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B2B PaymentsCFOs Held Back From Driving Digital Transformation
Like many positions in corporate finance, the role of chief financial officer (CFO) is facing new pressures in a climate of innovation...
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B2B PaymentsAmazon, WeWork Halt Alexa For Business Pilot
Amazon and WeWork have reportedly pressed pause on their partnership to introduce Alexa for Business into workspaces, reports in CNBC said this...
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Intelligence of ThingsTRENDING: Why Grocery Stores Want Autonomous Vehicle Delivery
Investment in Intelligence of Things (IoT) is expected to surge in the coming years, with companies projected to increase spending on the...
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Mobile Order AheadCan Campus Dining Graduate To Safer, Swifter Payments?
Offering mobile order-ahead on college campuses takes more than just a great app and meal plan payments — it also requires tight...
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Artificial IntelligenceIn The Age Of Algorithms, Will Banks Ever Graduate To True AI?
It’s the age of algorithms, but not all algorithms are the same — and not all of them constitute true AI. A...
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B2B PaymentsHow AP Automation Goes Beyond Cost-Cutting For Businesses Willing To Change
By its very nature, accounts payable (AP) is a cost center: It’s where money leaves the enterprise, after all. However, as with...
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B2B PaymentsCEOs, Finance Staff On Opposite Sides Of The Accounts Payable Fence
B2B FinTech solution providers are currently working on reducing the friction associated with implementing their solutions into enterprise back offices. As they...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsCommunity Banks Debut FinTech Alliance
In the United States, a consortium of collaborators across FIs and FinTech firms has taken shape. Across the Pond, joint efforts among...
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B2B PaymentsTreasurers Understand — But Aren’t Living Up To — Rising CFO Expectations
Treasurers and chief financial officers may both have their sights set on corporate coffers, but their roles are not one and the...
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Travel PaymentsThe High Price Of Payments — And Innovation — In Travel
It’s that time of the year: crowded airports, missed connections, maybe the surprise of an upgrade (to stretch out those legs after...
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B2B PaymentsCannabis Logistics Finds Opportunity In Uncharted Territory: WAYV
FinTech innovation is often a layered process, taking existing infrastructures and processes, and developing new tools to improve upon them. In the...
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BrexitBrexit A Boon For Blockchain?
As U.K. gears up to leave the EU, questions arise over cross-border trade and payments. Might technology be a salve? One study from...
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Faster PaymentsNEW DATA: Why One-Third Of Businesses Want Real-Time Payments
Paper checks are still the norm when it comes to B2B payments — and companies aren’t happy about it. After all, paper...
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B2B PaymentsThe CIO Emerges As A Key Asset For The CFO, Says Workday
Amid the flurry of B2B FinTech innovation aiming to transform organizations’ back offices, there is often one common threat within the disruption:...
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B2B PaymentsLevaData Eyes Procurement’s Slow March Toward Data Analytics
Enterprise digitization is beginning to see a troubling trend. While executives may understand the importance of key technologies like data analytics, artificial...
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B2B PaymentsSWIFT Weighs In On State Of APIs For FIs In Global Economy
In a recent white paper, SWIFT weighs in on how FIs are catching up in the API arena — and how a...
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B2B PaymentsAFP ‘Troubled’ Over Corporate Treasurers’ Lack Of FinTech Adoption
Corporate treasurers have said they’re interested in a slew of cutting-edge FinTech solutions that experts believe will disrupt financial business management. Yet,...
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B2B PaymentsESI ThoughtLab On The Economics Of Cybersecurity
ESI ThoughtLab released new data on corporate cybersecurity this week, with a conclusion that may not be new, but is no less...
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B2B PaymentsSievo Calls On Procurement To Broaden Analytics Horizons
They say “you’re biggest competitor is yourself.” In corporate finance, though, it may not pay to look at financial performance in isolated...
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B2B PaymentsItemize Eyes Working With (Not Against) Paper In Corporate T&E
In payments, there are solutions that can address the symptoms of a friction-filled process, and there are cures that can replace that...
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BankingTech’s Greatest Impact: Money Management
TD Ameritrade’s new research report, “The Tech Effect: How the Digital Age is Changing Investing,” surveyed 1,000 U.S. investors between the ages...
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B2B PaymentsProtiviti Mulls CFOs’ Hesitancy On Data Tech
Enhanced data security and analytics are at the top of chief financial officers’ priority lists among both private and public companies, according...
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call center commerceTRENDING: Allstate’s AI-Assisted Approach To Disaster Relief
Governments may not be known for keeping up with cutting-edge technology, but that doesn’t mean they don’t take note of the trends...
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B2B PaymentsTrimble’s TruckMate Kicks Accounts Receivable Into High Gear
Regulations are driving the trucking and logistics industry to adopt cutting-edge technologies. Requirements around the recording of digital data — for instance, newer...
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B2B PaymentsMiddle Market Waits For Mobile Payments In AP: Capital One
The spectrum of corporate technological disruption is vast. Large, multinational organizations have the resources to embrace disruption and invest in the tools...
