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One of the more important jobs of the accounts payable professional is keeping up with what is happening in the industry at large. This is critical for a few reasons, including skills development and the hunt for new technologies, but is sometimes difficult to do. That is why, each week, the team at Payables Place [...]

Editor’s Note: With summer in full swing, many of the practitioners in the accounts payable world are taking vacations ahead of the crush of the fall months. In honor of that, the team here at Payables Place is inaugurating its “Summer Rewind” series with a pair of our favorite posts from roughly a year ago. [...]

The past week has seen much in terms of news interesting to accounts payable and financial operations professionals. Today, for example, we find out that Japan has sunk back into a recession. On top of that, we’ve got Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Visa (NYSE: V) planning to eradicate static passwords, Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) floating the [...]

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has a habit of taking aim at industries it decides are antiquated. Thirteen years ago it was the way consumers purchased music; on September 9, the Silicon Valley giant decided that mobile payments deserved its attention. That fateful Tuesday, Apple unveiled “Apple Pay,” a mobile-payments app that uses Near Field Communication (NFC) [...]