TREASURY SOLUTIONS SPOTLIGHT

Coupa

AI-native spend & treasury suite using payment outlier detection to flag or block suspicious payments before execution.

About the company

Coupa is an AI-native Total Spend Management leader, powered by community-generated AI trained on $8T+ spend across a 10M+ buyer & supplier network. For treasury, Coupa delivers cash visibility, forecasting, and bank connectivity and supports 150+ corporates directly on SWIFT for payments and statements.

Solution

Payment Outlier Detection – Coupa’s treasury solution helps customers identify upcoming payments that are different from their typical payment patterns, before the payment is executed.

Application of AI

Multiple AI algorithms are used to identify payment outliers and flag them for customer investigation

Benefits & Challenges

Benefits
Faster detection of suspicious payments based on historical payment patterns which are flagged with a high risk value.
Enhanced security with the option of configuring the system for such payments to be automatically blocked.

Challenges
This use case works best when customers have at least 6-12 months of payment data in Coupa Treasury.
Customers need to be aware of the thresholds to automatically block suspicious payments.