Bitwave has announced the first releases from its Bitwave Agentic product suite, which is focused on accounting tools, financial data and infrastructure for AI-native financial operations. These new open-source tools join the other accounting, payments, financial operations and agentic finance infrastructure Bitwave already offers for organizations operating in the digital asset...
The health of the U.S. middle market is usually measured in familiar terms: revenue growth, hiring, capital spending and credit conditions. Those indicators matter. But they increasingly describe the outcome of resilience rather than its source. In June, 26.7% of middle-market companies were operating at...
Watch more: Summer School With Bank of America’s Matthew Davies For finance chiefs, the technology challenge is no longer a lack of options. It is an excess of them. Chief financial officers are being presented with an expanding menu of artificial intelligence tools, real-time payments...
Legal spending was once a simple professional-services line item for CFOs. Now it’s an operating problem. Compliance rules, cybersecurity duties, artificial intelligence (AI) governance and a growing patchwork of state enforcement actions are pushing mid-market finance chiefs to rethink how legal work enters the company,...
Corporate cash used to be judged by its presence. The more liquidity a company had, the safer it looked, and that logic still matters, particularly in a market shaped by interest-rate uncertainty, uneven demand, supply chain disruption and higher financing costs. However, for today’s chief...
Enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the language of business just as fast as its operations. On Monday (June 22), for example, Santander announced it was extending AI tools to its entire 185,000-strong workforce. And for finance teams needing to infer the meaning of new terms...
Bottomline launched a platform to help chief financial officers use artificial intelligence to oversee cash flow. The CFO Suite combines cash forecasting, invoice management, collections and payments in one system, according to a Thursday (June 11) press release. The new software platform is designed to...
The tools that made finance teams look cutting-edge five years ago are now standard issue. Every serious competitor has cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence forecasting and automated payables. The chief financial officers winning in 2026 are solving a harder problem than adoption. In many ways, the...
The greatest enemy of operational uncertainty is the enterprise technology that promises to streamline, optimize and automate it away. Most organizations, as a result, believe they have a firm grasp on their risk exposure. Dashboards are populated in real-time, controls are well-documented, and risk registers...