CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Strategic treasury management helps businesses stay financially stable, even when markets are unpredictable. This article explains what treasury management is, why market volatility matters, and how companies can adapt to changing conditions. Protects the business from risks like currency fluctuations and interest rate hikes.

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Bramasol

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Key Drivers for Shifting to Cloud ERP Agility and Flexibility: Businesses are seeking ERP solutions that can quickly adapt to changing market conditions. Security and Compliance: As companies migrate to the cloud, they can rely on their cloud ERP provider to prioritize data security and regulatory compliance.

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MAY 1, 2020

In many ways, the rise of crypto and digital currencies like Bitcoin aims to address some of these issues, empowering payers and payees with a way of bypassing the “middleman” of the inter-banking system for faster transaction speeds. .” Choice, he said, is key to guiding corporates toward a digital currency ecosystem.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

In terms of collaboration, as noted in this space, the Federal Reserve is working in collaboration with seven other central banks and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) to bring together a framework that would smooth the path to digital currency issuance. The Federal Reserve Bank has been exploring a digital currency.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Her speech, entitled “Payment and the Pandemic,” included a section on digital currencies. Mester noted the central bank had been looking into digital currencies even before the pandemic, “building and testing a range of distributed ledger platforms to understand their potential benefits and trade-offs.”

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The bank has also turned to electronic secondary bond market operator Tradeweb to take advantage of the market’s expertise in fixed-income trading and liquidity. Société Générale Securities Services acted as the on-chain custodian, while Goldman Sachs was the account keeper.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Offshore investments become a hedge against currency volatility. High inflation, currency volatility, and foreign exchange scarcity have eroded wealth and significantly contributed to a decline in net worth for many people. Wealth preservation and growth in Africa are highly challenging.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 10, 2025

But let’s set aside markets and investing strategies entirely. Can you elaborate on how people misunderstand the very purpose of currency? The strangest thing I came to realize was that the market crashes and bear markets that should have mattered the least to me were most terrifying. One fell off a boat and sank.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

18) that the government says would make convertible digital currencies like bitcoin less attractive to criminals engaging in crimes such as ransomware attacks. CVC" stands for "convertible virtual currency" – a category of digital products that can serve as currency. Bitcoin is a popular example.

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MARCH 3, 2020

The blockchain for the Marshallese sovereign (SOV) digital currency will be developed with Algorand technology, according to an announcement. Algorand was selected after extensive market research among the leading protocol options,” SFB Technologies Co-Founder and CTO Jim Wagner said in the announcement.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As the payments landscape in the Philippines undergoes significant evolution, the country is set to see a more seamless, secure, and interconnected setting in 2025, according to Visa. This upward trajectory highlights a shift in consumer behavior with Filipinos exploring global markets with increasing ease and enthusiasm.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Weeks before cryptocurrency exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy , dozens of young Nigerians in skintight dresses and brightly colored suits shimmied under limbo bars, posed for photos in front of the company’s logo and sipped expensive liquor at a swanky beachfront venue.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

7) that it is supporting SWIFT ’s latest service to speed effortless global cross-border payments for small- and medium-sized business (SMBs) and consumer markets. “We Oracle Banking Payments announced Wednesday (Oct. The subsidiary of Oracle Corp. is an IT solution provider to the financial services industry. The subsidiary of Oracle Corp.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California. Contrast Security.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Coverage includes the launch of Wirecard and Ctrip ’s multi-currency Visa cards for customers in China. Digital financial technology company Wirecard and online travel agency Ctrip are rolling out multi-currency Visa cards to Ctrip customers in China, Wirecard said in an announcement. In addition, U.K. ”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Its vendor management module integrates directly into educational institutions' enterprise resource planning (ERP) and AP systems to streamline supplier payment workflows, but also has a strong focus on supplier needs, including payment type and currency. NexusPayments Tackles Real Estate Supplier Adoption.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A group of senators have introduced a bill that would classify Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra as a security under the law, according to a report by CNBC. The bill is called the “Managed Stablecoins are Securities Act of 2019” and was proposed by two members of the House Financial Services Committee, Reps.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

As much as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have attracted scrutiny from the Department of Justice and still lack mainstream acceptance, Voyager’s portfolio of so-called “stablecoins” (which are linked to an underlying currency such as the U.S. With the treasury market for S&P 500 companies valued at $2.3 The Pandemic Pop.

