PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

It’s the end of a short holiday workweek, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. We have a deep dive into spend management in addition to news involving the Sprint and T-Mobile merger, as well as data on state tax laws. . Trackers and Reports.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As the saying goes, nothing in life is certain but death and taxes. To be certain of taxes, will blockchain seal the deal? Last week, Thailand’s Revenue Department was reported to be bringing blockchain projects into the fold to track tax payments, aided by machine learning. Bread By Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

They also need to collect and verify vendors’ details to comply with anti-crime regulations, adhere to tax reporting requirements and deliver convenient digital payments to these suppliers. Preventing crime also includes thwarting tax fraud, and companies must obtain certain details to fulfill their tax reporting responsibilities.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The ongoing pandemic poses challenges that have amplified businesses’ need to digitize their payment operations. Some firms have better adjusted to new digital tendencies than others, especially when it comes to keeping track of B2B payments and spend management. so having a system or tool that makes it very simple to.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

A new technology protocol announced by corporate accounting and auditing firm Ernst & Young (EY) aims to secure transactions made over public Ethereum blockchain. The solution aims to help enterprises and investors to conduct private, secure transactions on a public blockchain.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

B2B payments are rife with frictions, including high processing costs, slow transaction times and industry players’ reluctance to embrace electronic payments in lieu of paper checks. Ensuring such payments are secure from bad actors is a priority for the banks that process them. Benefits Of APIs .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

If death and taxes are sureties, insurance payments rank up there, as people insure homes and autos and apartments against any number of calamitous scenarios. The age of digital payments finds adherents from any number of analog-dominated verticals where payments come by way of dead trees. In one example, One, Inc.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

Earlier this year, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported that there was a reduction in the number of fraudulent tax returns identified between 2013 and 2015. What’s Next In Tax Fraud. As of February, the number of mentions in 2017 so far was already over 40 percent of the 2016 total. But that’s not all.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin believes that Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency could pose as a national security threat. In a press conference on Monday (July 15), Mnuchin warned that Libra “could be misused by money launderers and terrorist financiers” and that it was a “national security issue.”.

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MARCH 21, 2023

ERC gave eligible businesses a refundable tax credit of up to 50% of $10,000 for qualified wages paid per employee. The ERC Assist Program SouthState has partnered with SmartBiz, a fintech company, and several known CPAs and ERC processors to assist banks in processing ERC payments for their small business customers. In 2020, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fraudsters have redoubled their attacks on eCommerce channels, however, making consumers more concerned about data security. Knutson explained how the virtual debit card space is evolving to support eCommerce and detailed what goes into a secure yet speedy virtual card application process. Virtual Card Payment Trends.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Expense management technology is now a saturated market, particularly for the small business space – which is notoriously difficult to serve, because they are too small for large, enterprise-grade solutions, but too large for consumer-specialized tools. ” What is clear, though, is that demand for T&E technologies is on the rise.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

QR codes have enjoyed mounting adoption in the consumer payments landscape around the world in recent years as FinTech solutions embrace end-user efficiency and take advantage of smartphone penetration. Their use for B2B payments, however, remains limited — but in the U.K., open banking may be able to change that.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In other news, the Marco Polo Network has announced that it has secured its first Russian-German import-export operations financing project. Alfa-Bank and Novolipetsk Steel Company (NLMK), along with Commerzbank, Germany, and Vesuvius GmbH, Germany, have launched a pilot project of cross-border payments via Marco Polo.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Xoom is now offering clients in the U.S., the ability to send secure funds to 12 countries in Africa for a reduced fee, while Volante Technologies Inc. Plus, HM Treasury is seeking input on the challenges that the sharing economy brings for value-added tax (VAT). Canada, U.K.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

The State Bank of Vietnam granted FinTech startup GPay a 10-year license to provide intermediary payment services in the country — electronic payment portals, payment services, digital money transfer services and eWallet services. The G-Group ecosystem includes Vietnam’s social media network Gapo and P2P lending platform Tima.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

COVID-era fraudsters use scams that range from impersonating tax officials to selling fake PPE on P2P payment apps. Peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps like CashApp , PayPal , Venmo and Zelle are especially popular targets for financial crime, with fraud attacks against these apps increasing by 733 percent since 2016.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Small business accounting and cash management took home the gold this week, with two startups raising a collective $93 million in funding. In total, businesses secured more than $145 million in venture capital (VC) across the U.S., Expense Management. Based in India, Vayana wants to take advantage of the nations’ GST tax reform.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2021

