Watch more: BILL Webinar | Mary Kay Bowman and Scott Hess The cost of getting paid in B2B commerce is often hiding in plain sight. Finance teams continue to measure payment cost through the most visible inputs: transaction fees, bank charges, interchange, processing costs and...
The 21st century business corporation is frequently referred to as a single thing. Its executives speak in the singular: one company, one strategy, one balance sheet. Its annual report gathers thousands of employees, hundreds of bank accounts and perhaps dozens of legal entities into a...
Small businesses do not need another financial dashboard. They need someone to notice that cash is running low before payroll is due, that a customer is paying later than usual or that too much money is sitting idle in the wrong account. Small and medium-sized...
The race to bring stablecoins into mainstream business finance faces the challenge of whether treasury departments can process them without dismantling the systems that already manage billions of dollars in daily cash movements. The question is a timely one given the emergence of the Open...
Blockchain finance innovation focused so much on using technology to remove intermediaries that it hasn’t yet had time to ask many different questions. One of the more pressing ones, at least for the enterprise and institutional space, is: Once the intermediaries are gone, who takes...
French embedded invoice financing platform Aria has raised $283 million, much of it in debt. The company on Thursday (July 9) announced it had raised $8 million in a Series A extension and launched a $275 million debt facility to scale its capacity. Aria says the new...
The Federal Reserve confirmed this month that digital payments are winning the modernization battle against paper-based ones. For finance teams participating in the ecosystem’s ongoing transformation, however, that’s no longer the interesting part. Or even the challenging part. New U.S. payments data from the 2025...
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Sunlight’s Guy Ziv The consumer version of agentic commerce imagines an agent that knows what a person wants to buy. The B2B version has a bigger prize and a harder job. It has to know which invoice can be...
Cash visibility is largely a solved problem, at least for finance teams on the cutting edge. Dashboards, bank connectivity, treasury management systems and account rationalization projects now give chief financial officers a clear view of liquidity across the enterprise, even a global one. Usability is...