Few phrases in corporate history have proven as durable as “no one ever got fired for buying IBM.” It is shorthand for something deeper: when stakes are high decision-makers often choose what protects their own position over what maximizes institutional value. That calculus has not...
The underlying rails powering corporate payments are improving everywhere. Real-time payment networks have proliferated, card use is scaling as the economics start to make more sense, APIs have standardized access to financial services, and account-to-account (A2A) transfers have even gained traction as a cost-efficient alternative....
Watch more: Need to Know With Mastercard’s Raj Seshadri The opportunity for progress in B2B payments has never been hard to spot. Trillions of dollars still move through processes built on paper checks, manual reconciliation and disconnected workflows that digital tools never fully replaced. Change...
Finance platform BILL has announced an expansion to its Supplier Payments Plus offering. The new capabilities extend the tool’s ability to automate and “intelligently orchestrate payments and cash application for enterprise suppliers,” the company said in a news release Wednesday (April 8). This in turn...
Firms can’t control what they can’t control if they have no visibility into it. That’s the state of play right now across the supply chain landscape, as geopolitical stress tests firms’ ability to adapt in real-time. After all, as covered here Monday (April 6), global...
Watch more: Need to Know With Bank of America’s Jennifer Sanctis Speed has become essential in treasury — but many finance teams are still operating with tools built for delay. Treasury functions, long defined by batch processing and delayed reporting, are being recast around immediacy,...
A new class of business, powered by a new class of technology, is beginning to challenge assumptions around organizational scale and complexity. Take, for example, the profile going around of a healthcare platform reportedly on track to generate $1.8 billion in revenue with essentially one...
Shopify is making some of its B2B features available to merchants on all of its plans. These features were previously available only to merchants on the Shopify Plus plan, but they are now being rolled out those on the Basic, Grow and Advanced plans, the company said in a Thursday (April 2) press...
Stablecoins are increasingly being viewed by corporate finance teams as less a disruption than an addition. They are infrastructure, plumbing, pipes, a new rail and so on and so forth. On Wednesday (April 1), for example, blockchain finance firm Ripple introduced a Digital Asset Accounts and Unified...