PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

Mooncard, a France-based FinTech that provides businesses with payments cards and expense management solutions, has announced $5.7 Mooncard combines a physical card solution with a digital expense management platform to streamline the spend management process for businesses. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It was also indicative of a growing trend of B2C merchants expanding into the B2B realm in an effort to take advantage of a surging market. The Outsourced FinTech Opportunity. Technology today can automate a range of workflows surrounding a B2B payment, including invoicing, payment term management and payment processing.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Treasury management provider Dragonfly Financial Technologies launched independently from an ACI Worldwide sale. Alkami partnered with Clinc for conversational AI, Atomic for direct deposit switching and FINBOA for payment dispute management. Personal loan and credit card provider Avant secured funding from Ares Management Corporation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

With more than $89 million raised, B2B FinTechs this week impressed venture capitalists (VCs) with a range of services, including small business accounting, financing, spend management and payroll. based Tribal Credit is targeting small businesses in emerging markets, enabling them to access alternative financing. In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Digital banking and payments firm i2c is partnering with FinTech healthcare credit card SmartHealth PayCard , i2c announced on Tuesday (Feb. SmartHealth PayCard is enabled with the agile processing of i2c and is offering the first healthcare-only credit card.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

From competitors to collaborators, the FinTech boom introduced a field of opportunity for traditional financial institutions to team up with an industry newcomer to become more agile and modern with their own product offerings. On the other hand,” he added, “the pandemic doesn’t just spare FinTechs. Financing Burdens.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Most fintech companies are fine, but they’ve stopped blowing off econ class for mimosa brunches. Especially in fintech, which had the roughest semester last spring. Then, bad grades came in right as summer party season kicked off, mom and dad took away the car and credit card, and the Venmo transfers came to a screeching halt.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Taking a page from Goldman Sachs’ book, Morgan Stanley is beginning to lend to FinTech startups in Brazil as it seeks more of a return on its investments. Morgan Stanley’s move comes at a time when the Brazil FinTech market is exploding. Fortress Investment Group also took part in that deal.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2020

EedenBull , a Norwegian FinTech, has rolled out its new commercial card platform to banks to take advantage of better B2B payment capabilities, according to a press release. The new cards will be rolled out at select banks all over the world within the next one to two years, the release states.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

That arm of the financial technology (FinTech) giant offers a virtual credit card. Chinese regulators are looking to strengthen the rules for FinTechs. Howard Yu , director of the Swiss–based International Institute for Management Development, told PYMNTS that a restructuring may be on the horizon.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Finally, looking at Canadian “fintech” (financial technology) specifically, funding was up substantially in the first half of the year. Canadian fintech companies raised $251M through the end of H1’19, nearly double the $133M raised in H1’18. The 2019 Canadian fintech market map. Data is as of 10/8/2019.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

Sage will offer its small business customers of its accounting and business services offerings in Spain B4B Payments’ existing expense management prepaid card solution. We are very pleased to be working with B4B as a strategic partner as they are making an important contribution to the continuing market leadership of Sage solutions.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

While small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) continue to hustle to secure portions of various federal coronavirus relief funding, the commercial card industry is finding itself in a position to support SMBs and their cash flow needs, too. Boost Finds A Surge In Corporate Card Interest. Visa Fuels Supplier Card Acceptance.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Spend controls were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to feature and program launches. This week’s commercial card innovation tracker includes a rollout of the next generation of authorization controls from Comdata Inc., Finaxar Teams With Visa On SMB Spend Management.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

In Australia, the commercial card market is one example of how bureaucracy and legacy process have stifled access to important SMB financial services, despite a continued surge in banking innovation and digitization. “People don’t just want a physical credit card to swipe at the shops,” he said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In the fourth quarter, the two companies aim to work with "business and corporate cards, travel cards, fleet cards and procurement cards, among other corporate payment solutions" to aid businesses of varying sizes and sectors to move cashless payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

In seed funding from well-known angel investors, corporate card FinTech Karbon Card has notched $2 million. Amit Jangir and Pei-fu Hsieh started Karbon Card last year. The firm offers an alternative to corporate cards. In separate news, India landed its first SMB credit card via EnKash per news last summer.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Analysis of contactless card transactions revealed that the volume of commercial card contactless payments, both debit and credit, jumped 24 percent between 2018 and 2019. At the same time, commercial credit cards’ cash advances dropped 14 percent last year. SumUp Wields Cards For Faster Revenue.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Necessity being the mother of invention, consumers rapidly reset their lives around digital across the board — from working to shopping to learning to managing their financial lives online. Kikkeri said the pandemic’s shift in consumer behavior isn’t the only big change to the market that has recently appeared on the horizon.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

