Corporate America may have a capital allocation problem hiding inside its risk management discipline. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Cost of Caution: Why CFOs Put Growth Plans on Hold,” the latest installment of the 2026 Certainty Project, found in September that middle-market chief financial officers...
The next generation of payment infrastructure is giving CFOs something more valuable than speed. It’s giving them optionality. Real-time rails, richer ISO 20022 data, virtual accounts, embedded FX and automated treasury systems are providing finance teams with new levers over four variables CFOs have historically...
The competitive advantage today isn’t forecasting tomorrow’s cash more accurately. It’s having less of today’s cash left to forecast. Data in the August 2026 edition of The 2026 Certainty Project, a PYMNTS Intelligence report in collaboration with Fynapse, shows that 62% of middle-market finance executives...
Watch more: Need to Know With Priority Commerce’s Court Toomey The next working capital lever for chief financial officers may not require renegotiating supplier terms, borrowing more cheaply or squeezing additional days out of days payable outstanding. It may already be embedded in the payment...
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Bank of America’s Matthew Miller The biggest misconception in corporate treasury modernization may be that software implementation is the finish line. For many finance organizations, replacing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system or treasury management system (TMS) has become...
Corporate cash forecasting was easier to tolerate as an imperfect discipline when idle cash earned almost nothing. After all, for most of the zero-rate era, an imperfect cash forecast was an operational nuisance. But in 2026, it can be an earnings leak. According to a...
Payments/financial services technology company Fiserv has teamed with accounts receivable automation firm Stuut Technologies. With this collaboration, the companies will help eligible enterprise finance teams modernize manual and “fragmented” B2B receivables processes where available, Fiserv said in a Wednesday (Aug. 4) news release. “Businesses are increasingly looking for ways...
Accounts payable has no shortage of automation. However, the July edition of the Business Payments Tracker® Series, a PYMNTS Intelligence collaboration with WEX, revealed that functionality alone cannot modernize payment operations. Businesses can digitize invoices, route approvals, detect duplicate payments, reconcile transactions and embed supplier...
AutoRek has expanded its artificial intelligence-powered reconciliation capabilities and its global presence by acquiring Grath. The acquisition adds Grath’s reconciliation and regulatory compliance software and infrastructure to AutoRek’s solutions that automate reconciliation and financial control processes for organizations across the financial sector, AutoRek said in...