Global Finance

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Although generally available in the consumer market for about a decade, the electronic payment model of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) is finally bearing fruit for micro, small and midsize enterprises (MSMEs) by avoiding interest payments on corporate credit cards, reducing paperwork, facilitating quicker transactions, and improving liquidity management.

B2C

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Artificial intelligence-powered tools, like virtual assistants, have the potential to reduce the time it takes to close the books from 10 days to just two, placing the remaining eight days in the hands of accountants and other finance chiefs to wield more strategically for their enterprise. Balancing Risks. in particular. “In

Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance Lab

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Before that, the B2B and B2C legislation had already introduced a similar prohibition, but financial services had been (partially) exempted. This leaves the question as to what extent contracts on financial services (international corporate lending in particular) are now caught by the general prohibition on unfair terms in the new Civil Code.

B2B

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

As enterprise digitization initiatives permeate beyond IT departments and into corporate finance functions, executives are exploring new approaches to modernizing the ways they manage money. Accounts receivable (AR) is also increasingly joining this conversation. The Three As. ” Customer Relationship.

Corporate Finance

PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2017

In corporate finance, chatbots are gaining steam in areas like banking and accounting. Firstly,” he said, “eCommerce is transforming how customers order goods, both B2B and B2C. Even in other areas of the enterprise, like banking and accounting, chatbots are thus far able to handle the most straight-forward tasks.

Corporate Finance

PYMNTS

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.

Foreign Exchange

PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2018

. “On the B2B side, there is much more of a relationship between a buyer and a seller,” Lee recently told PYMNTS, discussing the differences in dynamic pricing approaches between the B2C and B2B eCommerce world. “In B2C, there are many consumers for each supplier,” he noted.

B2B