October. Some readers mark it on the calendar for the return of autumn and chilly temperatures. Others get ready for the full dose of sports that comes with the NFL season and the World Series. Here at PYMNTS, it’s B2B Payments time. This year marks...
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...
A chief financial officer can only optimize the cash they can see. An invoice arriving outside an integrated B2B environment gives finance less time and potentially less information to decide how the resulting obligation should be managed. Until recently, the inconvenience of missing or incomplete...
Treasury departments have traditionally been centered on helping the treasurer, who is typically a human, make better decisions about corporate cash. The next generation of treasury technology, however, is proving capable of making those same decisions on its own. Artificial intelligence treasury agents today can...
September 14, 2026
A well-prepared finance department typically implies a well-prepared business. And that’s supported by new PYMNTS Intelligence research in the June 2026 edition of the Growth Corporates Working Capital Index,which revealed that today’s strongest finance organizations are treating liquidity as something to position in advance, not something to source after a problem emerges. These leading firms are treating financing, […]
September 04, 2026
Corporate America may have a capital allocation problem hiding inside its risk management discipline. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Cost of Caution: Why CFOs Put Growth Plans on Hold,” the...
August 14, 2026
CFOs have stopped treating generative artificial intelligence returns as one date circled on the calendar. By December, 39.1% expected very positive returns within one to two years, even as 26.1%...
July 29, 2026
Digital transformation is usually presented as a ladder. Companies begin with a few foundational capabilities, add more sophisticated tools over time and become incrementally more efficient with each step. But...
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 28, 2026
Ripple introduced a treasury platform designed to give chief financial officers, treasurers and accounting teams complete control over traditional and digital treasury operations. Enabled by the company’s acquisition of GTreasury,...
November 21, 2025
Citi announced changes to its leadership team and structure as it works to continue increasing its shareholder returns. Mark Mason will transition out of the role of chief financial officer...
September 03, 2025
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has reportedly seen a string of executive departures, with the latest being its chief financial officer. Mike Liberatore joined xAI as CFO in April...
