Matt Clark news and trends

B2B Consumerization and Gen AI Needed to Unlock Potential of Buyer-Supplier Ecosystem, Experts Say
Commercial Payments // August 17, 2023

While B2B payment services have previously prioritized buyers, there is an increasing focus on providing value to suppliers, including accelerated payments.  According to Matt Clark, president and chief operating officer of Corcentric, this is the result of significant progress made to digitize B2B payments and embrace...

Enterprise AI’s Biggest Benefits Take Firms Down a Two-Way Street
artificial intelligence // July 11, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world, or at least the way the information economy operates. And the way the information economy operates is increasingly what defines business success and failure across today’s landscape. But as a new paper published in the research journal Nature shows,...

Corcentric Appoints COO Matt Clark to CEO
Personnel // July 11, 2023

Corcentric has named President and Chief Operating Officer Matt Clark to the company’s top job. Clark, who has been with the procurement and finance solutions firm for 19 years, was appointed CEO Tuesday (July 11), taking over for his father, outgoing CEO Doug Clark, according to a press release....

Macro Challenges Spur Digital Healthcare Pivot to B2B 
Healthcare // July 10, 2023

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) platforms emerged as an early winner of the business landscape’s digitization.  From consumer goods to healthcare, D2C platforms and their transformative go-to-market strategies caught fire, disrupting traditional silos and sales channels by activating new technologies and leveraging digital solutions to better democratize access...

Interviews & Exclusives
Can Migrating to Digital Solve Ongoing Order-to-Cash Migraines?

June 27, 2023
Manual migraines are hamstringing the order-to-cash and source-to-pay continuum.  And the legacy headaches couldn’t have picked a worse time to stick around, what with today’s ongoing macro challenges making speed to cash and access to working capital more important than ever.   Still, order to cash is a complex journey that almost never goes according to […]

Payments Digitalization Allows Businesses to Tap Spending Insights and Improve ROI

May 02, 2023
PYMNTS asked business leaders for their take on how to plan for the rest of 2023, and what they are telling their teams to focus on. Matt Clark, president and...

Modernizing Back-Office Functions Helps CFOs Build Cash Flow ‘Control Tower’

March 31, 2023
Navigating decades of high inflation, unsure whether their banking relationships are as sturdy as they’d like, chief financial officers and finance teams need to set up a proverbial “control tower”...

CFOs Zero In on Optimizing the Cash Conversion Cycle

October 12, 2022
With the digital transformation of corporate finance comes the promise of retiring outmoded approaches to the cash conversion cycle, making payments complete faster and having funds on hand for needed...

Quick Reads
Corcentric Appoints COO Matt Clark to CEO

July 11, 2023
Corcentric has named President and Chief Operating Officer Matt Clark to the company’s top job. Clark, who has been with the procurement and finance solutions firm for 19 years, was appointed CEO Tuesday (July 11), taking over for his father, outgoing CEO Doug Clark, according to a press release. “As president and COO, Matt has been instrumental in the […]