CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2021

These would include eliminating reconciliations altogether (by implementing integrated modules such as fixed assets) or performing reconciliations continually during the period rather than during the period close. . Embrace technology. The second point is about perfectionism. But how productive am I?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Vodicka recently told PYMNTS about how firms’ B2B transaction strategies are shifting, including how business clients are adopting new AP technologies to streamline and accelerate payments and how companies like Dell are responding with AR modernizations. . Ripple Effects: AR Modernization. Ripple Effects: AR Modernization.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Financial data technology firm Validis is rolling out a new solution designed to automate month-end reconciliation processes for small business lenders and invoice financing firms. 7), Validis said it has rolled out DataShare Reconciliation for small business lenders offering Confidential Invoice Discounting (CID).

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CFO Talks

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For instance, if the same person approves invoices and processes payments, thats a red flag. The companys internal controls were poorly designed and rarely enforced, allowing fake invoices and inflated revenue to go unnoticed. However, technology is only as effective as the people who use it. The takeaway?

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2019

TransferMate Global Payments, the cross-border B2B payments provider, announced Monday (May 20) it inked a deal with Wells Fargo to deliver its Global Invoice Connect platform for U.S. In a press release , TransferMate said its Global Invoice Connect Platform enables U.S. based international businesses.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 1, 2023

The demand for mobile wallets, online banking services, and the increasing adoption of digital technologies has led to the expansion of the financial applications market in Asia/Pacific. 49% of mid-size enterprises plan to automate billing and invoicing processes via cloud applications in the next 18 months.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

In a recent conversation with PYMNTS, Bectran Business Development & Implementation Manager Dominic Biegel said it is certainly a possibility that the continued impact of the coronavirus pandemic could add pressure on businesses to migrate away from paper invoices, or shift their own customers toward electronic payments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Accounts payable and payments automation solution MineralTree has added automated PO and invoice matching for cloud-based accounting and financial management platform Sage Intacct , a press release says. The process of reconciling and matching invoices, when done manually, can be a time-consuming process for businesses, the release says.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

The innovators at SmartStream Technologies have introduced the first solution from its SmartLabs innovation center, and it’s a tool for financial services companies to streamline the reconciliation process. According to the company, it takes only minutes for the solution to identify matches and invoice exceptions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Citi noted traditional methods of cross-border accounts receivable are inefficient, involving multiple collections service providers with silos between invoicing, collection and reconciliation. The platform integrates cross-border billing, payment acceptance and reconciliation into a single solution. “In

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Businesses receiving payments need to be able to match funds to the associated invoices or risk annoying clients with follow-up requests for money that has already been delivered. Reconciliation Challenges. As we move toward better and more tools … that process can be automated using newer technologies.” .

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

The FinTech enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, which is focused on automating treasury management and order-to-cash processes, said the new technology reinforces its investment and plan to make AR automation an important driver for business expansion, according to an announcement.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2020

In addition, the deal will allow better reconciliation of payments with the matching invoices. There will be cost transparency on fees, and payment routing will be handled by Goldman Sachs’ advanced machine learning technology.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Amid the market uncertainty of the pandemic, small business owners often have to do more with less, and they're expecting the financial technology solutions they use to do the same. As these payment gateways increase support for faster payments, opportunities to combat delayed invoice payment scenarios will grow.

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Future CFO

MAY 15, 2022

Finance leaders may have noticed one invoicing trend that emerged in the last couple of years – the way invoices arrive at their organisations has quite clearly changed. Now, with remote and hybrid work commonplace, most invoices are delivered through employees’ and the finance team’s email accounts. Automated verification.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Complex on so many levels, especially when it comes to payments and, more specifically, invoicing, where demands for payment are tracked through paper and electronic means. Via its cross-border reconciliation network, Flywire can collect and reconcile those payments immediately and accurately.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Cloud accounting firm Xero and payments services company Square are collaborating to offer small businesses a tool for faster invoicing and payments, according to reports on Tuesday (Feb. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using Xero can email invoices with the built-in Square payment functionality.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

From receiving invoices in the preferred format, to paying suppliers in the preferred rail and enabling both sides to reconcile the transaction, a lot of friction, errors and cybercrime plague AP departments today. This technology, though, can manage other key issues with invoice processing, including fraud and duplicates.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

