automation

AvidXchange: Automating HOA Payables Is Harder Than It Sounds

In the homeowners’ association (HOA) vertical, more than 70 percent of property vendor payments are still made via paper check. Granted, it’s...

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How Automation Can Help With FATCA Compliance

Validating tax information to comply with the IRS: sounds like a no-brainer, something every business and finance organization would simply take for...

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IT Departments Don’t Buy The RPA Hype

Robotics process automation (RPA) continues its permeation into corporate finance on the promise of more advanced, actionable analytics. With FinTech working to...

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Security & Fraud

Jumio CTO Paints A Portrait Of ‘IDV Nirvana’

“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” It was the original internet meme, more than two decades before the term “meme”...

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Artificial Intelligence

Jeff Bezos: Humans Are Scarier Than AI

Robots aren’t going to take over the world, but humans could use them for some scary stuff. That’s Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s...

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Robots And Spyce: Everything Nice?

The restaurant industry has seen its share of futuristic innovations and bots, particularly in the fast-casual and quick service restaurant (QSR) spaces....

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The Dollars And Sense Of Automation

Many organizations have recognized the value of automation for delivering cost savings, but not all of them have realized that it also...

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Artificial Intelligence

White House To Host Tech Execs For Discussion About AI

Executives from tech companies including Amazon, Google, and Facebook are expected to travel to the White House this week to discuss the...

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As AI Enters The SMB Community, Cloud Adoption Still Lags

Whether robots will take our jobs or take over the mundane tasks for humans to shift to more strategic operations, one thing...

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Automating The Counterfeit Crackdown

A growing online marketplace introduces a growing set of challenges for those who manage it. As the number of SKUs available on...

Intelligence of Things

Turning To Robots To Speed Up Shipping

WALL-E has a new job. Robots are now working alongside humans in warehouses, where labor shortages are common and an extra pair...

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Chief Growth Officer To Serve As Ringmaster For AvidXchange

Growing fast can be a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it’s a sure sign a company is doing something right. On...

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What To Do When The Fraud Call Comes From Inside The House

In the age of data breaches, there’s a lot of talk and tools emerging in the fraud prevention and risk mitigation spaces,...

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DadeSystems Is Building The Twitter Of Accounts Receivable

The year is 2018, and social media platforms like Twitter are now influencing the way businesses handle accounts receivable. With its 280-character...

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Emailage Rides Out Post-Holiday Rush In Q1

The first quarter can be even more chaotic than the holidays for some companies — or, at least, it brings its own...

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Tipalti Targets Multi-Entity Orgs With NetSuite Integration

This month, startup Tipalti is celebrating a PO-matching match made in heaven as it integrates with leading cloud ERP provider NetSuite. PO...

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Billtrust Picks Company’s First President

Payments company Billtrust announced the hire of its first president this week. In an announcement emailed to PYMNTS on Wednesday (April 4),...

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How Spend Management Beefs Up Bottom Lines

“Does your business want to improve its spend management?” Few CFOs would say “no” if asked that question: Spend management is attractive...

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When Artificial Intelligence Meets Human Intelligence In SMB Accounting

The rise in automated solutions – especially in various finance functions – initially led to concern among financial professionals that their positions...

Chargeback Automation Is An Opportunity For Scale

Businesses that hope to make 2018 a big growth year must start by asking themselves: “Which of my business operations are non-scalable?”...

Startup Roundup

Startup Roundup: A Is For Automation

The whole point of startups is to do things differently than mainstream players, and that is exactly what these companies are doing...

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Jewel Paymentech Takes On Marketplace Counterfeits

Amazon and Alibaba may be the most high-profile eCommerce marketplaces, but they are far from the only ones, especially in smaller international...

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Payment Methods

As Audits Loom, AP Automation Moves To Top Of Mind

You could call accounts payable (AP) the last mile of payments in a way. Or perhaps AP stands for the last mile...

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Oracle Launches Artificial Intelligence Apps For CFOs

Oracle is rolling out new mobile apps deploying artificial intelligence (AI) targeted at chief financial officers (CFOs) and other corporate finance professionals....

