PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Online payment platform Trustly’s global expansion plans just got a big boost. The BlackRock-led group is injecting capital into Trustly at a time when the company is building out its network, which enables merchants to accept bank transfers with the same ease as they now take credit card payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This week showed investor interest in B2B FinTech companies in international markets, as a trade finance platform in India and a human resources (HR)/payroll cloud software firm in the U.K. The fundraising was headed up by Advent International via Advent Tech and Sunley House Capital, an Advent affiliate. landed funding rounds.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Hong Kong-based digital payment platform Statrys has recently landed $5 million in funding through a closed-door funding deal with an angel investor with the expectation that the firm will get market share in the expanding remittance and digital payment arena, according to an announcement.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

The startup Flutterwave , which picked up $35 million last year in venture funding, has launched an online portal that will enable African businesses to set up online shops. The company said it would focus on making it easier for African businesses to make payments to other companies, both on the continent and elsewhere.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

Flexibility will be essential to survival, and the pressure is on for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and financial service providers to migrate online as their customers continue social distancing. If there’s one thing for certain for small business today, it’s that nothing is certain. Pinpointing the Opportunity.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2020

Online pizza delivery firm Slice was the beneficiary this week of a $43 million investment from private equity firm KKR & Co. As OfferUp CEO Nick Huzar told PYMNTS , the key to surviving the pandemic will be in finding ways to capitalize on peoples’ needs in the convenient, digital ways more customers are shopping these days.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Bad news hit the startup community this week as new analysis from CBInsights revealed a significant decline in venture capital (VC) funding in the first quarter of 2020. In addition to invoice finance, the company offers SMBs a range of other solutions, including order management and online payments tools. Apollo Agriculture.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This week's roundup of the convergence of accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) takes a look at how B2B payments solution providers are considering both buyers and suppliers as a result of the pandemic. Versapay Eases Payment Pain With AR Tool. NexusPayments Tackles Real Estate Supplier Adoption.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

PayPal appointed Allison Johnson , a marketing veteran with over two decades of experience in her field, as the company’s new executive VP and chief marketing officer (CMO) on Monday (Jan. I was an early convert to PayPal’s vision of fast, secure online payments. 14), according to a release by the company.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Chuck Huang, founder and CEO of Citcon , explores how the pandemic has prompted retailers to capitalize on the surge in demand for contactless, digital payments. "As Merchants that had focused on getting customers to increase time in stores switched to efforts to decrease time in stores, with digital payments playing a key role.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

million in venture capital. As reported by The Business Times , in Singapore, Tin Men Capital, a venture capital firm focused on B2B tech startups, led a $5 million Series A funding round to invest in RateIt. Other investors in the funding round included seed and pre-seed funds Incubate Fund, Better Capital and others.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

DayTek Capital , an Australian challenger bank known for its prepaid “Infinity” card, has been granted a banking license by the country’s Securities and Investments Commission, a report from AltFi says. DayTek was just launched this year, in Queensland, according to the report.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This week Oxx, which tends to focus on B2B software startups, led the $12 million funding round for the company, which also saw participation from Industrifonden, SEB Venture Capital and KTH Chalmers Capital, according to reports. Apica said it will use the funds to expand across the U.S. The company raised $2.5 SMB Lending.

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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. A Single Digital EU Market. That framework can be applied to merchants' payment solution providers, too. Diversifying Risk.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Chipper CEO Ham Serunjogi confirmed on Twitter the startup, which got its initial foothold in the market as a peer-to-peer (P2P) payments service, has just wrapped up a $30 million Series B round of venture capital. Ribbit Capital, a VC firm in the U.S. that focuses on early-stage firms, led the investment round.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, IBM has bought Canada-based Expertus Technologies, while Gojek is rolling out its new GoBiz Plus point-of-sale (POS) offering. Gojek Debuts POS System for Indonesian Merchants That Accepts Cashless Payments. EU Releases First Drafts for Digital Services, Digital Markets Acts.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

How do consumers really want to search online ? That’s a question with obvious relevance to payment and commerce operators. DuckDuckGo does not track consumers’ browsing histories, nor does it sell consumer data to third parties for the purposes of ad targeting and precision marketing. The pitch comes down to privacy.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Payment protection platform Verifi has partnered with digital fraud protection firm Kount Inc. Integrating Verifi’s solutions will allow Kount’s fraud prevention and identity platform to offer restaurants and businesses near-instant payment protection. Boston Market On The Fraud-Fighting, Customer Service-Enhancing Power Of AI.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

