Financial Management, Payments

A Guide to B2B Payments

July 20, 2022

A Guide to B2B Payments
Business-to-business (B2B) companies today can choose from a growing number of sophisticated options to make and receive payments. Driven by their need for greater speed, fewer errors, lower costs, and better security, companies are adopting new technologies to pay — and be paid by — partners, contractors, product distributors, and suppliers.

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GroFin

GroFin is a pioneering private development finance institution specialised in financing and supporting small and growing businesses (SGBs) across Africa and the Middle East by combining medium term loan capital and value-added business support. By generating employment, strengthening value chains and building markets, our investments bring about inclusive economic growth and improved living conditions in the low and middle income countries where we operate.

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Fintech-led Digital Lending: Coming of Age

whitePaper | January 15, 2023

A decade ago, not many of us would have envisaged how fintechs would change the credit landscape through digital innovations. Although the share of fintech in the overall lending pie is still small and concentrated towards bite sized unsecured lending, the promise it holds for the future is immense. Fintech-led digital lending is the fastest-growing segment today. The disruptions created by fintech by providing a superior customer experience with a reduced cost of acquisition, a frictionless customer journey, and instant decisioning have revolutionised digital lending in India. The larger impact is in terms of addressing the credit gap and making India more credit-inclusive.

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Open Banking and Open Data: Ready to Cross Borders?

whitePaper | July 29, 2022

Would you like to be able to aggregate your data across your bank accounts? Enable your tax accountant to see your financial information? Enable the App of your choice to make a payment on your behalf? Or perhaps you would like to enable your residents or customers to perform these tasks in a low cost, secure and interoperable way? There is a global movement towards “Open Banking/Open Data” the paradigm shift where a user authorizes the release of their data from one entity (a data holder like a bank) to an entity where they would like it to go (a relying party like a FinTech). This is also known as “user-consent based data sharing.” Although this movement started with banking use cases and gaining access to data held by banks, it is now expanding to a range of other verticals including brokerage and mutual fund services, insurance, telecommunications, utilities, health and more.

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Capital Planning Leading Your Financial Institution to Success

whitePaper | July 30, 2022

If you’re from the southeast like I am, you might recognize late August and early September as a special time of the year. It’s a time the weather is cooling down, schools are starting up again, and most importantly, the lights on the football fields around the country are set to illuminate for the first time since February. It’s also the time of year that you can turn on any sports network and have a good chance of catching a coach talking about the upcoming season and their first matchup of the season.

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6 CFO Actions To Maximize Worker Productivity

whitePaper | January 1, 2023

The workforce challenges which have persisted throughout 2022 remain a primary concern heading into 2023. Inflation, tightening budgets, a renewed focus on profitability, and a tight labor market make productivity measurement and capacity utilization paramount.

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Empowering Instant Credit Through Open Banking

whitePaper | April 15, 2022

The global consumer finance market has rebounded at pace from the turbulence of the pandemic, led by an accelerating shift online and an accompanying wave of investment and innovation. With many people managing financial uncertainty, the segment has seen a step change in its progress, supported by new approaches to credit decisioning and the emergence of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) as a major force in the payments landscape.

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FinTech Trends for 2021 - What will 2021 bring us in FinTech Innovation?

whitePaper | April 14, 2021

So what will 2021 - and beyond - bring us in FinTech innovation? Central Bank Digital Currencies? - perhaps - but some would argue that most currency is already digital: how much physical cash did you handle in the last year? And how much was transacted by digital money transfer, real-time payments, card transactions, mobile wallets… Does money actually exist? The news is full of how multi-million-pound artworks can now be represented by ‘non-fungible tokens’ which represent ‘digital’ but not physical ownership of the artworks.

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GroFin

GroFin is a pioneering private development finance institution specialised in financing and supporting small and growing businesses (SGBs) across Africa and the Middle East by combining medium term loan capital and value-added business support. By generating employment, strengthening value chains and building markets, our investments bring about inclusive economic growth and improved living conditions in the low and middle income countries where we operate.

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