Invoice lifecycle management Basware has completed its acquisition of payment fraud prevention platform Trustpair.

“The acquisition extends Basware’s invoice lifecycle management capabilities all the way to the payment itself,” the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) news release.

The release notes that an “invoice can be authentic, accurate and properly approved, but the supplier bank account associated with it may be fraudulent.”

The deal combines capabilities linking invoice and payment assurance. Per the release. Basware determines the validity of the invoice by helping finance teams establish whether an obligation is “authentic, accurate, compliant, and approved.”

Trustpair “extends that to payment assurance” by confirming a supplier is genuine, the bank account belongs to that supplier, and the payment is headed to the proper destination, per the release. The goal is for both capabilities to provide a “connected view” of the financial decision behind every payment, joining invoices and payments “in one governed lifecycle,” Basware added.

“As payment fraud increasingly targets supplier identities and bank details rather than the invoice itself, finance teams must establish trust when supplier data first enters the business, maintain it as information changes, and validate it again before funds are released,” the release said. “The combination of Trustpair and Basware makes this possible.”

Basware said Trustpair will continue independent operations with its existing platform, specialist focus, customer relationships, contracts, and support, and will still support and expand integrations across ERP, treasury, procure-to-pay and payment platforms.

“Customers will continue to be able to deploy Trustpair across their existing finance environments, whether or not they use Basware,” the release said.

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