PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

While other departments may have abandoned manual, paper-based strategies years ago, accounts payable (AP) and finance departments held their ground on practices that seem to have changed little since the 1970s. For years, there has been a quiet shift in the B2B payments space.

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JULY 3, 2019

Cost containment solution provider Palmarius Advisors is rolling out an accounts payable (AP) automation solution designed to generate revenue and enhance spend control for corporate users. The company did not reveal details on how it mitigates accounts payable fraud or introduces business users to a new revenue stream with its tool.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Intelligent automation supplier Kofax has announced new innovations for its invoice and accounts payable (AP) solutions, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

Accounts payable can be a contradiction showcasing the frustratingly slow pace of B2B payments digitization. In PYMNTS’ Payables Friction Playbook , “Why Firms Are Ready For An AP Upgrade,” a collaboration with Corcentric , paper checks came out on top as the most widely used payment tool by accounts payable (AP) departments.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

B2B FinTech solution providers are currently working on reducing the friction associated with implementing their solutions into enterprise back offices. One of the biggest hurdles in B2B FinTech adoption and digital transformation is convincing the higher-ups that such investments are necessary.

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MARCH 18, 2020

Employing accounts payable (AP) automation solutions can help smooth onboarding and streamline the data collection and analyzing processes, removing the many friction points that are prone to legacy systems. How a business begins a relationship with a supplier can determine how lasting — and profitable — that bond becomes.

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MARCH 28, 2019

Xerox is strengthening its position in the accounts payable services space with a new suite of business solutions. The company announced Wednesday (March 27) that it is rolling out a services portfolio that includes several industry-specific B2B services and five horizontal services all designed to promote enterprise digitization.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Accounts payable (AP) solution provider Yooz has struck a strategic partnership with SnapCheck to address the friction of companies paying suppliers by check. In a previous conversation with PYMNTS, SnapCheck’s Kruszka noted that the largest advantage paper checks have in B2B payments is that they’re “universal.”

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JULY 14, 2020

American Express has launched a new automated accounts payable solution, American Express One AP, to help businesses digitize B2B payment processing, according to a press release.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Nacha is issuing a warning to accounts payable professionals with regards to the rising threat of fraud. But accounts payable is far from the only back-office financial workflow at risk of fraud. While current fraud tools are helpful, there is no systemic or automated option for accomplishing this," Nacha warned.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Separately, research finds B2B payments as the key driver behind surging instant payments volume in the years ahead. In addition to the expanded Accelerate program, Mastercard is also embracing blockchain for B2B use cases. B2B Payments To Drive Instant Payments Adoption. European Union Next To Ease Crypto Adoption.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Today, accounts payable firm MineralTree announced a collaboration with Visa with a goal of helping corporates pay their suppliers by virtual card. “The vast majority of B2B suppliers don’t accept cards.” “I do believe the cost issue has to be solved, particularly in B2B payments,” Krishna noted.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

The takeover signaled an evolution of the company's business model from a traditionally business-to-consumer (B2C) seller, to one that includes business-to-business (B2B) operations. It was also indicative of a growing trend of B2C merchants expanding into the B2B realm in an effort to take advantage of a surging market.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

The B2B payments landscape has always been evolving, but change in the industry has never been more acute than right now. But the challenge of igniting B2B payments innovation may not be as arduous as many chief financial officers (CFOs) and others believe, said Josh Cyphers , president of Nvoicepay , a FLEETCOR company alongside Comdata.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The company said its Kodak Services for Business will include invoice automation as the company pushes for further accounts payable (AP) automation capability. Automation is on the rise in accounts payable, as AP professionals seek ways to reduce manual processes and instead focus on more strategic initiatives.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

Zion Market Research released a report about the accounts payable software market on Wednesday (March 20), estimating the market will reach about $1,567 million by 2025, according to a release by the company. The global accounts payable software market is segmented on the basis of type and application.

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JULY 29, 2020

“Fundamental changes to the B2B payments landscape are taking place today, faster than ever before, helping the ecosystem eliminate inefficient B2B payments processes.”. Access to capital hasn’t been this tight since the market meltdown of 2008, so motivated players are finding better, faster ways of moving B2B funds especially.

