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October 22, 2020

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Investors Say FinTech Valuations Are High, But Not Overheated

There’s heavy interest even amid the pandemic in investing in financial services and payments tech across all manner of verticals, but valuations might be getting stretched. Top investment execs from Hudson Executive Capital, Great Hill Partners, Accel and Vulcan Capital join Paul Purcell, partner at Continental Advisors, to discuss where the money has been flowing from private equity, public markets and SPACs.

 

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B2B Payments

Billtrust CEO On Delivering The Perfect B2B Payment

What does a 'perfect' B2B payment look like? It’s different for everybody, says Billtrust CEO and Founder Flint Lane, but a starting point is a payment that is integrated and meets the needs of both buyer and supplier. Lane spoke with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster about the rising awareness among corporates of optimizing business payments, and how Billtrust’s path to going public aims to accelerate those opportunities for each side of a B2B transaction.

 

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Super Apps

How To Build A Super App: First, Find The Biggest Consumer Pain

Building a ‘super app’ has the potential to be enormously powerful, but like any platform, it’s difficult to scale. OMNi Director of Mobility Liza Castillo tells PYMNTS that the biggest lesson learned from building one for the Central American market is the importance of finding the right need in consumers’ lives, then constructing a comprehensive umbrella of services around that.

 

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P2P Payments  

Using P2P Payments To Bank More Of The Unbanked

Some 1.7 billion adults around the world remain unbanked, but COVID-19 is changing that as people move away from cash, according to Kelly Switt, Red Hat’s senior director of financial services industry strategy, ecosystem and strategic partnerships. Here’s what can lower that number even further. 

 

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Online Fraud: 3DS 2.0   

Merchants, Online Fraud And The 3DS 2.0 Reset

Bad memories. That’s merchants and 3DS V.1. PAAY Chief Financial Officer Brian McCutcheon tells PYMNTS that those bad memories should now be a thing of the past as the 2.0 version gives them a new weapon in the fight against fraud online. 

 

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Optimizing The Back-Office Playbook 

Report: Overcoming Cross-Border Invoice Complexities

Doing business cross border also means having billing processes that comply with the unique standards and regulations in each market, and asking accounts receivable (AR) teams to modify their invoicing approaches accordingly, says Jeff Edwards, CEO of energy and power solutions provider Energy Control Systems. In the Optimizing The Back-Office Playbook, Edwards explains how invoice automation and management solutions can help AR departments power past cross-border invoicing complexities.

 

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