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Spend Management Reaches For New — And Digital — Maturity

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It’s a phrase that can cause several types of jobsite headaches — stepping away from a project to hit a hardware store with petty cash, for instance, or calling the boss to gain approval to go over a card spending limit. Spend Management Change. Spend Management Misconception. Time Is Money.

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For SMBs, Using Spend Management Tech To Plug Costly Expense Leaks

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In an interview with Karen Webster, Farhan Ahmad, founder and CEO at B2B payments solution provider Bento for Business , took note of the fact that half of all small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) cite cash flow management as their biggest challenge. To keep the bottom line buoyant, healthy and in the black: Plug the expense leaks.

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Moving The Business Payments Focus From Price To Process

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In the wake of the pandemic, B2B payments have had to evolve. But in an interview with PYMNTS, Mary Beth Joiner , senior vice president of relationship management at Comdata Corporate Payments, said that there have still been pockets of resistance in making the great digital pivot.

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BNP Paribas Boosts V-Card Adoption Within Coupa

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Corporate spend management platform Coupa is expanding availability of virtual commercial card payments as a result of a partnership with BNP Paribas , according to a press release from the financial institution. BNP Paribas, Coupa Pair On V-Cards. ” Plaid Dives Into Open Finance.

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How Schools Can Ace Employee Spend Management

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Public school budgets are tight, and whenever public funding is involved, it’s not only important to tighten the grip on spend, but to build transparency of the taxpayer dollars being used. But the spend management needs of the education system cannot entirely be met by a single solution that provides visibility into capital expenditure.

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Amid Travel Bans, Corporate Expenses See Surprising Uptick

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” Some firms, particularly those in the healthcare, manufacturing, education, technology and construction arenas, are experiencing an uptick in expense volume on the Webexpenses portal, he noted. “The other thing to keep in mind is that travel makes up a component of expenses, but not all of them,” continued Reynolds.

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JAGGAER Scoops Up BravoSolution In Spend Management Expansion

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Corporate eProcurement spend management company JAGGAER plans to acquire BravoSolution , the companies announced this week. In a news release , JAGGAER said it would acquire BravoSolution from Italmobiliare in a deal that will make the company the “largest independent, vertically focused spend management solutions company in the world.”