Back-office

Next-Gen AP Automation
92% See AP Automation as a Way to Move Beyond Routine Tasks
October 23, 2026

Businesses looking to automate supplier payments are giving technology teams a bigger say in purchasing decisions, and the reason starts with a practical priority: making new software work with what they already have. The July 2026 “Business Payments Tracker®” from PYMNTS Intelligence and WEX, “Who...

CFO
80% of Top CFOs Use Working Capital to Fund Growth
October 22, 2026

At the most efficient growing companies, 80% say their primary reason for using working capital is planned growth. Among the least efficient, just 2% say the same. That 78-percentage-point gap is a central finding in “The 24-Day Advantage: What Top-Performing CFOs Know About Working Capital,” a...

Payroll
Mercury Integrates AI-Powered Payroll Capabilities Into Entrepreneur Accounts
October 20, 2026

FinTech company Mercury added an artificial intelligence-native payroll solution to its offerings so that founders can pay employees and contractors from the account they already use to manage their money, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) press release. With AI-powered capabilities through Mercury’s...

Accounts Payable
Accounts Payable Holds the Key to Smarter Working Capital Decisions
October 15, 2026

Watch more: Trusted Data Comes Before AI Payment Decisions  Moving money used to be the product. Today, it’s becoming a commodity. “Execution itself is becoming commoditized. The durable value sits in the quality of the decision and the intelligence behind it,” Tungsten Automation Chief Product...

Back-office
Xfactrs Debuts Tool to Help Services Firms Plug Revenue Leaks
October 14, 2026

Revenue assurance platform xfactrs argues that services companies are suffering from “revenue leakage” hiding “in the gaps between what’s sold, contracted, delivered, and billed.” To address this issue, the company announced Wednesday (Oct. 14) that it is expanding its revenue tracking software to serve professional services firms, systems integrators,...

Accounts Receivable
Genpact Expands Agentic AI Suite to Industrial Accounts Receivable
October 14, 2026

Genpact has launched a suite of agentic artificial intelligence solutions designed to handle accounts receivable tasks for industrial clients in manufacturing and mining, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) press release. The Genpact Accounts Receivable Suite includes Genpact AR Collections, which prioritizes accounts...

Back-office
FIS Wants to Help CFOs Forecast Cash Flow With Agentic AI
October 12, 2026

FIS has debuted an agentic artificial intelligence solution to help finance teams manage collections, liquidity, risk and cash flow. FIS Agentic Insights Suite comes with a new cash flow forecasting module that projects cash across “multiple time horizons,” the company said in a Monday (Oct. 12) news...

Payroll
Exclusive: Branch Launches High Yield Savings for Workers Whose Pay Changes Every Week
October 01, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With Branch’s Atif Siddiqi For workers with unpredictable pay, the problem with saving isn’t necessarily deciding to do it. It is knowing how much money they can afford to set aside and leave alone. Branch Founder and CEO Atif Siddiqi...

Payroll
Workday Teams With Cash App on Payroll, Experian on Verification
September 24, 2026

Cash App, a financial services platform operated by Block, has partnered with enterprise software provider Workday to integrate its payment destination into Workday’s employee payroll management system, according to a Thursday (Sept. 24) news release. Under the agreement, eligible U.S. workers using Workday will be able...