PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The demand for online payments has skyrocketed following the restrictions due to the effects of COVID, and as a company, we are well placed to provide businesses across the globe with the solutions they need and to get them up and running fast,” Rapyd Co-Founder and CEO Arik Shtilman said in a Wednesday (Jan. 13) press release. . “The

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

With a focus on small retailers, ShopX offers online commerce and supply chain management services with support for mobile access to its services. With plans to expand its service offering for corporate customers, freee provides cloud-based accounting and human resources (HR) management solutions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

An online marketplace where clothing resale has gotten a financial shot in the arm. TechCrunch reports that Poshmark , which began as a site for the buying and selling of women’s fashion but has since expanded to also include brand new goods, has raised $25 million in a funding round led by GGV Capital.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. It has also begun work in stock trading and cash management accounts.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

13-14, online merchants in America and beyond are preparing for the earliest, most aggressive selling season ever. Kenny Tsang , managing director at cross-border payments service provider PingPong , told Karen Webster that merchants must be ready — and must execute well. No Turning Back On Digital. No Turning Back On Digital.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

We’re excited to extend our partnership with Stripe to offer our customers capital and real-time access to funds so they can take on more jobs and better operate their businesses.”. Jobber provides software for skilled tradespeople to manage their businesses, which have collectively served more than 10 million customers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

But a new solution from Bank of America Merrill Lynch is looking to make better use of the notoriously manual tool. Its new tool, CashPro Assistant, includes analytics and forecasting solutions, which rely on AI and predictive analytics to help corporate customers manage and analyze their banking and financial data.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The cash flow challenges for small businesses have been in place for a while, in Latin America since well before the pandemic took root. And in an interview with PYMNTS, Jacob Shoihet , co-founder and CEO of the online financing platform Marco Financial , said the problem is particularly acute for exporters. “In

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2020

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is turning to its financial services unit to extend over $2 billion in financing and programs to assist business customers with cash management issues amid the global pandemic. . But while they are looking to preserve cash, they also have technology needs due to work from home and online business expansion.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2020

Some of Spiff’s investors include Norwest Venture Partners, Next World Ventures and Epic Ventures, with seed investors Kickstart Album Ventures, Pipeline Capital and Peterson Ventures also participating. The transformation for some has been slow, PYMNTS reported , with paper processes still used in many cases.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

Lightspeed and Stripe have teamed up to launch Lightspeed Capital, which will, initially offer loans aimed at small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) in the U.S., based merchants with overall business growth, more specifically to buy inventory, invest in marketing, or manage cash flows,” the company said in a press release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

In total, investors placed nearly $600 million for firms in the B2B payments, T&E, financial management and other B2B spaces. Despite a slowdown in corporate travel, expense management and travel booking technology provider SalesTrip still managed to impress investors, which pumped $1.4 Modern Treasury. Modern Treasury.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Private technology companies in Latin America have raised over $5.8B Want the 12-page report for free?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

billion in a move that could result in the world’s largest online food delivery firm outside of China. Grubhub CEO and Founder Matt Maloney will join Just Eat Takeaway.com’s board of directors, where he will lead the North America business. trillion market capitalization. Amazon Taps Goldman To Launch SMB Credit Program.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Previously, Strappa was client management and strategy Head for Institutional Clients Group at Citi Latin America. She comes to Chase Merchant Services with background experience in retail and mortgage business management, consulting, strategy, lean manufacturing, operations, transformation and change management.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

Small business lending platform OnDeck is accelerating access to capital for its users through the launch of a same-day funding option. OnDeck said the new solution not only accelerates access to capital, but can also provide greater predictability for enhanced cash flow management. ”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Commerce Ventures, Flint Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Synchrony and Sorenson Capital also participated, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The funding is intended to fuel its growth in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The new features include price reduction, online deal notifications and product alerts for customers. Capital Management is seeking to keep the $175 million it received when Citigroup accidentally paid out several Revlon lenders around $900 million in total.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

Morgan Managing Director and Head of Commercial Card Product Management Naney Pandit says should be a focus this year is in mobilizing the corporate card. Some financial institutions, including Bank of America and UMB Bank, have also invested in mobile B2B payments. One area of development that J.P.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

