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‘Smarter’ Money Movement Helps B2B Firms Hedge FX Risk, Improve Cash Flow
Cross-border Payments // January 18, 2023

For midmarket B2B firms, intelligent decision-making about how, and when, to move money is more challenging than ever. Patrick Gauthier, CEO of B2B FinTech Convera, told Karen Webster that as companies navigate supply chain pressures, inflation and rising interest rates — not to mention a...

Amazon Pay’s Patrick Gauthier On How Retail Will Reinvent Itself And Recover
Retail // May 20, 2020

The last several weeks have certainly made for unexpected and unprecedented times for consumers and all players in the retail ecosystem and left a lot of businesses standing at a crossroads as they face the back half of 2020 and questions about what to do...

Amazon’s 15 M-Commerce Moves In 16 Years
Amazon // September 03, 2015

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, there aren’t a lot of companies like Amazon. Actually, let’s step back. There is no other company like Amazon. Like most companies, the eCommerce giant takes a lot of flack over lots of things — some justified, some just because...

Amazon: The Merchant’s Best Friend?
Cool // June 25, 2015

Attention, eCommerce merchants: Amazon is not your enemy. On the contrary, the company can actually help its partners increase its conversion rates 20 times over. In a lively and informative discussion, Patrick Gauthier, Vice President of External Payments at Amazon and MPD CEO Karen Webster...

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‘Smarter’ Money Movement Helps B2B Firms Hedge FX Risk, Improve Cash Flow

January 18, 2023
For midmarket B2B firms, intelligent decision-making about how, and when, to move money is more challenging than ever. Patrick Gauthier, CEO of B2B FinTech Convera, told Karen Webster that as companies navigate supply chain pressures, inflation and rising interest rates — not to mention a pandemic and geopolitical tensions — currency volatility has become a […]

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Convera Concludes Western Union Business Solutions Deal

July 10, 2023
B2B FinTech Convera says it has completed its acquisition of Western Union Business Solutions (WUBS). WUBS was acquired last year by Goldfinch Partners and The Baupost Group for $910 million and rebranded as Convera, a new standalone payments operation. In a news release Monday (July 10), the company announced it had concluded the acquisition of its European business, thus marking the […]