PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Corporate travel and expense report management company Travelstop has launched throughout Asia, with the iPhone playing a key part in its growth efforts. In addition to its expansion in Asia, Travelstop is launching an iPhone app in support of the high penetration rate of mobile devices in the region. Reports Monday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Digitization of B2B payments is on the rise, but the trend is challenged by discrepancies across geographic markets, according to the latest World Payments Report by Capgemini and BNP Paribas. But, despite the increased use of digital payments, cash remains king, especially for low-value transactions. Regional Trends.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

Expense management is scaling globally, literally, as Chrome River is opening an office in the Asia-Pacific region. Roy told PYMNTS that the region has specific payments and expense management considerations that extend, for example, to Australia’s goods and services tax.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2019

The CBA said it will look to include smaller and mid-sized banks on the platform, with eventual additions of tax agencies and customs activities to the platform. Separately, the South Korean government has been eyeing tax breaks for blockchain in a move that looks to bring innovation to the region.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Digital banking provider Alkami acquired data analysis and marketing campaign management provider Segmint Digital banking and payments provider Bottomline was acquired by Thoma Bravo for $2.6B. Payments: Still Hot for Teacher (Wait, Song or Not, Can We Still Say That?). Keep an eye on the initial banks working on these projects.

Fintech 195

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Payments stocks showed similar movement on both the positive and negative sides of the portfolio in terms of performance, with some outsized gains and losses on heels, as has been seen in recent weeks, of earnings reports. Compliance revenue, the company said, was at record highs. The Street had expected $13.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

Tax and accounting compliance can be an overwhelmingly monumental task as companies expand their geographic footprint. Analysts agree that a company should work with partners, advisors and technologies that can help them manage their compliance demand across borders. There are also an “extremely high number” of tax rules.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And while enthusiasm for expanding opportunities to access the Chinese market and its billion-plus consumers is as avid as it’s ever been — as evidenced by last week’s announcement of PayPal and UnionPay’s global payments partnership — the bigger commerce story has expanded beyond China in the last few years.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Corporate travel and expense management software provider Expensify is expanding its reach in Southeast Asia through a new collaboration with the region’s leading ridesharing company, Grab. The company’s solution was featured in PYMNTS’ February Workforce Spend Management Tracker.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

The biggest investment news of the week came on Thursday (July 26), when cross-border B2B payments company Flywire announced an impressive $100 million funding round. Plus, cybersecurity, B2B eCommerce, expense management, small business finance and other verticals took home new funding.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

In the February 2019 Payments and The Platform Economy Playbook , a collaboration between PYMNTS and YapStone, the sharing economy was in focus. In an interview with PYMNTS, Marie Perrin-Largilliere, senior manager of global product marketing at HomeAway, got a bit more granular on how the firm seeks to engage both sides of the transaction.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Carrying enough cash to cover those many needs is often a security risk, though, and drivers who lack the appropriate spending tools could see their delivery schedules veer off track if they have to search for specific retailers that will accept their payment methods. On The Road As A Company Driver.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Small business owners have a lot on their plates today and, depending on who one asks, top concerns range from taxes to late invoice payments. The company surveyed working capital management of the nation’s SMBs and found that, overall, these companies have improved working capital performances.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2019

CFO James Kavanaugh pointed to the Asia Pacific (AP) region, which saw revenue deceleration. billion through the past year, said management. Systems sales slipped 11 percent as mainframe and other hardware demand slid, and demand seemed soft in emerging markets. percent year on year. Cloud revenues are at $19.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

B2B trade and spend management firm Tradeshift is not only expanding its operations in Australia, but it’s setting up new offices there. 28) that it will open offices in Sydney to focus on serving Australian and New Zealand businesses, banking on the region’s solid economy. The company announced Friday (Oct.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 11, 2017

PSD1 was about increasing payments competition and reducing cost. company owned servers and 3) regional jurisdictional data, payments and identity infrastructure is inevitable and the most effective way to manage those threats is by giving would-be-global European firms a competitive edge in the form of regulation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

The mayor, who is also a table games manager at a local casino and hotel, said per the report that he has come across people traveling from states that are close by as well as those that have come from Florida, Texas, New Mexico and New York. As a result, the popularity of brick-and-mortar versus online gaming could vary by region.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

