Tech news: Thomson Reuters announces host of new partnerships

December 5, 2025 9:00 AM

Thomson Reuters announces host of new partnerships; Karbon launches smart tax organizers and binders with Stanford Tax; and other accounting tech news and updates.

Thomson Reuters announces host of new partnerships

Thomson Reuters announced new partnerships with Trullion, Audit Sight, Crunchafi, Fieldguide, Validis and Valid8 Financial in order to greatly expand the scope of its audit ecosystem in support of its PPC methodology. The Trullion integration brings AI-native automation to financial statement review and testing so auditors can run automated procedures that reference the correct audit guidance at every step. With the integration of Audit Sight, procedures can be eliminated when transactions are verified, enabling auditors to focus on complex estimates where judgment is needed. The integration of Crunchafi brings lease accounting automation directly into existing PPC‑based workflows, eliminating the need for manual lease calculations. Meanwhile, the partnership with Fieldguide will embed Guided Assurance — which delivers PPC methodology — directly into the company's agentic AI platform in order to give firms a connected environment where PPC content and AI agents work together to execute engagements, as PPC guidance is interpreted alongside client evidence in real time. Finally, the partnership with Validis produced the Audit Intelligence Analyze solution which uses AI and machine learning to focus testing on high-risk areas, segment populations by risk, and reduce the number of items to be tested, while advanced anomaly detection flags unusual items and generates required documentation. The partnership with Valid8 Financial produced the Audit Intelligence Test solution, which automates matching and documentation of samples to supporting evidence, and dynamically traces transactions to banking activity to confirm occurrence.

Karbon launches smart tax organizers and binders with Stanford Tax

Accounting practice management solutions provider Karbon announced the launch of Tax Organizers and Binders powered by StanfordTax, which combines three previously disconnected steps into one process: AI-powered client organizers, automated document assembly, and dynamic workpaper binders integrated directly into Karbon's platform. With this new release, firms can automatically generate personalized organizers from tax software backups, guide clients through a dynamic digital questionnaire, and assemble a complete workpaper binder—checklists, bookmarks, annotations and review steps included. StanfordTax's AI also renames, categorizes and validates documents to reduce manual review and ensure consistency. All client uploads, communications and workpapers sync across Karbon's platform for a unified experience spanning contacts, jobs, client tasks and billing within the single client portal experience, Karbon for Clients.

Partnerships and integrations and M&A

Spend management solutions provider Expensify announced an improved expense integration with Uber for Business, which fully automates receipt collection for employee Uber rides and Uber Eats orders. Once Uber for Business and Expensify accounts are connected, e-receipts from employees' Uber business profiles are automatically sent to Expensify. Admins can apply ride and meal policies company-wide or by group, while automated roster management ensures only eligible employees are invited. … Agent orchestration platform Tonkean has acquired AI-powered finance and logistics intelligence startup Cinch. As part of the acquisition, Ohad Azgad, Cinch's CEO and co-founder, will be joining Tonkean as its new general manager for FinanceWorks, Tonkean's agentic orchestration solution for enterprise finance teams. For Tonkean customers, the acquisition brings new capabilities for invoice processing, vendor analytics and spend intelligence. … Top 50 firm UHY announced a strategic partnership with Inova Payroll, a provider of human capital management and payroll solutions. Through this partnership, UHY will offer advisory, implementation and integration services that connect Inova's HCM technology with UHY's finance and business transformation expertise. … Faith-focused digital payments solutions provider Vanco and ACS Technologies, a provider of church management software and services, announced they will come together as one organization. Together, the companies will bring church management and secure payments under one accountable team. Vanco's faith organization will operate under the ACS Technologies name, and its trusted payments capabilities will be woven into ACST's leading platforms—including Realm and MinistryPlatform. Vanco's education solutions, including RevTrak for school payments and SmartCare for daycare, will operate under the RevTrak brand.

New hires and appointments

Accounting solutions provider Iris announced the appointment of Jens Ulrik Knudsen as CFO. At Iris, he'll oversee financial strategy and operations as the company accelerates growth across its portfolio. Knudsen will assume his role on January 2. Iris also announced the appointment of Shemin Nurmohamed as president and general manager of the Americas. Nurmohamed joined the team Dec. 1. … -- Billtrust, a provider of AR workflow and payment software, announced the appointment of Grant Halloran as chief executive officer. Most recently he served as CEO of Planful. Prior to Planful, he served in executive leadership roles at Anaplan, Infor, Heavy AI and Orbis.

Other news

Accounting practice management solutions provider Ignition, announced its 8,500+ customers generated more than $3.1 billion in revenue through the platform in 2025, driven by nearly 900,000 client relationships. Ignition also facilitated around 3.7 million payment transactions, with 91% of payments collected automatically.