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MARCH 31, 2020

To make the complete payables process smarter, global payables automation company Tipalti unveiled its Tipalti Pi integrated payables intelligence engine, according to a press release. The solution identifies fraud and risk, bolsters decision making, automates manual work and eliminates accounts payable (AP) process errors.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

New research suggests a vast divide between businesses that have embraced technology and electronic processes in the accounts payable department and businesses that instead prefer to retain those paper invoices and checks. While the gap is wide, researchers noted overall improvement in the perception of the accounts payable department.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The artificial intelligence-based accounts payable company Stampli has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round, the company announced Wednesday (Oct. The round was led by SignalFire, and Hillsven Capital, Bloomberg Beta and NextWorld Capital participated in the round. So far, the company has raised $32 million.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

For years — decades, even — B2B payment leaders and innovators had been talking about the digitization of corporate payments within accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) departments. The coronavirus crisis has accelerated B2B payments digitization to new heights. More Work To Be Done.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

New Jersey-based invoice-to-cash platform Billtrust has upgraded the machine learning (ML) capabilities of its business-to-business (B2B) cash application software, the company announced Wednesday (Nov. The goal is to quickly convert payments to cash.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

From a lack of supplier acceptance of electronic payments to outdated infrastructure within accounts payable (AP) departments, the B2B payments ecosystem still has much room for improvement on multiple fronts. Moving the needle in the journey away from paper checks isn’t a one-sided battle, either. An Ecosystem Approach.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Kevin Phalen , head of global business solutions at Visa , told Karen Webster that the consumerization and the digitization of the B2B space are enabling firms to get the job — moving money — done with efficiencies previously unknown. B2B is poised to make the same leap. But the solutions they deploy, maintained Phalen, must be fast.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Straight-through processing (STP) is the gold standard for accounts payable (AP) departments. There are the “simple, but not so simple exceptions” that keep manual processes in accounts payable, even after technology adoption, said Ryland.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Kodak Services for Business is introducing a new accounts payable solution, the result of a collaboration with business process automation software firm CoreIntegrator. The companies announced on Tuesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Businesses also may find paper checks to be untenably slow and cumbersome to issue or receive from far-flung partners, and such trends are causing a growing global momentum for adopting swifter, more streamlined accounts payable (AP) tools and business-to-business (B2B) payment methods. Find the full story in the Playbook.

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DECEMBER 13, 2020

Orlando, Florida-based B2B Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform Finexio is expanding its reach in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software space and will now be available on Microsoft AppSource via a direct integration for Microsoft Dynamics users, according to a press release.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Buyers, too, are eager for change and need to adopt accounts payable (AP) methods that are easily managed by employees working from home. Frictions like these are pushing more businesses to rethink their legacy approaches to business-to-business (B2B) payments and adopting various digital options for sending money.

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JULY 10, 2019

Some of the biggest industry trends, including faster payments, open banking and bank-FinTech collaboration, have found their ways into the Canadian market, the B2B payments space is not immune to disruption from these shifts. According to Lansdowne-Higgins, among the biggest challenges in accounts payable today is the data silos.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Cloud-based accounts payable solution provider Esker is teaming up with document services unit Fuji Xerox to deploy accounts payable solutions across the Asia Pacific region, the companies announced on Wednesday (Feb. Moving forward the firms will expand the offering to Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The AFP’s report found new lows in corporates’ use of checks for B2B payments, with more than one-third saying they aim to remain current with new payments technologies. Although new technology is appealing, treasury and finance professionals tend to stick with what works for them, and their vendors,” said AFP President and CEO Jim Kaitz.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

When it comes to global B2B procurement, nothing is simple. The Track BPS is an evolution from the strategy of owning the underlying rails upon which money moves, according to James Anderson , executive vice president of Global Commercial and B2B Solutions. Driving B2B Payments' Evolution. said Anderson. A World Of Opportunity.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

In a press release last week, Compeat said Compeat Pay automates vendor payments by using virtual cards, ACH and check payments to enhance the security of accounts payable. Restaurant management software company Compeat has launched Compeat Pay, a solution to enable restaurant professionals to pay their vendors electronically.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

When it comes to B2B payments fraud, it’s not a matter of if it happens, but when. With accounts payable professionals working remotely, Anderson said he’s heard from some firms whose AP staff have had to physically take check-printing machines to their homes — opening up the door for fraudulent activity.

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MAY 10, 2017

Visa is teaming up with B2B virtual payments company CSI globalVCard to extend its services to Visa issuers. “Through a full integration with Visa Payables Automation, CSI globalVCard can bring its globalVCard paysystems technology to Visa financial institutions and their customers to manage and process supplier payments.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

I think when the pandemic hit in early March, it really put a gun to the head of many companies by taking what have been Byzantine processes around accounts payable or accounts receivable and moving to much more digital means,” Jay Dearborn , president, corporate payments of WEX Inc. told PYMNTS. And apparently, he’s not alone.

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