Accounts Payable Automation

B2B payments company Boost Payments Solutions has launched a partnership with financial operating system Airwallex. The collaboration is designed to enhance Boost’s international commercial card processing capabilities and help it streamline ...

Watch more: How Payments Turn AI Into Action Every swipe, ACH transfer or virtual card transaction carries clues about who is spending, where money is moving, what is being bought and whether ...

BankPro is teaming with Thredd to power its physical and virtual debit and credit card programs. The partnership, announced Tuesday (Sept. 29), involves BankPro tapping into Thredd’s platform to enhance BankPro’s payment infrastructure and provide payment ...

Corporate cards provided a scalable answer to the question of who is allowed to spend company money. Virtual cards are taking that answer even further, to the question of “what” ...

A payment request can look perfectly ordinary until someone checks the bank account. By then, the finance team may be one click away from sending money to a fraudster. “Prevention First: ...

Issuer processor firm Thredd has launched a partnership with cross-border payment/capital settlement platform iPayLinks. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Sept. 15), will see Thredd power China-based iPayLinks’ new Mastercard virtual commercial debit card program. “iPayLinks has built a ...

American Express is expanding the availability of virtual cards for businesses, as more companies use digital payments to manage expenses and reduce fraud. The company said in a Thursday (Aug. 13) ...

For years, the elevator pitch for B2B payments modernization was speed. Faster approvals. Faster settlement. Faster reconciliation. Faster access to working capital. However, moves from Mastercard and American Express point to ...

For the past 25 years, card-not-present payments have been built around a defensive premise: Prove the buyer is human, authorized and in control of the transaction. Fraud systems, merchant controls ...

Virtual cards are gaining a second job inside corporate finance departments. Beyond helping companies pay suppliers, the cards can give CFOs more control over timing, visibility and short-term funding. New PYMNTS ...

Mastercard has added new security controls, single application programming interface (API) access, and expanded embedded payments capabilities to its virtual card number platform, Mastercard In Control. Together, these new features help enterprises and ...

Electronics giant Samsung has teamed with Barclays to roll out its first credit card. The Samsung Galaxy Card will run on Visa’s network, with applications set to open Wednesday (July 22), ...

The Federal Reserve confirmed this month that digital payments are winning the modernization battle against paper-based ones. For finance teams participating in the ecosystem’s ongoing transformation, however, that’s no longer the ...

Businesses sent roughly 560 billion invoices in 2024. Fewer than a quarter were electronic. The rest were paper, or PDFs that may as well be paper, generated by one system, ...

Watch more: Payments That Pay You Back The modernization of accounts payable (AP) no longer stops at digitizing paper checks. And finance teams shouldn’t stop there, either. “What’s changed is where payments ...

The chief financial officer’s advantage in 2026 is not access to cheaper capital. It’s the ability to extract more value from capital already sitting inside the business. The companies doing that most ...

Visa expanded its Commercial Solutions Hub to help issuers and suppliers scale virtual card programs, according to a Wednesday (May 27) press release. The expansion integrates Visa’s Accounts Receivable Manager (Visa ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Mastercard’s Marc Pettican  In a world where companies are being pressured to do more with less, payments data is emerging as an underleveraged asset. At least, ...

In a business environment defined by uncertainty, financial control is no longer just something appealing operationally. It is becoming a measurable competitive advantage. This is driving a rethink of virtual cards ...

Watch more: Need to Know With David Bork of Boost Payment Solutions As digital payment infrastructure matures and economic pressures sharpen the focus on liquidity, the humble accounts payable (AP) function ...

Treasury solutions provider Qolo has launched an expanded partnership with KeyBank. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (April 28), has resulted in the debut Key Virtual Card (KeyVC), a virtual commercial card program designed to help businesses ...

Nacha is increasing its Same Day ACH per payment limit to $10 million. The increase, announced Monday (April 27) and set to go into effect Sept. 17, 2027, will be the ...

