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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

Research/Electronic bill presentment and payment

The Future of Payments 2020

24 November 2020 570 downloads

Research/Electronic bill presentment and payment

The Future of Identity 2020

17 November 2020 262 downloads

Research/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Payments Transformation: Immediate, Intelligent and Inclusive

04 November 2020 1139 downloads

Company update/payments

N2Xpress teams up with Paykii to provide global bill payments

N2Xpress announces its global partnership with Paykii, operator of one of the largest sets of payment rails for global bill payments in over 20 countries.

02 November 2020

News/crypto

Sibos 2020: 'In a world of CBDCs, I am not sure what Swift would do' - David Birch

David Birch, author and financial services consultant, compares Swift to CB radio or Charlie's Angels, as an "affectionate tribute to the 1970s".

07 October 2020

Company update/payments

Tipalti raises $150m at $2bn valuation

Tipalti, the leading global payables automation solution, today announced it raised $150 million at a valuation of more than $2 billion, bringing total funding raised to date to around $280 million for the B2B fintech company.

06 October 2020

Company update/payments

Sensibill launches receipt extraction API

Sensibill, the leading provider of SKU-level data and financial tools like digital receipt management that help institutions better know and serve their customers, today announced the launch of its newest product: Receipt Extraction API.

24 September 2020

Company update/payments

CommBank launches bill prediction app

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has launched Bill Sense, a new CommBank app feature that predicts future bills to help customers, especially those new to budgeting, to stay on top of their finances.

21 September 2020

News/payments

Melio raise $144m

Melio, a New York-based B2B payments outfit focused on small businesses, has raised $144 million to fund a hiring spree.

08 September 2020

Company update/payments

Emburse launches suite for employee spend, reimbursement and invoice payments

Emburse, a global leader in expense management and accounts payable automation solutions, announces the first in a series of its Emburse Pay suite of global payment solutions encompassing employee spend, reimbursement and invoice payments.

04 August 2020

Research/Electronic bill presentment and payment

How to Prevent Payments Fraud amid Global Disruption

16 July 2020 635 downloads