CFO Thought Leader

MARCH 25, 2025

Now watch our complete episode Tim Arndts two-decade journey at Prologis propelled him from treasury and capital markets into the CFO office three years ago. He highlights Prologiss large global footprint, underscoring effective currency exposure management, the importance of ESG, and a focus on tangible cash flow.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Marcelo Flora, partner and head of Digital Platforms at BTG Pactual, discusses FX management amid elevated geopolitical tensions and the rise of the Chinese yuan. Global Finance: In a landscape where central bank decisions and carry trades significantly influence global FX markets, what unique value can a bank offer its customers?

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Currencies Risk Management Banking Finance 52

CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Without proper planning, companies may struggle to pay bills, manage debts, or take advantage of new opportunities. Strategic treasury management helps businesses stay financially stable, even when markets are unpredictable. What is Treasury Management? Treasury management is about handling a companys money wisely.

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Treasury Profit and Loss Currencies Risk Management 52

CFO Talks

JULY 23, 2024

This article aims to provide practical, actionable insights into effective risk management strategies that you can implement within your organization. Understanding Risk Management in the CFO Role Risk management is an integral part of the CFO’s stewardship role.

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Risk Management CFO Compliance Communication 52

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Currency hedging has long been a part of global business and trade — but now it is becoming more important thanks to increasing economic and political volatility. Hedging — as in preparing for currency fluctuations and other factors — is something that eCommerce firms need to embrace, too, as another PYMNTS story demonstrates.

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The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2023

It is changing how businesses deal with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), and AI algorithms can always watch for risks. AI can look at lots of data, find patterns, and predict risks. AI also does tasks automatically and saves time for risk managers. They can then plan and stop problems more actively.

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Risk Management Profit and Loss Currencies Compliance 52

Future CFO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This requires expertise beyond finance, including knowledge of the global economy, market trends, laws and regulations, business strategy, and emerging technologies.” The ongoing geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainties, and market volatility call for a sharper focus on risk management and strategic decision-making.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

Yet, understanding and developing a clear strategy for FX risk mitigation can be elusive, even for the largest firms. 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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

The partnership aims to create a secondary credit market that is transparent and efficient and makes it easy to manage credit and digitally store documents, loan history and due diligence activities, preventing “information asymmetry risks,” the release stated.

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Marketing Risk Management Currencies Banking 97

Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

Here again, it seems to us that the need to dematerialize, digitize and automate is logical to make companies more resilient and efficient in their financial management. Finally, in this top tier, the management of financial risks, including currency risk, which can be explained by the increased volatility of the markets.

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Cash Flow Forecasting Treasury Forecasting Foreign Exchange 130

Future CFO

MARCH 11, 2025

More recently, the introduction of low-code/no-code platforms has democratised process management, empowering business users to design and modify processes directly with minimal coding. This agility allows businesses to react more quickly to changing market conditions and ensures that processes align with business needs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Having multiple providers ensures merchants can still access funds from their card transactions even if one bank provider stops operating in a certain industry or currency, for example. A Single Digital EU Market. I’m really hopeful that one day I will see a single digital market in the EU,” said Metodieva.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The convergence of AI and ERP offers the potential to overcome traditional barriers to efficiency and accuracy in financial management, enabling Asian companies to compete more effectively on a global scale. However, we must stay focused on business outcomes to help guide our approach to AI and look beyond the hype.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Bad weather, infestation, speculation: Such factors can not only mean survival or failure for farmers, but impact food prices and the larger global economy without any effort at hedging or risk management. dollar, with economic chaos in emerging markets — and the early and late 1970s, he said. dollar and other factors.

Currencies 40

Currencies Risk Management eCommerce Economics 40

Planful

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The panelists included Hari Avula, CFO of Frito-Lay North America; Erik Charles, VP of Product Marketing at Xactly; Amath Fall, CFO of Fleetpride; and Scott Frisch, COO at AARP. What are some of the key risks to your business? Another panelist highlighted their investment in inventory, as well as managing growth in the business.

Risk Management 40

Risk Management CFO Budgeting Benchmarking 40

Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While the job has always had a strong risk-management component, the basic task was simple: making sure the company has cash available, when and where it’s needed. Things change on a daily basis, which is very different from three or four years ago,” says Herve Carrere, chief product officer, Treasury and Capital Markets, at Finastra.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Despite all the negative news, despite all the political and trade tensions, despite all the currency declines, there are reasons for optimism for merchants, wholesalers, manufacturers and other businesses. What are the signals saying when it comes to such areas as trade, currency risk and emerging market stability?

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Foreign Exchange Currencies Risk Management Cash Management 62

CFO Talks

AUGUST 29, 2024

Make sure it aligns with your business goals and review it regularly to keep up with market changes. Smart Debt Management Handling debt is about more than just paying off loans. Managing Risks Good treasury management also means protecting the business from risks like currency fluctuations or changes in interest rates.

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Treasury Cash Flow Forecasting Foreign Exchange Currencies 96

Global Finance

MAY 10, 2024

President Javier Milei’s currency moves give markets room for planning, but his ambitious economic restructuring faces roadblocks. PROS Large economy and domestic market. While the cepo [currency controls] is in place, this won’t change. Bribery requests not uncommon. Low to moderate threat of terrorism. in February.

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Currencies Economics Foreign Exchange Investments 88

Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Trapped cash is a key concern for large multinationals; the more currencies they operate across, the bigger the headache. HSF partner Gabrielle Wong echoes Lang’s view on the need for greater collaboration, noting a growing willingness by treasurers to invest time and money to access the market.

