Best of 2014: AribaPay Looks to Simplify, Improve B2B ePayments
[Editor's Note: Today, the first day of 2015, we continue our best of 2014 series with our look at AribaPay, which originally appeared on October 3.] It’s an acknowledged fact that…
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…
Payables News Weekly: Concur Acquisition Closes, MasterCard Takes on Bitcoin, and More
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…
Five Important Advantages of Purchasing Cards
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…
6 Steps to Effective Supplier Onboarding with Virtual Payment Cards
Technology implementations are never easy. There could be unforeseen integration issues with back-end systems or perhaps more customization is required than originally thought. In the P2P world, one of the…
Why Haven’t ePayments Completely Replaced Paper Checks?
Electronic payments offer many advantages over paying with paper check. Ardent Partners research has shown that, no matter the payment method (i.e., ACH, wire, card, networks, etc.), ePayments cost up…
More Compliance Management and Some Predictions for the Future: What You May Have Missed
Today begins the holiday shopping season in the United States. “Black Friday” sales dominate the landscape, with thousands of shoppers filling retail stores searching for deals on everything from cars…
Payables News Weekly: AvidXchange Grows; Ocean Shippers Try Creating eInvoicing Standards
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…
Business Networks and ePayments: Transforming the B2B Commerce Landscape
The world of business-to-business (B2B) commerce changes constantly; the current climate for enterprises at all levels is no different. Ever-increasing globalization and technology innovation, as well as the quickening speed…