Payables News Weekly

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 [...]

It’s been a relatively big news week for the accounts payable industry. News of China opening up its payments market to foreign competition is perhaps some of the biggest news, with the revelation that Amazon launched its business-to-business commerce engine a close second. Also, SAP’s Concur has made its flagship TripIt™ app is available on [...]

Kofax Expands Capabilities of World’s First Smart Process Application Development and Deployment Platform Kofax (Nasdaq: KFX) announced the release of TotalAgility® 7.2 this week, the latest update to its flagship product. According to the company’s announcement, the updated TotalAgility solution provides digital transaction management capabilities that can allow users to eliminate paper completely from the signature process. [...]

The news cycle here in the U.S. has been dominated with a few stories — Hilary Clinton as the presumptive Democrat nominee for the presidential election in 2016 for one, and the trial of Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for another. In the accounts payable world, however, there have also been some big moves. So [...]

Today is an auspicious day for Ardent Partners. Chief Research Officer Andrew Bartolini and Research Director Christopher Dwyer are going to be giving a webinar at 2 pm Eastern time on Accounts Payable trends in 2015 in partnership with Concur (click here to register). News around the payables world has been fairly big as well; [...]

There wasn’t really any explosive news to come out of the payables world this past week—really just a few news items to pass along. For one, the former CEO of ReadSoft has moved over to Medius post the Lexmark acquisition, and PrimeRevenue gains a new partner in a Detroit-based supply chain finance solution provider. But [...]

We’re doing a special edition of Payables News Weekly this time around, focusing entirely on news about Basware. The Finnish commerce network had a big past few weeks, inking two brand-new partnerships not long after launching their Basware Discount offering to augment the Basware Financing Services portfolio. (We wrote about Basware Discount in Payables News [...]

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 [...]

In this morning’s news roundup, we touched on how 20% of the United Kingdom’s workforce is “fiddling” their business travel expenses and Visa Europe’s recent tokenization efforts among other news. Now, in this afternoon installment, we reveal some new partnerships happening across the accounts payable world and Kofax’s latest communication with London Stock Exchange shareholders. [...]

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 [...]