FISPAN

MAY 3, 2023

In today's fast-paced business environment, it's crucial for companies to utilize the skills of their teams effectively. Aligning team members in the right way not only saves time and money, but also helps organizations reach their goals. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Banking has become a critical tool in this effort.

Corporate Finance 98

Corporate Finance Banking Finance Planning 98

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

One area where elimination of such processes can be of benefit is treasury management — specifically, reconciliation of transactions and liquidity management. Yet, corporate finance especially is “operating, more or less, the same [way] it has for 20 years prior. Real-Time Window To Treasury Management.

Treasury 75

Treasury Auditing Foreign Exchange Pharmaceutical 75

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

I spend most of my time in the far less rarefied air of corporate finance and valuation, where businesses try to decide what projects to invest in, and investors attempt to estimate business value. In this role, the cost of capital is an opportunity cost, measuring returns you can earn on investments on equivalent risk.

Hurdle Rate 72

Hurdle Rate Valuation Corporate Finance Currencies 72

PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

These factors are putting companies to the test, especially in how they handle their corporate finances. This means treasury departments must have back-office integrations that can enable them to manage payments across various channels.

Foreign Exchange 127

Foreign Exchange Treasury Risk Management Corporate Finance 127

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

This challenge often emerges with small businesses (SMBs) that are not large enough to fit into a bank’s corporate and treasury services unit, and are, therefore, forced into being serviced with consumer-targeted products. The financial services space often encounters the conundrum of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

Corporate Finance 61

Corporate Finance Accounts Payable Finance Invoicing 61

Future CFO

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

We never stopped. We were slowed but we never let our projects lie idle. Foundations for success Chengs work ethic translates to his leadership. The Project illustrates the tenacity, ingenuity and resiliency of the human spirit in the face of seemingly endless challenges.

Leadership 96

Leadership Communication Construction Corporate Finance 96

PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2017

API technology isn’t new, but all of a sudden, the world of FinTech seems to be flocking to the tool as a way to expand the financial services offered to corporates. Anis Rahal, CEO of treasury management firm TreasuryXpress , has been a vocal proponent of API technology in recent months. Never in my life.

Treasury 75

Treasury B2B Banking Forecasting 75

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Financial services firm ION is introducing the industry’s first treasury management solution for cash forecasting, powered by machine learning, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. Developing solutions are on tap to lower costs related to the implementation and time-to-market of a treasury management system (TMS).

Treasury 56

Treasury Forecasting Cash Management Corporate Finance 56

Global Finance

MARCH 27, 2025

Banks provided credit to businesses and entrepreneurs, financed infrastructure projects, and fostered financial inclusion. The Lion City has also emerged as a leader in sustainable finance, promoting green banking practices and investments that support environmental and social goals.

Banking 52

Banking Finance Economics Investments 52

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The initial coin offering (ICO) has emerged as a corporate financing trend just as volatile as many of the cryptocurrencies themselves. “We’ve seen some ICO project treasuries fall by 80 percent or more, resulting in significantly less runway for building out their product and business,” he continued.

Treasury 65

Treasury Startups Corporate Finance Auditing 65

PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Large corporates across Asia are driving digital transformation of banking and treasury management in the region, according to new analysis from Greenwich Associates. The portion of treasury officials prioritizing digitization has nearly doubled since the fourth quarter of 2018 to 22 percent, the report revealed.

Treasury 49

Treasury Banking Foreign Exchange Corporate Finance 49

PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

Rising corporate finance metrics don’t always mean good news. Find out which figures led to good growth — like digital corporate payments increases or a rise in SME hedging practices — and which signal bad news for corporate FinServ. The numbers are on the up this week! But don’t let that fool you.

Corporate Finance 40

Corporate Finance Finance Treasury Education 40

Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Corporate treasury professionals are reassessing investment strategies to stay agile and conserve cash amid interest rate shifts and geopolitical uncertainty. A sense of nervousness amid ongoing global disruption pervades strategic thinking across global treasury functions.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 105

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Treasury Currencies Finance 105

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As the corporate treasurer takes on a more strategic role in the enterprise, treasury and cash management technologies can often be stuck in the past, failing to keep up with financial execs’ needs. financial services space, data security will also come into focus for corporate finance executives even more than today.

Treasury 62

Treasury Banking Cash Management Accounts Payable 62

PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

Financial technology innovation has opened the doors to massive transformation of corporate finance departments. While flashy corporate FinTech is exciting, innovation efforts have rarely focused on a mainstay of corporate finance teams: the financial close process, a crucial, but continually outdated function.

Corporate Finance 87

Corporate Finance Accounts Payable Finance Accounting 87

CFO News Room

JANUARY 31, 2023

The US treasury market, considered by some still as a safe haven, was anything but safe or a haven, especially at the long maturities, as long term rates soared, with inflation (not the Fed) being the key driver. Since inflation was 6.42% in 2022, the real return on a US 10-year treasury bond was -22.79%.

Marketing 130

Marketing Treasury Banking Corporate Finance 130

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

When Stripe announced earlier this month that it was collaborating with the likes of Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Barclays to embed a range of financial services within its Stripe Treasury offering, it was a big step forward for the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) landscape. The Corporate Use Case.

Banking 114

Banking Treasury Corporate Finance B2B 114

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The spreadsheet is the bane of many corporate finance professionals' existence. For accounting and treasury management departments, the spreadsheet's drawbacks can lead to detrimental impacts on corporate bottom lines. There is another factor behind the persistence of the spreadsheet.

