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Company update/payments

Pleo introduces Bills to simplify invoice payments for UK companies

Fintech scale-up Pleo, which offers simplified expense management tools and smart company Mastercards, today launches Bills - an easy way to consolidate, track and pay business-to-business (B2B) bill payments and a supplier’s terms of service.

21 April 2021

News/payments

American Express and JPMorgan join $20 million funding round in Candex

Enterprise payments firm Candex has raised $20 million as part of a Series A funding round led by Altos Ventures and joined by NFX, American Express Ventures, and JP Morgan.

20 April 2021

Company update/cloud

Tipalti buys cloud procurement solutions provider Approve.com

Tipalti, the leading global payables automation platform, announced its acquisition of Approve.com, a cloud procurement solutions provider, to expand its portfolio of financial operations offerings.

12 April 2021

Research/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Cut through the noise: 5 key considerations when selecting your payments platform

09 March 2021 489 downloads

Company update/cloud

Sovos buys Brazil-based Fit Sistemas

Global tax software provider Sovos today announced it has acquired Brazil-based Fit Sistemas, a leading provider of cloud-based regulatory reporting and electronic invoicing solutions.

03 March 2021

Company update/payments

Tipalti reports strong revenue rise

Tipalti, the leading global payables automation platform, announced it grew its revenue by over 85% in Q4 2020 relative to Q4 2019. Tipalti continued its rapid growth surpassing $18 billion in annualized transactions in the second half of 2020, up from $11 billion in the first half of the year.

26 February 2021

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Zelle comes to the RTP network

Early Warning Services, LLC and The Clearing House (TCH) today announced Zelle® transactions can now be cleared and settled over the RTP® network.

25 February 2021

Research/Electronic bill presentment and payment

The Future of Regulation 2021

08 February 2021 838 downloads

News/startups

Stripe and Levchin back B2B digital payments startup Balance

Balance, a digital checkout platform for B2B businesses has emerged from stealth mode with $5.5 million in seed funding from, among others, Max Levchin's SciFi VC and Stripe.

03 February 2021

Company update/payments

Tipalti signs up three partners

Tipalti, the leading global payables automation platform, today announced three new strategic partnerships to further modernize financial operations for growing companies.

02 February 2021

News/startups

Melio hits $1.3bn valuation

Melio, a New York-based B2B payments outfit focused on small businesses, has joined the unicorn club off the back of a $110 million funding round.

26 January 2021

Research/Electronic bill presentment and payment

What will drive the journey towards cashlessness and digitalisation?

18 January 2021 657 downloads

Research/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Embracing the New Paradigm of Cloud Migration to Future-Proof Payments Technologies

07 January 2021 559 downloads

Research/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Liquidity and Beyond: Building a future through certainty

17 December 2020 426 downloads

Research/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Managing Compliance and Growth

14 December 2020 357 downloads

Company update/payments

Bill.com and Wells Fargo team on Bill Manager

Bill.com (NYSE: BILL), a leading provider of cloud-based software that simplifies, digitizes and automates complex back-office financial operations for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) today announced Bill Manager, a new joint offering now available to help automate and simplify the accounts payable and receivable process for small to midsize businesses.

09 December 2020

News/payments

EBAday 2020: Is corporate uptake Request to Pay’s golden ticket?

Keeping listeners glued until the last moments of EBAday 2020 session ‘Request to Pay, what’s possible?’, moderator Leo Lipis, CEO, Lipis Advisors, challenged panellists with a particularly popular audience-submitted question: given that the very nature of Request to Pay outlines a shift in the economic balance for typical payments, from a market perspective, what is the actual business case for R2P?

25 November 2020