XTransfer, a major B2B cross-border trade payment platform for SMEs, is partnering with Maybank to simplify and reduce friction in international payments for exporters and importers in Asia. For B2B executives, this signals intensifying competition around serving mid-market and SME trade flows in ASEAN, with banks and fintechs increasingly collaborating instead of competing head-on.
Collins Aerospace opens 26-acre manufacturing and engineering facility in Bengaluru
Collins (an RTX business) has inaugurated a new 26-acre operations centre in India’s KIADB Aerospace Park, consolidating manufacturing, engineering and R&D under one site to serve global OEM and airline customers. This is a meaningful data point for aerospace and industrial B2B supply chains: more high-value production and engineering migrating to India, with implications for vendors, talent pipelines, and regional sourcing strategies.
B2B sales lose 65% of time to admin – Sweden’s Spiich Labs raises €600k to automate it with AI
Stockholm-based Spiich Labs has raised a €600k pre-seed round for an “agent-first” AI assistant aimed at eliminating 8+ hours per week of admin work for B2B sales reps. For sales-led organizations and RevOps leaders, this underlines a broader trend: specialized AI agents attacking CRM hygiene, pipeline updates and meeting prep as distinct automation markets, not just features inside monolithic SaaS.
BrowserAct rolls out “hallucination-resistant web scraping” for enterprise automation
BrowserAct, a web automation and scraping company, has launched technology specifically marketed as eliminating AI hallucinations from scraped data workflows. For B2B data and ops teams, this speaks to a new category: “trust-layer” tools that sit between source websites and downstream LLMs, promising cleaner, more reliable inputs for analytics, pricing, lead gen and monitoring.
Vietnamese and Italian enterprises partner to expand global supply chains
Vietnamnet reports new partnerships between Vietnamese and Italian firms aimed at expanding joint participation in global supply chains, particularly in manufacturing and industrial components. For B2B supply-chain and procurement leaders, it’s another indicator that Vietnam is deepening its role as a manufacturing and logistics hub, not just with China and the US but via EU relationships too.
