Watch more: Need to Know With Billtrust’s Kunal Patel There’s a sea change sweeping over B2B payments. But this change isn’t being prompted by a new rail. Instead, firms are wising up to the realization that the final step of a B2B transaction is still...
The three words “supply chain compliance” have typically been more likely to inspire yawns than cross-border growth strategies when brought up by enterprise chief financial officers. With a new round of tariffs creating greater uncertainty across supply chains that have traditionally been viewed as secure...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Billtrust’s Grant Halloran Every market has its semi-permanent operating assumptions. For B2B payments, complexity is what has been treated almost as a permanent feature of the market. There are just, quite simply, too many rails, too many exceptions,...
A new problem is emerging across the B2B economy. Companies can now deliver measurable value to customers without making that value particularly measurable by customers. A payments platform may reduce processing costs and procurement software may improve supplier terms; accounts receivable automation may shorten collection cycles and...
The real problem in modern receivables isn’t whether cash moves electronically but that payment and remittance information increasingly arrive separately, through portals, email, enterprise resource planning systems, electronic data interchange and spreadsheets. With Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services becoming available in preview Tuesday (Aug. 25)...
The biggest opportunity for chief financial officers (CFOs) isn’t adding another day to pay. It’s eliminating the uncertainty inside the days they already have. Today’s corporate working-capital playbook has become almost reflexive: shorten days sales outstanding (DSO), stretch days payable outstanding (DPO), squeeze inventory. Working-capital...
Corporate treasury typically works in sequence. Money moves, banks record it, statements arrive, and finance teams reconcile what happened. Fast forward to today, and that sequence is starting to run in reverse. As payments become faster and transaction data becomes richer, the economically useful moment...
Australia’s Pay.com is launching in the U.S. as PayRewards after raising $28 million in a Series E round, bringing its total capital raised to $70 million. The new company lets American businesses earn rewards on all payments, bank transfers and credit cards included, Pay.com said...
The $100 billion U.S. tariff unwind isn’t just a legal exercise for enterprise firms; it’s exposing a crucial piece of B2B infrastructure. More than 40 S&P 500 companies reported $9.6 billion in tariff refunds in the past quarter or so, with about $2.1 billion in...