PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

Enterprise spend management company Ivalua is launching its solution designed for the public sector as criticism mounts over the firm’s contract with New York City. In a press release Tuesday (June 11), Ivalua announced the launch of its pre-packaged suite of spend management solutions designed for state and local governments.

Compliance 43

Compliance B2B 43

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Microsoft is rolling out a new corporate expense management solution designed for iOS devices, the company announced on Thursday (Oct. Purchases can be categorized as business or personal spend, while users can also add custom tags to purchases. Receipt data can be automatically matched to expenses, along with other features.

Healthcare 55

Healthcare B2B Communication Banking 55

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Enterprise spend management solution provider Coupa is expanding its offering with new features and a partnership with American Express, the companies said Wednesday (Nov. Coupa also announced the launch of Coupa Contract Lifecycle Management Advanced within its BSM platform, the result of its acquisition of Exari.

Risk Analysis 42

Risk Analysis Leverage Finance B2B 42

PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

PayPal said its full-stack processing platform, called PayPal for Partners, “allows Instagram to manage the end-to-end commerce experience for buyers and sellers,” according to a blog post from PayPal EVP and COO Bill Ready.

eCommerce 84

eCommerce Retail Sales 84

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

These companies are now using workforce spend management tools like corporate cards and reconciliation services to ensure both deadlines and client expectations are met. Spend Tools To Meet Tight Deadlines. They also include earmarked controls that allow producers to tag and reconcile purchases made for a particular project.

Reconciliations 46

Reconciliations Budgeting Entertainment Advertising 46

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Management consulting firm Runzheimer International Ltd. is rolling out its own fleet spend management solution to offer businesses an alternative to fuel cards, the company said Wednesday (Sept. The app automatically tags those trips as either business or personal use based on the driver’s work schedule.

Management Consulting 40

Management Consulting Technology Marketing B2B 40

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. If you do it right, people will actually spend two or three times more in that one transaction,” Vitarello said. “So

Retail 86

Retail Auditing eCommerce Forecasting 86

PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

Through the app, merchants can manage tasks through messaging without needing to switch between apps and tools, Shopify said in an announcement. Shopify Ping was created to make all of this easier to manage. To condense business conversations and tasks into one place, Shopify has launched a new mobile app dubbed Shopify Ping.

eCommerce 47

eCommerce Sales Accounting Planning 47

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When a company realizes it’s time to improve its corporate travel and expense (T&E) management strategy, there are a few items on the list of must-haves: Spend control, transparency and analytics are probably high on that list.

Nonprofit 46

Nonprofit Budgeting Compliance Leverage 46

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Businesses and financial institutions (FIs) are following suit, reordering their products and services for a new digital normal — but unfortunately, fraudsters are tagging along. Why Shifting Consumer Spend Is Prompting Security Onboarding Moves. For more on these and other stories, visit the Tracker’s News & Trends.

Securities 89

Securities Banking Leverage Technology 89

Future CFO

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Gartner forecasts that global spending on security and risk management will exceed US$150 billion in 2021 adding cloud adoption and remote working to the mix of reasons for the spend. CFOs should neither ignore these fresh vulnerabilities nor go it alone,” says Alexander Bant , practice vice president, Gartner. Sim Beng Hai.

Securities 52

Securities CFO Risk Management Finance 52

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

13 billion | Amount of corporate spending currently managed through Scout RFP’s cloud-based strategic sourcing and procurement solutions, according to recently released company stats. Here are the numbers: $70 billion | Current valuation of Uber, a ridesharing company which has raised more than $11.5

Investments 53

Investments B2B Valuation Startups 53

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

An FBI inquiry into the allegations is centered upon claims of fraudulent spend within SEPTA and misuse of the authority’s procurement cards — a common source of internal fraud for both private and public entities. However, the case is also a unique instance of fraud stemming from both within an organization and from a third party.

B2B 62

B2B Invoicing Corporate Finance Transportation 62

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In a filing with New York’s State Department of Labor, the managing director of the Hilton Times Square said the 44-story hotel will close permanently next month and 200 jobs will be lost. Now, the adversary is China , and the weapons of choice are tied to tech, data, deal-making and very large price tags.

Banking 70

Banking Retail eCommerce Leverage 70

PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2017

But as procurement become automated and accelerated, industry experts at eProcurement and spend management software company eRequester say it must also be transparent. Citing a Spend Matters survey from 2015, eRequester said more than 70 percent of businesses don’t have full visibility into their supply chains.

B2B 40

B2B 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

Lifestyle banking, including conversational banking components across web, mobile, messaging and voice channels, could be the wave of the future when it comes to consumer financial management. Even if a bank manages to attract 50 doctorate-level AI engineers, what happens to that team after the bot deploys?

Banking 40

Banking Investments Marketing Startups 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Financial management is mission-critical to the health and vitality of small business (SMB), but it’s also one of the most difficult tasks for entrepreneurs and business owners that may have the skills to launch new products or services, but lack the accounting expertise to handle the numbers.

Numbers 61

Numbers Accounting CFO Financial Analysis 61

Adam Kae

AUGUST 27, 2020

The Adam Kae Way is based on organizational psychology for goal setting, team engagement, and management. It’s so easy to get caught up in the details of operations and day-to-day management, so implementing a system like The Adam Kae Way throughout your organization may seem like a tall order. Create a vision and path to success.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Accounting Firms Finance Education 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2021

Some of the highlights of the rollout were spec-only options, not likely to be available for mass-market purchase for many years to come; others are ready now and clamoring for consumer spend and attention. Because pandemic or not, lockdown or none — the future will keep right on coming.

