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...
Watch more: Need to Know With Priority Rollfi’s Kirubha Perumalsamy Payroll has traditionally lived in the administrative corner of small business operations. That arrangement increasingly looks out of step with how businesses actually move money. For small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), payroll is rarely isolated...
For today’s CFO, modernization isn’t about efficiency alone. It’s about removing the manual, painstaking work that keeps finance teams stuck in the back office — and freeing them to focus on more strategic, customer-focused initiatives that drive growth. Yet many accounts receivable (AR) functions remain...
Financial operations platform Ramp is looking to raise $750 million at a valuation of more than $40 billion, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Thursday (May 7), citing unnamed sources. The financing has not yet closed, according to the report. Reached by PYMNTS, Ramp declined...
Corporate finance teams have spent decades building systems to record what customers owe. Very few of those systems tell them what customers are about to do. That gap is what artificial intelligence vendors and banks are now targeting. Accounts receivable has long been run as...
Watch more: Need to Know With Billtrust’s Dave Ruda What is relied upon can often get taken for granted. That’s the position the accounts receivable (AR) function has traditionally found itself in. After all, what’s more important than getting paid? But despite its bottom-line impact,...
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...
The back office has always been the part of the enterprise that nobody glamorizes, and everybody depends on. Payroll runs. Taxes get filed. Compliance boxes get checked. And then the cycle starts again. For decades, this was simply the cost of employing people, a largely...
Workforce payments platform Branch has launched an integration with financial services company Stripe. This collaboration, announced Wednesday (March 25), is designed to make it easier for companies to launch a digital wallet and debit card via Stripe Issuing for worker payouts. “Stripe has built one...