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JUNE 24, 2020

The Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) has reported an increase in the volume of investment scam reports by investors and consumers in Australia amid the pandemic, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Conversely, American Express and Mastercard ’s commercial card market dropped. One way to cut the paper chase is for companies to embrace commercial card products, which can speed payments and aggregate information alongside those payments, while reducing errors and eliminating security risks typically associated with ACH transactions.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Chatterjee says these services are particularly valuable in Asian markets such as India, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia, as cross-border virtual CFO services provide structured solutions to drive growth, optimise financial operations, and ensure compliance with global standards.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

at online trading platform eToro , said in the report there are "storm clouds" on the horizon for the form of currency. Warnings of money-printing by global central banks, some of which began to show their own interest in digital currency, gave way to fears of inflation. billion unregistered securities offering.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“Most things take 10 to 15 years to drive through the ecosystem,” McCarthy told Webster — especially when a range of stakeholders are involved, spanning two-sided markets, consumers, merchants and governments. Blockchain remains a key driver of cryptos’ future, both as unit of currency and store of value. Back in May, i2c Inc.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

The People’s Bank of China said that China’s cryptocurrency, the digital yuan, will not need a currency basket to keep its value, according to a Monday (Dec. The [digital yuan] currency is not used for speculation. It isn’t known if there is another way to put a value on the currency without using the traditional renminbi.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

CipherTrace noted in a report that digital currency theft has nearly topped $1 billion over the first three quarters of the year at $927 million, Reuters reported. The organization noted that digital currencies are not an effective store of value, unit of account or payment means.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

News came this week that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has filed suit against Ripple over its XRP cryptocurrency. billion unregistered securities offering, and named CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Co-Founder Chris Larsen in the suit. XRP is a currency, as the DOJ and FinCEN determined in 2015.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Ripple for trading the cryptocurrency without registering it as a security. Bittrex will remove the currency on Jan. Ripple maintains “XRP is a currency, as the DOJ and FinCEN determined in 2015.”. In other news, bitcoin hit a new high on Wednesday (Dec.

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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. “The

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Already 70-80% of its 670 million population are active internet users, and there is tremendous opportunity to capture – Asia Pacific’s ecommerce market value is projected to grow to over US$28.9 trillion by 2026, according to the International Trade Administration. Real-world applications of this approach are already in motion.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“We’ve seen the acceleration [away from manual, paper-based back-office functions] due to employees working from home” and issues tied to security and battling potential fraud, Joiner said. We’re seeing increased costs to have security around the printing of checks, and what I’ll call ‘the old ways,’” said Joiner.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

“When FX risk is managed appropriately and efficiently, it can bring enormous value to companies that process large volumes of cross-border payments,” states Bhupen Velani, head of Transactional FX Trading in Global Markets at Bank of America. “As The one-year tenor is available in 37 currency pairs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The Nassau Guardian reported that the framework will address many of the regulatory challenges the bank associates with crypto, including tax evasion, market volatility, fraudulent initial coin offerings (ICOs), and anti-money laundering policies.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Budget 2022’s announcements on manufacturing, sustainability, electronics, digital currency, innovation and startups with technology as the cornerstone are expected to give a fillip to the tech industry. Overall LTCG on unlisted securities is now 23.92%, as opposed to 28.5% By Srinath Srinivasan. This is a Digital India budget.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) ordered domestic brokerages’ overseas units to stop opening new stock accounts for onshore investors to stem capital outflows that have pushed the yuan to a 16-year low. The post Chinese securities regulator stops brokerages from opening overseas accounts appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2021

As stock and bond markets went through these gyrations, it should come as no surprise that the same forces were playing out in other markets as well. Currencies : A currency serves three functions. There are a range of items that fall into this grouping from fine art to sports memorabilia to precious metals.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In the short-term, Bitcoin trades as a risky asset in an increasingly risk-on, risk-off market. The securities/ financial instruments discussed in this material may not be appropriate for all investors. This risk may be adversely affected by “negative roll yields” in “contango” markets. DISCLOSURES.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Security Risk: Social and class tension and unrest. The Peruvian currency has also been on a stable trajectory without extreme movements for over three years. VITAL STATISTICS Location: Northwestern South America Neighbors: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador Capital City: Lima Population (2023): 33.8 of gold, 15.3%

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