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automation
Automation is the technology by which a process or procedure is performed with minimal human assistance.
(source: en.wikipedia.org)
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DisbursementsHow Automated Authentication Helps Propel SMB Loan Disbursements
The economic realities of COVID-19 have many small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) turning to lenders to keep their heads above water, but...
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Amazon CommerceAmazon Plans To Expand Grocery Stores Across The US
Amazon must like the supermarket business. Three years after it paid $13.4 billion for Whole Foods, the online retail giant is planning...
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B2B PaymentsRegional Banks Guide Corporates To Future-Proof Accounts Payable
Accounts payable (AP) teams and other financial functions of the enterprise were some of the hardest hit by the disruption caused by...
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Artificial IntelligenceVicarious: There’s Robots, Then There’s ‘Robots-As-A-Service’ Model
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Benioff and Mark Zuckerberg all have something in common other than being billionaires. They all invest in...
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IPOSoftBank-Backed Lemonade Soars Above $3B Valuation On First Day Of IPO Trading
Lemonade, the insurance startup backed by Japan’s SoftBank, soared on its first day of trading Thursday (July 2), rising more than 100...
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B2B PaymentsHow Pandemic Disruption Exposed The Value Of Data Integration
In a frenzy, organizations dove headfirst into their digital transformations as a result of the global pandemic. For many companies that had...
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DataUsing Data And AI To Power The Brain And The Brawn Of The Warehouse
For one of his first assignments early in his consulting career, Alex Ramirez was given a task in warehouse operations, and the...
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B2B PaymentsPayment Rail Innovators Focus On B2B Payments Data
Whether building solutions on existing rails like ACH, or developing new infrastructure to bypass legacy tools, payment rail innovators are placing a...
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B2B PaymentsPactum Closes $3M Seed Funding Round
Pactum, which works to let companies automate personalized commercial negotiations on a wide scale, has ended a seed funding round for $3...
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B2B PaymentsBilltrust Adds Tools To Enhance Payments Automation, Transparency
Billtrust, which works with B2B order-to-cash solutions and accounts receivable automation, has expanded its tools to boost email billing, expand digital payments...
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B2B PaymentsSpiff Raises $10M For Automated Commission Payments
Spiff, which works in sales commission and software, has come off a funding round with $10 million, which it intends to use...
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B2B PaymentsGilded Introduces New B2B Tools For Coinbase Users
Gilded, which specializes in simplifying B2B payments and accounting through automation, is rolling out a suite of tools for Coinbase users to...
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B2B PaymentsCentsoft Unveils AP Automation For Construction Industry
To help project managers and administrators save time, Centsoft has unveiled an accounts payable (AP) automation technology for firms in the construction...
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B2B PaymentsMeeting SMBs Halfway In Their AP Transformations
Whether it’s to support a work-from-home environment or to limit physical contact with paper surfaces, migrating accounts payable (AP) operations to the...
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B2B PaymentsKofax Rolls Out Trade Finance Solution To Automate Workflows
To speed up start-to-finish trade finance process automation, Kofax has rolled out its new Trade Finance Solution with a “low-code” and modifiable...
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Digital PaymentsDigesting The Payments Modernization ‘Elephant’ — Bite By Byte
As the old adage goes: The best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. As financial services firms...
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B2B PaymentsIvalua Tech Improves Visibility For Supply Chain Management
Global spend management cloud solution firm Ivalua has released its new platform to help companies better manage spending and suppliers with visibility...
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B2B PaymentsEsker Adds More Visibility, Risk Management To Supplier Solution
Esker, which specializes in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven process automation software, has launched a new supplier management solution in its procure-to-pay automation suite,...
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B2B PaymentsUK’s Peasy Offers Rewards For Faster Invoice Payments
Peasy, a new U.K.-based startup, wants to help businesses get invoices paid faster, according to a press release. The idea behind Peasy...
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B2B PaymentsReceipt Bank Buys Xavier To Boost Accounting Services
Digital accounting platform Receipt Bank has acquired analytics firm Xavier to help boost services for accountants and bookkeepers, according to a press...
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Gig EconomyDeep Dive: Why Costly, Slow Invoice Reconciliation Is Hurting Firms’ And Freelancers’ Finances
Freelancers have seen particularly harsh economic effects from the ongoing pandemic. Forty percent of those in the U.S. have lost at least...
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B2B PaymentsEsker’s Credit Management Tool Aims To Improve Credit-To-Cash Process
Process automation and cloud computing firm Esker has announced its new Credit Management solution to aid companies in getting the most out...
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B2B PaymentsWhy Economic Volatility Opens Up Opportunity For The Modern Corporate Accountant
The pandemic is setting the stage to change just about every aspect of running a business. With market volatility and economic pressure...
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B2B PaymentsCredorax, Samsung To Introduce Blockchain-Based Open Banking
Credorax, the smart payments provider and FinTech, has announced a partnership with Samsung to develop blockchain technology to offer open banking services,...
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Gig EconomyNew Report: Payments, Transparency Build Trust In The Gig Economy
The pandemic affected the freelance market in varying ways, with many workers facing increased economic uncertainty and drawing upon their savings as...
