38% of companies admitted to paying their suppliers late to protect liquidity
by Jack Large
Bottomline’s UK Business Payments Barometer 2018 reveals sad state of affairs as Brexit now top concern
Accounts Receivable Management
Background
Accounts Receivable (A/R) is the money owed to a business by its clients. The main objective in Accounts Receivable management is to minimise the Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and processing costs…
Read morePlatforms with potential for new payment services
by Jack Large
Citi first corporate bank to enroll as registered third party payment provider for Open Banking in UK; Bankable partnering with Starling Bank and Transact Payments to deliver full-service payments infrastructure
Seven steps to better accounts receivable
by Bija Knowles
Too many companies treat accounts receivable (AR) as an afterthought but in doing so, they overlook opportunities – establishing an excellent order-to-cash process is essential
Payments data theft drives IT investment for billing firms
by Bija Knowles
More than one in five billing organisations have had payments data stolen during targeted attacks in the past 12 months according to research by Ovum
Debt mountain for SMEs(1) generates self destructive behaviour
by Jack Large
SMEs are cutting marketing, new equipment, inventory and hiring new employees to survive as late payments impact
Payments update: global move from cash and cheques; Ripple; Apple Pay
by Jack Large
Payment type market shares; Ripple revolution; smartphone as POS; Apple Pay lack of progress
SMEs look to invoice finance to solve cash flow problems
by Bija Knowles
UK businesses are increasingly turning away from mainstream bank finance to deal with issues such as late payment, cash flow uncertainty and business expansion
Payment revolutions: open up opportunities for corporate treasury
by Jack Large
Card companies role changing; Nordic banks harmonised cross-border; Ripple multi-solutions; new normals - subscriptions and faster payments
Machine learning drives payment productivity in “End of ownership”
by Jack Large
Improve monthly revenue by 9% by improving transaction success rates and reducing churn with Recurly’s Revenue Optimization Engine
Integrated receivables is future for A/R: should you outsource?
by Jack Large
SafeCharge and highradius show how receivables integration and automation can produce big returns
Payments roundup: RMB struggles; Adyen dominance, PayPal bad/goodday; e-wallets
by Jack Large
SWIFT RMB tracker reports; multi-channel platform dominance at expense of PayPal; local currencies; and battle of e-wallets is going global
End of ownership, and move to renting/sharing almost EVERYTHING
by Kylene Casanova
Collecting regular payments will become a core skill as companies move to selling services, rather than goods/products
Late payment is the silent killer of modern business and it’s getting worse
by Jack Large
Survey shows that 62% of invoices issued by UK SMEs in 2017 (worth over £21b) were paid late
B2B payments: do you do recurring?
by Jack Large
Revolution in C2B payments continues as Adyen teams up with Recurly to spread use of subcription payments BUT should you be using B2B recurring already?
Payment systems update: Mobiles to become point of sale and much more
by Jack Large
Payment card revolution, Earthport, NACHA, Cash role, Apple Pay, WeChat, UK Faster Payments
Poor integration = poor solution
by Jack Large
FIS and Tieto show how vital integration is as payment factories are being merged with cash and liquidity management solutions
EBA CLEARING’s instant payment system RT1 now live; beginning of end for TARGET2?
by Jack Large
17 banks from eight countries connected to the pan-European platform yesterday, extending SCT Inst reach to 500+ PSPs across SEPA for payments up to 15,000 euros – across Europe in less than ten seconds
WEBchat insights: Four steps in developing your payment strategy
by Jack Large
Dan Blumen and Jack Large discuss the key questions for corporates on payment systems and his methodology in developing a payment strategy
Actions for next week: Four steps to develop an effective payments strategy
by Dan Blumen , Founding Partner, Treasury Alliance Group
A cogent, coordinated analysis to review your current strategy and processes to identify ways to improve them
Payments development: non-stop innovation worldwide
by Jack Large
Preventing charge backs; P2P payments; instant payment systems; SWIFT GPI; Adyen; march of Alipay and WeChat
Receivables and payables automation: From whom? and For what?
by Jack Large
Citi Payer ID now available in 44 countries as receivables proccessing technologies improve
Simplifying the Global Payments Journey
by Jack Large
FIS: 2017 Corporate Payments and Bank Connectivity Report
UK faster cheque clearing roll-out begins
by Jack Large
New cheque imaging clearing system begins operation
PayRank - an algorithmic approach to invoice payment
by Laurence Holmes , Quantitative Developer, Previse
by Joseph Heenan , Machine Learning Software Engineer, Freelance Engineer
What can the payments industry learn from Google’s revolutionary search engine algorithm? Laurence Homes and Joseph Heenan show how such AI technology can solve some of B2B payments’ knottiest problems