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Beyond Open Banking: Are E-Invoicing, Open Finance and Business Wallets Creating a New Trusted Financial Ecosystem?
From E-Invoices to Trusted Data I set out to write a six-part series about invoices. I've ended up writing about trust. Because the more I looked at what's happening around Accounts Payable, the clearer it became that AP is just one part of something much bigger, and that deserved one more article. Open Banking is evolving into Open Finance. Europe is moving towards structured e-invoicing and digital reporting. AI is learning not just to analyse information but to act on it.

Steve Britton
Oct 85 min read


THE FUTURE OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE - PART 6 | Trusted Data and Accounts Payable in 2030
From Processing Invoices to Orchestrating Trusted Data, Decisions and Payments The bold prediction By 2030, the best AP teams will process far fewer invoices. Not because there are fewer transactions, but because almost none of them will need processing. Over the last five articles, I've explored how Accounts Payable is being reshaped by AI, e-invoicing, Peppol, Open Banking, real-time payments and supplier connectivity. For this final piece, I want to bring those threads t
stevebritton51
Sep 304 min read


Future of Accounts Payable - Part 5: Agentic Accounts Payable From Automation to Autonomy
Ai and the Rise of Agentic Accounts Payable AI and the Rise of Agentic Accounts Payable For years, the goal of Accounts Payable transformation has been automation. Capture the invoice. Extract the data. Match it to a purchase order. Route exceptions. Obtain approval. Post to the ERP. Make the payment. Each generation of technology has removed another layer of manual intervention. But we are now entering a fundamentally different phase. The question is no longer simply: “How m

Steve Britton
Sep 224 min read


THE FUTURE OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE | PART 4 From Invoice to Payment: Open Banking and the New Payment Infrastructure Pay by Bank, A2A, real-time payments
If structured e-invoicing transforms how trusted financial data enters Accounts Payable, what happens when payment infrastructure becomes equally connected, digital and increasingly real-time?

Steve Britton
Sep 155 min read


Multi-entity. Multi-currency. Multi-country.
Processing invoices across multiple business locations shouldn't mean multiple systems, multiple headaches and multiple points of failure. CloudConnect handles complexity at scale — consistent accuracy, consistent compliance, wherever you operate. How many entities or countries does your AP team currently process invoices across? #AccountsPayable #InvoiceProcessing #APAutomation #FinanceOperations #MultiEntity #GlobalFinance
Jake Attiwell
Apr 211 min read


Still manually processing invoices?
Your finance team didn't sign up to spend their days on data entry. But between supplier invoices, credit notes, purchase orders, and remittances — that's exactly what's happening. At CloudConnect, we've built an AI-powered Intelligent Document Processing platform that eliminates manual document handling entirely. - 100% data accuracy — guaranteed - Seamless integration with SAP, Oracle, Sage, Dynamics & more - Handles any document, any format, any language Watch the video to
Jake Attiwell
Apr 211 min read


One Wrong Invoice.
A single incorrect invoice can trigger a delayed payment, a strained supplier relationship, a failed audit, or worse — a fraud investigation. Most businesses vastly underestimate the true cost of even one processing error at line level. Have you ever calculated the true cost of a bad invoice in your business? What did it come to? Let us know below 👇 #InvoiceProcessing #AccountsPayable #APAutomation #FinanceOperations #InvoiceManagement
Jake Attiwell
Apr 211 min read


Manufacturing finance teams are under more pressure than ever.
Here's what the smart onse are doing differently. Rising material costs, tighter margins, and increasing supplier complexity - the finance function in manufacturing has never needed to be leaner or more accurate. The business pulling ahead aren't cutting headcount. They're eliminating the manual work that was never a good use of their team's time the first place. Invoice and order processing is the obvious place to start: - High volume, repetitive, accuracy-critical - Directl
Jake Attiwell
Apr 211 min read


Happy Friday!! Hot take: most finance automation projects fail before they start.
Not because the technology dosen't work. Because the brief was wrong. The brief was: "automate our invoice process." The actual problem was: "our data quality is poor and we don't know why." Automating a broken process at scale just makes the breakage faster and more expensive. The first question we ask every client isn't "how many invoices do you process?" It's: "What does a bad invoice cost you - and how often does one slip through?" The answer is usually surpeising. And it
Jake Attiwell
Apr 211 min read


"Our ERP handles invoice processing."
I hear this a lot. Here's why it's only half true. Your ERP is exceptional at storing and processing structured data. The problem is that invoices arrive as unstructred documents - PDFs, scanned images, emails, EDI files, hand-typed forms. Getting that unstructured data into your ERP accuratley and reliably is the hard part. Most ERPs rely on OCR or manual keying to do it. OCR misreads. People make mistakes. Intelligent Document Processing sist in frot of your ERP. It extract
Jake Attiwell
Apr 91 min read
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