating a team of newly remote workers to assessing new business models, the coronavirus pandemic is drastically disrupting the way organizations run and it is forcing a complete rethink of almost every aspect of operations — payments included. While it’s still early days, Boost Payment Solutions Founder and CEO Dean M.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Red Dot Capital Partners has landed $200 million to invest in tech firms, Walmart announced it would sell its retail operations in Argentina to Grupo de Narváez. Israeli’s Red Dot Capital Raises $200M For Southeast Asia-Focused Tech Startups.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

8) announced a beta offering called Line of Credit that it says lets its FinTech customers use the XRP digital currency to send cross-border payments. We allow you to lock in a rate at the time of the payment, then repay us when it’s convenient for you, for a small fee.”. “We The service is not available to individuals.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Convoy , which works in digital freight, announced a new service called Convoy Factoring, which is powered by Apex Capital and touted as a cost-efficient, quick payment method for B2B needs for freight carriers, according to a press release. The rate will be for zero percent for any Convoy loads and 1 percent to 2.99

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Chris Skinner

MAY 30, 2017

Here is how he saw things … Fintech in Rwanda: the place where Telcos are surpassing Banks in the financial sector Telcos dominate in the financial sector of Rwanda Last week I participated in the leading fintech conference in Africa “Dot Finance”, which took place in Kigali, capital of Rwanda. ATM of Rwanda”: Tigo Cash agent.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Sezzle , the installments payments platform, will be working on buy now, pay later (BNPL) services with Target , a press release says, which will test how the popular payment trend works with the retail giant's operations. After a recent $55 million capital raise , Sezzle plans to focus more on that area of business.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

Talk of a venture capital plummet continues to grow, particularly in Europe, where new data from Consultancy Europe revealed that the number of venture capital deals for startups across the continent has declined every quarter since Q1 2019. with total funding nearly reaching $391.25 million this week. Volante Technologies.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The global pandemic has, no doubt, changed the B2B payments landscape forever. The name of the game today is digitization, with paper checks and cash no longer viable payment methods in the context of moving funds from one business to another. Optimizing The Logistics-Payments Link. The Commercial Card Catalyst.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Personal finance, banking and investment platform MoneyLion has named Samantha Roady chief operating officer as it makes moves to expand its customer base. Roady, who has been on MoneyLion’s board of directors since 2016, was previously a founding partner at GAIN Capital and president of its global retail brokerage business.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Reports have said the move by the payments messaging company positions the firm take on payments giants Visa and Mastercard. ” Reports noted the importance of SWIFT expanding into the SMB payments arena beyond high-value complex corporate transactions. Sila Raises Funding to Nix ACH. The company recently announced $7.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As real-time payments make their way to ubiquity in markets around the globe, more small- to medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) are exploring how instant transactions may be able to add value to their own operations. API integrations can make it easier than ever for third-party FinTech solutions to enhance their own payment capabilities.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Along the way, these companies that are embracing eCommerce have seen an increasing percentage of sales derived from digital payments. Digital payments — and specifically, card-not-present transactions — may be convenient for consumers, but can impact the very operations of the retailers serving them.

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