Payments

The global payments platform provider has acquired TaxJar, which makes sales tax software for internet-based businesses.

The Internal Revenue Service could be doing more to track unreported income flowing through popular peer-to-peer apps like Venmo and Zelle.

The addition of Approve.com allows the payments company to provide an end-to-end procurement-to-payment solution in the cloud.

IwocaPay becomes the first pay later software integration on the Xero accounting software platform.

As businesses struggle with the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, technology providers are responding with more comprehensive offerings to simplify their operations.

A former senior executive at Wirecard AG escaped from Austria to Belarus on a private aircraft last year with the help of a secret-service agent and a far-right politician.

The software uses machine learning to get smarter with every client payment.

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Many employers are questioning the benefit of the payroll tax deferral.

Germany’s blame game over Wirecard AG’s collapse is focusing on the question of why authorities failed to take a harder look at the payments company before it became the country’s biggest accounting scandal in living memory.

Although many factors lead to payment inefficiencies, businesses can take steps to better manage their working capital performance and efficiency.

The six largest credit card issuers have set aside billions of dollars worth of reserves in response to the novel coronavirus as well as the adoption of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new credit losses standard.

Wirecard suffered one of the worst stock slumps in the history of Germany’s benchmark index after revealing that about 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) in cash has gone missing, spooking investors who have endured years of allegations of wrongdoing at the payments company.

Wave Money integrates with Wave’s financial management software for a full money management experience.

The application gives customers access to more ways to receive payment from clients during a time when many businesses are experiencing interruption due to the coronavirus pandemic.

One of the biggest arguments against checks is that they’re just plain old, invented to support even older banking processes.

Billing and invoicing tools are critical for keeping the cash coming in.

The PPP isn't the only payroll-related way the federal government is responding to the coronavirus pandemic.

Federal agencies are increasingly sending incorrect benefit payments to Americans, a government watchdog said as the Internal Revenue Service prepares to send more than $292 billion in direct payments to households as part of the government’s coronavirus response.

The world’s largest payment companies are fighting for their own piece of the U.S. coronavirus stimulus: an assignment to help distribute some of the relief money that will be sent to millions of Americans in the coming weeks.