These firms are finding that managing both systems in the cloud offers the flexibility and security needed to streamline invoicing and cut costs, while keeping operations running as smoothly and accurately as possible. This month’s Deep Dive explores how speedy cloud-based automation software adoption is promoting healthy business growth.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Implementing cloud-based ERP software has appealing benefits, but industry analysts find most companies lack the comprehensive AP capabilities necessary for efficient record keeping or rapid invoice and payment processing. The time it takes to process an invoice also drops from 10.3 Upgrading ERP Simultaneously With AP Automation.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Travel booking company Webjet , based in Australia, has launched a blockchain solution for the hotel industry to manage reconciliation in hotel distribution. Webjet said it estimates as much as 5 percent of hotel bookings involve a disputed invoice between parties.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The Playbook also calls out “three-way invoice matching — in which staff must compare invoices to purchase orders and goods received notes,” and the frustrations that brings, but automation can reduce these stresses by matching these invoices automatically. Clearly, there are issues. Capital Management Leans Into Digital.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

One financial technology firm currently navigating the process of securing a bank charter is Avanti Financial Group , and as it approaches market launch, Founder and CEO Caitlin Long said the firm is focusing on another area of financial services that has struggled to manage complex regulatory challenges: digital assets. .”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Panelists included Sarah Billings , PNC’s senior vice president and head of payments product, operations and strategy; Bridgit Chayt , Fifth Third Bank’s senior vice president and director of commercial payments and treasury management; and infrastructure expert Domenico Scaffidi of Volante Technologies. Awareness of those differences is key.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Technology that can not only optimize a B2B transaction, but can also loop directly into both buyers' and sellers' systems, will be key to cutting the friction. Today, suppliers that receive a transaction may see funds weeks after an invoice is issued. What’s important is the data that flows with the payment.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

On one hand, this can present an advantage to the market: Businesses are not weighed down by the legacy of years-old technologies and processes that create inefficiencies in other industry. On the other hand, when it comes to the cannabis supply chain, many businesses lacked cannabis-specific tools and technologies to operate.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to Fordyce, when it comes to B2B payments technology and AP automation, targeting the unique needs of particular verticals is one impactful way to stand out. Again, noted Fordyce, this can take many forms — from automating invoice reconciliation to addressing a user’s resource constraints.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

. “What we can do as existing players in the ecosystem is build applications to take on that perceived technological burden of real-time payments, and then make it easy for participants,” he said, pointing to Mastercard products like Bill Pay Exchange and Payment On Delivery. ” Banks’ Collaborative Opportunity.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The relationship will help Commerce Bank in its transformation to a more digital way of doing business, as the world continues to embrace digital technology in the wake of the pandemic. HighRadius also offers services for cash reconciliation, eInvoicing and collections to help those in underserved markets.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The paper check, the paper invoice, slow accounts receivable (AR) processes and collecting on aging receivables can be difficult for even the most seasoned AR professionals. Shields noted that accurately predicting anticipated invoice payment dates can have ripple effects throughout an organization. “No The problems are analog.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

Technology firm Ricoh is jumping into B2B payments with a new service aimed at digitizing accounts receivable processes. Ricoh Canada revealed this week the launch of its eInvoice Presentment & Payment Service, a solution to help businesses provide electronic invoices to clients and accept payment.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

Enterprise cloud migrations have opened up the ability for smaller businesses to adopt ERP technology once reserved for the largest corporates. Robotics process automation shows particular promise, said Gillette, especially in areas like invoice processing, payments approval initiation, compliance and more. Disruption Ahead.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Mark Aquilina , senior vice president of product and strategy at WEX , told PYMNTS that’s partly because digitization of accounts receivable (AR) lags behind that of accounts payable (AP) on the technological front. And lastly, invoicing workflows are marred by manual processing. Addressing The Chokepoints .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In an interview with PYMNTS, Lisa Shields , founder and CEO of FISPAN said advanced technologies can help capture new types of data — and leverage that data to offer more relevant products and services. Shields offered an example of intentional information: invoice data. Reconciliation should be an intuitive process, she added.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The beauty of paying with a check is, typically, the check is accompanied with the invoice, and all the information is there in front of you,” he recently told PYMNTS. You have the invoice, the check, the bank information — everything is there.”. There’s a big issue about connecting an electronic payment to an invoice,” he added.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

According to Nasser Chanda , CEO of Paymerang , technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics process automation (RPA) and application programming interfaces (APIs) will be instrumental in accelerating a range of processes within the procure-to-pay and order-to-cash workflows.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Something’s going to happen with paper checks, paper invoicing — the whole paper thing on a grand scale — and businesses need to be ready for that eventuality. This makes sense because manual processes reduce the speed at which firms deliver invoices and follow up on overdue payments, reducing efficiency when prioritizing collections.

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