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🤖 By 2028, @Gartner expects AI agents to intermediate more than $15T in B2B spend, with most purchases handled automatically. The takeaway: B2B buying is becoming autonomous, pushing companies to rethink how procurement, payments, and risk are managed. How prepared is your

We’re curating B2B commerce and finance industry highlights every week. Follow 👉 @GetBalance so you won’t miss an update.

💼 @CFO.com highlights how tracking invoice-to-payment cycle time reveals hidden delays that strain liquidity and vendor relationships, with APQC benchmarks showing payment transmission ranging from 12 to 24 days after invoice receipt. The article notes that misrouting, invoice

🛒 @PYMNTS reports that AI agents are becoming a new class of commerce customer, shifting power from brand storytelling to metadata quality as discovery moves from websites to conversational surfaces. Merchant competitiveness increasingly depends on structured data, operational

🧠 @Bloomberg Intelligence reports that financial institutions are seeing early AI gains in revenue, productivity, and customer engagement, but costs remain elevated as firms invest heavily in data, cloud and model governance. Two-thirds of financial services executives expect

📈 B2B highlights this week: agentic AI reshapes discovery and purchasing, organizations tighten their invoice-to-payment cycles, and financial institutions show productivity lift but limited progress in scaling AI across the enterprise. 👇👇👇

🤔 Why do many business buyers still settle invoices with credit cards, even when lower-cost options are available? From millions of B2B transactions processed through Balance's financial infrastructure, we found that 53.6% of SMB buyers pay invoices by credit card, compared

📈 In B2B commerce, credit is most effective when it adapts to buyer activity. But how can you do that at scale? At Balance, we use AI and data to keep credit limits aligned with how business buyers actually purchase. The system continuously monitors real-time purchasing and

💸 U.S. companies are holding an estimated $600B in excess working capital in accounts receivables. In our blog, we examine the key metrics, benchmarks, and operational patterns that shape AR performance, giving B2B leaders a practical framework to evaluate AR health and improve

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🤖 @PYMNTS reports that AI is reshaping work faster than companies can reorganize, with leaders from @Microsoft, @Acuity, and @Snowflake saying enterprises are entering a full re-architecture cycle as human–agent systems reshape roles, workflows and early-career work. Executives

🏭 U.S. manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month in November, with the @ISM PMI slipping to 48.2% as new orders, supplier deliveries and employment weakened. Survey respondents cited softer international demand tied to tariffs, while S&P Global warned of rising

💵 The Clearing House (@TCHtweets) reported record-breaking November results across CHIPS, RTP and EPN, highlighting rapid growth in U.S. digital payments as wire, instant and ACH volumes hit new highs. CHIPS processed $2.97 trillion in a single day and saw year-to-date volume

📦 @Gartner forecasts that by 2028, AI agents will intermediate more than $15 trillion in B2B purchasing, with 90% of B2B buys handled by autonomous systems. Presented at its IT Symposium/Xpo 2025, Gartner’s predictions outline sweeping shifts across procurement, productivity

🔎 Across the B2B landscape this week: AI agents reshape buying and workflow models, instant and ACH payments surge, manufacturing activity cools, and enterprises restructure to capture AI-driven productivity. 👇👇👇

According to @McKinsey, 62% of organizations are already experimenting with AI agents 🤖. It’s a promising sign that teams are looking beyond basic automation and starting to explore more advanced capabilities. One practical example: Balance’s MCP Server enables LLMs and AI

✨ Extending trade credit plays an important role in B2B commerce. It helps businesses grow, strengthen relationships, and increase repeat orders, but it also introduces operational complexity and risk. At Balance, we apply AI across the B2B purchasing journey, including the

📊 #AI is changing how #B2B commerce and finance works, driving new levels of efficiency and growth. Explore key stats and innovations shaping AI in finance and what they mean for the future of B2B commerce >

B2B teams invest heavily in bringing buyers to the checkout page, yet abandonment still sits around 71% to 73%. 📉 One of the top reasons? Payment friction. When upfront payments clash with business buyers' cash flow or procurement process, abandonment becomes the easy choice.