Accounts Receivable news and trends

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...

AI Could End Finance’s Point-and-Click Era
B2B Payments // October 02, 2026

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Billtrust’s Dave Ruda The finance technology playbook was once relatively straightforward. CFOs built out their department tech stacks by putting one piece of software after another between an employee and a cumbersome business process. For many teams today,...

Fed Finds B2B Payments Went Digital, but the Paperwork Didn’t
B2B Payments // September 28, 2026

In 2024, the B2B payments conversation centered on moving businesses away from checks and toward electronic transactions. Two years later, the industry has made infrastructure advances, but two newly published research briefs from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland highlight that the hardest part of...

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

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 and pocketed a 2% discount for the trouble. It was policy. Nobody had to approve it. Then, sometime last spring,...

Interviews & Exclusives
AI Could End Finance’s Point-and-Click Era

October 02, 2026
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Billtrust’s Dave Ruda The finance technology playbook was once relatively straightforward. CFOs built out their department tech stacks by putting one piece of software after another between an employee and a cumbersome business process. For many teams today, that’s still the playbook. Accounts receivable teams have embraced dashboards, […]

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...

Tariff Refunds Turn Old B2B Invoices Into Claims on Cash

August 20, 2026
The $100 billion U.S. tariff unwind isn’t just a legal exercise for enterprise firms; it’s exposing a crucial piece of B2B infrastructure. More than 40 S&P 500 companies reported $9.6...

The Future of Finance Depends on Better Workflows, Not Better AI

July 23, 2026
Watch more: Finance Leaders as Context Architects Artificial intelligence is not creating a finance revolution as much as it is conducting an audit. John Landy, chief technology officer at Billtrust,...

Quick Reads
Ramp Debuts AR Tool to Keep Finance Teams From Chasing Payments

September 22, 2026
Ramp has introduced a tool designed to automate invoicing and payment collections for corporate clients. Ramp Accounts Receivable, announced Tuesday (Sept. 22), allows the FinTech’s clients to use Ramp to manage both costs and revenue. “This has been a top request from our customers,” Geoff Charles, chief product officer at Ramp, said in a news release. “Finance teams […]

Amex Ventures Funds Fazeshift’s Agentic AI Expansion Beyond Accounts Receivable

August 11, 2026
Fazeshift has secured an investment from Amex Ventures to help expand its artificial intelligence agent platform beyond accounts receivable and into additional finance operations, Fazeshift said in a Tuesday (Aug....

Fiserv and Stuut Team to Bring AI Agents to Accounts Receivable 

August 05, 2026
Payments/financial services technology company Fiserv has teamed with accounts receivable automation firm Stuut Technologies. With this collaboration, the companies will help eligible enterprise finance teams modernize manual and “fragmented” B2B receivables processes where...

Billtrust Debuts AI Assistant Connectivity to Promote AR Automation

July 21, 2026
B2B cash generation platform Billtrust has launched the “Billtrust MCP Server.” With this new offering, the company becomes the first accounts receivable (AR) platform to directly link live invoice-to-cash intelligence...