The ingredients for a revolution in payments across the region, fueled by demographics and technology, seem to be there. You can imagine how all of these factors will come together to drive eCommerce across the region.”. Last month, Emergent acquired Interpay , a Ghana-based payments processor.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

landed on the board, too, as alternative lending, small business banking, back-office financial management and accounts receivable technology enticed backers. This information is aggregated over time, allowing business users to obtain trend analysis data on customer payment habits. million in the firm to support that endeavor.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Things have changed of course, because the very nature of payments has changed, and is changing. Batch processing, increasingly, is giving way to real-time payments and processing throughout the day. Cash management becomes a continuous process, throughout the business day. Putting Change in Context.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. 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 16, 2019

The company connects entrepreneurs and freelancers with bank and financial services that include invoicing and payment acceptance, pointing to the challenge of these professionals of getting paid on-time and managing the irregularities of their cash flows.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

If there were a theme in the big headlines this week in payments, financial services and commerce, it would have been movement. Making sense of all the motion in the payments and financial services ocean this week with Karen Webster is RS2 CEO Daniela Mielke to help separate the actual impactful from the mere hype prone.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

To set up shop or maintain relationships in the region, travel is a priority. The fact remains though that payments can prove to be a thorny road to navigate. This is not the first foray into China for Concur, as the firm already has existing partnerships that help firms in the country tackle travel and expense management challenges.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We’ve noted that the stage has been set for M&A to ramp up, due in part to lower corporate taxes, which gives firms higher profits, which in turn gives them more money to both extend loans (building up customer bases) and have money in hand to pursue deals.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

In conversation with Cardtronics’ Brian Bailey, managing director for Global Financial Institutions, and Tom Pierce, chief marketing officer of the firm, Webster noted that even with the rallying cry of a war on cash in the digital economies — and in emerging markets — cash is alive, doing well and actually growing in terms of usage.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

” The greatest effect on the region’s supply chains will be the USMCA ‘s impact on wages, tax incentives and foreign investments at Mexico plants — particularly for the automotive industry, since Mexico currently ranks as the second-largest vehicle supplier to the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A regional government in Russia is now working with state-backed VEB, reports in CoinDesk said this week, as authorities explore how to use blockchain “to improve the quality of management decisions.”. These failures would have been easily spotted and prevented on blockchain. We hope to get the legislation ready this year.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2016

APEX Analytix , which focuses on supply chain management and optimizing the use of working capital, late last month announced the newest release of its FirstStrike SmartVM, which is software geared toward sourcing, scrubbing and simultaneously cleaning data that flows across corporate clients’ transoms about their suppliers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

With the selldown of the Africa business – in a business that serves a region where the company has been for more than a century – minority ownership will effectively take the business off of Barclays’ books. And there could be some legal issues afoot, too.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Ebury is integrating foreign exchange (FX) tools to support Just Cashflow’s SMBs and their cross-border payments needs. In Norway, banking group Eika Group announced an investment in and collaboration with EedenBull in an effort to help traditional financial institutions in the region strengthen financial services to business clients.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

tax benefit, just above estimates of $1.33, Bloomberg reported. coli outbreak to its employees accusing it of wage theft and hackers stealing customer payment data from 2,250 locations. percent of sales, while two of Chipotle’s regions saw digital sales at greater than 10 percent of their overall mix.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

A recent report that bowed via Citi underscores that thesis, as Global Market Manager of the bank’s Channel Services division, Rene Schuurman, wrote that 87 percent of banks have a clear API strategy in place. The firms will simplify accounting, tax and other services for the smallest of firms in the region.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Some focus on specific verticals, like restaurants; Some take unique routes to enterprise security, from password management to email protection. Konfio links microbusinesses in the region to financing. Expense Management. There are a million ways (or more) that startups can target other companies. Financial Advisory Services.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

For merchants, conducting cross-border trade often means following another nation’s local rules around payment acceptance, compliance, taxes and physical requirements and a host of other factors that vary between borders. He noted that Worldpay’s 2016 Global Payments Report anticipates the global eCommerce market will grow by 10.4

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

businesses are attracted to digital invoicing for a slew of financial benefits: faster, more efficient accounts payable and reconciliation processes, a reduction in the threat of errors due to manual data entry and ability to capture early payment discounts thanks to an accelerated invoice management process. In the U.S., Still, U.S.

Compliance 100

Compliance Regulation Taxes Fraud 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Ernest Chew, who heads the British lender’s capital goods and automotive investment banking team in the region, will join Carro as its chief financial officer in February,” the news service said, citing unnamed sources. Automotive sales are increasing going digital — and more consumers are buying more used products of all types online.

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