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. ICO market.” “There is a big gap in the market,” says David Siemer, founder and CEO of Wavemaker Partners. billion raised in those first three months.

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Treasury Startups Corporate Finance Auditing 65

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.

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Treasury Banking Cash Management Accounts Payable 62

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 rising threat of cyberattacks against companies hasn’t gone unnoticed by this market, either.

Corporate Finance 61

Corporate Finance Accounts Payable Finance Invoicing 61

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.

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Banking Treasury Corporate Finance B2B 114

PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

Because APIs facilitate integration between two services, the technology allows FinTechs to innovate in their niche markets, rather than attempting to be a jack of all trades. “I We’re looking to partner with treasury management system [TMS] providers out there. It’s a sentiment echoed throughout the B2B FinTech market.

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Treasury Foreign Exchange Risk Management B2B 53

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have rarely focused on a mainstay of corporate finance teams: the financial close process, a crucial, but continually outdated function.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

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. How they access the market has also changed.

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

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

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 30, 2023

If 2022 was an unsettling year for equities, as I noted in my second data post, it was an even more tumultuous year for the bond market. As a result, treasury bond investors faced one of their worst years in history, losing close to a fifth of their principal, as bonds were repriced.

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Treasury Marketing Banking Corporate Finance 97

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.

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Banking Treasury Forecasting Corporate Finance 78

Global Finance

MARCH 27, 2025

Today, DBS is the largest retail and commercial bank in Singapore with assets of about $450 billion, and maintains a presence in 18 markets globally, providing services for individuals, small and medium enterprises, along with corporate, wealth, and investment banking.

Banking 52

Banking Finance Economics Investments 52

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post. What is a risk free investment? Why does the risk-free rate matter?

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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. In a statement at the time, Treasury Economic Secretary John Glen described these figures as a success.

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Accounting Banking Corporate Finance Treasury 59

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 5, 2023

If you have been reading my posts, you know that I have an obsession with equity risk premiums, which I believe lie at the center of almost every substantive debate in markets and investing. The risk premium that you demand has different names in different markets.

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Treasury Valuation Investments Corporate Finance 98

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Citi ’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) announced that it has expanded its Citi Payment Insights offering to more than 20 new markets, making it available in more than 70 markets. Citi’s offering goes beyond any other offerings I have seen in the marketplace thus far.”.

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Marketing Treasury Transportation Banking 52

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.

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B2B Accounts Payable Treasury Corporate Finance 97

Global Finance

JUNE 6, 2024

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.

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Construction Compliance Cash Management Treasury 109

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Its set of application program interfaces (APIs) enable businesses to use crypto as collateral to access corporate financing products. In a statement, Co-founder of Cred and Universal Protocol Dan Schatt said the technology can be particularly applicable to the corporate finance fields.

Corporate Finance 55

Corporate Finance Accounts Payable Treasury Finance 55

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The financial services (FinServ) market is, by far, ahead of other industries when it comes to blockchain innovation and adoption, according to data released this year by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The market is expected to secure 30 percent of those efforts between 2021 and 2023; at present, the U.S.

Corporate Finance 75

Corporate Finance eCommerce Healthcare Finance 75

PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

While financial services (FinServ) innovations often emerge with built-in security measures, new market trends — including faster payments and open banking — are introducing new security threats to corporate treasury departments, according to cybersecurity company BioCatch. BioCatch pointed to this risk in its blog post, too.

Banking 56

Banking Treasury Corporate Finance Securities 56

PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Japan is the latest market in Asia that is seeing U.S. JPMorgan has reportedly been meeting with potential clients and shoring up staffing for its new corporate client banking and specialized industries (CCBSI) group, a unit of its commercial bank that works with mid-sized companies and their worldwide affiliates.

