Global Finance

MARCH 2, 2025

The key benefit of Benfords law is that it doesnt matter what kind of firm it ispublic, private, what accounting policies it follows, what currency it operates in, whether its loss-making, whether its a growth company, highly leveraged or no leverage at allmakes absolutely no difference.

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Global Finance

JANUARY 9, 2025

Key features include secure global remittance networks, same-day express transfers to BEA Hong Kong accounts, foreign currency time deposits, and real-time foreign exchange services in 11 currencies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To get a sense of just how hard it is for cryptocurrencies to gain, well, currency in everyday life, consider bitcoin, perhaps the granddaddy of cryptocurrencies — and still the 900-pound gorilla in the space, with roughly two-thirds of the market cap across the entire sector. Back in May, i2c Inc. The Demographics — And Digital Fiat .

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 10, 2025

Can you elaborate on how people misunderstand the very purpose of currency? Enormous round stones are their currency. Q :“ From commodity money like gold to fiat currency to digital transactions – how has the evolution of money’s form changed or reinforced our fundamental misconceptions about what it is?

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 16, 2021

CFOs must be aware of cases and risks of digital currencies as 20% of large organisations will use them by 2024, said Gartner recently. Gartner recommends that organisations first clarify specific use cases for digital currencies before evaluating appropriate IT stacks to incorporate them within the enterprise.

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Fpanda Club

JANUARY 23, 2025

Risk management Effective risk management requires identifying and quantifying financial risks, such as market volatility, currency fluctuations, or operational disruptions. Yet, in many companies, KPI development is left to individual departments, leading to misaligned or inconsistent metrics.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Still, the pace of interest-rate hikes in the US and Europe will likely decelerate as inflation peaks, lowering the pressure on APAC central banks to tighten policy or to mitigate currency depreciation pressures, Moody’s predicted. The post Asia Pacific credit outlook stable as growth and leverage stabilise appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In business financing decisions , the cost of capital becomes an optimizing tool , where businesses look for a mix of debt and equity that reduces the cost of capital , and where matching up the debt (in terms of currency and maturity) to the assets r educes default risk and the cost of capital.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

Studies also show that most executives agree their top challenge is market volatility and the struggle to determine when — and how — to hedge currency risk. Corporates should be proactively looking at currency risk,” added Frey. Even if a business only deals in USD, fluctuations of other currencies create risk.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2021

4) alongside volatility in highly leveraged futures markets before recovering losses. Crypto prices often spike when there are extreme price swings, which Reuters reported shows the central role played by speculative traders in digital currency trading. 16 and other high points for consecutive days after.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

And, lastly, leverage attractive FTAs including the worlds largestthe RCEP. million Official language: Bahasa Indonesia Others: more than 700 languages including English, Dutch, local dialects (of which Javanese is most widely spoken). GDP per capita (2024): $5,000 GDP growth (2024): 5% Inflation (2024): 2.5%

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

London-based FinTech firm Revolut partnered with Visa to roll out a multi-currency travel debit card in Singapore, Visa said in a press release on Wednesday (Oct. The new card offers users the ability to spend overseas in over 150 currencies at the real exchange rate and without hidden fees. . and at least half in the U.K.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Citis support for credit-guarantee facility transactions in local currency attracted widespread recognition in the Mexican business community. After Basel III, some institutions, finding it difficult to meet international capital, liquidity requirements, and leverage caps, abandoned trade finance altogether.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 11, 2023

Country Risk: Currency and Cost of Capital. That increase in interest rates is not restricted to the US dollar, as local currency government bond rates have risen around the world. As a final part to this post, to see the shifts in country risk that we have seen in 2022, let’s start with an assessment of risk free rates.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Crypto boosters have spent the better part of the past decade promoting the idea that great fiat-currency disruptions are coming care of blockchain and literally hundreds of thousands of variations of cryptocurrency circulating in the world today. We are not opening [the initiative] up to anonymous wallets,” he said.

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Future CFO

MARCH 5, 2025

"This type of boundaryless approach to work where jobs give way to skills as the new currency will infinitely create new growth opportunities for our people." We are leveraging a diverse range of options ranging from e-learning platforms and multi-media tools to project-based immersive experiences to personalised one-on-one coaching."

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Lim Soon Chong , Group Head of Global Transaction Services, DBS As financial institutions seek to expand their cross-border payment capabilities, the challenge lies not only in scaling to new corridors but also in managing the complexity of currency volatility and compliance.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Treasurers are expected to grapple with the implications of these shifts and strategise on leveraging technology to enhance efficiency and adapt to the evolving work environment. Treasurers are advised to assess counterparty risk differently and explore strategies for managing currency risk, given the geopolitical uncertainties.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

AI-powered ERP systems can help address regional challenges such as complex regulatory environments, diverse currencies, and rapidly changing market conditions by providing more agile and responsive financial tools. Leaders can leverage this information to readjust the supply chain network based on AI-driven analytics.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Using infrastructure developed by Visa within its Visa Direct service, Interchecks is leveraging its own platform to facilitate real-time transactions for corporate clients of First Horizon's treasury management solutions. Mastercard Leads Central Bank Digital Currency Test. Zero Hash Embraces Payment Rail Cooperation.

