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Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Comdata launches Asap

Comdata, a FLEETCOR company (NYSE: FLT) and leader in corporate payment innovation, today unveiled ASAP, an automated, streamlined accounts payable solution that helps businesses eliminate the manual burden of processing invoices, paying bills and reconciling their books. Paired with a dedicated service team,

22 June 2018

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Headland launches bill payment app for utilities

Leeds-based digital agency, Headland has launch Payzu – a bill delivery and payment solution that it says has the potential to save utility companies upwards of £1/2 million a year on print and postage costs.

17 May 2018

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

CBA, Microsoft and KPMG team on SME business management platform

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has teamed up with Microsoft and KPMG to launch a business management platform for SMEs.

16 May 2018

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Commonwealth Bank hit by outage

Customers of Commonwealth Bank Australia (CommBank) have been left frustrated after a series of major outages left them unable to access their bank accounts.

04 April 2018

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Google's P2P payments app Tez now handles utility bills

Paying bills takes time, whether it's queuing, hopping around to multiple offices, or jumping between apps.

19 February 2018

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Toowoomba Regional Council first in Australia to launch digital bill delivery using Sniip

Toowoomba Regional Council is leading Australia in digital billing, by partnering with Australia’s first bank-agnostic payments and billing app, Sniip, to launch a patented “m-billing” function that will alert ratepayers of Council rates and water bills via push notifications directly on their smartphones.

19 February 2018

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Tipalti closes $30m Series C funding round

Tipalti, the leading global payables automation solution, today announced it has closed a $30 million Series C financing round led by Zeev Ventures.

13 February 2018

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Finnish e-invoincing startup Zervant raises EUR6m

Finnish e-invoicing startup Zervant has raised EUR6 million in a funding round led by local VC and private equity firm Tesi.

13 February 2018

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Aussie real-time payments platform goes live

Australia's real-time payments platform goes live today, with customers of three of the country's big four banks able to transfer funds in seconds.

13 February 2018

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

CloudTrade and OpusCapita in e-invocing alliance

CloudTrade, the leading provider of cloud based e-invoicing services, was today named as one of OpusCapita’s worldwide e-invoicing partners and its proprietary, patent protected e-invoicing solution will be available to all OpusCapita purchase to pay and order to cash customers.

16 January 2018

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Fortumo collaborates with Shoal Games on direct carrier billing

The mobile software developer and publisher Shoal Games and the mobile technology company Fortumo are today launching a direct carrier billing partnership.

16 January 2018

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

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/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Worldpay and COMO team up for merchant payments

Worldpay, a leader in global payments and COMO Global S.A, an intelligent payments solution provider, have announced a new strategic partnership.

10 January 2018

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Worldpay and Klarna team up on invoice and credit-based payments in 6 European markets

Worldpay, a global leader in payments, has announced that it will partner with Klarna, a leader in invoice and credit based payments, to further enhance its product portfolio.

06 December 2017

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You can now send PayPal invoices through Facebook Messenger

PayPal users selling their old Lego bricks can now create and send invoices within Facebook Messenger.

21 November 2017

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US banks launch real-time payments system

American bank-owned ACH The Clearing House (TCH) has launched its real-time payments system (RTP), helping to usher the country into the 21st century.

14 November 2017

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Top Image Systems launches cloud-based accounts payable tech for SAP

Top Image Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: TISA), a global provider of solutions that facilitate digital business, today announced the launch of its cloud-based eFLOW AP solution, integrated with SAP Business One.

23 October 2017

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Citizens Bank chooses Transactis for e-billing

Citizens Bank has selected payments technology company Transactis to expand its Treasury Solutions offering with electronic billing and payment solutions.

12 October 2017

Company update/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Artificial Intelligence Bank-in-Messenger raises $1million from IIDF and private investors

The very first “Bank-in-Messenger”- TalkBank.io has raised $1million in seed investments with a company valuation of $6.1million. IIDF and 7 private investors, including Mark Malinovsky (kuponator.ru) have funded the start up.

06 October 2017

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Singapore and Thailand look to link e-payment schemes

Thailand and Singapore have announced tentative plans to integrate their respective e-payment schemes in a bid to promote digital banking, according to a Bloomberg report.

05 October 2017