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Entrepreneurs’ Optimism Up On Economic Outlook

A new survey released Monday (Feb. 12) from the National Small Business Association (NSBA) and ZipRecruiter found small business (SMB) owners are...

New Chargeback Rules No Sweat For Chargehound

April 15, the day that Visa’s new chargeback rules go into effect, has stirred up a lot of anxiety for merchants –...

Purchase Order Matching Is A Sign Of Maturity

Not every organization is diligent about matching purchase orders (POs) with invoices when handling supply chain payments and accounts payable (AP). A...

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The Right (And Wrong) Way To Give Accounts Payable A High-Tech Overhaul

Most companies today have at least some kind of automation in place within the accounts payable (AP) department. Even when invoices flow...

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Innovation

Japan’s Henna Cafe Hires Robot To Serve Coffee

In an effort to increase efficiency and entertain customers, a café in Japan now has a robot that makes a nice cup...

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Retail

Experimental Robot In Supermarket Booted From ‘Job’

An experimental run of a robot designed to assist shoppers in a European supermarket was cut short after it frustrated customers, according...

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Payment Methods

Integrated Payments: Beyond The Buzzword

Integrated payments seem to be the feature every business wants to add and every software company wants to advertise, and it’s...

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Tipalti Tames The Monster Ecosystem Of X-Border, AP Automation

Over the past few years, demand has increased for system integrators, ERP (enterprise resource planning) resellers, procure-to-pay implementers, business process outsourcing companies...

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Retail

AI, Big Data And Automation Take Center Stage At NRF

Several new innovations that change the way retailers manage inventory and consumers purchase products were on display at the National Retail Federation’s...

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Changing The Chargeback Conversation

Nobody likes chargebacks: They’re costly and time-consuming to resolve and can lose merchants a lot of money. But not everybody takes them...

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Speeding Up The Slow Pour At Coffee QSRs

Coffee shops are quick service restaurants (QSRs) — even when the service isn’t that quick. So if there’s a way to make it...

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Today In Data

Today In Data: Increased Shipping, Bitcoin Whirlwind And GDPR Non-Compliance

Today in PYMNTS’ data, delivery firms will ship more packages than ever this holiday shopping season, bitcoin is having another whirlwind week,...

Innovation

Giving AI Street Smarts

“Alexa, is the store closed?” “Alexa, does the store have clothes?” When spoken aloud, these questions sound very similar. The difference is...

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People-Free: The Fast-Growing Trend In Fast Casual

When customers are feeling hungry — maybe even a little hangry — the fewer obstacles between them and food, the better. Waiting in line?...

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Internet of Things

Chevron Taps Microsoft As Its Cloud Provider

American energy corporation Chevron announced Monday (Oct. 30) it had entered into a seven-year partnership with Redmond, Washington-based technology company Microsoft Corp.,...

Security & Fraud

Transaction Monitoring: Bracing For The Aftermath Of The Equifax Breach

Fraudsters’ methods are always changing. That means, try as they might, banks and financial institutions will never be able to keep all...

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For MineralTree, Sowing The Seeds Of AP Automation

Call it the 7 percent solution. Or rather, 7 percent … in need of a solution. Accounts payable (AP) remains a laggard...

Google

Google Tracker: Google Earth, Air And Sea

The big news from Google this week was obviously the hardware event on Oct. 4, which you have likely read all about...

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Artificial Intelligence

Pew Says Consumers Not Ready For Robots Or Self-Driving Cars

When it comes to advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), new research finds that Americans are more worried than excited about...

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FloQast Pulls In-House ERPs Into The Cloud

Using robotics process automation, accounting software company FloQast is rolling out a new solution to automate reconciliation processes. In a press release...

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Robotics Aims To Empower Accountants When ‘Automation’ Falls Short

Corporates are being forced to rethink their approach to accounting as new technologies disrupt the way firms transact and manage financial data....

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Retail

Sam’s Club Swaps Out Accountants For Robots

While there has been lots of talk about robots stealing jobs and prompting layoffs of American retail workers, most people probably weren’t...

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