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We’re doing a rare thing this week – two installments of Payables News Weekly will run today, so check back this afternoon for the second roundup of the happenings from last week. In this first installment, we’re talking about workers in the United Kingdom “fiddling” with their travel-related expenses, a new security method Visa Europe [...]

Welcome to the last Payables News Weekly of February. This past week was a banner time for the accounts payable world; Basware released its latest offering in the Basware Financing Services portfolio, and now Concur users can automatically send Starbucks receipts into the expense reporting app. And, coming up this week on Payables Place, we’ll [...]

On this unusual Thursday edition of Payables News Weekly — made possibly by President’s Day on Monday here in the U.S. — we’ve got news from Apple Pay, American Express, and the world of business travel for your enjoyment. Also, there’s the news that I’m giving a webinar at 2 pm today, so be sure [...]

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, when thousands of people will proclaim their love to a special someone. The statistics are impressive for the holiday, with the average consumer spending $116.21 on the day, and about $13 billion spend on the holiday in the United States. That’s some impressive numbers, so it’s no wonder that many companies [...]

The northeastern United States is on its third week of snow storms big enough to shutter schools for successive days. This week, for example, Massachusetts—where Ardent Partners is located—has enjoyed an additional foot of snow over yesterday and today. But enough about the weather. In this week’s news roundup, we’re visiting the Crimean Peninsula, where [...]

News in the payables world hasn’t exactly been in short supply lately. This week, there’s some good news about sustainability and business travel as well as new developments in the world of captive finance. Read on to find out more. HospitalityNet: Sustainable Business Travel on the Rise in Europe A recent Global Business Travel Association [...]

Ardent Partners research over the past five years has shown that the use of B2B electronic payments (ePayments) is on the rise, having captured the attention of finance and AP leaders around the globe. Paper checks, while still prevalent, are in retreat from ePayment methods such as ACH, payment networks, commercial cards, and wire transfers [...]

We’re trying a bit of a different format with Payables News Weekly this time around. From here on out, we’ll lead with a handful of stories big enough to warrant capsules explaining the news event and then follow those with a bulleted list of other news events from around the accounts payable world. For this [...]

There are few solution providers that offer a full end-to-end accounts payable automation solution that includes receiving and processing invoices as well as payment functionality. As a result, the ePayables (Ardent’s term for AP Automation) solution provider marketplace remains fragmented with providers that offer either invoice processing or payment functionality. It’s the rare provider that offers [...]

We’ve seen some great articles already this year from the Payables Place team, and the past two weeks hasn’t been any different. From a two-part series on mobility and complex spend, to a look ahead at business travel in 2015, the last two weeks served up hot, fresh news and research. Now check out the [...]