Technology 81

Technology Leverage Investments Planning 81

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

However, as Karen Webster noted, perhaps the most surprising outcome of the investigation is just how long this money laundering debacle managed to carry on. For all that spend and effort, he added, banks don’t seem to be doing much better with AML. Instead, they are drawing fines from regulators and taking on massive damages.

Banking 76

Banking Compliance Budgeting Technology 76

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Recruiting customers is hard to do — and comes with a big price tag. Prime members spend more than non-Prime members — $1,300 a year vs. $700 a year — and shop with Amazon more often than they shop with anyone else. percent of consumer spending, and 6.4 million, or $.05 26) called Grubhub+. percent of all retail sales.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Leverage Sales Marketing 52

PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

Inventory management may have been built on fundamental business concepts like supply and demand, but today, managing inventory levels is a complex interconnection of finance, sales, procurement, customer relationship management, accounting and other aspects of the enterprise. There are stories like this all over the place.

Technology 40

Technology eCommerce Accounting Marketing 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Though Samsung normally eschews big price tag acquisitions in favor of building capacity internally — in this case upper-level management seems to have determined that it would be both faster and more efficient to make an acquisition and get into the market now. Talks with Harman began over last summer.

Technology 55

Technology Marketing 55

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Google and Intuit have teamed up to boost Australian small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with cash management. Plus, the Google Calendar App now integrates with QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Online Accountant, Intuit tools which help SMBs manage their banking, invoicing, taxes, accounting and employees. Take My Money.

Invoicing 40

Invoicing Cash Management Manufacturing Securities 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But, regardless of the location, Khattri works with them to manage capacity when they come online. That customer will, in turn, take a photograph of a unique code on the tag that identifies his or her bags and also use as a token when he or she picks up the bag. Stores on the platform can range from small coffee shops to gift shops.

Securities 51

Securities Technology Retail 51

PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

Adobe’s platform taps into a store’s existing customer relationship management (CRM) system and technology, such as beacons, radio-frequency identification (RFID) and Wi-Fi triangulation, among other options, Klein explained. Grocers also tend to have slim operating margins, making investment in new tech risky. If it costs $0.04

Sales 52

Sales Retail Leverage Data Analysis 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

More than a good idea, more than passion, more than hard work, long hours or even good luck: As with many ventures, you’ve got to spend money to make money, and SMBs don’t always have the resources or the time to determine where those resources are best spent. They lack background on solutions and management.

Communication 40

Communication Banking Planning Sales 40

PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2017

Also, Muzak garnered a $345 million price tag for a reason – which is that Muzak got very good at matching the background music to the commerce experience. “CMOs are spending 300 billion a year – text and blogs, spend on video, spend on video and picture.

Retail 48

Retail Marketing 48

PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2016

It’s all connected in a way, and the Internet of Things is all about collecting as much of that data as possible — we’re talking Big Data here — and breaking it down to better understand customers wants, needs and spending habits. It also offers tons of opportunities for retailers who know how to take advantage of it.

Retail 50

Retail Financial Analyst Sales Leverage 50

PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

The latest research puts a price tag on the finances of better procurement, banking, cash management and innovation among small and medium-sized businesses. ” The company identified supplier reviews and relationship management as key to better procurement strategies, too. 139 billion could be saved by U.K.

Finance 40

Finance Accounts Payable Startups Banking 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

PYMNTS recently caught up with Paige Cohen, manager at Instagram to learn more about Instagram’s updates to their shopping features. Users can also tap a product tag in Stories or Feed, tap the Save icon and save it to their Shopping collection.

eCommerce 65

eCommerce Entertainment Retail Numbers 65

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

One is we were securitizing the assets in the auto loan and selling them off to other asset managers because we weren’t able to buy them ourselves. Did you guys just say, we really want to be pure investment management? The requirements for asset managers to have a bank were such that it would inhibit us a bit.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 85

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 85

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

The expense management company says that employees that fudge the numbers on their expense reports to get reimbursed are hitting their employers hard. the price tag for buying its competitor was $36 million, the firms said. The biggest threat to cloud-based expense management’s growth?

B2B 40

B2B Finance Corporate Finance Numbers 40

PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2016

Spending on shipping clocked in at $3.27 An even bigger hit came from Amazon’s sprawling network of fulfillment centers around the world, which tagged the retailer for $3.68 The company’s latest earnings report indicated that while the traditional vital signs of sales and operating cash flow increased (by 31.8

Retail 40

Retail Sales eCommerce Marketing 40

PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

The highest of these costs are treasury operations (what it costs to maintain account minimums and the overhead of managing currencies across accounts) and liquidity (“the cost of funds applies to the time-weighted average amount of capital lockup,” Ripple explained). The Price Tag.

Currencies 46

Currencies Treasury Foreign Exchange Compliance 46

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Amazon is set to become the eCommerce leader in India, and bitcoin companies are keen to tag along for the ride. There are also many people who never spend the balance on a gift card, although for turkers who may be paid in U.S. Shalon has pleaded not guilty and remains at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

Profit and Loss 77

Profit and Loss Currencies eCommerce Leverage 77

PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

Kroger is spending a lot of money building out and better coming up. We’d say a ton of money but, as the Cincinnati Business Times points out, if the money Kroger plans to spend were in $100 bills, the Cincinnati- based retailer would be spending almost 41 tons of money. A $4 Billion Investment In What’s Next .

Concentration 40

Concentration Retail Sales Investments 40