Tagged: b2b payments

September 3, 2021 @ 2:51 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Nauta Capital this week led a £2.3 million seed round in trustshare, a company offering borderless marketplace payments. Trustshare allows online marketplaces to offer high-value transactions between parties who either don’t know or don’t trust each other by using an escrow system that can be… Read More

August 27, 2021 @ 6:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Serrala, an international financial automation and B2B payments software firm, has acquired a majority investment from Hg, a global software and services investor. After the deal is finalized, Serrala’s Chief Executive Sven Lindemann and existing investor, Waterland, will continue to offer support to the business… Read More

August 24, 2021 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

It’s been almost a year since Briqpay unveiled the launch of its B2B checkout solution together with the closing of a €606K pre-seed round. On Tuesday (August 24, 2021), Briqpay announced the closing of a €2M seed round that has been co-led by partners from… Read More

August 16, 2021 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Steve Pinado, President at Billtrust (NASDAQ: BTRS), a B2B accounts receivable (AR) automation and integrated payments provider. Pinado explained how automation trends have been accelerating at warp speed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last month, the team at Billtrust had shared… Read More

July 31, 2021 @ 8:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mumbai-based Fintech company QPS Global recently revealed that it will be expanding its business operations in the Middle East. The company confirmed that it will be allocating $10 million in capital into the region within the next 12 months. The B2B card issuance and processing… Read More

July 28, 2021 @ 1:19 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The recent news that Swift is launching Swift Go, a low-value, cross-border payment may not be as monumental as it seems, the founder of global B2B payment provider VertoFX believes. In an announcement yesterday, Swift said the new service would enable financial institutions to offer… Read More

July 27, 2021 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, an established B2B payments platform, reveals that they’ve acquired $200+ million through a Series D round that was led by Riverwood Capital – a U.S.-based “high-growth” technology investor. Temasek, Visa, Vertex Ventures, Atinum Group of Funds, Beacon Venture Capital, Rocket Capital Investment, and various… Read More

July 24, 2021 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross-border payments Fintech Thunes revealed earlier this week that it acquired Limonetik, a European Payment Methods Platform. The latest acquisition by Thunes should complement the Fintech firm’s existing cross-border payments solutions by enabling companies or businesses to get paid in 70 different countries, using more… Read More

July 9, 2021 @ 12:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Full-service payment service provider (PSP) of local digital payment solutions, Paymaster24, has reportedly chosen Banking Circle in order to improve its existing service proposition for merchants. Importantly, the collaboration with Banking Circle should assist Paymaster24 with speeding up payments while offering additional currencies to its… Read More

June 23, 2021 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SnapSwap, a provider of digital transformation services for financial services and businesses, has reportedly chosen Banking Circle to offer quicker and lower-cost payments to its clients. By leveraging Banking Circle’s Payments on Behalf of (POBO) and Collections on Behalf of (COBO) services, SnapSwap will see… Read More

May 21, 2021 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ireland’s B2B card payments Fintech CleverCards has finalized a €10 million funding round. The company has also acquired a European Money Institution license via the acquisition of spend management service provider, ExpendiaSmart. Since introducing its payments platform back in December 2019, CleverCards has managed to… Read More

December 18, 2020 @ 3:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Billtrust, a fintech firm focused on B2B payment cycle management, announced on Thursday it has appointed Gwenn Lazar as new Senior Vice President of Channel Development. Billtrust reported that through the role, Lazar will drive the company’s business development and channel management initiatives. Billtrust further… Read More

December 8, 2020 @ 8:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  TransferMate, a cross-border B2B payment technology solution, announced on Tuesday its first two payments licenses in South America with approvals in Brazil and Chile. The latest expansion comes just a few months after TransferMate received its payments license in Mexico. Founded in 2008, TransferMate is a global B2B… Read More

November 22, 2020 @ 10:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Visa (NYSE:V) announced on Friday it has completed the acquisition of YellowPepper, a payments tech company that supports financial institutions and startups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Visa reported that the acquisition is considered the first of its kind for financial giant in… Read More

November 6, 2020 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Patricia Montesi, Co-Founder and CEO at Qolo, a Fintech firm focused on B2B payments and facilitating cost-effective cross-border transaction processing. Montesi discussed what her company is doing to help businesses with settling payments in a more efficient manner. She also talked… Read More

October 29, 2020 @ 6:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE:V) is reportedly planning to acquire YellowPepper, a payments tech company, in order to extend its global operations into the Caribbean and other jurisdictions. Established in 2014 and fully operational in nine different Latin American (LatAm) nations, the Miami-headquartered firm serves around 50 clients… Read More

October 20, 2020 @ 11:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

American Express (NYSE:AXP) and Coupa have announced that they’ll be expanding their existing partnership in order to bring virtual card payments to the US. According to a release, the American Express virtual Card payment option within Coupa Pay is now available globally, allowing companies to… Read More

August 12, 2020 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Fintech firm Vitesse, which enables real-time cross-border payments, revealed on August 11, 2020 that it has secured £6.6 million in capital through a Series A investment  round. The firm’s funding round was led by Octopus Ventures. Existing shareholders Hoxton Ventures and several other angel… Read More

August 10, 2020 @ 11:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Billtrust, a fintech firm focused on B2B payment cycle management, announced on Monday the launch of its Business Payments Network (BPN) 3.0, which offers support for ACH and wire. According to Billtrust, the new version gives network participants the “flexibility” to automatically transact through the… Read More

August 1, 2020 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Qolo, which aims to serve as the B2B payments hub for the “New Economy,” and moneycorp, a foreign exchange and cross-border payments provider, recently announced the launch of an integrated foreign exchange (FX) payment solution. As noted in a release shared with CI: “Global businesses,… Read More