Accounts payable stories

Monk lands USD $25 million to expand software that spots invoice errors, portal rejections and missed contacts before finance teams chase payment.

Hyland embeds AI into finance, SAP and student workflows as it upgrades Content Innovation Cloud for regulated enterprise processes.

Intuit's QuickBooks is under pressure as AI start-ups push automated bookkeeping, forcing accounting software to prove it can do more than digitise ledgers.

Xero unveils AI-native finance platform and JAX assistant to cut admin for small firms, with accountants and bookkeepers also in line for gains.

Molex uses Celonis to overhaul supply chains, lifting purchase order confirmations to 90% and boosting invoice and warehouse performance.

Amex GBT gives Egencia agentic AI and Concur Expense integration, aiming to streamline business travel bookings and cut manual claims work.

Ramp expands Visa tie-up as the payments giant becomes a customer, after 133% enterprise growth and a wider rollout across 50,000 users.

Doxis unifies Klippa's AI tools under one brand after acquisition, renaming key products as it ties document processing to wider automation software.

Oracle NetSuite rolls out AI Connector Service upgrades with 100-plus finance templates, MCP apps and warehouse access for controlled data use.

Spendesk appoints Quentin Vigneau as Chief Product Officer and Alan Wright as Chief Technical Officer as it expands AI plans after first full year of profit.

OFX appoints former PayPal Australia marketer Liz Lord as chief marketing officer to spearhead its shift beyond cross-border payments.

Zalos secures USD $3.6 million seed funding to build AI agents that automate complex finance workflows across legacy enterprise systems.

Dext unveils AI Assist, an embedded tool that learns firm-specific judgement to automate routine bookkeeping while keeping humans in control.

Rotterdam's Van Weelde Shipping selects Unit4 ERPx to modernise finance and operations while consolidating its enterprise systems.

GPT-5.4 leads new AI benchmark on real-world accounting tasks, but its 77.3% score leaves firms facing stubborn reliability gaps.

Affinda rolls out a no-code AI Integration Agent to link its document platform with 2,800+ business systems using natural language prompts.

US fintech Ramp is buying Stockholm-based Billhop to plug its AI finance platform into Billhop's European payments rails and licences.

Decidr and ICON team up to bring AI-driven Procure-to-Pay automation to SAP users across Asia-Pacific, targeting high-volume finance tasks.

Emburse expands its Pay platform to unify vendor payments and staff reimbursements, linking approvals, funding and reconciliation in one flow.

Ramp launches a public sector platform with FedRAMP-aligned spend controls to curb misuse after USD $2.8 trillion in improper US payments.