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Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) has launched an online B2B hub – MyAPI – for its wholesale pharmacy customers. API is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wesfarmers Health and has more than 4000 wholesale pharmacy customers. According to the company, the…
According to statistics for Buy2Sell’s Google Analytics in 2021, the platform recorded over half a million visits and 140,000 registered users. In 2020, the platform reached about 400,000 visits and 56,000 registered users. In two years, it has recorded one…
Singapore-based YouTrip aims to scale its product offerings, including venturing into the B2B payments space, and accelerate its expansion across Southeast Asia. YouTrip has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round driven by returning investors from…
The Singapore-based startup has secured one of the largest Series A funding rounds to date in the country, which will allow it to expand in Southeast Asia. Spenmo has announced a $34 million raise in a Series A investment round led by New York-based private…
Xiaomi-backed Tiger Brokers is expanding its reach into the institutional segment with the launch of a business-to-business (B2B) platform. Tiger Brokers is partnering Singapore-based financial advisory firm PFPFA as it launches a B2B platform for…
Nokia has today announced that it will conduct a 5G Business-to-Business (B2B) digital platform trial for LG Uplus. Once deployed, the platform will allow LG Uplus to reduce time-to-market for launching 5G-powered services to its enterprise and business…
Visa, the world’s leading digital payments technology company, has teamed up with Stripe, a technology company that builds the economic infrastructure for the internet, to introduce a new set of solutions to help businesses pay and be paid on time. The new…
B2B e-commerce platform Nuorder is launching a virtual showroom service for brands to showcase products via an immersive online experience. About 40 percent of NuOrder’s sales of around US$1 billion per month come from markets outside North America and a…
Harbour & Hills has made a strategic acquisition that will allow it to facilitate USD and other major currencies’ payments to China. Harbour & Hills Financial Services (H&H) has acquired a controlling stake in Global Envoi, a payments processor with strong…
DBS helps further propel Singapore’s cashless movement by introducing quick response code-based payments for the business-to-business segment. The bank hopes to boost payment speeds and is piloting the solution first in the F&B industry – a sector with…
Japanese cosmetics giant Shiseido on Sunday become the world’s first multinational cosmetic company to open a dedicated office in Hangzhou to work with Alibaba Group and co-create products specifically tailored for Chinese consumers. The Shiseido and Alibaba…
Visa announced Kasikornbank is the first Thai financial institution to join the Visa B2B Connect pilot program. Visa B2B Connect is a new platform that Visa is developing to give financial institutions a simple, fast and secure way to process cross-border…
The cross-border B2B money transfer market is ripe for disruption, as new technologies and legislative changes redefine traditional banking practices across the globe, according to Juniper Research. Cross-border B2B transactions will exceed $218 trillion by…
Dropee, a local based technology start-up, today launched the full release of its B2B marketplace and introduced a new web interface to further streamline trading between suppliers and retailers. Prior to the full release, Dropee was running on beta since…
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