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Small, Early-Stage Funding Rounds Dominate B2B FinTech

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But the largest venture capital funding round went to an accounts payable automation firm in the U.S. Travel Expense Management. Corporate travel and expense management startup Baoku Online, based in China, secured Series A funding , the firm said Monday (Nov. with an $18 million investment.

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CSI globalVCard Incubator Calls For More B2B Payments Innovation

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It marks the incubator’s quest for a second round of startups to support; its first round included Yoke Payments , which won the PYMNTS.com Best POS Innovation award last year, as well as Spend Secure LLC, which offers mobile payments, accounts payable and travel expense management solutions. “We

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Merger Combines Six T&E, AP Firms To Form Emburse

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Six corporate travel expense management and accounts payable (AP) solution providers are combining into a single company to form Emburse , according to a press release Thursday (Jan. Abacus, Captio, Certify, Chrome River, Nexonia and Tallie are merging together to integrate each other’s T&E and AP solutions.

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Looking Within The Enterprise To Unlock Spend Data Silos

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In B2B FinTech, spend management is a greenfield opportunity as innovators explore how to help corporates understand the nuances of how money flows out of the enterprise. A business may have one platform for their corporate card, another for AP, and another for employee travel expense management.

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Business Trip Data Analytics Reaches Beyond T&E Spend

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Analyzing the dollars and cents associated with business trips is now a fundamental part of an organization’s travel and expense (T&E) strategy to ensure that it can squeeze every penny in added revenues and profits out of each trip. It’s not an easy feat, however. Accessing Data.

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Corporate Card Innovators Look Beyond Business Trip Spend

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With corporate travel still on pause, commercial card innovation has taken a different direction. This week’s look at the latest initiatives explores how FinTechs are wielding the corporate card in ways other than business trips, from accessing credit for accounts payable to financing employee lunches.

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Amid Innovation And Disruption, Travel And T&E Strive Toward An Omnichannel Ideal

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That’s when six corporate travel expense management and accounts payable (AP) solution providers announced they would join forces and combine into a single company called Emburse , according to a press release.