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DECEMBER 11, 2017

Much of the alternative business financing market formed as a response to the need for an entirely different way for companies to take out a loan. That could mean new payments rails to automated accounts payable solutions. “Being in the industry for 20 years, it just won’t work,” he said. In the U.S.,

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MARCH 23, 2016

Accounts payable solution Anybill is getting closer to existing partner Intacct in an effort to streamline the flow of financial data between the two platforms. An announcement on Tuesday (March 22) said Anybill has extended its venture with Intacct, which provides ERP software.

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JULY 27, 2020

Leaders in corporate finance face a choice right now: be on board with digital payments and commerce to keep business moving, or face the reckoning of being left behind. As part of those supplier relationships, finance leaders need to realize that everyone is trying to maximize cash flow and extending payment terms.

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APRIL 10, 2020

Financial technology innovation has opened the doors to massive transformation of corporate finance departments. While flashy corporate FinTech is exciting, innovation efforts have rarely focused on a mainstay of corporate finance teams: the financial close process, a crucial, but continually outdated function.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Nearly half (45 percent) said the finance department expresses resistance against digital transformation, and 39 percent agree that the finance department relies too much on manual processes that hold it back from embracing digital transformation. The Worst Offender.

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MARCH 4, 2020

The enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) system has been a staple of corporate finance operations for years, acting as a central repository of data and a hub to initiate a range of processes, from accounting to procurement. But the ERP of today doesn’t look like it used to. The ERP’s Role in a FinTech World.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This week's B2B Data Digest looks at the latest figures behind such fraud targeting corporate finance teams. million was stolen from one company via accounts payable (AP) fraud , the Chicago Tribune reported. Barrenechea in a statement.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a provider of back-office financial technology, it's vital to speak with chief finance officer (CFO) and finance executive end-users about what they need and which friction points are giving them the most pain. Finance teams have mountains of manual tasks to complete every day. Manual Pain Points.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

11), Cred revealed the rollout of its developer platform CredX (not to be confused with the new credit card accounts payable solution recently launched by Finexio ). Its set of application program interfaces (APIs) enable businesses to use crypto as collateral to access corporate financing products.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

By its very nature, accounts payable (AP) is a cost center: It’s where money leaves the enterprise, after all. At the highest levels, accounts payable has the opportunity to even add money to businesses, too. “It’s about having a strong business case internally.”

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A press release revealed that the company will make its automated accounts payable (AP) solution available to U.K. ” The launch comes as AP automation grows increasingly in-demand among corporate finance professionals. .’s Procure-to-pay software company Yooz plans to expand into the U.K.,

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In the accounting space, that means integrations with enterprise resource planning (ERP), accounts receivable, accounts payable, procurement, banking and other portals. Data integration between back-office platforms is now an essential component for businesses deciding to adopt a technology.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

While FinTechs are offering a greater variety of solutions to business users than ever before, corporate finance chiefs and treasurers still turn to their banks first to improve their B2B payments strategies. As businesses continue this shift, it is no longer safe to assume that corporates are not interested in faster payments.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

China Lending Corporation has announced the launch of its new supply chain financing services, which include a business factoring program. The program will provide small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the funding to finance operations and growth. The market of supply chain financing in China reached RMB 14.42

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JANUARY 7, 2021

There are a lot of moving parts in B2B payments that are keeping corporate finance executives busy as they work to modernize and optimize their operations. In 2020, many of the biggest pain points in B2B payments were revealed, particularly when transactions move across border.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Automatically looping information across various financial platforms — including accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR) and expenses — is critical to achieving a real-time view of cash positions and developing more accurate forecasts. Data integration is climbing to the top of chief financial officers' priority lists.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

That's particularly true for finance teams like accounts payable , accounting or payroll. According to Woods, organizations and their finance teams must be strategic about how they reduce their reliance on physical paper and invest in the technologies that can optimize document management without adding any extra pain.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

What businesses may often miss in their growth trajectories, however, is the importance of focusing on back-office operations, particularly when it comes to finance and payments. Revenue generated from virtual card rebates, for example, can finance investments in automated AP and AR technologies. Looking Ahead.

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APRIL 22, 2016

Plaid’s bank account authentication and data services are coming in handy to more corporate finance players. On Thursday (April 21), the company announced a new partnership with Jet Business Loans, an online corporate FinServ player.

