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How to Tackle the Top 3 Challenges in Business Payments

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Working with multiple systems, the growing threat of fraud, and the lack of visibility into data are the top three challenges finance professionals face with business payments. That’s according to the Strategic Treasurer 2022 Global Payments Survey of over 230 treasury and payments professionals. These challenges aren’t surprising. The pandemic put the push to digitization […]

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