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In B2B FinTech, spendmanagement is a greenfield opportunity as innovators explore how to help corporates understand the nuances of how money flows out of the enterprise. Historically, said Airbase CEO Thejo Kote, finance and accounting teams have been forced to work around the friction of a fragmented spend ecosystem.
SalesTrip , a new corporate travelexpensemanagement firm, is launching its product this week in the U.K. The company has integrated a travel booking and spendmanagement solution that it says is the first to operate on Salesforce , reports in Realwire said on Wednesday (Feb.
“Concur TripLink with TripIt Pro is the preferred solution for customers who aren’t a fit for Concur Travel, an online booking tool.” ” Separate reports in Skift on the same day said that SAP Concur rebuffed a buy-back offer from Hipmunk’s founders, Adam Goldstein and Steve Huffman.
There are a few B2B FinTech firms looking to float in the coming weeks, but Coupa beat them to the punch with its debut late last week. “We’re helping them spend more efficiently.” Reports on Thursday (Oct. 6) said the company, which priced its shares at $18, saw its value spike in the first day of trading.
The firm said it will use the latest funding round to help fuel expansion of its travel and spendmanagement solutions. The Spain-based startup secured the funding from Sabadell Venture Capital, along with Venturecap, Bankinter, Telegraph Hill Capital and Kibo Ventures, according to reports.
WEX is lending its B2B payments capabilities to the enterprise software services of Apptricity. An announcement by the companies Thursday (July 26) revealed news that Apptricity is integrating WEX’s corporate payment solutions into its own offering of automated supply chain, travel and expense (T&E) and spendmanagement solutions. “We
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According to a press release , Yatra will link customers based outside of India — whose employees travel in the country — with Chrome River’s expensemanagement solution as part of a broader travel booking and spendmanagement platform, offered via Yatra’s Self Book platform.
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Even so, mixing business and leisure while traveling may have a significant impact, researchers said. Spendmanagement can also get tangled, CAPA explained. Most notably, companies often lack clear policy pertaining to bleisure trips, which may lead to potential liabilities for employers.
But these popular apps, which started as consumer-facing tools but have each made recent steps to embrace business travelers , don’t paint the entire picture of ground transportation for the corporate world, said Tobi Mac, founder and CEO of FlitWays Technology , and complexity in this space can make spendmanagement increasingly difficult.
Spendmanagement firm ExpenseWatch is rolling out a new solution that taps into the commercial card capabilities of PEX. In an announcement Wednesday (June 29), ExpenseWatch and PEX announced the launch of a Visa prepaid card to help companies manageexpenses.
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7) said Abacus will streamline and automate the flow of financial data from transactions made with American Express cards into the Abacus platform for spendmanagement. Reports on Wednesday (Sept. Their partnership, Abacus said, heightens data quality and accuracy to help businesses automate their monthly reconciliation processes.
The Excessive Attendee feature analyzes internal fraud and misuse of company money, including collusion among multiple employees to bypass T&E (travel and expense) policy. The B2B FinTech market has highlighted expense fraud several times in recent years, warning that the problem is not always due to malicious employee activity.
International companies are pulling back their spend on corporate travel, according to recent analysis. But the latest data from Advito finds the key to corporate travelspend increases. Analysis predicts hotel fares to rise slightly, but airline prices to stay flat for 2017.
In an interview with PYMNTS last year, the executive said that prepaid meets the massive demand of spendmanagement solutions today: “The need for real-time accounting, real-time visibility of transactions and balances and the ability to restrict spending and access to cash.”. Industry Shakeup.
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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.
Technology has created new challenges for corporate finance managers to handle employee spend, and unless they embrace the technology that can help them gain a better grasp of these challenges, CFOs risk missing out on growth opportunities, according to T&E firm Concur.
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According to Runzheimer executive Donna Koppensteiner, who spoke with PYMNTS about fleet spend last October, as much as 30 percent of a fleet vehicle use is for personal purposes. “Companies have the travelmanager and the fleet manager, and usually they are not sitting under the same roof,” he said.
Rydoo, the mobile T&E app resulting from a collaboration between Sodexo, Xpenditure and iAlbatros, is integrating its expensemanagement capabilities with Uber. 10) said Rydoo is linking into Uber for Business to streamline corporate travelers’ reimbursement and expense reporting processes.
To provide pandemic-related security functions and rescue services for corporate travelers, Expensify unveiled its Concierge Travel virtual travel assistant, according to a press release.
Corporate travel and expensemanagement has made leaps in adopting new technologies in 2016. Uber, Lyft and Airbnb are all taking off in the space, suggesting corporate travelers and their managers are ready to adopt innovations that make their lives easier — both to travel and to manage corporate funds.
Uber for Business expanded its expensemanagement capabilities for corporate travelers last March when it announced partnerships with Certify, Expensify and Chrome River, all to automate the capture of ride transaction data for an expense report.
Travel and expensemanagement firm Concur is boosting its virtual card support thanks to an expanded collaboration with hotel solutions firm HRS. Reports on Wednesday (July 27) said HRS will support virtual card payments via the Concur platform.
A corporate travel and expensemanagement solutions provider has struck a partnership with ERP software company VAI, according to an announcement on Wednesday (Aug. VAI will now link corporate customers to SAP Concur solutions, including Concur Expense, Concur Invoice and Concur Travel.
But, Graeme Descoteaux, head of corporate travel at LateRooms.com Business, says the cost of commercial cards — and virtual cards in particular — can also be a barrier to business payers’ adoption.
Business travel solution providers are quickly perking their ears up to the demand for better ways to pay travel suppliers, and to reconcile that transaction data. There are barriers to accessing a virtual card payment program, however — particularly for businesses that aren’t using a TravelManagement Company.
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