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MAY 12, 2016

What’s next for enterprise mobility could be anyone’s guess, but some analysts have made their prediction: accounts payable. The firm broke it all down in a recent report: “ 3 Ways Mobile Solutions Address Today’s Top Accounts Payable Challenges.” Reducing Cycle Times. Streamlining Exceptions Resolution.

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MAY 1, 2019

The company announced its AI-Based Cash Forecasting Cloud solution in a press release Tuesday (April 30), saying the new solution will provide corporate treasurers with real-time forecasting functionality without the need for manual data integration.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Corporates may not be adopting faster and real-time payments technologies as fast as consumers, but that doesn’t mean the acceleration of payments isn’t impacting corporate finance.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Investors diversified their funding to B2B companies this week, hitting several areas of corporate finance including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and supply chain management. AP Automation. The company announced $4 million in funding this week led by Eileses Capital.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

RPA is igniting chatter in the corporate finance community as professionals explore next-level analytics and automation functionality to enhance processes like accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash flow management and more. Automation Anywhere. Federal Government.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Some B2B payments players have predicted that, on the accounts payable side of the transaction, higher interest rates will lead companies to extend their payment terms and to seek out AP technologies that offer integrated supplier financing solutions to help with that cash flow crunch on the supplier side.

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JUNE 22, 2020

According to Abnormal Security Vice President Ken Liao, attacks targeting accounts payable departments are now more favorable than those targeting C-suite executives. million was allegedly forged in company checks by an accounts officer at a family-owned Singapore-based business, Straights Times recently reported. ” $1.4

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

A new report from Capital One examined this question, focusing on how technological disruption will affect its finances. The largest threat to corporate finance stems from technological disruption’s impact on middle-market competitors. Where does the middle market fit in this spectrum?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Research released last month from BlackLine found nearly half (46 percent) of finance professionals are already using AI in the workplace, and most say accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) will see the largest disruptions from the technology. Financial executives aren’t ignoring this trend either.

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JUNE 13, 2016

88% of finance professionals anticipate a rise in payments fraud , said TD Bank in its latest analysis. Misconduct involving corporate finances, however, almost always resulted in termination. Researchers examined instances of questionable — not illegal — behavior from CEOs based on news media reports between 2000 and 2015.

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MAY 11, 2018

The potential cannot be ignored, however – particularly in the finance department, where information from accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury and accounting hold the keys to insight into cash flow, predictable payment behavior and new opportunities to boost the bottom line. ”

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Corporates that aren’t using an automated solution are often forced to manually pull data from online banking sources into Excel spreadsheets, and manually normalize that data to analyze it and discover their cash positions, he said. “You’re doing your own IT and data normalization,” he noted.

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MARCH 1, 2016

The tallies are in: Innovate Finance has calculated the state of investment in FinTech for 2015, and we have the numbers. Innovate Finance released The 2015 FinTech Investment Landscape this month, a report that offers a snapshot at how investors are placing their money among financial innovators. Global Breakdown. reigned supreme.

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JULY 17, 2019

Last year Optal released research based on a survey of more than 100 corporate finance executives in the U.K.

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JANUARY 17, 2018

The corporate card and expense management market is now flooded with new platforms for entrepreneurs, SMBs and large enterprises. Technologies are also exploring how to use these solutions not only for employees traveling on business, but also to manage and analyze spend at corporate events, in accounts payable and in procurement.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Corporate finance teams were not simply tasked with finding ways to continue operations in a remote work environment as a result of the coronavirus crisis. There were cases where some of these finance teams could not even understand what their cash visibility looked like.”. The Biggest Pain Points, Revealed.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

One of the biggest challenges today, he suggested, is that the process to migrate to a fully automated and digital process for electronic B2B payments — including AR, AP, reconciliation, accounting and other aspects of corporate finance — remain fragmented. And for smaller companies, especially, that process is a challenge.

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JULY 16, 2020

Commercial card innovation continues to make big waves in the accounts payable (AP) department, as corporates and card issuers alike explore new ways to drive business spend on cards beyond business trips or ad-hoc purchases. Accrualify Taps Visa For Corporate Card Offering. Privacy.com Sets Sights On Business Cards.

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