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TaxesHelping SaaS Firms Make Sense Of eCommerce’s Tax Complexities
Beyond the challenges of the pandemic that is forcing businesses to grapple with all manner of operating challenges, tax complexity has been...
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B2B PaymentsCorporates Explore The Path Of Least Resistance To AP Automation
With a newfound sense of urgency, corporates jump-started their digitization efforts almost immediately after stay-at-home mandates began. With accounts payable (AP) departments...
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B2B PaymentsAP Automation’s Uncertain Impact On Late Payments
While the global pandemic has pushed organizations into the digitization fast lane, the need to move accounts payable (AP) to the cloud...
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B2B PaymentsAmadeus Partners With Troovo For B2B Travel Pay Automation
Amadeus‘ B2B wallet will now integrate Troovo‘s technology to help automate the process of virtual travel payments, according to a press release....
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B2B PaymentsGoCardless Partners With YayPay For Faster Automated B2B Payments
GoCardless, a FinTech specializing in recurring payments, has partnered with predictive accounts receivable (AR) automation solution firm YayPay, which will allow the...
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Accounts ReceivableHighRadius Rolls Out Technology Suite For AR Automation
To automate accounts receivable (AR) for mid-sized companies, HighRadius has rolled out its RadiusOne A/R Suite. The FinTech enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, which...
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Digital OnboardingWhy Automation Is Key To Seamless Seller Onboarding
Online sales have increased by an impressive 25 percent since March began — an opportunity for individual and third-party sellers to list...
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Next-Gen AP AutomationDeep Dive: How AP Automation Data Powers Cash Forecasting, Investment Decisions
Finance professionals spend considerable time and effort using manual accounts payable (AP) processes that require sorting through paper documents and keying invoice details into their...
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Next-Gen AP AutomationHow Three-Way Invoice Matching Automation Safeguards Retailers’ Revenues
Selling iced tea in summer is big business, and one that requires beverage brands to manage supplier payments for everything from tea...
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Digital OnboardingOnboarding Sellers At The Speed Of Revenue
eCommerce ordering shot up since the pandemic was declared on March 12 and brick-and-mortar businesses closed its doors, leading to a boom...
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Gig EconomyDeep Dive: How Automation Can Improve The Invoicing Experience During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Paying out invoices to contractors or freelancers can be extremely time consuming for businesses that rely on manual processes. Firms must not...
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Intelligence of ThingsAI-Powered Robots Help Retailers Build Cleanliness As ‘Brand Value’
The rise of the machines seems a bit closer at hand now that we are battling the pandemic. Not the humanoids that...
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Gig EconomyBalancing Gig Workers’ Desire For Work Flexibility, With The Need For A Steady Paycheck
Businesses and consumers still see the new coronavirus’s reverberating effects upon their finances and lives. Gig workers have been particularly affected by...
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B2B Paymentslinked2pay’s Customer Connect To Combat Late Invoices With Automation
Risk management and payment technology provider linked2pay has debuted a new service, CustomerConnect, that is intended to cut down on late invoice...
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B2B PaymentsPreserving Check Workflows Can Ease B2B Payments Digitization
Although a recent uptick in B2B payments innovation has accelerated corporates’ migration away from the paper check, old habits die hard, and...
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B2B PaymentsHow AR-Client Relationships Can Build Cash Flow Predictability
Although it’s a back-office function often plagued with loads of friction points, the accounts receivable (AR) department rarely gets the attention it...
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Fraud PreventionWells Fargo on Fraud Decisioning And The New Consumer’s New Normal
Financial institutions (FIs) face tough decisions when trying to keep their clients safe. Customers and merchants rely on their banks and credit unions...
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B2B PaymentsGreenBox POS Enables Same Day ACH Deposits To Business Accounts
Payment solutions company GreenBox POS has announced a new Same Day ACH program to help businesses manage point of sale (POS) to business...
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B2B PaymentsCelonis Optimizes AP With Process Mining Engine
Celonis, which works in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered process mining, has introduced its new process mining engine, which will help automate accounts payable...
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InnovationTechnology Is Helping FIs Build Resilience And Battle Black Swans
The trouble with black swan events is that no two of them look alike, so preparing for them is a dicey business....
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B2B PaymentsAmid Travel Bans, Corporate Expenses See Surprising Uptick
With travel bans in place and work-from-home orders implemented, business trip volume has all but plummeted to zero. That may initially seem...
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B2B PaymentsGilded’s Cypto Payments Technology Implemented By CoinMarketCap
Business payment and accounting solutions provider Gilded said that digital currency data provider CoinMarketCap has implemented its cryptocurrency payment technology, according to...
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B2B PaymentsInvoiced Introduces New Automated Platform
Invoiced, as part of its new A/R Cloud application, will now offer a new artificial intelligence-based cash application engine. The program will...
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Digital BankingThe Race To The Cloud: Will Digital Banks Win?
Financial institutions (FIs) are feeling the pressure to offer increasingly personalized, digital-first services to keep customers satisfied. Crafting the seamlessness customers want...
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Security & FraudAP Automation Combats COVID Scams
COVID-19 has afforded internet villains what will certainly go down as the greatest cybertheft opportunity of their shadowy lifetimes. Business email compromise...
