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Ramp Debuts AR Tool to Keep Finance Teams From Chasing Payments
September 22, 2026

Ramp has introduced a tool designed to automate invoicing and payment collections for corporate clients. Ramp Accounts Receivable, announced Tuesday (Sept. 22), allows the FinTech’s clients to use Ramp to manage both costs and revenue. “This has been a top request from our customers,” Geoff Charles, chief product...

CFO
Everyone Is Selling CFOs Real-Time Finance. Most of It Isn’t.
September 22, 2026

The term “real time” is becoming to corporate finance what “AI-powered” became to enterprise software: Ubiquitous enough to sound meaningful, but elastic enough to mean almost anything. But real-time finance isn’t about how quickly a dashboard refreshes. It’s about how long it takes an economic...

CFO
Uncertainty Holds Back Middle Market CFOs’ Spending Plans
September 22, 2026

For middle market companies, greater certainty and higher investment often go together: 59% of firms with rising certainty increased capital spending. That connection runs through “The Cost of Caution: Why CFOs Put Growth Plans on Hold,” the latest report in the PYMNTS Intelligence 2026 Certainty...

Payroll
Hourly Work Changes by the Shift but Payday Doesn’t
September 15, 2026

For millions of hourly and shift workers, flexibility is built into when they work but rarely into when they get paid. Labor Economy workers are hourly, gig, seasonal or shift-based workers earning no more than $25 an hour and typically less than $50,000 a year....

CFO
Late B2B Payments Tax 4.1% of Corporate Revenue
September 14, 2026

A well-prepared finance department typically implies a well-prepared business. And that’s supported by new PYMNTS Intelligence research in the June 2026 edition of the Growth Corporates Working Capital Index,which revealed that today’s strongest finance organizations are treating liquidity as something to position in advance, not something to source...

Payroll
Intermezzo Raises $10 Million for Payroll Automation Platform
September 10, 2026

Payroll infrastructure company Intermezzo has raised $10 million in new funding. The startup, founded by two veterans of Intuit, automates payroll for human capital management (HCM) platforms, Intermezzo said in a Thursday (Sept. 10) news release. These platforms often have no localized payroll capabilities in most international markets, requiring...

CFO
CFOs Keep Payment Complexity From Eating Into Margins
September 10, 2026

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 in the August 2026 edition of The 2026 Certainty Project, a PYMNTS Intelligence report in collaboration with Fynapse, show how growth is...

Accounts Payable
62% of Businesses Make ERP Integration the Top AP Test
September 09, 2026

For accounts payable software buyers, the quality of the connections now carries more weight than the size of the price tag. That shift runs through “Who Decides Now,” the July edition of the Business Payments Tracker from PYMNTS Intelligence and WEX. The report finds that...

Payroll
61% of Firms Put Payroll Benefits Next in the Embedded Finance Queue
September 07, 2026

Embedded finance appears to have crossed a revealing threshold: Companies are treating its growing pains as reasons to improve the technology rather than abandon it. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Embedded Finance as a Strategic Initiative” found in October that 93% of companies encounter friction with...