It’s the year 2026, and net-30 terms still dominate the corporate landscape. Companies have digitized invoices, automated accounts payable, connected bank accounts through APIs, and built future-proof, sophisticated cash forecasts. But one of the most consequential financial decisions between businesses, exactly when money changes hands,...
The paper check has spent years as the punchline of B2B payments modernization. The next legacy format is already sitting in the accounts payable inbox. It’s the PDF. The PDF invoice is moving upstream into a data format problem as the B2B format becomes to...
Microsoft is finding an early business case for artificial intelligence agents in a decidedly unglamorous corner of the enterprise: freight routes, spare parts and demand forecasts. The company deployed more than 25 AI agents and related applications across its supply chain, according to a March...
Accounts payable has no shortage of automation. However, the July edition of the Business Payments Tracker® Series, a PYMNTS Intelligence collaboration with WEX, revealed that functionality alone cannot modernize payment operations. Businesses can digitize invoices, route approvals, detect duplicate payments, reconcile transactions and embed supplier...
August 05, 2026
Accounts payable has no shortage of automation. However, the July edition of the Business Payments Tracker® Series, a PYMNTS Intelligence collaboration with WEX, revealed that functionality alone cannot modernize payment operations. Businesses can digitize invoices, route approvals, detect duplicate payments, reconcile transactions and embed supplier payments directly into enterprise software. Yet inside many finance departments, […]
March 12, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Bank of America’s Andy Murphy Staring down an operating landscape defined by supply chain disruptions, inflation volatility and geopolitical uncertainty, finance leaders have grown...
March 03, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Ameris Bank’s Keith Flynn In an economy where timing is everything, even incremental acceleration can reshape the entire financial rhythm of a business. Many...
October 09, 2025
Watch more: Need to Know: Finexio, Ernest Rolfson Since its inception, the accounts payable (AP) function has been a sleepy back-office chore. It represented the type of financial plumbing that...
October 05, 2026
Invoice lifecycle management Basware has completed its acquisition of payment fraud prevention platform Trustpair. “The acquisition extends Basware’s invoice lifecycle management capabilities all the way to the payment itself,” the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) news release. The release notes that an “invoice can be authentic, accurate and properly approved, but the supplier bank account associated with it […]
July 21, 2026
American Express aims to improve the B2B payments experience for buyers and suppliers with two new offerings, including a new B2B payment feature and automated invoice reporting capabilities. Both offerings...
March 31, 2026
Stampli has debuted a tool to help organizations glean more insights from their invoice data. Stampli Deep Finance, announced by the finance operations platform Tuesday (March 31), analyzes invoice data to uncover things...
February 18, 2026
Europe-focused payment automation/e-invoicing platform Banqup has launched a partnership with Visa. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Feb. 18), is being driven by the rapid onset of e-invoicing rules in Europe, set to go into effect by...
