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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Interesting news proliferated last week, but especially so in Asia in terms of the financial world. The People’s Bank of China cut interest rates to 5.6% in response to worsening home prices and falling inflation; theories abound that the central bank may try to forcibly devalue the yuan in order to spur competiveness. Meanwhile, the [...]

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 [...]

The benefits that virtual payment cards provide to buyers are expressed quite well in vendor marketing materials, as well as in several previous articles here at Payables Place. What’s not as well discussed, however, are the advantages virtual cards ascribe to the suppliers that accept them. To be quite frank, the pluses of virtual payment [...]

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 [...]

For more than 70 years, enterprises of all sizes have used commercial payment cards to purchase everything from airline tickets to office supplies. This flexibility has led solution providers to launch numerous card products in the intervening decades. Today, there are cards to manage corporate travel, cards for purchasing, fleet cards for transportation, ghost cards [...]