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

PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2017

Jean-Luc Robert, chairman and CEO at Kyriba , talks about his approach to innovation and what is critically important about payments in today’s market. We strive to deploy innovations in Kyriba solutions so that our clients will maintain a market advantage when crisis strikes.

Risk Management 40

Risk Management Treasury Auditing Securities 40

Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

He also provides an update on Brazil’s innovative financial initiatives, including the development of DREX, the country’s digital currency. However, even weaker economic data, pointing to a risk of a stronger-than-expected deceleration, contributed to higher volatility. This interview has been edited for clarity.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2018

Fortunately, there is something businesses can control: a calculated, well-executed hedging strategy that can help mitigate FX risks. The short answer: It depends on the business, and the market. trillion: The estimated value of the global currency swap market. stock market trades were made using algorithms in 2014.

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Currencies Quantitative Data Valuation Economics 40

Future CFO

AUGUST 27, 2023

At a recent roundtable discussion, co-organised by FutureCFO and Moody’s Analytics senior finance executives dissected the issues and concerns that face Singapore-based finance leaders must navigate amid the continuity volatility and uncertainties of markets around the region and globally. Now, it is not possible.

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Risk Management Credit Risk Finance Risk Analysis 98

Global Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

trillion in extended credit and new capital for its consumer and institutional clients while moving $10 trillion in over 120 currencies daily. The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s quick response to the banks’ failures stemmed additional contagion and has left businesses with an object lesson in concentration risk.

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Banking Foreign Exchange Profit and Loss Finance 111

PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

that has led to a depreciation of the pound are having widespread impacts throughout supply chains with touchpoints in the markets. catering equipment importers working with Eurozone suppliers are struggling to manage the struggle of the pound against the euro. “We Reports Monday (Aug. According to the publication, U.K. importer said.

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Foreign Exchange Accounts Payable Risk Management Reconciliations 72

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

1) that IdentityMind’s pioneering compliance, risk management and fraud prevention platform has integrated CipherTrace ’s digital currency risk assessment technology. Virtual currencies are an important, emerging area within the world’s fast-growing digital economy. IdentityMind Global announced Monday (Oct.

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Currencies Compliance Risk Management Investments 57

PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

For many firms, these trends are forcing the introduction of an FX strategy on a company for the very first time, and when corporate treasurers aren’t prepared, they can run into complications beyond the cost of currency exchange. A recent controversy at American Express highlighted that risk for SMBs.

Foreign Exchange 69

Foreign Exchange Currencies Cash Management Profit and Loss 69

PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

The State of Risk Oversight: An Overview of Enterprise Risk Management Practices ,” a new report released by the American Institute of CPAs ( AICPA ) and North Carolina State University’s Enterprise Risk Management ( ERM ) Initiative), surprisingly only mentions cyber risk a handful of times.

Risk Management 54

Risk Management Leadership Prioritization Economics 54

PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

s Conservative Party leadership contest is only the latest geopolitical event sparking concerns among analysts over foreign exchange (FX) markets — and corporates’ ability to react to those changes. With Johnson named as new Prime Minister, analysts are again shifting their focus on the execution of Brexit and how FX markets will be impacted.

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Foreign Exchange Currencies Treasury Benchmarking 57

PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

The procurement of raw materials can expose an organization to some serious market volatility, the risk management software firm said, and much of the solutions these firms are using to mitigate risk, like ERP solutions, don’t quite make the grade when covering a business’ exposure to commodity trade risk.

Treasury 40

Treasury Risk Management Currencies Foreign Exchange 40

PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

Last year, Frey spoke with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster about some of the biggest challenges of FX management. When currency risk management or hedging is done well, it’s really all about taking something that is, ultimately, out of a firm’s control with what happens, with respect to international foreign exchange markets,” he said.

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Foreign Exchange Accounts Payable Invoicing Reconciliations 64

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

and China, as well as Brexit , are among the biggest current geopolitical events that continue to rock the FX market, and companies are at risk of taking significant financial hits as a result. Foreign exchange risk alone increased 8 percent for this market in Q3, and by 13 percent since the start of the year, the report found.

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Foreign Exchange Currencies Profit and Loss Finance 62

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In an interview with Karen Webster of PYMNTS, Karl Schamotta, who serves as chief market strategist at Cambridge Global Payments, said we’re living in a new age. No one yet has found a good way to price exchange rates or to price currencies. Fluctuating foreign exchange rates are a relatively new phenomenon,” he told Webster. “It

Foreign Exchange 76

Foreign Exchange Currencies Invoicing Forecasting 76

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As a licensed exchange, BitBay has to follow the market standards. Compliance with market standards and regulations allows us to provide our clients with legal security and convenience of using the exchange, with the participation of a friendly banking system and the availability of payment operators,” BitBay said.

Risk Management 56

Risk Management Compliance Currencies Securities 56

Future CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Chief financial officers will need to consider the potential impact of China's debt situation on their companies’ credit ratings since a downgrade in the country’s sovereign credit rating could lead to downgrades for corporates as well, which could further increase borrowing costs and potentially limit access to capital markets.

Economics 52

Economics Currencies Communication Risk Management 52

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The partnership supports Payment Canada's need for RTR to enable ISO 20022 messaging standards and remain in compliance with the Bank of Canada 's risk management standards for payment systems, an announcement revealed. As he discussed, banks must look beyond speed to find the value proposition.

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B2B Reconciliations Risk Management Accounting 104