Accounts Receivables

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 ...

Mastercard has introduced a card acceptance analytics platform to offer customers insights into supplier payments. Advanced B2B Analytics is designed to let issuers “drive commercial card spend at scale,” capture added ...

The early bird used to get a supplier discount. These days, it may still be waiting for the customer to pay. Across North America, more businesses are receiving payments on ...

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 ...

Middle market CFOs are getting themselves stuck by doing what they think is the right thing. And that “right thing” is typically still treating finance modernization as a technology upgrade. Findings ...

Paying a bill may never rank among life’s great pleasures. Still, it shouldn’t feel like a test of patience every month. “The Service Commerce Performance Gap” is a PYMNTS Intelligence report ...

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) ...

The expense report has survived every wave of enterprise software modernization. ERPs automated procurement. AP platforms automated invoicing. But the expense report, with its chased receipts, manual GL codes and ...

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 ...

Businesses that use real-time payments tend to see more value than businesses still deciding whether they need them at all. The divide emerged from the PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Real-Time Perception ...

B2B cash generation platform Billtrust has launched the “Billtrust MCP Server.” With this new offering, the company becomes the first accounts receivable (AR) platform to directly link live invoice-to-cash intelligence to ...

American Express aims to improve the B2B payments experience for buyers and suppliers with two new offerings, including a new B2B payment feature and automated invoice reporting capabilities. Both offerings join ...

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), ...

French embedded invoice financing platform Aria has raised $283 million, much of it in debt. The company on Thursday (July 9) announced it had raised $8 million in a Series A extension and ...

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, ...

For decades, accounts receivable has operated on the assumption that there would be time to fix mistakes after money moved. But as instant and near-instant payment capabilities become more common, ...

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 ...

Billtrust has added a self-service payment experience and a cash forecasting tool to its B2B accounts receivable workflow and payment software. These tools are designed to accelerate collections, improve buyer payment ...

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 ...

Corporate finance teams have spent decades building systems to record what customers owe. Very few of those systems tell them what customers are about to do. That gap is what artificial ...

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 ...

Billtrust is turning to agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to help finance teams spot payment risks. The company, which makes B2B accounts receivable (AR) workflow and payment software, announced the launch of ...

Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are approaching a practical turning point in how they pay. Cash and checks still play an outsized role in day-to-day operations, especially for supplier and ...

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 ...

The four horsemen of construction project delays typically appear as rain-soaked jobsites, supply shortages, labor gaps or permitting snags. However, the latest Money Mobility Tracker®, a PYMNTS Intelligence collaboration with Ingo ...

For many small businesses, cash flow is no longer a background concern. It is the defining constraint shaping daily operations and long-term viability. Delayed receivables are becoming more common 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 ...

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 ...