When small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) become more reliant on global trade, they also become more vulnerable to the kinds of disruptions that have been raining down on the logistics industry these past few years. The problem is that many SMEs must rely on stable revenues to keep the engine of their business running – they lack the established infrastructure and financial safety net of large corporations. They also are unlikely to receive financing from a highly traditional industry that is still dominated by risk-averse banks. That is why freight fintech companies are rushing in to fill this financing gap and offer SMEs a much broader range of options to get around logistics challenges, get goods into customers’ hands, and keep capital flowing.

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January 26th, 2022 – BlueX Trade has announced the launch of BlueX Pay, a digital B2B payment and checkout platform that allows supply chain payers and vendors to make and receive payments online, easily, and globally. As an experienced leader in digitizing supply chain logistics, BlueX Trade has seen first-hand how the enormous friction in B2B payments […]

How much does it cost to pay an international freight invoice? If you’re not sure—or your figure doesn’t truly represent the entire accounts payable (AP) cost—you may be missing opportunities to save. In May 2018, the maritime research and consulting firm Drewry estimated that inefficiencies in payment processing […]

Issues regarding Apache log4j (log4j) vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 were brought to our attention at BlueX Pay. Our system was not vulnerable to this issue. However, we still performed our due diligence regardless, as outlined below […]