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Visa Launches Agentic Payments Pilot With BILL and Billtrust
Partnerships // October 20, 2026

Visa has launched an agentic payments partnership with accounts payable and receivable solutions providers BILL and Billtrust. The collaboration is the first live pilot to allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents “to initiate and complete approved buyer invoice payments end-to-end through supplier portals,” Visa said in a news release provided...

Genpact Expands Agentic AI Suite to Industrial Accounts Receivable
Accounts Receivable // October 14, 2026

Genpact has launched a suite of agentic artificial intelligence solutions designed to handle accounts receivable tasks for industrial clients in manufacturing and mining, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) press release. The Genpact Accounts Receivable Suite includes Genpact AR Collections, which prioritizes accounts...

CFOs Risk Losing Control of Working Capital One Sales Contract at a Time
Working Capital // October 08, 2026

The biggest threat to a company’s working capital strategy is now commonly hiding in a perfectly drawn up sales contract, not an overdue invoice. Finance departments can automate collections, optimize cash forecasts and accelerate reconciliation. But when commercial teams negotiate longer payment terms to win customers, the cost of financing growth gets decided before...

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...

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
Visa Launches Agentic Payments Pilot With BILL and Billtrust

October 20, 2026
Visa has launched an agentic payments partnership with accounts payable and receivable solutions providers BILL and Billtrust. The collaboration is the first live pilot to allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents “to initiate and complete approved buyer invoice payments end-to-end through supplier portals,” Visa said in a news release provided to PYMNTS Tuesday (Oct. 20). “Until now, many payment portals […]

Genpact Expands Agentic AI Suite to Industrial Accounts Receivable

October 14, 2026
Genpact has launched a suite of agentic artificial intelligence solutions designed to handle accounts receivable tasks for industrial clients in manufacturing and mining, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct....

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...

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....