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How Privacy Guides Virtual Assistants’ Evolution In Corporate Finance

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Artificial intelligence-powered tools, like virtual assistants, have the potential to reduce the time it takes to close the books from 10 days to just two, placing the remaining eight days in the hands of accountants and other finance chiefs to wield more strategically for their enterprise. Balancing Risks. in particular. “In in particular.

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Credit By Another Name

Global Finance

Although generally available in the consumer market for about a decade, the electronic payment model of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) is finally bearing fruit for micro, small and midsize enterprises (MSMEs) by avoiding interest payments on corporate credit cards, reducing paperwork, facilitating quicker transactions, and improving liquidity management.

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The unfair terms prohibition in Article 5.52 of the new Civil Code and financial services in a B2B context: balancing fairness with legal certainty

Corporate Finance Lab

Before that, the B2B and B2C legislation had already introduced a similar prohibition, but financial services had been (partially) exempted. This leaves the question as to what extent contracts on financial services (international corporate lending in particular) are now caught by the general prohibition on unfair terms in the new Civil Code.

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Looking Beyond Digitization To Optimize AR

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As enterprise digitization initiatives permeate beyond IT departments and into corporate finance functions, executives are exploring new approaches to modernizing the ways they manage money. ” That’s not only a focus reserved for corporatesB2c relationships, though.

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Chatbots An Unexpected Interest For Supply Chain Professionals

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In corporate finance, chatbots are gaining steam in areas like banking and accounting. Firstly,” he said, “eCommerce is transforming how customers order goods, both B2B and B2C. Blockchain, for example, is now a common topic in conversations surrounding supply chain innovation.

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What’s Driving VCs’ Attention To B2B FinTech

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Anecdotally, these firms have been talking for years about the industry’s potential to make significant disruptions in areas like corporate finance, small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending and more. “We According to Skan, B2B FinTech can actually have advantages over B2C counterparts when it comes to securing funding.

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Deutsche Bank Links Faster Payments To Faster FX Management

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Corporates may not be adopting faster and real-time payments technologies as fast as consumers, but that doesn’t mean the acceleration of payments isn’t impacting corporate finance.