Corpay adds AI agents to spend management platform
about 6 hours agoFinance teams can now automate anomaly checks, voice expenses and transaction coding as Corpay broadens AI tools across its spend platform.
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Thai travellers and expatriates can now hold and spend in more than 40 currencies as Wise widens its services beyond transfers.
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H2O.ai opens Singapore lab for sovereign AI projects
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Hotel Des Arts Saigon lifts revenue with IDeaS software
The Ho Chi Minh City hotel cut manual pricing delays, helping lift revenue per available room 21.6% in its first year on the software.
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Incident response at the Philippines-based payments firm has fallen from hours to minutes, helping it fix most issues before merchants are hit.
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