Back-office

Payroll
Papaya Global Launches Embedded Payments Platform Designed for Payroll
March 07, 2023

Papaya Global has launched an embedded payments platform designed for payroll and other worker-related expenditures. The new Papaya Global Payroll Payments automates all processes, reduces mistakes and enables payments to employees both locally and around the world, the company said in a Tuesday (March 7)...

CFO
Next Generation of CFOs Tackle New Challenges With Digital Solutions
March 06, 2023

Tomorrow’s finance leaders are helping redefine the CFO role as they navigate today’s macro challenges. This, as 64 companies in the Fortune 500 added a first-time chief financial officer to their C-suite ranks in 2022, per a recent report by the Wall Street Journal. PYMNTS has covered...

Back-office
HighRadius Debuts No-Code Platform for CFOs
February 28, 2023

Financial software firm HighRadius has unveiled LiveCube, a platform for CFOs. The platform lets finance business users build their own applications “as extensions to standard functionality received from enterprise systems” without needing to rely on IT department or admin users, using an “Excel-like” spreadsheet interface,...

CFO
Report: CFO Tenure Shrinks as Responsibilities Grow
February 28, 2023

Corporate CFOs are spending less time in their jobs as responsibilities move beyond finance. It’s a trend that’s due to a change in corporate structure, but also because of an evolution of the job of chief financial officer beyond the “bean counter” role, CNBC reported...

Accounts Payable
81% of Retailers and Manufacturers Plan to Upgrade Accounts Payable Systems
February 28, 2023

The old saying goes that necessity is the mother of invention. We might add: Necessity is the mother of tech upgrades in the back office. To that end, in the report “Digital Payments Technology: Investing in Payments Systems for the Digital Economy,” a PYMNTS and...

Accounts Receivable
LawPay Debuts Legal Billing Software Solution
February 27, 2023

LawPay says it has upgraded its payment solution for legal professionals. The Austin-based company announced Monday (Feb. 27) the launch of LawPay Pro, a legal billing software solution that includes time-tracking, invoicing and payment operations. “We built this easy-to-use solution for the lawyers who do...

Payroll
Paysend and Transformify Team on On-Demand Payroll Services
February 27, 2023

British FinTech Paysend and payroll platform Transformify have teamed to help contractors and vendors get paid. “Paysend will power Transformify’s new payout-to-cards capability for vendors and contractor payroll on-demand,” the companies said in a news release Monday (Feb. 27). “This will enable Transformify’s business clients...

Back-office
Finch Raises $40M to Grow Employment API
February 23, 2023

Finch has raised $40 million in a Series B round to grow its employment application programming interface (API). The firm will use the new capital to extend the API’s coverage to more systems, expand into new employment data verticals, and add to its engineering product...

Accounts Payable
Healthcare Firms a Step Behind in Automating Accounts Payable Processes
February 22, 2023

The healthcare industry overall has an employment problem. Seeing a sharp personnel exodus post-pandemic, the industry continues to lose workers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics January employment report notes a 21% employment dip in “healthcare and social assistance” from the previous month, far outpacing personnel loss across other industries.  ...