Category: Corporate Payments
Why Embedded Finance is the Present and Future
Convenience sometimes comes with a cost. That’s certainly been the case for business payments, and the cost comes in the form of both money and headaches. No accounts payable or treasury professional wants to manage...
Bottomline on 2022: 12 issues that demand attention
There’s a widely quoted story told by author Anne Lamott about the time when her younger brother had a high school science assignment to identify 100 birds that were native to the United States. Her...
This season give the gift of transformative knowledge: the best of this year’s content, curated in one collection
Looking back on the year, it’s clear that transformation momentum from 2020 didn’t slow as we traveled through 2021. In fact, the energy of last years’ experience became the wind beneath the wings of continued transformation....
Putting the Brakes on Invoice Fraud
We always put payment fraud under the microscope because it’s a widespread and evolving problem that puts almost every business at risk. Back in 2019, according to a Lloyds Bank survey, 52% of businesses said...
AP Automation: Moving past paper to tackle complexity
For the longest time, conversation around the future of accounts payable has revolved around paper. But paper checks and paper invoices limit the automation you can achieve, so it makes sense that the conversation is...
It’s time to digitize AP payments and processes, and AP teams know it
It seems like there’s a built-in habit among accounts payable teams to plug away with current processes and tools, no matter how cumbersome they might be. It’s admirable, given that often neither the processes nor...
New data shows: rising trends for accounts payables and receivables
AP departments cite managing and updating vendor bank account details as the top challenge when paying vendors. Couple that with a growing majority of payments being made electronically – and faster – and there’s not...
AFP 2021 finds finance leaders at flashpoint for automation, sustainability, and data
It’s time. If there were two words we had to assign to next week’s Association of Financial Professionals (AFP) conference, those would get the nod. Because as AFP meets this year, the urgency around payments...
What to expect when you’re expecting AP and AR changes in 2022
Change isn’t always good, but it is inevitable. The B2B payments challenges your AP and AR teams are grappling with in the fall will change in winter, change again in spring and change again in...
An inside look at MRI Ascend
When you head to a conference, you do so with some assumptions. Last week the Paymode-X team at Bottomline traveled to the MRI Ascend conference to talk to real estate companies, investors and property managers...