The corporate expense management market doesn’t look like it once did. The commercial card and expense management market is yet another space in which collaboration between FIs and FinTechs has proved key to driving innovative tools – especially as corporates grow weary with the traditional legacy services their banks provide.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 22, 2018

market gets saturated with various P2P apps, consumers are demanding that Venmo or Apple Pay or whatever platform they are using provide them with some money-management capabilities as well. Even at major fintech conferences such as Finovate in Santa Clara, Calif., […]. As the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Commercial cards continue to explore more use cases to optimize spend for businesses, from accounts payable (AP) to employee travel and expense management. Increasingly, the corporate card industry is also looking at ways to take advantage of the unique challenges in particular industries. Cards Tackle Event Planning Expenses.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

For SMBs, what’s in the cards … are more card readers. Those latter two firms have been in the in-store POS market for quite some time (Square, for example, since 2009). Chase has also said that its new SMB offering will enable firms to take card payments within minutes. To that end, the banking giant J.P.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

With the global pandemic creating a market of volatility, corporate spend is down as businesses look to safeguard their bottom lines against macroeconomic headwinds. What's more, the market lull may offer a moment to focus on innovation for the future as commercial payment habits shift — perhaps permanently.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Mastercard and Norwegian financial technology (FinTech) company EedenBull have agreed to expand their partnership to the Asia Pacific region, the firms announced Monday (June 29). The service, offered by a network of banks in the Nordics, has been adopted by more than 10,000 registered businesses, the FinTech company said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

B2B FinTechs are once again showing off the versatility of the corporate card. While QuickBooks is piloting card payments on invoices powered by PayPal , Airwallex is readying the launch of its own corporate card — both physical and virtual — designed to enable cross-border payments. QuickBooks Adds Card Payment Support.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

But keeping track of it all can be a challenge — especially knowing what card is being charged, by whom, and when. Knowing which card pays which subscription, let alone canceling them, can be a pain point. Founded in 2016 in Gothenburg, Sweden, Minna enables customers to manage subscription services via their bank’s app.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Corporate profits are at all-time highs and the markets are mad bullish. At least those flames are casting light on flawed, outdated (even paper-based) expense management practices, as reported in the latest PYMNTS Workforce Spend Playbook. It’s not as if corporate travel managers don’t get it. Paper Receipts?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Lithuania wants to become a global FinTech powerhouse. In recent years, the market has gone from one struggling with high financial illiteracy and limited card acceptance, to a bright spot in Europe for FinTech innovation. Regulation is perhaps the strongest driver of Lithuania’s FinTech-friendly environment.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. In some respects, AOBA 2022 felt a bit like bank executives wanted to “fake it until they make it” with their future innovation and fintech.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

With commercial cards an increasingly popular choice in the B2B payments space, industry innovators are exploring pockets of opportunity to drive adoption through mitigating friction. For others, commercial card innovation comes in the form of overcoming the adoption hurdle of a lack of supplier acceptance. InstaRem Expands BizPay.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Banks' embrace of FinTech is often driven by consumers' growing demand for a more seamless and unified experience. This week's look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaboration and open banking initiatives finds treasury management in the spotlight. But corporates can benefit from industry collaboration, too. Tink & Enel X.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Mastercard and pan-European FinTech myPOS are teaming up to promote card payment solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe, Mastercard announced on Thursday (Feb. The strategic partnership aims to inform more SMBs about the new tools for card acceptance that can fit their needs and budget.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

For Walmart, FinTechs are in sight — but where to from here? As reported , Walmart is working with Ribbit Capital to create an as-yet unnamed FinTech that would, the companies said on Monday (Jan. The notion of scaling into the markets may indeed be gaining traction. As reported late last year , a U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

Greenspring Associates is a global venture capital investment platform managing assets in excess of $10 billion. FinTech venture capital fund Broadhaven Ventures; U.S. venture capital firm Tekton Ventures; and Rahul Mehta, managing partner of DST Global. . Other investors include U.K. Past investors include Jafco Co.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

TerraPay, a Dutch FinTech, has been acquired by a number of investors, including Prime Ventures, Partech Africa and management for an undisclosed amount. TerraPay management said it developed the FinTech company to solve a problem that many countries faced when trying to execute cross-border payments.

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