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Editor’s Note: With this edition, the Payables News Roundup moves to a biweekly posting schedule from a weekly one. We will still write about the most pertinent payables news, but on a slightly less frequent schedule. One of the more important jobs of the accounts payable professional is keeping up with what is happening in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lexmark International (NYSE: LXK) on June 18 increased its initial tender offer for Swedish AP automation provider ReadSoft AB (NASDAQ OMX: RSOF-B) to 43 kronor per share, a 7.4% increase over its initial offer of 40.05 kronor, in the wake of competition from the UK business unit of Hyland Software. Earlier in the day on [...]

Executives and other leaders in procurement (and accounts payable) increasingly have roles with global responsibilities and implications. For this reason, I have taken a European focus with a few of our recent articles, Five Things You Should Know eInvoicing in the Eurozone and Making Payments in the Eurozone. Today we continue with our third in [...]

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 [...]