Friday 28th August 2026

OASIS Open, the international open source and standards consortium has announced the approval of Universal Business Language (UBL) V2.5 as an OASIS Standard. Developed by UBL Technical Committee members from industry, government, and academia, UBL remains the leading interchange format for business documents. 

Thursday 27th August, 2026

The much talked about French e-invoicing and e-reporting mandate starts rolling out on Tuesday next week, 1 September. Much discussed because it’s a major change:

Wednesday 26th August, 2026

Basware have signed a binding agreement to acquire Trustpair, with the transaction due to complete later this year. With AI-driven fraud outpacing human defences the aim of the acquisition is to ensure end-to-end assurance from invoice-to-payment with Basware confirming an invoice is legitimate and approved, Trustpair confirming payment reaches the intended supplier.

Tuesday 25th August, 2026

Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of Thomson, the company's first proprietary large language model, developed in-house.

Monday 24th August, 2026

Coupa is to replace existing CEO, Leagh Turner with Michael Lipps, a Thoma Bravo operating partner who has been on Coupa's board since 2023.

Friday 21st August, 2026

SAP has announced that it has signed a new multi year agreement with Nokia to help accelerate its enterprise transformation using RISE with SAP Methodology, with its SAP S/4HANA software environment hosted on Microsoft Azure.