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Working Capital Lost Its Strategic Edge in 2026. The Best CFOs Are Already Getting It Back.

Working Capital Lost Its Strategic Edge in 2026. The Best CFOs Are Already Getting It Back.
Working Capital Lost Its Strategic Edge in 2026. The Best CFOs Are Already Getting It...
September 28, 2026  |  Working Capital

Picture the CFO at a $300 million industrial distributor. For three years she paid her key suppliers on day 10 of a net 30 invoice...

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CFOs Keep Payment Complexity From Eating Into Margins
CFOs Keep Payment Complexity From Eating Into Margins
September 10, 2026  |  CFO

Middle market CFOs are getting themselves stuck by doing what they think is the right thing. And that “right thing” is typically still treating finance...

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The 4 New Working-Capital Levers CFOs Can Pull in Real Time
The 4 New Working-Capital Levers CFOs Can Pull in Real Time
September 03, 2026  |  CFO

The next generation of payment infrastructure is giving CFOs something more valuable than speed. It’s giving them optionality. Real-time rails, richer ISO 20022 data, virtual...

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Australian Businesses Favor AI for Back-Office Tasks Over Software Building
Australian Businesses Favor AI for Back-Office Tasks Over Software Building
August 24, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic’s customers in Australia, who have been among the leading adopters of the company’s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) model, tend to use the tool for...

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar Built an AI-Native Department. Mid-Market CFOs Can Start Smaller.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar Built an AI-Native Department. Mid-Market CFOs Can Start Smaller.
August 13, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Most mid-market CFOs are not going to build OpenAI’s finance stack. They do not have the same engineering resources, access to frontier models or appetite...

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SMBs Swap Pricey SaaS Contracts for AI-Built Apps
SMBs Swap Pricey SaaS Contracts for AI-Built Apps
July 08, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

For two decades, buying enterprise software meant accepting a vendor’s feature set, paying per seat and hiring specialists to manage the platform. For small businesses,...

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SMBs Tap AI for Back-Office Execution, Not Just Automation
SMBs Tap AI for Back-Office Execution, Not Just Automation
June 26, 2026  |  SMBs

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With BILL’s Archana Prasad Growing pains aren’t just for kids; they impact small businesses too. Paying suppliers, collecting receivables,...

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Coupa Acquires Tonkean to Expand AI Spend Management
Coupa Acquires Tonkean to Expand AI Spend Management
May 21, 2026  |  Partnerships

Coupa is expanding its agentic artificial intelligence ambitions with the acquisition of Tonkean, a deal aimed at making procurement and global trade workflows more autonomous...

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