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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

6) announcing updates to its Coupa Business Spend Management Platform, including artificial intelligence (AI)-powered fraud prevention, global compliance controls and enhancements to supplier management and procure-to-pay functionality. The company issued a press release Wednesday (Feb.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

When it comes to solutions, the latest Workforce Spend Playbook , a collaboration between PYMNTS and Bento for Business , is a compilation of the best spend management approaches currently available. PYMNTS research found that 42 percent of B2B payments were made via paper check in 2019, for example.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Ivalua , which works in spend management, has rolled out a new suite of solutions for businesses to organize and handle payments, a press release says.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Nicki Bisgaard , CEO and founder of EedenBull, said in the report that the new partnership “underlines our progress in offering best-in-class payment and spend management technology to the banking community globally.”. “We The platform can help SMBs prevent losses by making sure they use best practices.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

B2B FinTech startups have stepped into 2021 with a bang, as industry players raised more than $910 million in combined funding. And thanks to several nine-figure investment deals, BaaS, expense management, payroll and B2B eCommerce are now in the spotlight. Corporate spend management startup Divvy is now valued at $1.6

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

Coupa has rolled out enhancements to its business spend management (BSM) solution, the firm revealed this week. The enterprise spend management company announced at its annual Inspire conference the addition of voice activation using Amazon Alexa to manage inventory, locate items, and reorder stock.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Public school budgets are tight, and whenever public funding is involved, it’s not only important to tighten the grip on spend, but to build transparency of the taxpayer dollars being used. But the spend management needs of the education system cannot entirely be met by a single solution that provides visibility into capital expenditure.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

Parpou discussed in an interview with PYMNTS how the pandemic is creating unprecedented demand for digital improvements to legacy spend management systems and how such advances could change what constitutes everyday business spend for good. Going Digital To Stay Remote. Adding Value To A Post-Pandemic Marketplace And Beyond.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Digital B2B payments innovations as diverse as machine learning (ML) automation, cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and virtual cards are gaining unprecedented traction as businesses move to build sustainable B2B payments operations outside of th e office. Around The B2B Payments For The Virtual Workforce World.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Distributed spend management platform Teampay will be integrating with Ironclad , a digital contracting platform, to help connect financial and legal workflows and streamline spend management, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 28) press release. Previously, the release notes, companies needed a contract to be signed.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

This week, however, venture capitalists in the B2B FinTech space went global, hitting Australia, the U.S., Once again, it was a healthy dose of modest funding rounds for a varied B2B FinTech space, and we break down all of the $45.6 France and India. million raised. Commercial Cards. Corporate Travel. TripActions. Lighthouse.io.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Businesses of all sizes are slowly phasing manual expense tools out of spend management strategies. Card network American Express is also searching for ways to entice SMBs to use its expense services, announcing a new corporate spend management program for startups. About The Playbook.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

When the B2B payments industry began considering what to expect for 2018, commercial cards weren’t often on the radar. Cards are still expected to account for only a minor fraction of B2B payments volume in accounts payable by the end of the year, after all, with ACH gaining traction as the go-to ePayments rail for corporate payers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

It was a big week for B2B FinTech startups in Latin America. It’s an attractive market indeed for investors, with not one, but two Brazilian B2B FinTechs making this week’s venture capital roundup. Until then, PYMNTS rounds up the most recent B2B FinTech investment rounds below. Authenticiti.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Corporations are predicted to bump their spending on SaaS apps to $50.8 And that’s just a slice of the B2B subscriptions sphere, said Tyler Eyamie, CEO of subscription billing solutions provider Fusebill , in a recent chat with PYMNTS. billion by 2018, a 13 percent jump from 2013 levels, while 27.8

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In the wake of the pandemic, B2B payments have had to evolve. But in an interview with PYMNTS, Mary Beth Joiner , senior vice president of relationship management at Comdata Corporate Payments, said that there have still been pockets of resistance in making the great digital pivot.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

American Express is working with Coupa on a new partnership to use virtual cards for Coupa's B2B solution, a press release says. Coupa Pay, the Coupa B2B solution, will be available for customers of AmEx's virtual cards, in a move meant to streamline the old payment processes which the release calls "outdated, complex, and inefficient.".