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B2B PaymentsCorporate T&E Adjusts To The ‘Bleisure’ Wave: Rydoo
A new generation of professionals have changed the way they travel for work and, as a result, how those employees want to...
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B2B PaymentsCompliance — Not ROI — Pushes Tech On Unprepared Fleets
Fleet management has vast opportunities in digitization. Innovations like the Internet of Things (IoT), telematics and mobile payments are primed to disrupt...
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B2B PaymentsSpend Analytics No Longer Enough For Procurement: Accrualify
Spend analytics has broken through as an essential part of corporate procurement strategies. Businesses need to know how much money they’ve spent,...
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B2B PaymentsThe Many Hands (And Technologies) Of Supply Chain Disruption
Complex supply chains breed complex problems. The list is seemingly endless when it comes to supply chain friction today. A lack of...
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B2B PaymentsTech Falls Short Of Procurement’s Expectations
Procurement’s digital transformation isn’t without its hiccups. Organizations are taking baby steps into eProcurement, digitizing supplier relationship portals, purchase orders, invoice management...
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B2B PaymentsSurveys Show It’s A Good Time To Be A (US) Small Business Owner
Small businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. are increasingly optimistic. Expectations about economic growth, and increases in their own revenues, make for a...
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B2B PaymentsUK Government Tech Procurers Turn To SMBs
Nearly half of the U.K. government’s procurement spend on digital products and services is going to small suppliers, according to the latest...
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B2B PaymentsHackett Research Links Procurement Digitization To Employee Retention
Companies in the midst of digitizing their procurement processes have another incentive to push forward. According to a new report from The...
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B2B PaymentsIT Teams Struggle To Make Right Tech Hires
Automation, bots, blockchain — the deluge of technologies flooding the enterprise today can be overwhelming. This week’s B2B Data Digest takes the...
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B2B PaymentsAmazon Says UK SMBs Feeling The Benefits Of Tech
Amazon U.K. released its latest survey of small business (SMB) sentiment in the country, finding an increase in confidence the company attributes...
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B2B PaymentsASEAN’s FinTech Reputation Rubs Off On SMBs
Southeast Asia is now front and center on the world’s FinTech stage, and it’s no accident. Regulatory efforts to promote FinTech innovation,...
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B2B PaymentsProcurement Tech Refocuses To Help Corporates Digitally Transform
Procurement, like other finance-related areas in the enterprise, is quickly finding itself with a seat at the corporate leaders’ table — but it...
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B2B PaymentsRestaurants’ Unique Path To Back-Office Tech Adoption
The restaurant industry is a notoriously difficult market to crack, not least of all because of narrow margins, among other factors. With...
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B2B PaymentsTech Surpasses Brexit, Trump In Treasurers’ Chief Concerns
New analysis from The Wall Street Journal this week suggests global uncertainties and geopolitical events like the election of U.S. President Donald Trump...
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B2B PaymentsHow SME Accountants Approach The Threat And Opportunity Of Tech
Change within the enterprise will always bring friction, but when it comes to change brought about by the adoption of more sophisticated...
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B2B PaymentsCFOs Struggling To Look Ahead, Finds Workiva
B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS) firm Workiva released new data this week that highlights financial executives’ struggle to forecast. Reports Monday (April 17) said...
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B2B PaymentsThe Cost Of Holding Onto Old Data Tech
Even more than a lack of money or time, corporate culture can sometimes be the largest barrier to change within an organization...
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B2B PaymentsCorporate Leaders Aren’t Leading On Tech Adoption
It’s not enough for a technology to be a proven way to improve business processes: Adoption of new tech is a tough sell....
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B2B PaymentsCapital One Gauges Payment Execs’ Tech Appetite
Capital One released a new survey Thursday (April 6) to uncover why payment professionals who aware of the benefits of new technologies are...
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B2B PaymentsCorporate Payments Fraud Hits Record Levels
More companies than ever before fell victim to payments fraud last year, according to new data. Research from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP),...
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B2B PaymentsSAP, AWS, Deloitte Push For Canadian Corporate Digitization
Top enterprise technology companies have banned together to promote the digitization of Canadian businesses. Firms, including SAP, Amazon Web Services and Deloitte,...
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B2B PaymentsCorporate Banks Need Radical Tech Shift, Say Analysts
Traditional financial institutions have been forced to look inward as they continue to face competition from alternative lenders and FinTech providers. And...
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B2B PaymentsCorporate Treasurers Readying A Toolkit Upgrade
Corporate treasurers may be ready to upgrade their toolkits, but they have a few key priorities in mind because they jump in...
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B2B PaymentsGoogle, Square Join Government SMB Tech Initiative
The Small Business Administration (SBA) just announced some big names joining its Small Business Technology Coalition (SBTC). Google, Square, LinkedIn and several others...
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B2B PaymentsWhere SMEs Should Rethink Their Priorities
Do small and medium-sized businesses have their priorities straight? In some cases, research suggests, business owners are a bit misguided and possibly stuck...
