How The Supplier Guides The Accounts Payable Evolution While accounts payable technology has to tackle friction for AP departments, unless the supplier is considered, true efficiencies cannot be gained. Nasser Chanda, CEO of Paymerang, tells PYMNTS about the implications of AP's embrace of real-time payments and modernization on B2B payments security and efficiency â with the vendor's experience at-stake just as much as the buyer's. |
Venture Capitalists Revive Faith In B2B FinTech Startups B2B FinTech venture capital funding has been slow in recent weeks amid an environment in which investors overall are feeling hesitant. That's bad news for startups, particularly as recent research found that loan approval rates for small businesses actually declined in August among traditional banks. Yet this week may signal a turnaround for the B2B FinTech arena, with a combined $121.8 million raised for the B2B FinTech space. |
| Payment Rails | Laying The Groundwork For âFintech 2.0â With Digital Assets Government-led stablecoin initiatives have lent validity to the world of digital assets, opening up the doors for the financial services world to embrace FinTech 2.0. But a fiat-to-digital currency shift wonât happen overnight, says Zero Hash Co-founder and CEO Edward Woodford. He told PYMNTS why bridging traditional with crypto in an as-a-Service business model can lay the groundwork for FinTechs and financial institutions to develop their own services around digital currencies as interest in the technology spreads. | |