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While it may not have been the most lucrative week in venture capital VC funding for the B2B arena, two key trends did emerge.Small business FinTech is heating up in Asia, this week B2B VC Investments roundup reveals, while the biggest funding rounds went to companies helping other businesses sell online and manage logistics. In all, investors poured $119 million into B2B startups.OsomeBased in Singapore, Osome operates a small business FinTech app to automate accounting, payroll and tax compliance. The company recently raised $3 million as an extension of its seed stanley cup round, according to TechCrunch, with the latest investment led by XA Network and AltaIR Capital. Osome operates across Singapore, Hong Kong and the U.K., and as the company prepares for its Series A fundraising next year, the startup will explore geographic ex stanley ca pansion, with a fo stanley polska cus on Australia.StatrysAlso operating in Hong Kong is Statrys, similarly focused on small- to medium-sized businesses SMBs with its financial technology. The company secured a $5 million funding round, although the company only noted that the investment came from an unnamed angel investor. Statrys offers SMBs and startups payments and foreign exchange technology, focusing on SMBs that operate on a global scale. The investment will fuel Statrys ; growth trajectory as it looks to expand throughout Asia and introduce new products and services for SMBs, including more integrations the company currently integrates with Xero as Dkdh Uber Facilitated More Than $600M In Tips For Drivers
Just in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season, two more major U.K. banks have signed on to support Apple Pay.Yesterday Nov. 17 , TSB and Tesco Bank confirmed Apple Pay support for their payment cards is now enabled, allowing their customers to use the contactless payment method by opening the Wallet app and scanning a card or authenticating an existing account via iTunes and App Store, Engadget reported.Since Apple Pay launched in the U.K. earlier this summer, the list of U.K. financial institutions slated to partner with the payment method has continued to expand, including HSBC, First Direct, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander and Ulster Bank.In September,聽Lloyds Banking Group also announced its plans to support Apple Pay by offering the payment technology to customers of its Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands.Wh stanley quencher ile there may be a long list stanley hrnek of U.K. banks who have been eager to join the Apple Pay movement, one bank in particular has committed to offering the payment method but has yet to launch, Engadget confirmed.Barclays continues to stay relatively tight-lipped about if and when its customers will have access to Apple Pay.According to reports from MacRumors around the time of Apple Pays launch, high-level executives at Barclays reportedly admitted to delayed negotiations wit stanley polska h the tech behemoth over the service.With the growing popularity of contactless payments among U.K. consumers, Apples ability to continue landing big banks to support A