Vendor Payments news and trends

‘Net Never’ Terms: Delayed Payments Threaten B2B Supply Chain Stability
B2B Payments // May 12, 2025

What’s worse than shoppers skipping out on a tab? The businesses themselves stiffing the very suppliers keeping them afloat. After all, businesses ranging from multinational enterprises to Main Street small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) know they must preserve their supplier ecosystems to remain competitive, yet...

Trump Tariffs Ignite Digital Procurement Revolution Across B2B
B2B Payments // April 21, 2025

President Donald Trump’s tariffs are increasingly serving as a stress test for enterprise agility. The announced U.S. tariffs and ongoing uncertainties surrounding them have reignited cost pressures and supply chain complexities that many businesses had only just begun to recover from post-pandemic. With rates reaching...

Payments CEOs Say Uncertainty May Be the New Normal. But Getting Back to Business Takes...
Economy // April 21, 2025

It might seem like a good time to take a vacation. With the news full of geopolitical tension, trade finance drama, shifting regulations and the fresh memory of a disruptive global health crisis, uncertainty has become the norm rather than the exception. But for most...

Corporates Pressure Banks to Accelerate Instant Payments Adoption
Faster Payments // April 21, 2025

Tariffs are here, inflation is sticky, and supply chains and vendor relationships are in flux. For enterprises, it’s critical to have as much certainty as possible when it comes to cash flow. It’s no longer enough to wait three days for transactions to settle. The...

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Corporates Pressure Banks to Accelerate Instant Payments Adoption

April 21, 2025
Tariffs are here, inflation is sticky, and supply chains and vendor relationships are in flux. For enterprises, it’s critical to have as much certainty as possible when it comes to cash flow. It’s no longer enough to wait three days for transactions to settle. The paper check, which has been a staple of roughly 40% […]

Better DPO Management Emerges as Key Outcome of Working Capital Efficiency

March 14, 2025
For enterprises of all types and across all industries, tariffs, trade wars, reconfigured supply chains and inflation are all top of mind. Dynamic times call for dynamic, sometimes spur-of-the-moment decision...

Push to Debit Brings ‘Emotional Relief’ of Faster Payments to Property Management Sector

September 05, 2023
Property management always has a flurry of activity in the background. Landlords employ and contract with a variety of vendors and suppliers to keep things running smoothly, the grounds maintained,...

Transportation Companies’ New Year Wish Is for Accounts Payable Automation

December 27, 2022
A sweeping accounts payable revolution is set to take place over the next three years. That’s according to research in this month’s PYMNTS report, “AP Automation: Transportation Companies Innovate to...

Quick Reads
BILL to Add 1099 Filing Solution to Financial Operations Platform

December 10, 2024
BILL is adding a 1099 form filing solution to its financial operations platform for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The new 1099 Filing lets SMBs and their accountants prepare and file their 1099 forms using the same platform they use to pay and manage their vendors throughout the year, BILL said in a Tuesday (Dec. […]

Saks Reportedly Misses Hundreds of Thousands in Vendor Payments 

August 05, 2024
Amid a merger worth $2.6 billion, Saks reportedly owes vendors hundreds of thousands. The luxury retailer, which last month announced it was merging with Neiman Marcus, has missed payments to dozens of the brands it works with,...

Melio Adds Real-Time Payments to B2B Platform

December 13, 2023
B2B payments platform Melio added real-time payments to its suite of offerings. The new service lets payors deliver funds instantly to vendors, according to a Wednesday (Dec. 13) press release...

HSBC Launches Document-Free Trade Finance Tool TradePay

September 19, 2023
Banking giant HSBC debuted a trade finance offer to help clients pay suppliers. The tool, dubbed TradePay, is an industry-first, document-free trade finance solution that lets clients instantly draw down...