- May 13, 2022
Today in the connected economy, Meta Platforms announces plans to rename its Facebook Pay system to Meta Pay, while Airbnb launches a coalition to ensure its travelers’ safety. Plus, software ...
- May 13, 2022
Software investment firm Thoma Bravo on Friday (May 13) announced the finalization of its acquisition of FinTech Bottomline Technologies for $2.6 billion in cash, almost five months after the companies ...
- December 17, 2021
Payments and invoice management platform Bottomline Technologies will become a privately held company following a planned $2.6 billion acquisition by software investment firm Thoma Bravo.
The company announced the acquisition Friday ...
- December 10, 2021
Payment and invoice management platform Bottomline Technologies Inc. is looking into a potential sale and is working with Deutsche Bank AG on its options, people with knowledge of the situation ...
- November 9, 2021
Bottomline Technologies has closed a $15 million cash deal to acquire Bora Payment Systems, the company announced in a press release Tuesday (Nov. 9).
The deal is part of a move ...
- September 17, 2021
The threat businesses face from financial crimes has never been greater.
Nearly three-quarters of compliance professionals in a survey reported filing more suspicious activity reports related to financial crimes in 2020 ...
- September 16, 2021
Locking out fraud without increasing false positives can seem nearly impossible for financial institutions (FIs), but it doesn’t have to be. In the Preventing Financial Crimes Playbook, Synchrony Chief Information ...
- August 19, 2021
March 2020 marked a watershed moment for digital banking. It marked the mass acceleration away from branches and onto banking sites and apps, with more consumers banking digitally than ever.
Unfortunately, ...
- May 13, 2021
Today in B2B payments, StructShare discusses construction materials procurement, and Rho Technologies debuts its corporate card offering. Plus, Gappify discusses the progress of corporate accounting automation, Bottomline integrates with Billtrust ...
- May 12, 2021
Bottomline Technologies, which offers solutions such as accounts payable (AP) automation, will link Paymode-X payers to new card acceptance endpoints through Billtrust’s Business Payments Network (BPN), according to a Wednesday ...
- May 12, 2021
Today in B2B payments, Black Kite makes the case against ransomware payments, and Bottomline pairs with Autobooks on small business banking. Plus, Baker Tilly Canada Corporate Finance discusses small business ...
- May 12, 2021
In today’s top news in digital-first banking, Lili has notched $55 million via a Series B funding round, while MiCamp Solutions has purchased American Bank Payments in conjunction with joint ...
- April 30, 2021
Cash flow is king for companies of all sizes, but businesses must strategize to keep fraudsters from stealing the crown. Bad actors are employing a widening array of new schemes ...
- April 29, 2021
Fraudsters have found a new twist on an old favorite — business email compromise scams. In the inaugural Preventing Financial Crimes Playbook, Jeff Taylor, senior vice president of Commercial Fraud ...
- April 28, 2021
Companies worldwide are still attempting to reconfigure their typical operations and payment processes to keep up with the shifts caused by the pandemic. This includes working to keep out fraudsters ...
- February 4, 2021
Today in B2B payments, Supplier Success releases details on its work with Facebook’s supplier financing initiative, and Bottomline Technologies strikes a treasury technology acquisition. Plus, Visa collaborates on corporate cards ...
- February 3, 2021
FinTech Bottomline Technologies, which works to help simplify business transactions, has rolled out new, expanded corporate treasury tools, according to a press release.
As part of the expanded capabilities, Bottomline is ...
- August 28, 2020
As payment flows become more complex, manual review and intervention by human experts must become more specialized, putting their intuitive expertise to work exactly where it’s most needed. That compels ...
- August 27, 2020
Legacy AP processes can be costly and cumbersome, and many businesses are finding that they can no longer deal with such frictions. Old-school processes’ strains are hitting firms harder than ...
- August 26, 2020
If there’s one big takeaway that has come out of the pandemic’s impact on businesses’ accounts payable operations, it’s that solely relying on manual, on-site processes can leave businesses flat-footed, ...
- August 25, 2020
Businesses are not anticipating a smooth return to normalcy, with 43.5 percent of treasurers saying in a global poll that they expect the economic recovery to follow a “W”-shape, rather ...
- August 6, 2020
As bank-FinTech collaborations evolve, more traditional financial institutions (FIs) are not only implementing services and technologies developed by FinTech partners, but they’re also lending their own expertise to augment FinTech ...
- July 13, 2020
It didn’t take people long to run out of bathroom tissue (apparently) and cash, among other things, after COVID-19 was confirmed. The blow to America’s small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) ...
- July 10, 2020
Cash flow is king, especially for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). These firms often have less funding than their larger counterparts, and this makes it critical that they operate as ...
- July 9, 2020
Fruit importers/exporters never know how much they’ll pay their growers or get paid by grocery stores until the produce hits the market. That means a rather pear-shaped cash flow if ...
- July 8, 2020
Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) must often cope with slim operating margins and limited resources, and these two pressures make it essential that they closely monitor their cash flows.
Doing so ...
- June 24, 2020
The accounting world was as caught off-guard and unprepared as most other industries when COVID-19 came to town. One fact has clearly surfaced in the interval between pandemic lockdowns and ...
- June 23, 2020
Businesses must purchase various supplies and services to power their operations, but they often find it challenging to manage vendor payments. Large companies may receive thousands of monthly invoices that ...
- June 22, 2020
Businesses relying on paper-based AP methods could be losing out on thousands if not millions of dollars, Bank of America’s Brad Garfield says. In this month’s Next-Gen AP Automation Tracker, ...
- June 19, 2020
Businesses that have stuck with paper-based accounts payable (AP) processes are feeling the heat as the COVID-19 pandemic makes it unsafe for staff to conduct manual invoice and payment processing ...
- June 1, 2020
Physicist Niels Bohr — or maybe it was ballplayer Yogi Berra — once said predictions are hard, especially the ones about the future.
Any sudden shock to the system like we ...
- May 18, 2020
Restarting and reinventing the U.S. economy will involve accounts payable (AP) automation. Count on it. “Buyers need upgraded AP tools that provide detailed views of their finances and outstanding invoices ...
- May 15, 2020
Finance professionals spend considerable time and effort using manual accounts payable (AP) processes that require sorting through paper documents and keying invoice details into their internal systems. These legacy methods provide scant details about payments’ ...
- May 14, 2020
Selling iced tea in summer is big business, and one that requires beverage brands to manage supplier payments for everything from tea leaves to bottle caps. Issues arising from invoicing ...
- May 13, 2020
Late payments have always plagued business-to-business (B2B) commerce, but the problem is coming to a new head. Financial instabilities that many companies are facing due to the pandemic has made ...
- April 20, 2020
Accounts payable (AP) fraud is a major threat to businesses, with 82 percent of approximately 600 corporate treasury and financial employee respondents reporting their companies were subject to payments fraud attempts in 2018. Forty-three ...
- April 17, 2020
Stay-at-home consumers are unlocking their inner chefs and turning to various spices, blends and rubs to build out flavors. But getting seasonings from growers and into consumers’ hands depends on ...
- April 16, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is putting accounts payable (AP) department practices to the test. Businesses are doing their part by having employees work from home, but some companies are struggling to ...
- April 14, 2020
Legacy accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) operations aren’t only inefficient, they’re costly.
PYMNTS’ latest The Optimizing AP and AR Playbook, a collaboration with OnPay Solutions, found that businesses in ...