Business Travel

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 [...]

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 [...]

Frequent visitors to Payables Place will know that the complex category of business travel has increasingly become a bigger line-item at the average enterprise. In fact, the current business travel industry has not seen this level of growth since long before the economic downturn of last decade. As we move into a new year, what [...]

The wheels of business never stop turning. In payables news this week, we see the Federal Reserve Bank gaining record profits—mostly due to its bond buybacks over the past seven years, along with business travel on the rise and SWIFT deciding to upgrade its service that allows financial teams to comply better with international sanctions. [...]

Today marks the end of the first full week of 2015, and the second week that Payables Place has posted every weekday. We’re planning to keep this schedule going, so make sure to check back every weekday for fresh news and research articles from the Ardent Partners team. That bit of self-promotion aside, we’ve covered [...]

Editor’s note: Payables Place is excited to kick off a new series of article focused on the travel and expense management function that will help enterprises, regardless of size or region, better prepare for the future of this critical business category. From technology insights and strategic recommendations to guidance on how this category will be [...]

Industry standards peg the business travel category as encompassing anywhere between 8% and 12% of the average organization’s total budget. While this number can be higher for larger, enterprise-size organizations and a bit lower for those on the small- and mid-sized (SMB) spectrum, the fact remains that business travel (and related expenses) plays a critical [...]

Today occupies an interesting place in modern culture. Boxing Day, as today is called in many nations of the former British Empire, is a secular holiday when servants and tradespeople would receive what’s called a “Christmas box” from their bosses or employers. No one quite knows the origin of the holiday’s name, but the tradition itself dates [...]

Editor’s note: Payables Place is excited to kick off a new series of articles focused on the travel and expense management function that will help enterprises, regardless of size or region, better prepare for the future of this critical business category. From technology insights and strategic recommendations to guidance on how this category will transform over [...]

We’re two days away from Christmas, but that doesn’t mean the speed of business slows down. The accounts payable world last week enjoyed several new developments, as you’ll see below. The European Parliament decided to excuse commercial cards from upcoming interchange caps, a former vice-governor of the Chinese central bank said she thinks Bitcoin and [...]