Currencies 105

Currencies Accounts Payable Treasury B2B 105

PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

To that end, as Coinstar CEO Jim Gaherity told PYMNTS, the stage is becoming increasingly set for currency — the literal cold, hard stuff of bills and coins — to be rendered in bits and bytes.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2019

June was a busy month for cross-border payments — done across currencies and time zones, between consumers and corporates. The FX market is efficient for “larger” or dominant currencies such as the euro or the U.S. The strategic move also has a financial component, as Ripple took a $50 million stake in the money transfer company.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

The Jackson Hole, Wyoming, conference was comprised of current and former central bankers, including Bank of England Governor Mark Carney , who has challenged the dollar’s position as the world’s reserve currency. He pointed out that countries have tried sharing alternate currencies before and it didn’t work.

Currencies 77

Currencies Leverage Economics Banking 77

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Imbedding FX into the platform at the invoicing stage supports corporates’ need for multi-currency pricing, and allows them to price their goods in the currency most preferred by their own customers. The platform integrates cross-border billing, payment acceptance and reconciliation into a single solution.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Visa’s partnerships with FinTechs can help cut down on the paper that has clogged that system across a range of interactions, such as when hospital groups pay Big Pharma, or when insurance companies pay doctors individual disbursements for services rendered (leveraging Visa Direct for account to account payments).

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B2B Currencies Healthcare Cash Management 119

PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

Ripple, the blockchain company that has the XRP digital currency, reached a milestone on Tuesday (Jan. The company noted that JNFX, SendFriend, Transpaygo, FTCS and Euro Exim Bank will leverage XRP, its digital token, to source liquidity on demand when sending payments on behalf of their customers. 8) by reaching 200 customers.

Currencies 77

Currencies Leverage Banking Finance 77

PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

Business payment and accounting solutions provider Gilded said that digital currency data provider CoinMarketCap has implemented its cryptocurrency payment technology, according to an announcement. Our solution puts digital currency payments and accounting on autopilot, so businesses can focus on innovation and growth.”.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Absa Bank, a major M&A house with a presence in 10 markets, continues to facilitate most of the dealscutting across divestitures, cross-border transactions, take-privates, leveraged buyouts, and others. stake in Alior Bank, a move that would leverage Pekaos position in the region even further.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

billion leveraged loan for Lone Star Funds as part of its acquisition of Carrier Globals commercial and residential fire unit. LZ Central And Eastern Europe TBC Bank A mixture of local market and eurobond offerings is helping TBC Bank leverage its leading position in Georgias up-and-coming economy to post phenomenal growth.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

8) announced a beta offering called Line of Credit that it says lets its FinTech customers use the XRP digital currency to send cross-border payments. By leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT) and XRP, the universal asset for the exchange of value worldwide, Ripple can deliver access to services that were not previously possible.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

But by leveraging data, and advanced technology, you get the details that can help drive decision-making processes or the routes that a payment can take.”. That seamless interaction is built with APIs , where updates to payment offerings, security protocols and currencies become almost automatic.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The digital framework promoted by the EC advocates identity based on the e-IDAS framework, leveraging existing national ID schemes and public/private partnerships to achieve scale, and allow banks’ corporate and consumer customers to navigate commerce and financial services across borders in a fluid way. Ready for Digital Currencies? .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

JD was able to leverage the Jinghui platform between 24 warehouses and lower logistics costs and turnover days while increasing the online availability for products, the blog says. And things like working from home and introducing digital currencies could play roles in reshaping how the supply chain works in the future.

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Currencies Forecasting Leverage Planning 87

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York charged four operators of a purported international digital-currency “Ponzi scheme” with money laundering and fraud. Commodity Futures Trading Commission recently filed a complaint in a Texas U.S. A month earlier, the U.S.

Currencies 93

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper , authored by Satoshi Nakamoto , describing the digital currency called bitcoin was first publicly circulated. Ten years after bitcoin launched, it remains the go-to currency of criminals and a way for cybercrooks to wash their money. The end of this month, Oct.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Apart from difference in culture and languages, each jurisdiction has its own regulations, licensing requirements and currency regimes, often differing widely. Partners can leverage DBS’ local knowledge and relationships to navigate the complexities and risks of Asia. billion by 2030 1.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In a nod to those technologies, the increasing pivot toward online transactions and cross-border commerce mandates that, as Philipp Pointner, chief product officer at Jumio, told PYMNTS , “it’s important to leverage biometric-based technology to really prove your customer is who they say they are.

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