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Company update/B2B

Revolut teams up with French cab firm SnapCar

Revolut, the digital banking alternative, has today announced their latest partnership with SnapCar, the ride-hailing B2B French leader, as the innovative fintech looks to take-on legacy payment infrastructure by providing instant automated payouts directly into SnapCar drivers’ accounts.

12 June 2018

Company update/B2B

PayStand extends payments-as-a-service platform into Canada

PayStand, the B2B payment platform for the future of business, today announced that it has expanded its digital platform into Canada to support domestic B2B commercial payments and deepen its global payments infrastructure.

12 June 2018

Company update/B2B

Bacs publishes positive 2017 results

Figures released today show that 2017 was another record-breaking year for Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs), with over 6.34 billion payments, worth a total in excess of £4.9 Trillion, processed by the company behind Direct Debit in the UK.

11 January 2018

Company update/B2B

Apruve and MSTS join forces for B2B credit offering

MSTS, a global B2B payment and credit solutions provider, and Apruve, the premiere B2B credit network, today announced a joint partnership to provide manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors an alternative payment and credit solution that competes directly with credit cards.

11 January 2018

Company update/B2B

Tradeshift adds AI layer to B2B commerce platform

Tradeshift, the world’s largest business commerce platform, today announced the release of Tradeshift Ada, the world’s first smart interface for B2B commerce that offers new automation capabilities to help users accelerate how they buy, pay and collaborate.

27 March 2017

Company update/B2B

Western Union expands digital trading platform to new markets

Western Union Business Solutions, a business segment of The Western Union Company (WU) and a leader in global payment services, today announces enhanced capabilities to its WU® EDGE digital trading platform, including expansion of the platform’s fee-free* network, and availability into seven new markets: Hong Kong, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic.

18 July 2016

Company update/B2B

HSBC and AmEx invest in Tradeshift

Tradeshift today announced that new and existing investors have joined the company’s $75 million Series D funding, including venture capital firm and round leader Data Collective (DCVC), HSBC, American Express Ventures, Notion Capital, CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund, managed by CreditEase, and Pavilion Capital, a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings.

09 June 2016

Company update/B2B

ENett appoints Carl-Olav Scheible as CCO

ENett International, a leading provider of dedicated B2B travel payment solutions, has appointed Carl-Olav Scheible as chief commercial officer effective immediately.

10 September 2015

News/B2B

CBA unveils Albert tablet payment device

Commmonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is making a move into the point-of-sale hardware market, teaming up with German tech firm Wincor Nixdorf and Ideo to launch a seven inch Android-based tablet system dubbed Albert.

31 March 2015

News/B2B

Canada's D+H agrees $1.25bn Fundtech acquisition

Canadian financial technology firm D+H is to buy transaction banking vendor Fundtech for $1.25 billion in cash, subject to regulatory approvals.

31 March 2015

News/B2B

Citi slaps down Bank 2.0 rivals in Innotribe face-off

Financial heavyweight Citi has faced off a challenge to old-bank hegemony with a powerful display of its technological prowess that knocked the wind out of a room-full of Bank 2.0 innovation gurus and digital evangelists at an Innotribe session at Sibos in Toronto.

22 September 2011

News/B2B

Swift's MyStandards pilot moves into live production

Financial messaging network Swift has announced that its MyStandards project is now recruiting users after completing a closed pilot phase.

22 September 2011

Finextra TV/B2B

World Payments Report

Capgemini and RBS discuss the finding from the World Payments Report released at Sibos.

25 October 2010

Finextra TV/B2B

Innovation comes in small packages

Brown Brothers Harriman discusses real world innovation at Sibos.

25 October 2010

News/B2B

Transaction bankers embrace co-operation

The future of transaction banking lies in greater collaboration between banks and a greater adoption of outsourcing. This was the main point delivered at a keynote debate at this Sibos, the annual user conference of banking co-operative Swift.

17 September 2009

News/B2B

Citi taps Microsoft for new e-banking service for corporates

Citi has enlisted the services of Microsoft for the development of its new online corporate banking service, which was launched at the annual Sibos event in Hong Kong.

15 September 2009

News/B2B

Visa and US Bank form financial supply chain network

Visa and US Bank have formed a joint venture company, providing a global financial supply chain network for companies and governments to electronically process invoices and payments.

30 July 2009

News/B2B

Swift set for greater involvement in e-invoicing

Financial messaging network Swift is consulting with its membership about the potential provision of an interbank e-invoicing exchange network and the creation of a banking industry wide standard.

28 November 2008

News/B2B

ING takes full control of e-invoicing firm Billington

Dutch bank ING has taken full ownership of Billington, the electronic invoicing outfit it set up as a joint venture with IT services firm Getronics at the end of 2006. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

12 November 2008

News/B2B

PayPal and OB10 team on e-invoicing

PayPal has teamed with electronic invoicing outfit OB10 to create an automated e-invoicing application for the UK business community.

12 September 2008