Friday 2nd March, 2012

The 6th annual AirPlus International Travel Management survey of 1,701 travel managers, across 20 countries has revealed that there are still huge differences in the way companies around the world handle business travel. Many revealed that they simply did not have the resources to manage T&E as effectively as they should, or ought to.

Friday 2nd March, 2012

Basware (leading provider of purchase-to-pay solutions) and Transparent (specialist in data mining and accounts-payable (AP) analysis) have signed a cooperation agreement.

Wednesday 29 February, 2012

FISCAL Technologies launches additional checks to detect fraud

FISCAL Technologies’ providers of world-class accounts payable audit software, have built additional checks into its AP Forensics® suite which provides continuous transaction monitoring to help protect against rapidly growing corporate fraud. The National Fraud Authority states that there has been a 25% year on year increase. In fact they state that one of the main growth areas has been the increase in employee fraud – amounting to more than £1.4bn in 2011.

Wednesday 29th February, 2012

Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England warns of a "bad deal" for SMEs. In a stinging attack on the banks, he rejects claims that he's been complacent over lending policy. Read more.

Wednesday 29th February, 2012

Basware launches the first truly unified cloud-based B2B platform for electronic transactions across the Open Network

Basware has taken the lead in listening to the changing demands in the e-invoicing and purchase-to-pay market place by announcing the launch of their new cloud-based B2B platform for electronic transactions across their Open Network. Anyone within the e-invoicing and P2P field is aware that although the need for more widespread automation implementation has been apparent, some of the existing solutions just didn’t provide the flexibility necessary. Basware have excelled in producing an easy to use, intelligent system which taps into this need for both larger enterprises and the SMEs. As industry expert Bruno Koch, Billentis says: