Cash Flow Management news and trends

Insurers Lead on Billing but Still Miss What Policyholders Want

October 08, 2026
Cover image for the October 2026 edition of the PYMNTS Intelligence and Paymentus report, The Service Commerce Performance Gap. One in four policyholders is ready to switch insurers over billing. PYMNTS Intelligence and Paymentus show what insurers miss and what to fix.
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...

Study Finds CFOs Find AI Can’t Clear Every Cash Flow Bottleneck
B2B Payments // October 01, 2026

A shorter cash cycle should feel like a victory lap. For many CFOs, it now comes with a longer list of risks. PYMNTS Intelligence, in collaboration with J.P.Morgan, examines how U.S. finance teams are speeding cash flow while customers, suppliers and fraud threats make the...

Working Capital Has Lost Its Strategic Edge
Working Capital // September 28, 2026

The early bird used to get a supplier discount. These days, it may still be waiting for the customer to pay. Across North America, more businesses are receiving payments on the due date and rethinking when they can afford to pay their own bills. PYMNTS...

Study Finds Bad Billing Experiences Delay $330 Billion in Consumer Payments Each Year
B2B Payments // September 08, 2026

Paying a bill may never rank among life’s great pleasures. Still, it shouldn’t feel like a test of patience every month. “The Service Commerce Performance Gap” is a PYMNTS Intelligence report produced in collaboration with Paymentus. The report examines service commerce, the ongoing relationship built...

Interviews & Exclusives
Bank of America Says Data Quality Fuels AI Success

July 22, 2026
Watch more: Summer School With Bank of America’s Matthew Davies For finance chiefs, the technology challenge is no longer a lack of options. It is an excess of them. Chief financial officers are being presented with an expanding menu of artificial intelligence tools, real-time payments capabilities, forecasting platforms, treasury systems and automation products, each promising […]

The Premium Payment Is Becoming Insurance’s Most Valuable Touchpoint

July 16, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know | Paymentus | Rob Eberly Billing used to be where the customer relationship ended for the month. The service was delivered, the invoice went out,...

46% of Small Businesses Would Pay for Better Digital Tools

July 16, 2026
Small businesses want tools that give them more control over when money moves, how spending gets tracked and what happens when a payment goes wrong. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Ready...

Banks and FinTechs Give Consumers New Ways to Weather a Rainy Day

July 10, 2026
The emergency fund used to sit in a savings account, earned modest interest, and waited for the water heater to fail or the transmission to give out. For many households,...

Quick Reads
Bottomline Launches AI-Powered CFO Finance Platform

June 11, 2026
Bottomline launched a platform to help chief financial officers use artificial intelligence to oversee cash flow. The CFO Suite combines cash forecasting, invoice management, collections and payments in one system, according to a Thursday (June 11) press release. The new software platform is designed to help finance teams as businesses face growing pressure to modernize […]

Obol to Expand Cash Flow Management Platform to Australia

January 12, 2026
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...

Upfront Secures $10 Million to Grow Financial Operating System for MENA SMBs

October 01, 2025
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...

HSBC Debuts Cross-Border Tokenized Deposit Offering

September 22, 2025
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...