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Freshbooks: Why SMBs Need More Than Integrated Payments

SMBs want the same things that any other business wants: to be paid quickly and without a big hassle. That’s why Mark Girvan, chief commercial officer at FreshBooks, tells PYMNTS that simply enabling digital payments as part of a SaaS platform isn’t good enough anymore. Girvan tells us what is in this month’s edition of the Payments Powering Platform Tracker.

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Aussie FIs’ Real-Time Payments Overshadowed By Government Probe

This week, top Australian banks began rolling out their real-time payments services as they looped into the nation’s New Payments Platform. It would have been viewed as a technological step forward were it not for what reports are calling a “landmark” government investigation into the nation’s financial services sector, with analysts expecting top lenders to earn the most scrutiny. Here’s what you need to know about Aussie banks’ busy week.

Visa B2B Payments: Where The Fraedom Buy Fits

As Visa bolsters its B2B payments capabilities — most recently through the acquisition of spend management platform, Fraedom — they are also beefing up their ability to use data to enrich the suite of services its FI partners can offer to its corporate customers. Kevin Phalen, Visa's global head of commercial payments, explains how Visa’s B2B roadmap is evolving.

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