Digitization news and trends

This Week in B2B: New Year, New Back-Office Innovations
B2B Payments // December 19, 2024

The B2B payments landscape is at a pivotal juncture as 2025 approaches. On one hand, the imperative to digitize and integrate payment processes has never been more pressing. On the other, legacy systems and entrenched processes pose significant obstacles, creating a delicate balancing act for...

4 Things B2B CPOs Should Know About Shrinking Paper Payments
B2B Payments // September 18, 2024

The business-to-business (B2B) landscape is undergoing an explosion of innovation — especially around payments. Wednesday (Sept. 18) alone, news broke that Brex launched an embedded B2B payments solution that complements the company’s corporate card and spend management platform for startups and enterprises; while Capchase and Stripe partnered to...

Rise In Huge Settlements Helps Insurance Industry Ditch Paper for Digital
Insurance // September 11, 2024

Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire. And across the business landscape, where there’s paper, there tends to be countless inefficiencies, higher costs — and even fraud. This holds particularly true within the insurance industry, which has long been known for its reliance on paper, manual...

Amex Small Business Exec Sees Embedded Payments Helping Cash Flow Management
B2B Payments // August 15, 2024

There’s a difference between managing your business’s cash flow, and having it manage you. That difference is something small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) know well, particularly those that find themselves facing working capital issues that pose challenges to their operational stability and potential growth. Navigating...

Interviews & Exclusives
Boost CEO Sees ‘Second Opportunity’ for Digital Transformation in B2B

January 03, 2025
As 2024 gives way to 2025, the payment landscape is set to pivot from uncertainty to a focus on strategic sophistication. It’s a goal that informed a recent conversation between PYMNTS’ Karen Webster and Boost Payment Solutions founder and CEO Dean M. Leavitt during a discussion for the series “PYMNTS Outlook 2025: Navigating the Future of […]

Rise In Huge Settlements Helps Insurance Industry Ditch Paper for Digital

September 11, 2024
Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire. And across the business landscape, where there’s paper, there tends to be countless inefficiencies, higher costs — and even fraud. This holds particularly true...

Amex Small Business Exec Sees Embedded Payments Helping Cash Flow Management

August 15, 2024
There’s a difference between managing your business’s cash flow, and having it manage you. That difference is something small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) know well, particularly those that find themselves...

Chief Architecture Officer? CFOs Learn to Design Business Growth

June 10, 2024
Today’s chief financial officers have evolved from back-office accountants to financial architects. And, given the dynamism of today’s business landscape, the transformation of the finance function couldn’t be happening at...

Quick Reads
Construex Raises $4.6 Million to Digitize Latin American Construction Industry

November 27, 2023
Construex, an Ecuador-based software-as-a-service marketplace, has raised $4.6 million in seed funding to accelerate its mission of digitizing the construction industry in Latin America. “This is our first step towards our expansion across LatAm,” the company said in a Monday (Nov. 27) post on LinkedIn. “It’s the beginning of celebrated new partnerships. It’s our beginning […]

Finastra and Microsoft Team on Trade Finance

September 20, 2023
Financial software firm Finastra has launched a trade finance partnership with Microsoft. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Sept. 20), combines Finastra’s Trade Innovation offering with a “full microservices architecture” using Microsoft Azure. “As the expectations of...

TempusDirect and CCC Intelligent Solutions Integrate Third-Party Casualty Solutions

May 04, 2023
TempusDirect and CCC Intelligent Solutions are now working together on third-party casualty solutions. With TempusDirect’s repricing services integrated into CCC’s cloud platform for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance economy,...

Mastercard ‘Digital Doors’ Aims to Help Small Businesses Scale With Marketing and Partnerships

May 02, 2023
Mastercard has unveiled a number of updates to its “Digital Doors” small business program. Among these new features are a marketing hub platform and new partnerships, the company said in...