compliance

Some hear the word ‘compliance’ and embrace it, others hear the word and fear it. ‘Compliance’ is a concept that haunts nearly many professional across the greater enterprise, no matter the function: IT, finance, human resources, procurement, and accounts payable. But in reality, there is no reason for dread, to the contrary – it should [...]

Fraud is a real problem for all organizations, especially those with manual-based Accounts Payable (“AP”) processes. Business email compromise (“BEC”), a type of wire fraud, is on the rise worldwide and, according to an FBI report released last fall, has resulted in $26 billion in losses since July 2016. Common types of BEC attacks include [...]

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Christiaan van der Valk, Vice President of Strategy for Sovos, as well as the Chair for the Public Policy Working Group and Executive Committee Member of EESPA. We discussed how to keep your E-Invoicing compliant amid global compliance chaos. Christiaan will be giving a session on this [...]

Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to readers of our network of sites, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and events. To commemorate the occasion, we are going to reflect on the firm’s first decade by presenting a “throwback” series that will include a blend of top [...]

Card giant MasterCard has introduced a new global trade platform for the procure-to-pay (“P2P”) process in collaboration with Microsoft, called MasterCard Track. The goal of the new platform is to address the challenges of manual B2B transactions and the inefficiencies in cross-border trade and payments. MasterCard Track is built on Microsoft Azure, and will be [...]

Sovos, a global provider of tax compliance and reporting software, on Thursday announced the acquisition of TrustWeaver, a provider of cloud-based invoicing compliance, auditing, and global Value-Added-Tax (VAT) services through electronic signature-based solutions. The acquisition extends Sovos’ eInvoicing coverage to 60 countries globally. We met with Sovos’ Chief Marketing Officer, Eric Olsen, and Senior Manager [...]

The realm of complex spend management is never dull. From contingent workforce management to business travel and expense management, these industries encapsulate multiple “worlds” within the average organization, from finance to procurement to human resources, operations and beyond. Gone are the days when executives would push these categories off to the side in favor of [...]