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In an era where technological advances promise unprecedented efficiency, small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) contend with a persistent issue: delayed payments. This financial bottleneck, stemming from outdated processes and slow manual systems, threatens the stability and growth potential of SMBs. As the landscape shifts, a PYMNTS Intelligence report, “End the...

60% of Small Businesses Struggle With Cash Flow Management

In a world where time is money, the ability to streamline contracting and payment processes is more than just a convenience — it’s a competitive advantage. Contracting and payment processes are notorious for being cumbersome, time-consuming and often riddled with inefficiencies. From the initiation of a contract to the final payment, businesses frequently find themselves mired in layers of friction that slow down operations and hinder cash flow.

Agree Embeds Invoices Into eContracts to Speed Time to Money for Mid-Market Businesses

Summer should get a speeding ticket, a wise person once said, and that’s a reality that all of us living in the Northern Hemisphere came to grips with last weekend. The Labor Day weekend marked the unofficial end of summer, and the start of the four-month sprint to the end of the year.

Nine Things Payments Execs Need to Know for Their 2025 Business Plans

When it comes to payments, no one gets a hall pass. Not even a nonprofit gets one. In fact, the world of charitable giving offers a microcosm of the challenges and opportunities for platforms seeking to bring payments fully into the digital age. “At the end of the day,” Sara...

Tech for Good: Boosting Nonprofit Success With Digital Payments and Subscription Models

The future of B2B payments lies in automation, not administration. Given the B2B sector’s legacy of complex workflows, intricate data requirements and entrenched manual processes, the opportunities for innovation are immense. While modernizing something as entrenched into business workflows as a decades-old accounts payable or accounts receivable program may...

This Week in B2B: Partnerships, Payments and Process Improvements

In emerging markets, the digital wallet represents much more than a novel payment option. It is a digital passport to the digital world. And in that world, a card can go anywhere, but software — not so much. As digital payments grow in popularity, this lack of cross-border interoperability...

TerraPay President Says Cross-Border Payments Need Global Digital Wallet Network

It’s said in jurisprudence that hard cases make bad law. Bad laws have the unintended consequences of hurting society, encouraging bad behavior, or both. In payments, and in the United Kingdom, the hard choices of what to do about authorized push payment (APP) fraud are translating into bad law, or at least bad regulatory policies that don’t go far enough to establish liability and impose penalties accordingly.

Liability Remains Murky Despite Reduction in UK Push Payments Fraud Fine

There’s a time and a place for doing things by hand. But as the first quarter of the 21st century comes to a close, that time and place shouldn’t be a firm’s back office. Yet from tedious invoice processing to fragmented financial tech stacks, the inefficiencies of...

Unlocking the 3 Biggest Benefits of Automating Accounts Payable

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Today, Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration for failing to provide public documents requested through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filing. The March 2024 FOIA request sought records related to policies allowing the release of dangerous criminal illegal aliens from U.S. prisons into the general population rather than deporting them.

FL Attorney General Sues Biden-Harris Administration Over Release of Criminal Illegal Aliens

Thailand’s digital wallet stimulus plan has suddenly become less digital. As Reuters reported Tuesday (Sept. 3), Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said the government’s planned 450 billion baht ($13.1 billion) “digital wallet” handout will be distributed in cash, a change from the government’s flagship policy. Initially,...

Thailand Adds Cash Payments to $13 Billion Digital Wallet Plan

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‘Any meat items my dogs refuse to eat, I no longer eat.’ It’s said that animals have a “sixth sense,” which affords them an insight human beings cannot match. There are clips of security camera earthquake footage where pets can be seen wigging out seconds before tremors begin.

‘It ain’t food anymore.’: Dairy Queen customer warns against chicken after his dog refuses to eat it

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Last-mile delivery management firm Onfleet has integrated with fleet insurance firm Fairmatic. “Businesses that take advantage of the integration will develop a better understanding of their delivery drivers’ performance with a free driver analytics dashboard that can reduce insurance rates,” the companies said in a Wednesday (Sept. 4) news release.

Onfleet and Fairmatic Team on Reduced Fleet Insurance Rates

Data center operator Applied Digital is the latest company benefiting from investors’ artificial intelligence appetites. The firm raised $160 million in a financing round that included backers like AI chip giant Nvidia, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (Sept. 5). Applied Digital builds and leases out space in its...

Nvidia Contributes to $160 Million Applied Digital Funding Round

Staying ahead in fraud prevention is a competitive advantage for today’s businesses, Finexio CEO Ernest Rolfson writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Beyond the Horizon: How to Identify Unexpected Threats That Could Impact Your Business.”. As we look ahead to the potential of the future, the payments industry...

Finexio CEO: Security Offers Competitive Edge in Payments Landscape

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Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection is implementing a new policy meant to safeguard the personal belongings of people seeking asylum in the U.S. in response to ongoing reports of Border Patrol agents tossing religious items, essential medicine and legal documents.

After years of pressure, new Border Patrol policy protects essential items like medicine, IDs, legal documents

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Federal, state and local public health officials have confirmed the first case of the Oropouche virus in Kentucky and Jefferson County in a person who had returned to Louisville after traveling to the Caribbean.

Health officials report first case of Oropouche virus, aka ‘Sloth Fever,’ confirmed in Kentucky

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Big changes are in store for three zodiac signs in the month of September. The stars are shifting and many of you will be affected by this. Although the life changes that will take place with each zodiac sign are different, these changes must be fully embraced by all who are experiencing them. One of the key things to remember is that sometimes change is necessary for personal growth. Let’s see what the stars have in store for these three zodiac signs.

3 Zodiac Signs Whose Lives Will Change In September

Digitization over the past decade-plus has transformed the back office with next-generation software solutions. But it’s not just the back office; innovations like digital wallets have been transforming the proverbial back pocket, too. The impact digital wallets are having as mobile technology advances and consumer preferences shift is becoming...

What the US Can Learn From Europe’s Digital Wallet Renaissance

In an era where data is often called the new oil, artificial intelligence (AI) is the tool extracting valuable insights from vast digital reserves. AI-powered data mining, a technology at the intersection of machine learning and big data analytics, is reshaping industries and driving decision-making across the corporate landscape. Companies...

AI Data Mining Uses Machine Learning to Glean Insights

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The Hidden Cost of Manual AR Processes

It’s almost 2025, but many enterprise firms are still chasing paper when it comes to their accounts receivable (AR). When faced with the choice between being...

The Hidden Cost of Manual AR Processes

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