Real-time B2B payments may not be losing to skepticism. They are losing, for now, to payment systems that work just well enough. That is one of the more useful takeaways from the PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Ready and Willing: B2B Payments Are Headed for Real-Time Rails. Here’s...
In a winner-take-most market, firms typically want to be the ones winning and taking the most. Stable coins are shaping up to be exactly that kind of market. On Wednesday (July 1), Payward, the parent company behind the crypto platform Kraken, completed its acquisition of...
Businesses sent roughly 560 billion invoices in 2024. Fewer than a quarter were electronic. The rest were paper, or PDFs that may as well be paper, generated by one system, keyed into another, chased by phone, and settled weeks (months?) later by check. By the...
Median chief financial officer compensation in the S&P 500 reached $6 million in 2025, up from roughly $5.8 million in 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported June 22. At least seven chief financial officers were paid more than $100 million last year, with Tim McHugh,...
Corporate procurement has long been measured by one simple question: Did you negotiate the lowest price? The advent of artificial intelligence and the uncertainty of global trade is replacing that question with another: Did you secure supply before everyone else? As artificial intelligence transforms technology...
Restaurant management and payments platform MarginEdge has launched a commercial card designed specifically for restaurants. The new MarginEdge Commercial Charge Mastercard is now available as a physical card and will soon be offered in a digital version, the company said in a Wednesday (June 24) press release. The card is purpose-built to replace the...
Rising rates and working capital pressures are giving the corporate org chart a makeover. And it’s forcing the procurement and treasury functions together as finance platforms connect procurement workflows, accounts payable processes, payment execution and treasury operations within unified ecosystems. With data becoming more accessible,...
Boost Payment Solutions’ B2B payments platform has helped customers reduce their interchange costs by nearly 44% since Visa’s Commercial Enhanced Data Program (CEDP) launched in October. The platform has helped customers save $14.7 million in acceptance costs across more than $1.2 billion in qualifying transaction volume...
Melio has launched an agent-powered B2B payment network that enables buyers to pay suppliers through their accounts receivable (AR) systems, without requiring suppliers to onboard to a new portal or payment network. The network enables agents to log into supplier billing and AR systems, identify...