Branch and Procurify win fintech awards
Two embedded‑finance and spend‑management vendors won 2026 fintech awards — Branch was named Embedded Finance Platform of the Year and Procurify won Spend Management Platform of the Year — underscoring continued vendor momentum in working‑capital tech. Those recognitions highlight rising competition for lenders wanting to embed credit into procurement workflows. (prnewswire.com) (manilatimes.net)
Branch’s product pages show the company has processed more than $23 billion in worker payments through its payroll and payout rails, signaling scale for partners that want turnkey payout, card‑issuing, and EWA components embedded into third‑party platforms. (branchapp.com) Branch launched its “Branch Embedded” suite to let marketplaces and platforms deploy pre‑built payout and paycard workflows in weeks while offloading compliance, card issuing, and support to Branch’s operations teams. (financialit.net) Procurify positions itself as an AI‑driven intake‑to‑pay platform that now includes bill pay and AP automation features — the product documentation confirms a Bill Pay module that supports both pre‑funded Procurify Financial Accounts and direct debit from linked bank accounts. (procurify.com) Procurify’s commercial materials and third‑party profiles cite the company managing into the tens of billions of spend (corporate profiles list $100B+ of spend under management) and a wave of product moves — AI spend insights, AP automation, and a March 2026 partnership with Cogneesol to accelerate mid‑market rollouts. (corporatevision-news.com) Industry research from Mastercard and sector write‑ups show procurement leaders expect rapid adoption of embedded finance in procurement — the Mastercard study reports roughly three‑quarters of buyers expect to adopt embedded finance within two years and users report cash‑flow and working‑capital benefits. (mastercard.com) Solifi customer rollouts provide concrete examples lenders can cite when competing with embedded‑finance vendors: Kawasaki Motors Finance migrated 1,700 dealers and 53,000 loans onto Solifi’s wholesale finance SaaS to replace a legacy mainframe, Rosenthal & Rosenthal implemented Solifi’s equipment finance stack in a reported eight‑week deployment, and newly launched ABL lender ALL Capital chose Solifi ABL to support deals in the £5m–£20m range. (magazine.factoring.org) The combined market signals — Branch’s large‑scale payout footprint, Procurify’s bill‑pay/AP automation and $100B+ spend claims, and third‑party analyses of embedded lending platforms like Lendflow and Pulse that wrap origination/servicing APIs for lenders — explain why banks and finance companies are racing to embed credit into procurement and working‑capital flows. (branchapp.com)
