Traditionally, compliance has been shorthand for constraint. However, that’s never been the case across embedded finance, particularly across its promise to empower B2B platforms to offer payments, lending, insurance and treasury services directly inside their workflows. B2B firms usually navigate a fragmented landscape. Unlike consumer...
For decades, the mechanics of business payments barely changed. Wires, ACH batches and card networks moved money from point A to point B with only modest variations in speed and supporting information. The real differentiator across this historical ecosystem was financial strategy: how companies managed...
Zone & Co now enables finance teams to approve, pay and reconcile any invoice within their enterprise resources planning (ERP) system. The company offers these capabilities with its new ERP-native global payment solution for end-to-end accounts payable (AP) automation, Zone AP Payments, according to a...
Watch more: How B2B Innovation Drives the Smart Economy While 2024 may have been governed by the economic and strategic priorities of the chief financial officer, 2025 is putting greater accountability at the feet of CEOs. Decisions around liquidity, mergers and acquisitions, compliance and digital...
Third-quarter earnings season offered an unexpected storyline of the ascent of platforms that don’t just move money but build ecosystems around it. B2B networks, payment infrastructure providers and procurement marketplaces stole the spotlight not through flashy artificial intelligence announcements but through liquidity control. Green Dot,...
In B2B payments, the distance between a decision and a dollar is shrinking fast. Higher rates, cross-border volatility and software that now thinks for itself are pushing chief financial officers to swap static, quarterly reporting for real-time orchestration of cash, risk and working capital. The...
As the days tick toward 2026, the corridors of procurement and finance departments hum with a familiar rhythm. It’s the last quarter of the year. It’s contract renewal season. For B2B firms, this annual exercise has always been a dance of terms, pricing and performance....
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: Boost Payment Solutions, Seth Goodman October signals a tipping point, as it’s the beginning of the last three months of the year. “October often has a way of reshaping the end of the year and maybe even setting the...
Chief financial officer (CFO) dashboards used to tell corporate cash flow stories after the fact. That left finance teams projecting trends from stale data and often kept liquidity management stuck in the rigid lanes of reconciling what had already happened. Now, as global volatility continues...