Business is evolving, and legacy processes can hamstring operations. But many forward-thinking firms are sitting attractively in the middle of a metamorphosis. Businesses, government agencies and FinTechs are pushing the boundaries of innovation, motivated by the dual imperatives of efficiency and resilience. If the past few...
Stablecoins are tokenized assets on the blockchain designed to simplify crypto transactions. B2B payments are traditionally manual, paper-based and friction-filled. Could one solve the other’s problems? Stablecoin issuers and their partners aren’t waiting around to find out. As the Wednesday (June 4) news that BVNK...
For much of business history, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems were the exclusive domain of Fortune 500 giants with deep pockets. The reason? These crucial pieces of enterprise architecture traditionally required long timelines, and teams of consultants ready to wrestle monolithic software into submission in...
Digital transformation should result in digital capabilities, but it appears to be losing its momentum in many organizations. As companies grapple with tighter budgets and shorter executive tenures, many flashy tech initiatives have failed to evolve into lasting business capabilities — prompting a rethink focused...
Certainty is at a premium in uncertain times, particularly across the landscape of cross-border B2B commerce. The volatile tariff landscape has reportedly cost companies over $34 billion in lost sales and higher costs while at the same time throwing supply chains and overseas relationships into...
The future of B2B payments is getting closer than it looks. As young generations take on more influence in procurement and finance, the demand for intuitive, tech-forward experiences is beginning to accelerate. From virtual card acceptance to embedded accounts payable/accounts receivable (AP/AR) automation, the B2B...
In the not-so-distant past, the B2B world ran on manual processes, spreadsheets and trust built over handshakes. Supply chains were static, finance departments reactive, and technological disruption was mostly a consumer-facing affair. Today, that world is almost unrecognizable. A convergence of automation, artificial intelligence (AI),...
Across the multitrillion-dollar global B2B market, the future of payments is arriving faster than many expected and putting pressure on suppliers to keep up. Being a reliable B2B supplier once meant delivering on time, offering fair prices, and responding promptly to orders and issues. Increasingly,...
Business-to-business (B2B) transactions typically involve higher volumes and more complex authorization than consumer payments. Companies must balance usability with security, often managing multiple layers of authentication for different roles, departments and systems. Still, look closely at the latest generation of B2B payment systems and you’ll...