This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Joseph Giarraputo, the Founder and Editorial Director of Global Finance, talks to Isaac Kamuta, Group Head: Payments, CashManagement & Client Access at Ecobank, about its suite of payment solutions to help customers optimise cash flow, improve efficiencies, and maintain their competitive edge.
Joseph Giarraputo, the Founder and Editorial Director of Global Finance, talks to Isaac Kamuta, Group Head: Payments, CashManagement & Client Access at Ecobank, about its suite of payment solutions to help customers optimise cash flow, improve efficiencies, and maintain their competitive edge.
Nordea , which wins two awards this year, as both Best Fraud Detection Solution and Best Bank for Treasury FX Services, has developed a new secure CashManagement self-service request. Enhancing Treasury With Technology Tailoring treasury management tools requires a nimble approach, owing to the diversity of client needs.
Staying ahead of the cashmanagement game is vital for treasurers facing multiple challenges, such as economic and political uncertainties, and our award winners are best positioned to do just that. Over the past seven years, ANZ has significantly invested in technology to offer unprecedented flexibility and transparency.
Cashmanagement has made its way into becoming a key competency for leadership teams in protecting their companies’ overall long-term health. Moreover, current market conditions drive private fund managers to hone in on their cashmanagement practices , with many turning to strategies more commonly used by their corporate counterparts.
Yet many middle-market companies continue to explore opportunities to go public. After a challenging IPO market from 2022 to 2023, conditions have certainly improved. However, while market sentiment is improving, IPO readiness requires more rigorous preparation than ever before.
Raiffeisen , the third-largest Swiss banking group, has joined up with software provider CoCoNet to launch a payment and cashmanagement service for companies, a statement says.
Between the rise of blockchain technology, the market debuts of faster payments initiatives and the advancements in virtual card capabilities, small businesses have more choice and power when it comes to their payments needs. Meanwhile, nearly a fifth turn to invoice financing solutions, and 18 percent cited peer-to-peer lending options.
Deutsche Bank has opened a new cashmanagement business in Australia, which will add to its global portfolio, according to a press release. Deutsche Bank now operates a global network of cashmanagement services in 35 locations with 14 in the Asia Pacific, the release stated.
African banks are empowering clients with greater access to real-time data and greater control over their cash. A fragmented regulatory environment, uneven access to financial services, a shallow pool of readily available funds, and currency controls and limitations in some African markets can lead to trapped cash. million).
The expansion of Citi’s Intelligent Pooling Solutions across Asia continued in 2023; while Citi Interest Optimization (CIO) end-to-end, straight-through onboarding has been expanded to 12 Asian markets, with automated system setup and validations to improve the client experience with faster turnaround on selected CIO requests.
BofA invests heavily in technology, offering online banking platforms, mobile applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs), for seamless cashmanagement and integration with corporate treasury systems. Citi is a double winner, as Best Bank for CashManagement and for Best Corporate Cross-Border Payments Solution.
Companies operating in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) continue to face unique challenges when it comes to cashmanagement, due to a mix of economic development and regional variations. ING wins as the Best Bank for CashManagement.
FAB wins two awards this year, as Best Bank for Transaction Banking and Best Bank for Long-Term Liquidity Management. The bank invested heavily in innovative cashmanagement and liquidity solutions to enhance the experience and treasury capabilities of the region’s corporations.
Although nearshoring has been a boon for Mexico, and the outlook is generally positive, risks in foreign exchange and commodity markets persist and require companies to partner with banks having regional expertise and cashmanagement solutions tailored to the Latin American market.
A new marketing program announced the store’s grand re-opening. But even with prices adjusted to be more competitive with online retailers, the immediate availability of stock kept bringing customers into the store, solving the cash flow problem and stabilizing the store’s future.
The bank said in a statement, “This methodology has been established in the spirit of best market practices, such as the Green or Social Loan Principles, while considering the specificities of GTB.” The Best Provider of Short-Term Investments/Money Market Funds, Royal London Asset Management , manages $9.2
Now that businesses have gotten a taste of what it means to automate workflows like invoicing, accounts receivable (AR) and cashmanagement, they’re likely never turning back. But as this shift occurs, organizations must keep in mind the broader impact on cashmanagement. Interconnected Finances.
Also in industry news this week: While many financial advisors are paying close attention to the potential extension of sunsetting measures within the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in the coming year, legislation related to retirement savings could be on Congress' agenda as well Fidelity is planning to change the default for its existing RIA non-retirement (..)
Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that at a time when brokerage firms' cash sweep programs come under increased scrutiny (and as the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates), Charles Schwab (the largest RIA custodian) continues to slash sweep rates for client (..)
financial services market. Sixty-six percent of small businesses have maintained their business outlook, despite stock market fluctuations , Capital One’s Small Business Growth Index found. The country’s small businesses are set to borrow up to $80 billion AUS (about $56.9
Susanne Prager, head of cashmanagement at Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), discusses the challenges affecting global banking services and the need for the latest tech tools to help companies succeed in CEE and around the world. RBI’s solutions like its centralized CashManagement Hub (CMIplus) can streamline these processes.
