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Payables News Weekly: Basware Reaches 100 Million Network Transactions; MasterCard Puts Corporate Cards in Digital Wallets

By Andrew Bartolini October 23, 2015News, Solutions, Technology

One of the more important jobs of the accounts payable professional is keeping up with what is happening in the industry at large. This is critical for a few reasons,…

Payables News Weekly: Tradeshift Creates a New Executive Role, Bottomline Gets a New CFO

By Andrew Bartolini May 7, 2015News

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…

Payables News Weekly: Indian eInvoicing, SciQuest and Transcepta Partner

By Andrew Bartolini March 12, 2015News

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…

Payables News Weekly: UK Employees ‘Fiddle’ Expenses & Sentencing in Delta False-Invoicing Case

By Andrew Bartolini March 5, 2015News

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…

Why Use a Corporate Travel Card?

By Andrew Bartolini February 18, 2015Research, Technology

Business travel is a growing concern for the modern enterprise. Whether it’s saving on the cost of airline tickets, or trying to keep traveling employees in compliance with corporate policies,…

Payables News Weekly: Visa and MasterCard in Crimea, and Business Travel Booms in China

By Andrew Bartolini February 10, 2015News

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…

Payables News Weekly: The Federal Reserve has Record Profits, SWIFT Updates Sanctions Service

By Andrew Bartolini January 20, 2015News

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: Iron Mountain Puts in Takeover Bid, AmEx Launches New Card in India

By Andrew Bartolini December 16, 2014NewsNo Comments

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…

Payables News Weekly: Concur Acquisition Closes, MasterCard Takes on Bitcoin, and More

By Andrew Bartolini December 9, 2014NewsNo Comments

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

By Andrew Bartolini December 8, 2014Best Practices, Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

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…