Mobility, AP Automation in the SMB, and More: What You May Have Missed
We’ve seen some great articles already this year from the Payables Place team, and the past two weeks hasn’t been any different. From a two-part series on mobility and complex…
What Does 2015 Hold for Travel and Expense Management?
Frequent visitors to Payables Place will know that the complex category of business travel has increasingly become a bigger line-item at the average enterprise. In fact, the current business travel…
Payables News Weekly: The Federal Reserve has Record Profits, SWIFT Updates Sanctions Service
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…
Payables News Weekly: Federal Reserve Rates, Esker Acquires CalvaEDI, and More
Not even two full weeks have passed in 2015, and already big news has arisen around the accounts payable and working capital worlds. From the Federal Reserve declaring they wouldn’t…
Business Travel, ePayments, and the Best of 2014: What You Missed
Today marks the end of the first full week of 2015, and the second week that Payables Place has posted every weekday. We're planning to keep this schedule going, so…
Best of 2014: Why Does the SupplierPay Pledge Matter?
[Editor's Note: Today, the second day of 2015, we wrap up our best of 2014 series with our look at the U.S. government's SupplierPay pledge, which originally appeared on August 25.] On July…
Business Travel Galore and Explaining Early Payment Discounts: What You May Have Missed
Today occupies an interesting place in modern culture. Boxing Day, as today is called in many nations of the former British Empire, is a secular holiday when servants and tradespeople would receive…
Payables News Weekly: EU Commercial Cards and Bitcoin in China
We’re two days away from Christmas, but that doesn’t mean the speed of business slows down. The accounts payable world last week enjoyed several new developments, as you’ll see below.…
Payables News Weekly: Iron Mountain Puts in Takeover Bid, AmEx Launches New Card in India
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…
ePayments and Marketing Spend: What You May Have Missed
As December winds down, some enterprises are finalizing their finances and working through budgets for 2015, while others prepare to close down for the week and a half between Christmas Eve and…