That’s why real-time payments and fund disbursements have become so important across industries. bills are still paid with cash or check despite the rise digital tools to facilitate payments. The rise in online shopping means more shoppers needing refunds on returned merchandise. Additionally, nearly half (44 percent) of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

When eBay announced that it would be accepting Apple Pay , it wasn’t the only new development for the online marketplace. Bloomberg reported Tuesday (July 24) that eBay will begin offering merchants up to $100,000 in financing through Square Capital. Square Capital is likely to see a significant boost to its financing volumes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

With the holiday shopping season in full swing amid the global pandemic, online commerce is booming. Despite a surge in sales, small businesses selling online can struggle to manage working capital, particularly as many rely on third-party marketplaces like Amazon that don't facilitate instant access to revenues.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

Invoice factoring company Interstate Capital is focusing on speed with its latest enhancements. The firm said this week it is offering an expedited factoring process to accelerate the time it takes for businesses to access capital when they’re waiting for their invoices to be paid. But competition in the industry is growing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. and Tata Capital has rolled out a new lending platform in India. In other news, India’s Tata Capital has rolled out an online working capital platform for its customers, the company said. Coverage includes U.K.-based

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Online FinTech startup SoFi announced Thursday (Jan. 7) that it was merging with publicly-traded Social Capital in an $8.6 Earlier this year, SoFi acquired payments firm Galileo for $1.2 The FinTech IPO Market. billion, and also expanded internationally by purchasing Hong Kong-based investment app 8 Securities.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2019

Among the ongoing trends in retail is the funding for online used car platforms, and the ongoing rise of eCommerce and digital payments in Latin America. Further evidence of that golden age comes from Indonesia , one of the world’s most populous countries , and a place where eCommerce and digital payments are gaining ground.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Extended payment terms and late payments are a nasty problem in the B2B payments arena, particularly amid pandemic-fueled market volatility. According to Marc Porter , CEO of Porter Capital Corporation , this has indeed been a growing problem throughout supply chains. "We The Big-Box Struggle.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking has partnered with Demica , a working capital FinTech, to roll out a new supply chain finance platform for U.K. FinTech Xendoo , which works in online accounting and bookkeeping solutions, has partnered with Biller Genie on automated accounts receivable (AR) services, a press release says.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Capital One has announced the launch of Business CreditWise , an online tool that enables U.S. Business CreditWise is available to any business in the United States — not just Capital One customers. businesses to check their credit profiles.

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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

JUNE 13, 2018

Barclays announced that it has appointed Shane Holdaway as the company’s CEO of its cards and payments division in the U.S. For the past five years, Holdaway was the president of Capital One’s Canadian division, and played a leading role in the company becoming the exclusive credit card issuer for Costco Wholesale Canada.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Entrepreneurs today have more choices than ever before as to how and where they access financing, but in many ways, that journey to capital hasn’t gotten any easier. According to Nav ’s newly-appointed CEO Greg Ott , the current market sees an estimated $4 trillion in SMB debt origination each year. An Ecosystem Approach.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Online platforms have done much to transform payments — especially in terms of transparency, speed and distribution — across any number of verticals from ride-hailing to food delivery. Or accountants did not do much accounting.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2019

million investment round led by Lead Edge Capital, with participation from Global Founders Capital and other investors. million, with investors also including Sugar Mountain Capital, Fire & Vine Hospitality and Canlis Restaurant. Barn2Door has revealed that it raised a $3.4

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Small businesses continue to flock to online platforms to find much-needed financing, with banks still failing to fill the demand for small to medium-sized business (SMB) loans despite economic growth in the U.S. But the majority of online SMB lenders do not disclose publicly their fees and interest rates, reports warned.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

As PayPal reaches saturation points in Western markets, it wants to continue to expand internationally, especially in India, where the country’s 450 million mobile users make it an attractive target for retailers. It’s not the first payments company in the country, and it has a lot of catching up to do. India is a big market.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

Today, while shutdowns have led many businesses to temporarily halt non-essential spending, many in the market actually expect the expansion of the freelancing community to accelerate as a result of market volatility. Payments are key to the trust equation, particularly when hiring expands across borders.

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