For years, accounts payable (AP) was judged by how little trouble it caused, but new data suggests it may now be creating room for faster payments, better supplier experiences and ...

J.P. Morgan Payments and Mastercard have launched a new virtual card in Europe. The new offering is designed to support traditional accounts payable needs in industries such as insurance, healthcare, travel and commercial real estate, ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Boost Payment Solutions’ Rene Stynen At first glance, Europe appears to have solved one of modern finance’s most stubborn problems: moving money. Compared with the United ...

Watch more: Office of the CFO With Ben Ellis of Visa Commercial Solutions Picture a manufacturing company with $4 million sitting in accounts receivable, another $2 million tied up in supplier ...

Travelsoft Pay will leverage Mastercard’s Wholesale Program (MWP) to simplify B2B payments across the travel ecosystem. This collaboration will provide payments infrastructure that is secure, scalable and travel-native, the companies said ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Visa’s Chavi Jafa Nearly half of growth corporates across Asia Pacific, companies with revenues between $50 million and $1 billion, say they don’t use working ...

Earnings season rarely yields a single organizing narrative, yet the most recent cycle has revealed a narrative tied to cards: Issuance is increasingly positioned as embedded infrastructure. Across investor materials and ...

B2B payments innovation tends to scale in lockstep with supplier acceptance. For years, that dynamic slowed the progress of corporate back offices. Buyers were reluctant to push new payment methods if ...

For WEX Inc., the latest quarter highlighted a shift in momentum across its portfolio, with the corporate payments segment carrying more of the company’s growth as mobility markets remained uneven. Fourth-quarter ...

ACH continued to replace checks in B2B payments in 2025, Nacha said Thursday (Jan. 29). B2B volume on the ACH Network increased 9.9%, from 7.4 billion in 2024 to 8.1 billion ...

Watch more: Need to Know: Boost Payment Solutions’ Daniel Artin B2B payments typically arrive with invoice and remittance data, not fanfare. These fundamental value transfers are largely invisible to anyone outside finance ...

Corporate money movement is no longer just about transferring value but unlocking it. For many chief financial officers and finance teams, however, payments modernization has become one of those phrases that ...

Nuvei says it is offering its merchants a chance to tap into WEX’s virtual card technology. With this partnership, travel merchants within Nuvei’s network can see improved cash flows, stronger liquidity, ...

The “2025–2026 Growth Corporates Working Capital Index,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa, examines how middle-market and growth-oriented companies are redefining working capital in an environment shaped by volatility ...

Watch more: Need to Know: Mastercard’s Marc Pettican Few dynamics in corporate operations are as familiar and unchanging as the B2B acceptance choreography.  Buyers negotiate terms with suppliers. Suppliers weigh costs, settlement speed and ...

It used to be that as the world changed, B2B payments remained the same. But that era is ending, and the pace of B2B transformation is accelerating. B2B payments have evolved ...

First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) has launched Mastercard‘s mobile-first virtual card number (VCN) solution for businesses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The VCN platform enables enterprises and government entities to issue and manage ...

An attack that begins with a trusted vendor rather than a masked hacker is becoming one of the most persistent risks facing medium-sized companies in the United States. That is the ...

Watch more: Need to Know: Mastercard’s Marc Pettican Commercial card acceptance has been limited for years by myths and outdated assumptions. Acquirers have believed that commercial cards are too complex, too ...

Finance leaders used to joke that accounts payable (AP) was where innovation went to die. Then, seemingly overnight, AP became one of the most aggressively optimized functions in the enterprise. A ...

Companies may be chasing automation, but late payments and cash flow strain are pushing a deeper shift in how finance teams think about modern payables. The persistent drag of manual processing ...

Uruguay-based FinTech Prometeo on Thursday (Dec. 4) introduced Name Match, a new ownership-evaluation feature within its Bank Account Verification API designed to improve payment accuracy and reduce fraud for businesses ...

The advertising and media industry has spent the past decade reinventing almost everything about how it reaches audiences. Except, remarkably, how it manages the money behind the work. Creative production ...