Cygnet Infotech promotes FACE as a product that handles not only conventional accounting processes, but also provides specialized handling of challenges around goods and services taxes. India uses its Invoice Registration Portal to track business activity and ensure compliance with tax laws.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

Microsoft and human resources management company ADP are partnering for a holistic business management solution that combines financial and human capital data analytics, the companies recently announced.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

offers cash flow management for businesses. The company secured $650,000 from Kae Capital and Khosla Impact, reports said Monday (Nov. B2B payments company Happay, which provides prepaid card solutions to employers for the purposes of expense management, also recently announced a reaction to demonetization. Numberz.in

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Helium 10 has launched its new Alta program, which will let Amazon sellers access “robust digital wallet, rapid approval credit lines, daily advances on Amazon payments, international direct payment and tax management,” according to a press release. ” .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Late payments are a reflection of a broader challenge in B2B payments: Large corporate buyers can wield their market power with small suppliers that lack leverage to negotiate faster payment terms. But late payments aren’t the only symptom of unequal B2B relationships. In the context of late payments in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This week, two massive deals landed with B2B payments innovators at Fundbox and Tipalti, but they were far from the only players to have secured new funding. Operating out of New Zealand, Hnry offers gig economy workers tax administration technology that has just caught the attention of investors to the tune of $1.35 Everledger.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

With a second Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) on the way, small businesses have yet another chance to secure much-needed financial relief. Yet the new bill fails to address the gaps that allowed for fraudulent activity among some businesses that had secured PPP loans in the first round of stimulus, the publication alleges.

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MyBankTracker

MARCH 24, 2021

The 2021 tax season is likely to stand out from previous years as many Americans might need their tax refunds more than ever. According to a recent MyBankTracker survey, Americans are most likely to put this year’s tax refunds into savings, which may not come as a surprise. percent) of a tax refund for the 2021 tax season.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

One-quarter of small businesses continue to record financial data on paper instead of keeping digital records, according to a new survey by Clutch, a B2B ratings and reviews firm, and the tactic is exposing these companies to security risks. A press release from Clutch on Monday (Oct. Of those companies, 74 percent say they use Quickbooks.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

While paper checks are increasingly passing into the realm of consumers’ memory, there are certain niches where they have managed to hold on, even as the rest of the world tries rather adamantly to move on. The main challenge in innovating public payments in the U.S. A Patchwork Project . But if you think about the U.S.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

Yet despite improvements in accounting software, cash flow management remains a headache that threatens the very existence of many companies. Last year, Intuit ’s global survey revealed 61 percent of SMBs struggle with cash flow, with payment processing delays one of the largest culprits of this challenge.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

That shift has bled into the human resources management arena, where today, employees are driving a self-service model of HR that enables workers to access their payroll and other HR information themselves. There is this opportunity to integrate and securely and privately expose the relevant data to the relevant people on demand,” said Patil.

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APRIL 9, 2020

Financial concerns caused by the temporary closures of many businesses as well as rising health concerns are leading many to request funds they have been waiting for — including rebates, insurance claims or government payments — as quickly and as easily as possible. Around The Disbursements World. v in a recent interview with PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The compliance burden of a legal marijuana business having to manage regulations that vary by state, and between the state and federal level, has created a banking conundrum for a market forced to rely heavily on cash. The current regulatory landscape means not all FIs will be comfortable servicing this industry.

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BankBazaar

JUNE 18, 2020

Faced with some tough money management choices amid the COVID-19 outbreak? If your tax slab is 30%, your FD returns will be taxed to that extent, unless you’re a senior citizen eligible for certain income tax bene?ts after income tax and that is your e?ective ective post-tax return (refer to Table 2).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2019

The CBA pilots, as reported by CoinDesk and other sites, were tied to the issuance of letters of credit and securities. 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. The service will debut at the end of March.

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APRIL 24, 2020

BleepingComputer.com reports that the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act has triggered the latest round of scams. . Recipients are asked to click a link displaying the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Centers for Disease Control and Preventio?n n (CDC) logos.

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JUNE 18, 2019

The France-based company secured the funding from Eurazeo and Bpifrance , which are backing PayFit’s payroll and human resource management technology services designed for multiple European countries’ particular labor laws. Earlier this month Ireland-based Immedis secured $28.2 while Gusto , another U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a recent conversation with PYMNTS, he discussed how various trends in how employees wish to get paid and how employers manage those payouts are driving more organizations to digitize payroll operations, with payroll data an increasingly valuable asset for CFOs. The Value Of Integration. Cash Flow Implications.

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