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

IT spend management solutions provider vCom Solutions is upgrading its mobile app for iOS and Android devices, the company said this week. Researchers have found that increases in corporate investments in IT, including software-as-a-service, have presented new challenges to managing spend.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This week's Commercial Card Innovation Tracker finds Barclaycard and Visa among the latest to embrace v-cards to elevate employee spend management and supplier payments. Barclaycard Debuts V-Card For Expense Management. Dubbed Precisionpay Go, the new Visa-powered solution supports digital spend management for U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Growth equity firm TCV has acquired spend management tech firm Oversight , according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS, and will help Oversight expand its product innovation for enterprise risk management solutions.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. In the age of platforms, more firms are consolidating expenses into dedicated solutions that address worker complaints and bring new transparency to spend management.

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APRIL 18, 2019

Airbase, a spend management company looking to consolidate a range of expense management processes for organizations, has announced new funding for its technology. In an interview with the publication, Founder and CEO Thejo Kote described the firm as “the first all-in-one spend management system.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Visa is expanding the testing of its B2B payments technology, B2B Connect , into Thailand, according to reports. The Nation reported that B2B Connect is now being piloted by Thailand’s largest bank Kasikornbank. ” Visa began testing the B2B payments solution earlier this year with UnionBank in the Philippines.

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APRIL 2, 2018

“Does your business want to improve its spend management?”. Few CFOs would say “no” if asked that question: Spend management is attractive to companies for obvious reasons, as even successful companies face margin pressures. Controlling spend doesn’t have to mean giving employees less capital to work with, said Duvedi.

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JULY 30, 2020

Corporate spend management company Center unveiled a Mastercard -powered Center® Corporate Credit Card and a QuickBooks Online Connector on Thursday (July 30). The Comdata, Inc.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In B2B payments and corporate finance, it wasn’t only bank-FinTech collaboration that made headlines in 2018. Here are some of the biggest stories of B2B payments collaboration from 2018. Last June, the company announced a partnership with B2B eCommerce platform Handshake to further that initiative.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

The rise of the gig economy and the popularity of remote work are among the factors that are laying bare the need for better spend management systems and technology. The immediate goal is to move such spend management systems for field technicians away from their reliance on cash and checks.

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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. The company announced Friday (Oct. 28) that it will open offices in Sydney to focus on serving Australian and New Zealand businesses, banking on the region’s solid economy.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Today in B2B payments, TripActions announces new funding that values the T&E startup at $5 billion, while OneSource Virtual launches invoice payment capabilities. Plus, iBanFirst launches B2B payment traceability tool, Georges rebrands with new funding, and HashCash partners with a bank on blockchain payments. 21) blog post.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Centralizing data into a single system across a range of functions — including invoicing, payments, spend management and more — means faster access to the vital information necessary to make decisions.

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JULY 19, 2018

It’s a phrase that can cause several types of jobsite headaches — stepping away from a project to hit a hardware store with petty cash, for instance, or calling the boss to gain approval to go over a card spending limit. Spend Management Change. Spend Management Misconception. Time Is Money.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Mastercard said as a result of the expanded partnership in Europe, Mastercard will support EedenBull’s commercial cards platform to banks seeking to tap into Asia Pacific’s B2B payments market. Last month, PYMNTS reported EedenBull rolled out its commercial card platform to banks to take advantage of improved B2B payment capabilities.

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Airbase

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Not only do multiple systems cost more, but the modern approach to spend management does a better job. It’s designed to control spending and streamline the interrelated, and continuous workflows associated with the process from intake to the final booking. Build for scale to avoid the need for future action.

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JUNE 8, 2020

In the announcement , the companies said the acquisition will help Ahmedabad-based Infibeam offer better B2B payment services. Cardpay , based in Bengaluru, India, offers a spending management platform to corporations under the brand name “Grit.” “Payments-led lending is the new growth mantra for us.

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MAY 6, 2020

Up till now, spend management has been tied to what Barker termed the “invisible bank,” where employees typically will spend money using their own (plastic) cards, and then claim those funds back through expense reports (where reconciliation can be time consuming and messy).

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

In an interview with Karen Webster, Farhan Ahmad, founder and CEO at B2B payments solution provider Bento for Business , took note of the fact that half of all small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) cite cash flow management as their biggest challenge. To keep the bottom line buoyant, healthy and in the black: Plug the expense leaks.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Modernizing corporate spend could be the solution to businesses' issues, PYMNTS reported , with digital spending the new way to help support a system based around working from home. Countless digital spend management solutions have entered the market to meet this growing demand," PYMNTS reported.

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