The consumer finance branch of Goldman Sachs will pay online savings account customers a 2.25 Banks like deposits because they’re an easy and inexpensive way to get capital for loans. Des McDaid, a managing director at Goldman Sachs, said Marcus’ customer base was at 100,000 since its September launch.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are all prevalent themes in this week’s venture capital breakdown, with startups working to overhaul entire processes for their enterprise customers, from logistics to workforce management. New backers Edge Capital Group and World Innovation Lab tacked onto the round, too.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

VTEX, an eCommerce company that has helped companies like Walmart sell online, has raised $140 million in a funding round led by SoftBank’s Latin American fund, according to a report by TechCrunch. The company has grown 43 percent a year for the past five years, and it processes $2.4 billion in gross merchandise value.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

This time, the industry saw modest gains — a couple million in funding here, another million there — with just three venture capital funding rounds. million in venture capital. Also targeting SaaS businesses is UserIQ, which announced its own $2 million Series A funding round this week, led by BIP Capital. i2B Capital.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

This week’s B2B Venture Capital roundup is all about data. However, the biggest funding round of the week went to a company that is not yet in the B2B FinTech space, though it has plans to use the capital to launch a cross-border, small business (SMB) money-transfer service. Catch up on the latest investment rounds below.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

TurboTax , the online tax preparation service, has said it is launching a free stimulus registration system to help people who don’t need to file a tax return. Banks were supposed to start taking in PPP applications on April 3, but only JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America (BoA) had the ability to roll out per a report on April 5.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China’s eCommerce titan Alibaba is capitalizing on that. The B2B buyer is rapidly evolving and becoming more sophisticated, and, in turn, expectations are shifting [toward purchasing] with their payments of choice,” Anjali Shah, director of client management for online merchants at American Express, told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Most notable in the quarter, as evidenced by management commentary, was the fact that more large merchants (defined as volumes of at least $125,000) have been signing on with Square. Lower fuel prices, management noted on the call, have had a drag on business, including in North America.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the food service sector by helping restaurants boost their sales as well as improve and automate systems that were once managed by staff. to provide its dispute management solutions to the latter’s security platform.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Its customers will still be able to shop with the company, both at the stores that remain open and online. The bankruptcy financing from lenders including Bank of America N.A., Wells Fargo National Association and Pathlight Capital LP will allow the company to operate while finalizing sales.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Because many banks are now producing below their cost of capital, growth further exacerbates their issues and drives them out of business (likely through a sale) faster. Without the windfall of profit accrued to banks in 2022 because of faster-than-expected rate increases, banks will need to be better allocators of capital.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Supplier discovery platform scoutbee has raised $60 million in a series B funding round led by Atomico, with Lakestar, Next47, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, 42CAP and Toba Capital all participating, according to a release. . hler, co-founder and managing director of scoutbee. So far, scoutbee has raised $76 million.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Along with existing investors, the round was co-led by Benhamou Global Ventures and Eastern Link Capital. It also included Hanna Ventures, Overstock.com and Zanadu Capital Partners.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

have capitalized on a sea change in how we pay. Cross-border online commerce — awash with opportunities to claim new customers and, of course, grow top lines — should quicken the collective pulse of U.S. To capitalize on that aforementioned eCommerce growth in emerging markets and log sales in those regions, U.S. Though the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

Metrick also outlined a 3-point “Luxury Disrupted” strategy which consisted of edicts such as don’t forget the fashion, make it easy for customers and the need to use data to improve both online and in-store shopping experiences. sustainability manager for H&M told the NRF conferees. The Digital Shift Is Permanent.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 15, 2014

My heart goes out to the hard working professionals who run the Treasury Services or “Cash Management” divisions at community banks. Yet for more than a decade, cash management professionals have shown their resiliency. And they have never asked for much of the bank’s capital to win these big deals.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

But analysts from Bank of America, Square, Navcom and the National Association for the Self-Employed warn that challenges for some SMBs have reached new heights, too. This week’s B2B Data Digest is all about small businesses in America, their financial hurdles and their outlook for the future.

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