by Robert Solomon | Oct 13, 2015 | B2B Software, Financial services, Industry Concentration |
A while back, I posted about industries in which a B2B platform becomes so dominant that the industry’s participants worry about the platform’s potential to develop monopoly power. In some of these cases, the industry’s participants will form a...
by Robert Solomon | Sep 29, 2015 | Airlines, B2B Software, Electronic Payments, Enterprise Software, Financial services, Insurance, Payments, Public Sector, Real Estate
If you are interested in B2B software generally, you should be particularly interested in the Canadian B2B software industry. I’m not sure what is in the water (beer?) up there, but Canada has more than its fair share of interesting B2B software companies and...
by Robert Solomon | Aug 11, 2015 | B2B Software, Consolidating Competition, Financial services, Industry Cloud
Yodlee, which I just wrote about on Friday and when it went public a year ago, announced it was being acquired for $18.88 in cash and stock from Envestnet (ENV). This represented about a 50% premium over Yodlee’s stock price on Friday. Envestnet sells cloud...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 8, 2015 | B2B Software, E-invoicing, Electronic Payments, Financial services
Here’s how Direct Insite which is a public company (DIRI) describes itself on its press and financial releases: Direct Insite™ provides a powerful platform for unified working capital management that facilitates over $160 billion worth of transactions annually...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 12, 2015 | B2B Software, Electronic Payments, Financial services, Global Trade Management
In my last post, I covered Earthport, a public competitor in the cross border payments market. Now it is time for public competitor #2: INTL FCStone That is not a typo; that is the name of a public US company (INTL) engaged in cross border payments (among many other...
by Robert Solomon | Feb 5, 2015 | B2B Software, Financial services, Matchmaking
There is a lot written about the need for online marketplaces and exchanges to build trust and provide transparency to all participants. Examples of issues experienced in the past are: Battles fighting fraud at both eBay and PayPal Alibaba’s high-profile (and...
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