Payables News Weekly

Welcome to the last Payables News Weekly of February. This past week was a banner time for the accounts payable world; Basware released its latest offering in the Basware Financing Services portfolio, and now Concur users can automatically send Starbucks receipts into the expense reporting app. And, coming up this week on Payables Place, we’ll [...]

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 [...]

News in the payables world hasn’t exactly been in short supply lately. This week, there’s some good news about sustainability and business travel as well as new developments in the world of captive finance. Read on to find out more. HospitalityNet: Sustainable Business Travel on the Rise in Europe A recent Global Business Travel Association [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Black Friday has made the leap from a solely United States event. The United Kingdom had local Black Friday sales on November 28, which resulted in police getting called to seven Tesco shops in the Greater Manchester area. What’s most interesting, however, is that U.S. Black Friday sales are estimated to have declined 11% year-over-year. [...]

The past week has seen much in terms of news interesting to accounts payable and financial operations professionals. Today, for example, we find out that Japan has sunk back into a recession. On top of that, we’ve got Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Visa (NYSE: V) planning to eradicate static passwords, Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) floating the [...]

Today is Veterans Day in the U.S., Remembrance Day in the U.K and Canada, and Armistice Day in France and other nations—the day when we honor the signing of the Treaty of Versailles as well as all the veterans who died in combat. Did you know, however, that today only marks the ending of hostilities [...]

Candy has been handed out to costumed children, the jack-o-lanterns have been thrown away, and Halloween is over for another year. The next holiday, here in the U.S. at least, is Thanksgiving … which doesn’t seem to get much attention in popular culture. Then again, the core of Thanksgiving is a turkey dinner, so there [...]