
Santander turns to B2 Group for supply chain finance package
( Finextra) The B2 Group, the provider of cloud-based payments software and consultancy solutions, announced today that Santander UK have chosen its Multi-Bank Integrator platform to further enhance their supply chain finance solution for major corporate clients. Multi-Bank, a 5th generation platform based on two decades of ..

NRI announces successful integration of AI technology into Mizuho Securities’ call monitoring operations
( FinanceFeeds) Artificial intelligence continues to make its way through the financial services industry, with compliance and fraud detection being among the areas where AI technologies are increasingly adopted. 4307) announced earlier this week the successful integration of ..

Blackline Inc (BL) Shares Bought by Brown Advisory Inc.
( Dispatch Tribunal) Fortaleza Asset Management Inc. now owns 6,215 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $212,000 after acquiring an additional 3,080 shares in the last quarter. American … The Company provides cloud-based software platform that is designed to automate and streamline accounting and finance operations.

Divvy Launches Secure Financial Platform to Reduce Fraud & Manage Employee and Vendor Spending
( SYS-CON Media ) Businesses end up using frustrating card management CRMs, out of date expense management software, chasing down receipts and uploading expense reports instead of focusing on growing their business,” said Blake Murray, Founder and CEO of Divvy.

Why Google and Amazon Keep Fidelity and BlackRock Up at Night
( BloombergQuint) It offers loans to merchants. “Alexa and Siri could one day become your financial assistant, cutting even deeper into commissions” for advisers, says Lex Sokolin, who directs financial technology strategy at consultancy Autonomous Research. Amazon, Apple and Google—big players in digital assistants—had no comment.

Tally Solutions launches VAT-ready softwar
( Telecompaper) Tally Solutions, an international accounting and compliance software provider, has launched its value added tax (VAT) software – Tally.ERP 9 Release 6.3 in UAE. The software’s in-built error detection and correction capability mitigates any errors in data.

Travelport, Conferma Continue Push For V-Card Adoption For Aussie Hotel Bookings
( PYMNTS.com) That’s according to Hamed Abbasi, CEO of payments technology firm Plooto. He recently told PYMNTS that small business accountants are much like their clients in the way they make and receive payments.