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April 25, 2018
docSTAR’s Predictions For AP Automation
B2B Payments // February 10, 2016

This year and next, corporations will begin adopting technologies to automate their invoicing and procure-to-pay processes. That’s according to researchers at Ardent Partners and B2B Software-as-a-Service firm docSTAR. Last month, the latter published a blog post highlighting how this shift will take shape in 2016....

Earnings Reports Look Back, Forecasters Look Ahead
B2B Payments // February 02, 2016

It’s earnings report season, and B2B payments and enterprise FinServ companies are unleashing the data behind their performance. New stats from American Express, Bottomline Technologies, SAP Ariba, Chrome River and others take a look back at the last three months. Other firms, meanwhile, are looking...

Another Reason Paper Checks Are Causing Pain
B2B Payments // February 02, 2016

Between keeping track of state and federal regulations and managing cash flow, payday can be a headache for small business owners. Analysis says, however, that a lot of these entrepreneurs are making payroll processing a lot harder for themselves than it needs to be. Last...

Investors Diversify Their B2B Funding
B2B Payments // February 01, 2016

Last week, American Express and Dun & Bradstreet released new research that found the middle-market business landscape of the U.S. is seeing some changes. While manufacturing and wholesale trade continue to take the top spots in this population of businesses, business services are increasingly accounting...

Quick Reads
CPOs Are Facing An Uphill Battle

January 07, 2016
Why, in 2016, are accounts payable and procurement teams still seeing paper invoices? That’s the question asked by procure-to-pay firm Zycus in a blog post published this week, also noting that, according to research, less than a third of AP departments describe themselves as “highly automated.” The company outlined why manual procure-to-pay processes are officially […]

B2B Venture Capitalists Take A Trip Around The Globe

December 11, 2015
The B2B industry saw some hefty funding this week, and funding reached multiple points of the globe. In fact, VCs touched upon six nations in four continents, crossing their own...

MasterCard Busts Myths Of The Omnichannel Consumer

September 10, 2015
Why do retailers keep shoveling promotions to consumers when only 18 percent of them consider them critical drivers of their purchase decisions? That’s just one of the insights from a...

The Push-And-Pull Of B2B FinServ

June 05, 2015
In order to meet B2B needs, financial institutions must expand beyond “traditional” plastic credit cards and embrace electronic accounts payable systems, says a white paper from AOC Solutions titled “How...