The Digital Transformation Of The CFO

Watch more: Need to Know With Priority’s Brendan Kirsch On a sold-out Friday night, a modern sports venue becomes a small city. Tens of thousands of people arrive within a narrow time ...

Businesses and balance sheets have long been built on the finance function’s ability to close. Close the month. Close the quarter. Close the year. The faster the books are closed, the ...

When small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) fail, the postmortem can often fixate on a single cause. With corporate bankruptcies, including those for SMBs, hitting a 15-year high during 2025 according to ...

Obol will begin offering its artificial intelligence-driven cash flow management platform in Australia in February. The company began accepting pre-release sign-ups from Australian businesses Monday (Jan. 12), it said in a ...

As the calendar turns, chief financial officers are once again sketching out New Year’s resolutions. Unlike the personal pledges to exercise more or read less email, however, these commitments are shaped ...

Small- to medium-sized businesses are preparing for another year shaped by economic pressure, uneven consumer demand and tighter margins, forcing a more disciplined approach to how they operate and grow. Jonathan ...

As business becomes increasingly defined by volatility, cash is reclaiming its status as the ultimate indicator of corporate resilience. While chief financial officers have long turned to cost controls and capital ...

Chief financial officer (CFO) dashboards used to tell corporate cash flow stories after the fact. That left finance teams projecting trends from stale data and often kept liquidity management stuck in ...

The clock on cash flow is ticking. The countdown to liquidity is defining who wins and who falls behind in the real-time economy. “Time to Cash™: A New Measure of Business ...

U.S. Acumatica customers can now manage and pay bills within their enterprise resource planning system. They can do this with the help of BILL’s accounts payable automation. This capability comes from ...

PYMNTS Intelligence has been tracking the impact of tariffs on global trade and corporate strategy since they first became a flashpoint in international markets. Through direct surveys of executives across sectors, ...

Cash management is king in an uncertain world. For treasury management and services providers, big banks and small firms, business is booming. Bank earnings reports show strong performance in treasury and payments ...

Watch more: Need to Know: Priority, Sean Kiewiet Modern commerce has never offered customers more ways to pay or get paid. From cards, ACH, wires, real-time payments, wallets, cryptocurrency and cross-border rails, ...

Hindsight is 20/20, which made it perfect for the world of corporate finance. After all, cash flow management has long been an exercise in hindsight and certainty. Chief financial officers traditionally ...

Small business owners often see instant payments as the fix for sluggish cash flow. However, the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Immediate Impact: How SMBs Can Benefit From Instant Payments” suggests the technology ...

Dubai-based FinTech startup Upfront secured $10 million in a pre-seed round to grow its “next-generation financial operating system” for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the Middle East and North ...

CFOs and treasurers are no longer treating volatility as a threat. They are turning it into a competitive advantage. And the most adaptive finance leaders are using working capital to ...

Small business owners rarely lack grit, but today their biggest threat may be too much optimism. A record share of Main Street firms say they are sure they’ll be around two ...

The real-world economy is made up of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that make, move and install physical things. These firms don’t live in the same cash flow universe as software ...

This has been an unusual year, one that has rewarded companies ready to move quickly on unexpected opportunities. As 2025 moves toward its fourth quarter, there’s an enthusiasm for what comes ...

HSBC expanded its tokenized deposit service (TDS) to include cross-border transactions. The real-time solution for corporate clients conducted its first U.S. dollar cross-border transaction this month between Hong Kong and Singapore ...

Walmart Business is piloting a Pay By Invoice program with a select group of customers and plans to make it more widely available in the coming months. The company’s Pay By ...

Walk into the back office of a middle-market enterprise, and you might see a mountain of paper, physical or digital, piling up in inboxes, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and ...

Middle-market companies are caught between tariffs, interest rates and jittery supply chains, and how they borrow money says as much about their outlook as their balance sheet. The PYMNTS Intelligence report ...

For all the talk about artificial intelligence and instant payments, the biggest change reshaping how businesses pay each other may be happening in accounts payable. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Virtual Mobility: ...

For years, accounting teams inside small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) were consigned to back-office number crunching. Now they’re stepping into a more strategic role powered by the rise of embedded finance. The ...

Cash flow has long been the make-or-break factor for small enterprises. Unlike large corporations with credit lines, cash reserves and investor buffers, small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often run on tight ...

Fifth Third expanded the capabilities of its commercial payments business by acquiring DTS Connex, a provider of cash management software solutions for multi-location businesses like retailers, restaurants and healthcare providers. With ...

Growfin and Zuora partnered to offer enterprise companies a collections and cash flow management solution powered by artificial intelligence. The solution uses agentic AI to help enterprise finance teams adapt to ...

In times of uncertainty, firms can’t afford to have payments among the unknown quantities they’re facing down.  Yet in B2B, money has always moved slowly, sometimes painfully so. For decades, corporate ...

Among the varying financial behaviors observed across generations, baby boomers stand out as the sole demographic where proactive financial planners constitute a majority, marking a distinct approach to managing personal ...

When it comes to escaping the paycheck-to-paycheck grind, men are more likely than women to think they can simply tighten their belts. However, women, who are responsible for managing daily expenses, ...

Eazy Financial Services, which does business as EazyPay, has become the first acquirer in Bahrain to adopt Mastercard Receivables Manager. The company will use this solution to help merchants in Bahrain ...

Watch more: CFOs Prioritize B2B Payment Control as Economic Uncertainty Persists It’s not just cash and capital that are king for today’s chief financial officers. Against a backdrop of dynamic and ongoing ...

Square is offering its working capital solution, Square Cash Advance, to businesses in the United Kingdom. “Whether a restaurant owner, retail merchant or beauty salon, fast and easy access to funds ...

Watch more: i2c: It Takes Capital Plus Context to Rethink SMB Lending Strategies When it comes to small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the conversation around financial empowerment is overdue for an ...

Watch more: Legacy Infrastructure Won’t Cut It In a Pay By Bank World, Says Nuvei For businesses of all sizes, from agile startups to sprawling enterprises, cash flow is the lifeblood ...

Global eCommerce players focus on user experience, brand loyalty and speed, but they often overlook payments. No matter how sleek a front-end experience is, a failed or clunky checkout can undo ...

A shift is underway in how consumers in the United States manage their finances, and high earners are increasingly exhibiting reactive money habits. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Financial Management Divide: ...

No longer secondary considerations, the speed and efficiency of receiving non-recurring, or ad hoc, disbursements are becoming critical factors influencing an SMB’s operational stability and competitive position. The payments landscape for ...

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 ...

B2B payments are the lifeblood of global business, and few innovations have scaled as rapidly (and as unevenly) as virtual cards across B2B. “Virtual cards are growing tremendously in the market, ...

Block said Tuesday (May 20) that since the launch of its credit products, it has extended over $100 billion in credit while keeping its loss rates “low.” The company uses a ...

The once linear, largely predictable movement of money through corporate ecosystems is being reimagined against today’s increasingly dynamic and uncertain macro backdrop. Even category giants aren’t immune, as evidenced by Walmart ...

Automation platform Quadient has launched a partnership with payments company Nuvei. The collaboration is designed to help businesses worldwide enhance their cloud payments capabilities, integrating Nuvei’s payment processing technology with Quadient’s accounts receivable (AR) ...