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The Role of a CFO in Financial Risk Management

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Some common market risks include: Interest rate risk Foreign exchange risk Raw materials cost risk (copper, steel, etc.) Credit Risks Credit risk arises when customers or partners fail to meet their financial obligations.

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African Banking Roundtable: New Focus On Capital Markets

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One good recent example is in Ethiopia, where the central bank recently promulgated a number of new regulations that have made the foreign exchange market more competitive. That, plus other reforms, are expected to drive interest from investors. Because, again, its going to affect the overall asset portfolio at the back.

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SMB Funding Embraces The Open Banking Way

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FinTech partners include small business credit risk analysis company AccountScore and small business data company Codat. Poland's mBank Taps Treasury Pricing FinTech. Poland's first fully-digital bank, mBank , is collaborating with kACE to integrate the FinTech's treasury pricing technology.

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Today In B2B: Sage Collabs On Cash Management, Aareal Bank Debuts B2B Payments Platform

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The tie-up is an extension of a current relationship that will have Satago’s offering smoothly linked with Sage Accounting, which will offer clients automated invoice chasing, invoice finance and credit risk analysis in a single system. Cobase, Ebury Team Up On FX Payments.

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World’s Best SME Banks 2025: Regional Winners

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Before the pandemic, DBS had relentlessly leveraged emerging technologies to help SMEs, especially micro and small enterprises, streamline services and manage credit risk. “But it is changing—in the last two years, digitization has now become the No. 1 agenda for most banking CEOs.”

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Trade Credit Insurer Waldorf Launches AR Insurance For SMBs

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Walford Trade Risk, a trade credit risk insurance provider, is rolling out a new product designed to help small businesses protect themselves against the risk of non-payment from their corporate customers.

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Why Cross-Border Trade Is All About The Connections

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Whether it be the threat of non-payment, foreign exchange volatility or other factors, that foreign receivable is often considered to be higher-risk than a domestic one, resulting in FIs limiting the size of a credit facility offered to that business.