Commercial Payments

Commercial Payments
Digital Solutions Help Corporates Master Spend Management Chaos
August 23, 2023

Business-to-business (B2B) transactions remain mired in a paper-based world where finance teams have their hands full.  Quite literally — after all, paper checks and physical invoices won’t send themselves.  That’s why PYMNTS sat down with Aaron Bright, new business development at Galileo, Karandeep Anand, chief product...

Commercial Payments
Automation Enhances AP/AR Workflows as CFOs Urged to Embrace Advanced Tech
August 21, 2023

Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) have become essential tools in the business-to-business (B2B) landscape, transforming various aspects of financial operations and payment processes. For instance, the digitization and automation of payments have proven key to improving working capital transparency and streamlining financial processes, helping businesses...

Commercial Payments
Digital Payment Transformations Drive Business Growth for CFOs
August 21, 2023

Digital is no longer a strategy but a whole way of doing business.  And many companies need to figure out what’s next. This, as Yum! Brands, the owner of quick-service restaurant franchises KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut told investors on its most recent earnings...

Commercial Payments
38% of Small Businesses Turn To Personal Funding Sources in Revenue Crunch
August 21, 2023

Three-quarters of Main Street businesses say they would close within 60 days of a cash crunch.  Consumer spending may be up, but so are prices, forcing consumers to struggle to pay more for the same item — or in the case of shrinkflation, less of an item than before....

Commercial Payments
BILL to Launch Unified Platform Experience for Small Businesses This Fall
August 17, 2023

BILL will launch a unified platform experience this fall, fulfilling a priority it set a year ago. This integrated platform will bring together the financial automation software provider’s accounts payable (AP) and expense management solutions, streamlining and simplifying financial operations for small and medium-sized businesses...

Commercial Payments
B2B Consumerization and Gen AI Needed to Unlock Potential of Buyer-Supplier Ecosystem, Experts Say
August 17, 2023

While B2B payment services have previously prioritized buyers, there is an increasing focus on providing value to suppliers, including accelerated payments.  According to Matt Clark, president and chief operating officer of Corcentric, this is the result of significant progress made to digitize B2B payments and embrace...

Commercial Payments
How CFOs Balance Higher Comp Costs With Their Bottom Lines
August 17, 2023

It is important to remember that people are a company’s biggest asset. A winning employee workforce can make or break any firm’s success by helping an organization unlock the full value of its business, and companies around the world are increasingly recognizing the significance of...

Commercial Payments
Cornerstone and Traxo Join Forces on Corporate Travel Management
August 11, 2023

Cornerstone Information Systems and Traxo have joined forces to modernize corporate travel management. Cornerstone, a global leader in managing travel and expense operations, has made a strategic investment in Traxo, kicking off the first phase of a close technology partnership between the two, the companies said in a...

Commercial Payments
Visa Says CFOs See Digital Payments Solutions Through Working Capital Lens
August 11, 2023

Back in the darkest days of the pandemic, Visa struck a partnership with Conferma Pay to integrate the payment network’s virtual cards into the latter’s mobile app. Tap and pay, and contactless payments, as COVID-19 ravaged the globe, were top of mind, a way to...