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B2B payment fraud control workflow showing vendor verification ERP integration and dual-approval checks for accounts payable teams
The $55 Billion Blind Spot: Why Your B2B Payment Controls Are Still Built for the Last Decade’s Fraudsters

April 28, 2026

Author: Pratik Singh Raguwanshi, Manager, Digital Experience, LiveHelpIndia B2B payment fraud has crossed a structural threshold. The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report recorded $3 billion in business email compromise losses for the year alone, with cumulative BEC damages now exceeding $55 billion since 2013. The 2025 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Report found 79% of organisations

Real-time payments dashboard showing SME working capital flows across PayTo FedNow and Pix rails
Beyond Consumer Convenience: The Real-Time Payment Rails That Will Break SME Working Capital Control

April 27, 2026

Author: Girish Songirkar, Delivery Manager, Enterprise Software Engineering, Arionerp Real-time payments are quietly rewriting the operating economics of every SME running cross-border or even cross-state cash flows. PayTo in Australia, FedNow in the United States, and Pix in Brazil moved from rollout phase to operating standard between 2023 and 2026, with Pix now projected to handle

Stablecoin payroll dashboard showing cross-border settlement and treasury reconciliation across multiple jurisdictions
Beyond the Hype: The Hidden Cascades of Stablecoin Payroll on Cross-Border Margin and Control

April 27, 2026

Author: Sudhanshu Dubey, Delivery Manager, Enterprise Solutions Architect, Errna Stablecoin payroll has crossed from speculative experiment to operating infrastructure. Mastercard’s $1.8 billion acquisition of BVNK in March 2026 confirmed what global finance teams had been seeing in their treasury reports for months. Deel, Rippling, Remote, and Payoneer each rolled out stablecoin disbursement capabilities since early 2026,

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Vestwell Leads U.S. FinTech Deal Rankings in Q1 2026 with 16% Year-Over-Year Funding Growth

April 27, 2026

US FinTech Investment Sees Significant Year-Over-Year Growth In the first quarter of 2026, U.S. FinTech funding surged to $11.1 billion across 466 deals, representing a remarkable 16% increase from the $9.6 billion raised across 350 deals during the same period in 2025. The uptick in deal volume was even more pronounced, showing a 33% year-over-year

Construction supply chain finance workflow showing subcontractor invoice approval and early payment
Construction supply chain finance: 5 powerful cash fixes

April 24, 2026

Author: Kriszta Grenyo, Chief Operating Officer, Suff Digital Construction supply chain finance is one of the least-used tools that can end the invoice-to-invoice cycle most trades businesses live in. If you work in construction or the skilled trades, you already know the story. You win a contract, you front the materials and labour costs, and then you

B2B virtual cards payment workflow showing supplier onboarding and ERP reconciliation
B2B virtual cards: 5 hidden costs at scale

April 24, 2026

Author: Pratik Singh Raguwanshi, Manager, Digital Experience, LiveHelpIndia B2B virtual cards have emerged as a powerful tool for modern finance teams, and at first glance they deliver exactly what the marketing promises: streamlined disbursement, granular spend control, and tighter fraud protection than a plastic corporate card ever offered. That story holds at low volumes. It holds

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French FinTech Funding Reaches Five-Quarter High in Q1 as Investors Focus on Larger Deals

April 24, 2026

Key French FinTech investment stats in Q1 2026: French FinTech funding reached a five-quarter high in Q1, with capital invested quadrupling quarter-over-quarter. Average deal value surged by threefold to $26.4 million as investors focused on larger transactions. GitGuardian, a secrets security and non-human identity governance platform, secured $50 million in a Series C funding round,

Stablecoins for payroll workflow showing cross-border settlement and local currency conversion
Stablecoins for payroll: 5 hidden risks to weigh now

April 23, 2026

Author: Blake Smith, Marketing Manager, ClockOn Stablecoins for payroll solve a real problem in cross-border payments. But they also shift complexity into places most payroll teams cannot handle. Right now, the technology is moving faster than the regulatory and operational systems payroll depends on, and the case for and against stablecoins for payroll deserves a closer

Open banking B2B payments workflow linking bank accounts to business accounting software
Open banking B2B payments: 5 powerful wins for growth

April 23, 2026

Author: Kriszta Grenyo, Chief Operating Officer, Suff Digital Open banking B2B payments are quietly solving some of the most persistent friction points in business finance, and most operators have not looked closely enough. Most coverage of open banking focuses on the consumer side. Budgeting apps that pull personal transaction data. Mortgage comparison tools that scan spending

Trade credit in 2026 illustrated by stacked invoices alongside a fintech payment interface
Trade Credit in 2026: Dead, Evolving, or Just Misunderstood?

April 21, 2026

By Kriszta Grenyo, Chief Operating Officer, Suff Digital Trade credit has anchored B2B commerce for centuries. The idea is simple. A supplier provides goods or services, and the buyer pays later, usually within 30 to 90 days. The arrangement works as a short-term loan with no interest charge, extended as a standard courtesy of doing business.

B2B payment automation dashboard replacing paper checks and manual invoicing in a finance operations team
B2B Payment Automation: 6 Bold Wins From Real Operators

April 21, 2026

B2B payment automation has quietly rewritten how mid-market companies move money. Paper checks fell from 81% of B2B payments in 2004 to just 26% in 2025, according to AFP's Digital Payments Survey. Yet 91% of organizations still write checks, per the same association's fraud research. That gap between what leaders say and what their back