Treasurers news and trends

Are Healthcare Businesses Leveraging Working Capital More Efficiently Than Yours?
B2B Payments // October 28, 2024

In today’s increasingly interconnected and digital world, it’s never been better to be a business. But that doesn’t mean it is any easier to be one. And for today’s businesses looking for a little certainty amid an unknowable macro backdrop, working capital innovations are emerging...

Tech Sector Cash Flows Hampered by Keeping Treasurers in the Dark
Technology // October 15, 2024

Technology industry treasurers face different challenges than their peers in other sectors. For example, only 50% report having strong influence in decision-making, far below other sectors like consumer goods. Their limited involvement affects key financial outcomes, such as cash flow predictability and revenue optimism. Tech...

Legacy Treasury Management Systems Ill-Equipped as Markets Enter Real-Time Era
B2B Payments // August 08, 2024

When it comes to contemporary business operations, complexity is nearly unavoidable. The bigger a business gets, the more borders it crosses and peers it acquires, the taller the task becomes of integrating its disparate operations and financials — much less surfacing insights and acting in...

This Week in B2B: Capturing the Digital Innovations Reshaping Workflows
B2B Payments // July 25, 2024

In the B2B landscape, the only constant is change — and technology is the change agent. After all, while trust remains foundational in B2B relationships, it is technology that is increasingly accelerating processes and unlocking new, 21st century efficiencies. That’s why the importance of data in...

Interviews & Exclusives
Tech Sector Cash Flows Hampered by Keeping Treasurers in the Dark

October 15, 2024
Technology industry treasurers face different challenges than their peers in other sectors. For example, only 50% report having strong influence in decision-making, far below other sectors like consumer goods. Their limited involvement affects key financial outcomes, such as cash flow predictability and revenue optimism. Tech treasurers are 73% more likely than other department heads to […]

J.P. Morgan Payments and Expedia: Platform Ecosystems Demand Treasurers Become Risk Management Professionals

March 25, 2024
Jim Scurlock, senior director and assistant treasurer at Expedia, and Larson McNeil, co-head of marketplaces and digital ecosystems at J.P. Morgan Payments, told Karen Webster that the role of the...

Commercial Card Adoption Poised to Rise as Acceptance Costs Decrease

August 22, 2023
Commercial card adoption, long sidelined by businesses because of cost concerns, is experiencing a renewed interest in business-to-business (B2B) transactions. The primary drivers of this change in outlook include today’s...

What Treasurers Are Doing Now That Liquidity Is King

June 28, 2023
To manage a balance sheet is to protect the heart of any company. Doing so effectively is never more critical than when the economic environment is in flux. The essential...

Quick Reads
Cobre Raises $13 Million to Expand Payment Automation Platform

October 05, 2023
Cobre has reportedly raised $13 million to take its treasury platform beyond its native Colombia. As TechCrunch reported Thursday (Oct. 5), the company plans to enter Mexico next year, while also updating its product — initially designed for big companies — for use by smaller businesses. Jose Vicente Gedeon, one of the company’s founders, described Cobre’s offering […]

HighRadius Debuts No-Code Platform for CFOs

February 28, 2023
Financial software firm HighRadius has unveiled LiveCube, a platform for CFOs. The platform lets finance business users build their own applications “as extensions to standard functionality received from enterprise systems”...