85% of Businesses Face Internal Barriers to B2B Payment Modernization, WEX Survey Finds

• WEX's B2B payments report found 85% of organizations face internal barriers to modernization; nearly two-thirds increased digital payment use over the past year.
• Technology implementation costs hinder 51% of organizations; integration challenges affect 41%.
• Security concerns constrain 54% of leaders; fraud affected over a quarter of surveyed organizations in the past six months.
• AI is used or planned across the payment lifecycle by 94% of organizations, with fraud detection and risk scoring prioritized by 64%.
• Agentic AI adoption is planned by 44% of organizations within two years to automate complex, multistep workflows.

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