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How Generative AI Is Driving Spend Management Innovation

March 09, 2023
EMEA Daily: UK Renews Crypto Hub Offering
emea // June 15, 2022

In today’s top stories from Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, the U.K. restates its wish to become a global crypto hub, while an EU official calls on Europe’s parliament to adopt new crypto trading regulations. Also, pan-African VC fund Launch Africa raises $36.3...

Digital Commercial Cards Make the Great Reengagement Easier for Corporate Road Warriors
Travel Payments // May 13, 2022

For business travelers, 2019 is looking more and more like a high-water mark. We may all be looking forward to being face to face in the age of vaccinations, as COVID-19 case counts are well off peaks. Companies want to keep vendor relationships intact, and...

Virtual Cards, Spend Management Help SMBs Cut Costs — and Red Tape
B2B Payments // April 05, 2022

When employees must pay their expenses out of pocket and get reimbursed later, the process isn’t just tedious — it’s expensive too. As a result, there’s a continuing transition away from legacy solutions. Providing a better solution is the challenge Torpago set out to solve...

FinTech Jeeves Raises $180M Series C at $2.1B Valuation
B2B Payments // March 22, 2022

FinTech infrastructure platform Jeeves raised $180 million in a Series C funding round led by China’s Tencent that puts the startup’s valuation at an estimated $2.1 billion, according to a blog post on Tuesday (March 22). Additional backers in the round include GIC, Stanford University,...

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How Generative AI Is Driving Spend Management Innovation

March 09, 2023
The viral success of ChatGPT points to the huge potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools to be a major game-changer for businesses. In the spend management space, for example, Jamie Anderson, chief revenue officer at U.S.-based global spend optimization firm Emburse, said AI could be transformative, helping firms that have gathered years’ worth of […]

Digital Commercial Cards Make the Great Reengagement Easier for Corporate Road Warriors

May 13, 2022
For business travelers, 2019 is looking more and more like a high-water mark. We may all be looking forward to being face to face in the age of vaccinations, as...

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FinTech Jeeves Raises $180M Series C at $2.1B Valuation

March 22, 2022
FinTech infrastructure platform Jeeves raised $180 million in a Series C funding round led by China’s Tencent that puts the startup’s valuation at an estimated $2.1 billion, according to a blog post on Tuesday (March 22). Additional backers in the round include GIC, Stanford University, a16z, CRV, Silicon Valley Bank, FT Partners, Clocktower Ventures, Urban […]

Square Launches Free Business Debit Card

January 17, 2019
Square announced Thursday (Jan. 17) the Square Card, a business debit Mastercard aimed at helping businesses manage cash flow. In a press release, the payments company said Square Card users get...

Amex Biz Gold Card Offers Flexible Repayments

November 08, 2018
American Express announced on Thursday (Nov. 8) the launch of its new Business Gold Card, which comes with four times Membership Rewards points on the top two categories that the...

Barclays Celebrates 50 Years Since First UK Commercial Card

July 31, 2018
It’s been 50 years since the U.K. got its first commercial card product, and to celebrate, Barclays released a report highlighting how business spending has evolved in the last half-century....