When suppliers know payments will arrive on time and exceptions will be resolved swiftly, trust grows. The reason? It’s because, historically, the accounts payable (AP) function for many enterprise buyers has been riddled with inefficiencies ranging from segregation of duties to manual reviews and after-the-fact...
For decades, payroll has been treated as administrative plumbing — essential, regulated and largely invisible. It is something companies do every two weeks, employees fret about as they wait, and finance teams optimize for cost and compliance. But a growing body of evidence in the...
If you work in banking, payments, FinTech or the digital economy, you’ve felt it all year: The back office is no longer backstage. Payments, identity, onboarding and fraud were once dismissed as “plumbing.” Now they’re the user experience, the margin story and the brand promise,...
The corporate back office is undergoing a renovation, and accounts payable is at its center. For decades, AP has lived in the shadows of corporate finance. Its success was necessary, unglamorous and relentlessly operational, measured in invoices processed, checks mailed, and exceptions resolved with minimal...
The 2025 story of the office of the CFO was not one about finance becoming more powerful or automated, much less agentic. What happened during 2025 was that the finance function’s core mandate around controllership and a steady hand on the balance sheet became more...
The story of enterprise transformation in 2025 wasn’t just about technology but about who was making the decisions. Not all companies are moving at the same speed or with the same mindset. The data-backed archetypes that PYMNTS Intelligence uncovered throughout 2025 include Adaptive CFOs to...
It may seem counterintuitive, but forward-thinking businesses spend much of their time thinking about the “right now.” Sector leaders and chief financial officers don’t have time to wait around for grand visions to materialize. Instead, their time is spent focusing on narrower, more practical problems,...
A new PYMNTS Intelligence report shows that tariffs are no longer a temporary policy shift. They are now a structural force shaping how America’s middle-market CFOs rethink investment, budgeting and growth plans for 2026. “Revising the Roadmap: How Tariffs Are Transforming CFOs’ Strategic Planning” analyzes...
Watch more: How the Emerging Enterprise Business Is Accelerating Time to Cash The pace at which emerging enterprises convert sales into cash has become a defining measure of resilience and competitiveness. In fact, it was the subject of a recent PYMNTS Intelligence project, the Time...