Accounts Payable/page/3 news and trends

CFOs Risk Losing Control of Working Capital One Sales Contract at a Time

October 08, 2026
Working Capital sales contracts
AI Made B2B Fraud Cheap and Trust Expensive
Fraud Prevention // October 07, 2026

Watch more: Stopping B2B Fraud Before AI Moves the Money Artificial intelligence is breaking the economics of the traditional accounts payable fraud model. Attackers can scale cheaply, but finance teams cannot respond by scaling manual verification at the same rate. “They are using the technology...

Auto Dealers Pull Banking Into Their Operating Software
Transportation // October 06, 2026

Dealer management systems house the information tied to the operation’s financial activity. Customer balances, repair orders, vendor invoices and accounting records can originate there even when the payment itself moves through a bank or another provider. More of the payment process is now being connected...

How CFOs Are Building Approval Controls Finance Agents Can’t Break
Artificial Intelligence // October 06, 2026

The biggest financial risk from an artificial intelligence agent won’t come from it making numbers up. It will likely come from an agent that does exactly what it has permission to do. As enterprises connect AI agents to email, procurement software, ERP systems, bank accounts...

AI Targets Trade Finance’s Paperwork Bottleneck
Artificial Intelligence // October 05, 2026

Artificial intelligence is being harnessed to tackle the document review that determines whether a transaction moves forward, one of the most manual parts of trade finance. Software has long been able to scan documents and extract data. But a spate of initiatives show how AI...

Interviews & Exclusives
Buyers Want to Pay Later. Suppliers Want Cash Earlier. Who Funds the Difference?

September 24, 2026
The oldest tension in B2B payments is becoming one of its newest business models. A dollar cannot simultaneously stay longer on the buyer’s balance sheet and arrive earlier on the supplier’s balance sheet unless somebody finances the interval. And while the modernization of B2B payments is well underway, with checks steadily losing ground to ACH, virtual […]

Tech Teams Gain Sway Over AP Buying Decisions

September 23, 2026
Accounts payable technology is being judged on how well it connects to the systems businesses already use, giving developers, IT teams and implementation specialists a larger role in payment-platform decisions....

62% of Businesses Make ERP Integration the Top AP Test

September 09, 2026
For accounts payable software buyers, the quality of the connections now carries more weight than the size of the price tag. That shift runs through “Who Decides Now,” the July...

CFOs Find Working Capital Hiding in Every Payment

August 27, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Priority Commerce’s Court Toomey The next working capital lever for chief financial officers may not require renegotiating supplier terms, borrowing more cheaply or squeezing...

Quick Reads
Tungsten Debuts Tool to Streamline Invoice-to-Pay Automation

September 30, 2026
Tungsten Automation has introduced the accounts payable automation engine for its invoice-to-pay platform. The workflow automation company’s new InvoiceAgility+ is designed to use agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to provide end-to-end invoice-to-pay automation, combining things like global compliance and supplier connectivity into one solution, per a Wednesday (Sept. 30) news release. “Most organizations already run complex invoice operations,” […]

American Express and Bottomline Partner to Streamline B2B Payments

July 21, 2026
American Express aims to improve the B2B payments experience for buyers and suppliers with two new offerings, including a new B2B payment feature and automated invoice reporting capabilities. Both offerings...

Procurify Deploys Fully Agentic Procurement Platform to Eliminate Manual Buying Processes

July 20, 2026
Procurify completed the transformation of its mid-market procurement platform into a fully agentic procurement platform by adding three more agents, the company said in a Monday (July 20) press release....

Airwallex Challenges Legacy Software With New Billing Solution

May 29, 2026
Airwallex has added a billing solution to its global payments and financial offerings. The new Airwallex Billing includes tools for invoicing, subscription management and usage-based billing, allowing users to adopt the ones that are relevant...