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Bond Vet Turns to Coupa for AI-Powered Spend Management
Partnerships // November 04, 2024

Veterinary care company Bond Vet has launched a partnership with spend management provider Coupa. The collaboration, announced Monday (Nov. 4), will see Bond Vet clinics employ Coupa’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform to manage their finances and supplies. “As Bond Vet opens more clinics to meet...

Making Sense of Your Company’s B2B Payments Data
B2B Payments // November 01, 2024

For most of its history, payments data has been primarily paper-based. This relegated B2B payments data to mere record-keeping minutiae and made the task of unlocking it a highly manual, administrative burden. But with the news Thursday (Oct. 31) that Melio raised $150 million in a...

Square Card Enters UK Amid Small Businesses Cash Flow Worries
Payment Methods // October 31, 2024

Square is expanding its card offering into the U.K. for merchants seeking quicker funding access. An executive from the company — an arm of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Block — told CNBC Thursday (Oct. 31) that it had opened registration for Square Card in Great Britain. This marks the first...

The API Effect: Creating a Real-Time Reality for Finance Teams
B2B Payments // October 21, 2024

Nothing slows down the free flow of commerce and payments more so than manual intervention. And with the news Sunday (Oct. 20) that Bank of America now allows companies to lock in foreign exchange (FX) rates for up to one year, simplifying treasury management processes through digital...

Interviews & Exclusives
From Cash Flow to Growth Engine: How Growth Corporates Rethink Working Capital

October 21, 2024
At its most basic level, working capital is the cash flow needed to fund short-term costs and operations. However, the operative definition of working capital, its usage and its access has changed dramatically in the year since Visa’s release of the first Growth Corporates Working Capital Index. Where the inaugural 2023 edition of the index […]

Why Financial Visibility Is the New Currency for SMBs

October 15, 2024
For businesses, cash is king. But a new threat, that of operational uncertainty and back-office opacity, is prowling around the kingdom’s perimeter. “Small businesses, fundamentally, just want control of their...

Embedded Lending Bridges Gap Between Consumers, Businesses and Credit

September 27, 2024
Embedded lending is growing in popularity around the world. It promises convenient, streamlined access to financing for specific expenses from within merchant, business and other platforms. This proves impactful for...

Consumers and Smaller Businesses Form an Untapped Embedded Lending Market in Germany

September 26, 2024
Embedded lending is growing in popularity around the world. It promises convenient, streamlined access to financing for specific expenses from within merchant, business and other platforms. This is true for...

Quick Reads
Bond Vet Turns to Coupa for AI-Powered Spend Management

November 04, 2024
Veterinary care company Bond Vet has launched a partnership with spend management provider Coupa. The collaboration, announced Monday (Nov. 4), will see Bond Vet clinics employ Coupa’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform to manage their finances and supplies. “As Bond Vet opens more clinics to meet the growing need for high-quality pet care, keeping things running […]

Square Card Enters UK Amid Small Businesses Cash Flow Worries

October 31, 2024
Square is expanding its card offering into the U.K. for merchants seeking quicker funding access. An executive from the company — an arm of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Block — told CNBC Thursday...

HubSpot to Add Subscription Billing Management Tools With Cacheflow Acquisition

October 11, 2024
HubSpot plans to add subscription billing management and configure, price, quote (CPQ) tools by acquiring Cacheflow. When the transaction is completed, Cacheflow will become a wholly owned subsidiary of HubSpot,...

Paystand Expands Its B2B Payments Service to Canada

September 05, 2024
Paystand says it is expanding its zero-fee B2B payments network to Canada. “While Paystand first introduced limited service in Canada in 2018, Canadian payers will now be able to access...