Finance 72

Finance Problem Solving Corporate Finance Treasury 72

Essentials of Corporate Finance

JUNE 4, 2023

As we mentioned in the textbook, generally the shortest Treasury bills issued are 13 week maturity. However, given the recent debt ceiling problems, the Treasury issued cash management bills (CMBs), with a one day maturity. On Friday, June 2, the Treasury sold $15 billion in one day CMBs, to be issued on June 5 that mature on June 6.

Treasury 52

Treasury Cash Management 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

” In its 2018 AFP Technology Survey , underwritten by corporate treasury management firm BELLIN , the AFP surveyed 708 corporate finance executives about their thoughts on adoption of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain.

Treasury 71

Treasury Corporate Finance Finance Technology 71

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Asia Pacific-based corporate treasury management technology firm CS Lucas is expanding in the U.K., office to connect businesses in the country with its treasury Software-as-a-Service offering. CS Lucas pointed to its focus on ease of integration into corporates’ back-offices as a key competitive differentiator for the firm.

Treasury 40

Treasury Corporate Finance Technology Finance 40

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Santander Bank is rolling out a new solution for its corporate clients. 12) that its Treasury Link solution is now live in the U.S. and will provide cash management services for such corporate customers. The financial institution (FI) announced Tuesday (Dec.

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Cash Management Treasury Corporate Finance Communication 42

PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

APIs enable FinTechs to address the particular points of friction in corporate finance, and financial institutions today have begun to understand that they can focus on their own core competencies while collaborating with other companies that have their niche specialties too.

Treasury 53

Treasury Foreign Exchange Risk Management B2B 53

PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

But the scheme faced some of its harshest attacks yet at the hands of the Corporate Finance Network, a U.K. Reports in Accountancy Daily on Monday (April 29) said the Corporate Finance Network is calling on U.K. Reports in Accountancy Daily on Monday (April 29) said the Corporate Finance Network is calling on U.K.

Accounting 59

Accounting Banking Corporate Finance Treasury 59

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This week's B2B Data Digest looks at the latest figures behind such fraud targeting corporate finance teams. 21 percent of business leaders say payment authorization and authentication are requirements when choosing a treasury management platform , a report by Citizens Commercial Banking found. Barrenechea in a statement.

Accounts Payable 96

Accounts Payable Invoicing Treasury B2B 96

Future CFO

MARCH 16, 2021

As vaccines become available, organisations expect an economic rebound while continuing their digital transformation journeys such as those in the finance function. How’d the finance function’s journey be different after the pandemic? FutureCFO: What’d be the challenges facing the finance function and the CFO post-pandemic?

Finance 52

Finance Cash Flow Forecasting Treasury Forecasting 52

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Corporate finance executives seem to be readying for real-time payments, preparing to adopt faster payment capabilities and bracing for changes to their cash flow management strategies as a result. A new report from Deutsche Bank said this industry path is guiding banks and corporates to a new destination: real-time treasury.

Banking 78

Banking Treasury Forecasting Corporate Finance 78

CFO Thought Leader

OCTOBER 22, 2024

From her early career as an investment banker to 18 years at Morgan Stanley, Winkles emphasizes the importance of building a diverse finance toolkit through roles in corporate FP&A, treasury, and equity research.

Leadership 52

Leadership CFO Finance Treasury 52

Global Finance

JUNE 6, 2024

FAB also launched a sustainability-linked current account for businesses to support clients in achieving environmental, social and governance objectives by contributing to sustainable developments, integrated into their everyday cash management and a sustainability-linked supply chain finance offering.

Construction 109

Construction Compliance Cash Management Treasury 109

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

There are a lot of moving parts in B2B payments that are keeping corporate finance executives busy as they work to modernize and optimize their operations. As Thakur noted, the opportunity to consolidate complex systems through treasury and banking integrations is vast. Emerging Ecosystems.

B2B 97

B2B Accounts Payable Treasury Corporate Finance 97

PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

While use of trade finance continues to climb, the International Chamber of Commerce ‘s Banking Commission has warned the financial services market that small and medium-sized business (SMB) access to trade finance is disproportionately low, as large financial institutions (FIs) pull back from the SMB borrower segment.

Finance 63

Finance Cash Flow Forecasting Reconciliations Treasury 63

CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

That said, it is my experience with markets that has also made me skeptical about the over selling of both notions, since we have an entire branch of finance (behavioral finance/economics) that has developed to explain how more data does not always lead to better decisions and why crowds can often be collectively wrong.

Marketing 130

Marketing Valuation Corporate Finance Currencies 130

PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

In one report, a survey by treasury management solutions provider Kyriba revealed that treasurers are wasting nearly 5,000 hours every year working with manual spreadsheets. “But what our numbers show, rather dramatically, is the cost of over-relying on spreadsheets to manage an entire finance function, like treasury. .

Finance 41

Finance Treasury Corporate Finance Forecasting 41

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 30, 2023

The US treasury market, considered by some still as a safe haven, was anything but safe or a haven, especially at the long maturities, as long term rates soared, with inflation (not the Fed) being the key driver. Since inflation was 6.42% in 2022, the real return on a US 10-year treasury bond was -22.79%.

Treasury 96

Treasury Marketing Banking Corporate Finance 96

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. and how much to hold in investments with guaranteed returns over their time horizon (cash, treasury bill and treasury bonds).

Investments 98

Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 98

CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 29, 2024

Eager to engage more directly with the world at large, she pivoted her career toward finance. Here, after first handling such corporate finance areas as treasury, tax, and capital allocation, she eventually stepped into a divisional CFO role. Integrity is core to finance.”

CFO 52

CFO Finance Corporate Finance Leadership 52

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Alexander Smirnov, MTS director of corporate finance and treasury, said in the press release that the platform will help the bank consolidate bank guarantee information and make the process “transparent and secure.”.

Banking 82

Banking Corporate Finance Treasury Securities 82