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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: Ardent Partners is excited to announce the launch of its 2015 “State of ePayables” market research survey, available here. All participants of this landmark research survey will receive a complimentary copy of the resulting research report in late May. (While the survey is comprehensive, participants can expect to spend only 15 minutes of their time answering the [...]

We’re back with yet another news roundup. This time around there’s only one news roundup today (more’s the pity), but that doesn’t mean there isn’t valuable news germane to your daily accounts payable and financial operations life. First off is SciQuest and Transcepta inking a new partnership deal, then we move to India for a [...]

We’re doing a rare thing this week – two installments of Payables News Weekly will run today, so check back this afternoon for the second roundup of the happenings from last week. In this first installment, we’re talking about workers in the United Kingdom “fiddling” with their travel-related expenses, a new security method Visa Europe [...]

Business travel is a growing concern for the modern enterprise. Whether it’s saving on the cost of airline tickets, or trying to keep traveling employees in compliance with corporate policies, managing business travel expenses can be a massive headache. That’s why the corporate travel card can be so valuable to the typical enterprise. Read on [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

We’re getting into the final weeks of 2014, with only 15 days left before the start of the new year and nine days until Christmas. This doesn’t mean the news is slowing down though. The global financial situation took some interesting turns since this time a week ago: France unveiled some new reforms to kick-start the [...]

The worldwide economic situation became more interesting last week. The United States enjoyed a barn-burner of a jobs report on Friday morning—312,000 jobs were created in November, while the unemployment rate held steady at 5.8%. Meanwhile, the Bank of International Settlements expressed some concern about the strength of the U.S. dollar and how that could [...]

Purchasing cards (“p-cards”) have been around long enough to become a ubiquitous facet of a majority of enterprises. Generally strong when it comes to high-volume, low-dollar-value transactions and also utilized in larger more complex transactions, p-cards have the potential to simplify the indirect spend of many enterprises while making it easier for employees to make [...]