The European Union is by far the most advanced region of the world in its usage and implementation of electronic invoicing standards and regulations. Despite this region’s progress, there is still more to do. Other countries like Brazil, Mexico and Argentina have also made significant progress in establishing regulations around eInvoicing, however, they are very [...]

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend Concurs annual event in Las Vegas, Fusion 2013. An event that has become a focal point for the corporate travel industry involved more than 2,000 attendees and a growing number of partners including travel suppliers, travel technology providers and travel management companies. Today’s article is going to [...]

This is the third in our business network series, Part 1 focused on European business networks while Part 2 focused on networks that have a specific vertical focus. Today’s article will discuss the networks that focus on enabling payments to be made between trading partners. As we think about the method in which payments are [...]

Another great contribution from the author of CPO Rising, Andrew Bartolini We started in Part 1 of this series with a look at the European business network landscape and some of the primary challenges and opportunities facing it. We also highlighted a few of the different European network providers as a way to provide a [...]

Andrew Bartolini is co-author of today’s article A quick trip back to the late nineties and we would see the online B2B marketplace craze that was just beginning was ahead of its time – Then business networks were over-hyped – the result of (1) having a technology that failed to keep pace with the vision [...]

I have the pleasure of welcoming a “Payables Guest” today, Lynn Heitman, Senior Product and Marketing Officer, U.S. Bank Corporate Payment Systems. Heitman’s career in the payments industry spans 24 years beginning with the management of some of the first Affinity credit card programs in the 1980s and since then has worked in several areas of [...]

On March 12, 2013, after vetting multiple networks, RBS and RBS Citizens announced that Paymode-X was selected as their settlement network partner. Paymode-X is Bottomline Technologies cloud-based settlement network that currently enables over 200,000 businesses to make and receive secure electronic payments (ePayments). Just to provide a little background on these organizations. The RBS Group [...]

This is the last in the series of three articles that covers the various announcements and news items that came from Tradeshift Analyst event on March 5th, 2013. Previous articles include: Some interesting stats on Tradeshift’s network and insights into the Intuit partnership in Part 1, and A detailed discussion around CloudScan and Tradeshift’s upcoming [...]

Quick Note: Those who are interested in participating in our annual ePayables study click here to learn more) Continuing with the Tradeshift event in New York last week, let me start Part 2 of this series (Part 1 can be found here) by first discussing CloudScan, a service that Tradeshift created roughly one year ago. [...]

Last week, Tradeshift hosted one of its first public events in New York City. This intimate event was hosted and led by CEO Christian Lanng and brought together industry analysts like myself, journalists, bloggers, investors as well as a few customers. Christian began the day by sharing Tradeshift’s vision and his thoughts on the current [...]