Alibaba’s quarterly earnings: The ecommerce giant posted strong growth in its retail and global businesses, even though we expect its share of China’s total ecommerce sales to dip slightly this year.

Both companies delivered impressive Q2 results and may try to expand their core money businesses and move into high-growth sectors like cryptocurrencies.

Mexican corporate card provider Clara has neobanking potential: The fintech’s new payment solution gives businesses access to its credit line and lets them schedule as many as 100 payments at once. It’s another building block that Clara could use to become a neobank.

Santander says cashflow app will help UK SMBs’ pandemic recovery: The bank’s app, in partnership with fintech Tomato Pay, lets small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) view activities from all of their accounts in one spot and settle payments instantly.