Treasury 52

Treasury Corporate Finance Risk Management Banking 52

PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Financial software firm Misys had a bit of a roller coaster year in a market constantly in flux. company canceled its IPO last October, citing “ current market conditions” as its reason behind deciding not to pursue an estimated $7 billion float on the London Stock Exchange. The company will merge with DH Corp.,

Banking 78

Banking Treasury Corporate Finance Risk Management 78

PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The AFP released its Corporate Cash Indicators (CCI) report, which surveys corporate treasury and finance professionals on a quarterly basis. ” Last week, reports in Reuters warned that corporate forecasts in the U.S. The cash stockpiling was not entirely unexpected.

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Corporate Financial Weekly Digest

MAY 28, 2021

On May 25, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) published the 2021 FINRA Industry Spotlight (Industry Spotlight), which is FINRA’s annual statistical report covering the brokerage firms, registered representatives and market activity that FINRA regulates. 2021 FINRA Industry Spotlight.

Treasury 40

Treasury Corporate Finance Finance Numbers 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Corporate finance executives and financial service providers quickly acknowledged a dramatic change in the treasury department: Over the last decade, the corporate treasurer has become a strategic component of the enterprise, driving growth in a challenging, constantly changing market.

Treasury 40

Treasury Corporate Finance Risk Management Communication 40

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.

Finance 72

Finance Problem Solving Corporate Finance Treasury 72

PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

For corporate treasurers, Manish Kohli, global head of payments and receivables at Citi , told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, three concerns tend to top the list: geopolitical uncertainty, cyber threats and disruption resulting from the emergence of new business models in an interconnected global market.

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Cash Management Currencies Corporate Finance Treasury 77

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

Researchers found that 90 percent of treasurers and corporate finance professionals cite their relationship with the bank as the top factor behind their decision to choose where to invest corporate funds. The findings were detailed in the latest 2016 AFP Liquidity Survey , underwritten by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA).

Banking 40

Banking Marketing Corporate Finance Investments 40

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

based Tribal Credit is targeting small businesses in emerging markets, enabling them to access alternative financing. Hourly said it will use the capital to fuel market expansion. Modern Treasury. based Modern Treasury will continue to bolster its treasury and corporate finance solutions.

Startups 52

Startups B2B Treasury Benchmarking 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 24, 2024

As we start 2024, the interest rate prognosticators who misread the bond markets so badly in 2023 are back to making their 2024 forecasts, and they show no evidence of having learned any lessons from the last year. The Fed Effect: Where's the beef?

Treasury 52

Treasury Currencies Marketing Economics 52

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

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Failing to overcome those hurdles holds back corporate finance operations from progressing toward greater efficiency, transparency and performance improvements, from accounting to treasury. Now, new research suggests that the digitization hurdle is also holding back the procurement function.

Risk Analysis 61

Risk Analysis Corporate Finance Treasury Technology 61

PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

The complexity of payment workflows within and between mid-market and large corporate entities can be so immense that many treasurers aren’t able to pinpoint exactly where the friction exists. For developers and corporate finance teams alike, speed is also a factor in the transaction itself.

Banking 52

Banking Corporate Finance Treasury Finance 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

financial services market, but the regulatory initiative seems more of a natural progression for the sector rather than a sudden disruption. How this new landscape of financial services will play out for corporate customers of the banks, however, is less clear, but disruption is on the way.

Banking 66

Banking Corporate Finance Securities Treasury 66

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

Corporate treasurers gathered for the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) annual conference last week, and there, treasury professionals made clear where their priorities stand today. According to reports in Global Finance , an estimated 1,100 corporate treasurers from across the U.K. Nearly a third (31.1

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Treasury Cash Management Finance Risk Management 49

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Instead, VCs leaned conservatively toward a mix of B2B FinTechs operating in the financial management space for small businesses (SMBs) and in the treasury management market for mid-level and larger enterprises. Treasury Management. The company provides cash and treasury management solutions. Catfoss Finance.

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B2B Cash Flow Forecasting Treasury Startups 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

There are a lot of treasury management issues out there that need to be addressed,” he told PYMNTS in a recent interview. But, he continued, small- and mid-market firms make up the majority of B2B payments volume in the U.S., I see a real opportunity in the mid-to-small market, which needs a proper amount of education,” he said.

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