Using Kenya as a regional hub, we will extend our reach into other key African markets that have strong trade ties with Egypt. GF: Which markets and sectors are the priority for growth? For corporate clients, we have comprehensive trade finance and cashmanagement solutions to streamline transactions across African markets.
The head of the country’s only licensed and publicly traded cryptocurrency broker says tighter regulation and exponentially higher yields are causing corporate treasury and cashmanagement accounts to seriously consider this alternative asset class. With the treasury market for S&P 500 companies valued at $2.3
It's been more than a decade since the boom of neo and challenger banks stepping into the market to fill the biggest service gaps left by FI giants. In a recent interview, he discussed why Juni is targeting eCommerce and digital marketing businesses with its offering. The eCommerce Banking Challenge.
Faced with ongoing market volatility, the enterprise C-suite is leaning on its treasury teams like never before to protect company assets and to (ideally) also capitalise on competitive opportunities emerging from an unstable macroeconomic climate. This article discusses some of the key takeaways from that report.
By switching to 501(c)(6) nonprofit status, the new CFP Board of Standards will have expanded abilities to advance the planning profession through lobbying and more targeted advertising messages to grow the ranks of CFP professionals.
Having an experienced succession of crises since the beginning of 2020, FutureCFO asked two finance leaders their views on the challenges facing treasury and cashmanagement during the pandemic and coming out of it. What is the biggest change to the Treasury and CashManagement (TCM) function brought about by the pandemic?
While it remains to be seen whether the measures will actually be enacted, proposed measures include raising income and capital gains tax rates, instituting wealth taxes, and reducing the state estate tax exemption, potentially creating future planning opportunities for advisors with clients in those states.
It’s one factor in why so few challenger banks have launched in the country compared to markets like the U.K., However, there are efforts to lower the barriers to entry for market newcomers. where challenger banking has flourished in recent years. Normalizing Digital Assets. As a whole, the U.S. “The U.S.
Brink’s CEO Douglas Pertz said on the conference call that the company took the MoneyGram stake by acquiring shares during the fourth quarter via transactions on the open market. “We He said there would likely be “joint development of strategies around cash, payments in cash to digital, and digital to cash payments in the long term.”.
The middle market can be an ideal corporate customer for a financial institution (FI). Unlike a small business, the middle market typically holds a lower-risk profile with steady profits and strong growth. But you shouldn’t shove [the middle market] into small business or commercial — you should have a third segment.”.
According to Factris, DEBIFO currently holds 35 percent of Lithuania’s alternative finance market with its invoice financing solution, targeted at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Netherlands-based factoring company Factris has announced the completion of its takeover of Lithuanian firm DEBIFO , the companies said Monday (Jan.
The way entrepreneurs are managing their businesses — and their businesses' finances — is changing, with complexities and pain points multiplying. Amid the market uncertainty of the pandemic, small business owners often have to do more with less, and they're expecting the financial technology solutions they use to do the same.
What's more, third-party platforms force sellers to wait to access their revenues, making cashmanagement an even more arduous process. These merchants are not only selling in their domestic market, but most of these platforms also allow them to sell international," said Pero. An Alternative To Banks.
According to Rajiv Ramachandran , senior vice president of product strategy and management at Coupa , the pandemic was a “wake-up call” for many finance leaders who experienced a jolting breakdown of key functions. There were cases where some of these finance teams could not even understand what their cash visibility looked like.”.
Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. It has also begun work in stock trading and cashmanagement accounts.
“For me, it’s been flashback time,” says Anna, who joined the company in February this year and is responsible for business insights, budget forecasting, profit and loss and cashmanagement. . I’ve been doing a lot of scenario building, short and medium-term forecasting, cashmanagement and so on. . “So
Our strategy is to combine efforts and support SMEs in a market that was, until then, dominated by large companies. We believe that with appropriate credit and the right pricing, SMEs have the capability to operate competitively with other players, which is a good thing for the market as a whole.
Its new generative AI tool analyzes and summarizes the minutes and announcements from the Monetary Policy Committee of Brazil’s central bank and the Federal Open Market Committee of the US Federal Reserve. Not only can market risk be better monitored, but market costs can be saved for participants: about $30 million so far, estimates CCDC.
Middle-market companies are increasingly joining larger enterprise counterparts in demanding their banks provide them with treasury APIs. These solutions are enabling businesses of all sizes to access faster payments and real-time account status information, thus improving cashmanagement.
And while the latest tools of the trade—artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—promise to make tasks such as liquidity forecasting, cashmanagement, and risk management easier, they come with their own complications and tie the treasury team even more closely into management’s strategic planning.
Banks have been inching into the space; cash still remains a hallmark. For one firm, AeroPay — focused on bringing payment services to underserved markets — the cannabis market is but one that can benefit from the great digital shift for payments done in person or online. Looking Toward Underserved Markets .
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 39,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content