Cross-border payments firm Money Mover came out with some controversial, if not intriguing, research this week. In a study conducted by payments consultancy firm Accourt, analysis revealed that small and medium-sized businesses in the U.K. are spending nearly $5.8 billion in hidden cross-border payment fees...
It’s been a while, but B2B financial services has finally seen a hefty dose of action from venture capitalists. Small business funders, Software-as-a-Service providers, enterprise resource planners and eProcurement players nabbed their share of more than $300 million placed by venture capitalists this past week....
The health care sector is one with some complex, unique challenges when it comes to B2B payments. Just ask Capital One Bank’s Treasury Management Group, which recently published the findings of a survey on accounts payable and corporate payments trends in the health care sector....
Corporate treasurers are no longer number-pushers and bookkeepers. They are strategic players of a company, and that means the role of the accounts payable team is not only changing, it’s becoming more valuable to a business as a whole. Two experts in this area of...
For the Chief Financial Officer, harnessing data from processes like accounts payable and accounts receivable is critical to obtaining an overall picture of the health of a company’s finances. But there are other factors that play into the big picture, too – like payroll and...
In the latter half of last year, Forrester Research released the findings of a study examining B2B networks in an effort to assess the role of technology in promoting effective buyer-supplier relationships. Now, that research has been made available following the news this week that...
The global economy may be building back its strength, but for multinational companies, risk remains. In some instances, it is more pervasive than before the economic downturn. Trade credit insurance firm Atradius recently collaborated on a report of the state of risk management in today’s...
Traditionally, payroll cards have been a tool employers use to pay their employees that are un- or underbanked. Well, as with so many other things, millennials and a new generation of workers are flipping that model on its head, says Gary Lott, Division Vice President...
Amazon is probably still smiling in the wake of its lucrative holiday season, during which a spike in eCommerce not only meant success for its online marketplace but also for the company’s lesser-known B2B operation, Amazon Business. The unit provides logistics services, like warehousing and...
