Businesses have spent years investing in systems designed to determine whether a payment is legitimate. Fewer have invested in ensuring that a legitimate payment actually arrives. Just 13% of firms use payment guarantees, despite the PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Payment Guarantee Gap: Why Adoption Lags...
Businesses use payments timing as a factor in their cash forecasts. A buyer sends money before an invoice deadline, while the supplier waits for money already committed to payroll, inventory or another bill. Shortening that interval gives both parties greater certainty about when cash leaves...
Finance departments have moved quickly to put generative artificial intelligence to work. They’ve been far more cautious about letting AI act on its own. Generative AI use for cash flow management jumped from 16% in 2025 to 80% in 2026, according to PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Time...
Corporate cash has become one of banking’s most consequential bargaining chips. The third-quarter earnings season is offering chief financial officers a glimpse of what financial institutions are willing to provide to keep it. Third-quarter results from JPMorganChase, Citigroup and Bank of America suggested that the...
October 28, 2026
Businesses are using several forms of working capital to pay bills that previously could have been covered by customer receipts arriving earlier. Bank credit lines, corporate cards and supplier payment terms give firms different ways to finance the interval between purchasing goods and collecting payment. European Central Bank findings show demand for short-term financing rising […]
October 28, 2026
Businesses have spent years investing in systems designed to determine whether a payment is legitimate. Fewer have invested in ensuring that a legitimate payment actually arrives. Just 13% of firms...
October 21, 2026
Finance departments have moved quickly to put generative artificial intelligence to work. They’ve been far more cautious about letting AI act on its own. Generative AI use for cash flow...
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...
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 […]
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...
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...
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...
