January, 2025

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The changing landscape of finance leadership

Future CFO

As with anything in the world, the finance leadership landscape has been evolving especially following the COVID-19 pandemic which brought about drastic changes into the market. The finance function has been handling shifts here and there and chief finance officers have time and again strove to find the balance as they now work as strategic advisors to the C-suite team to bring in specific strategies for innovation.

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US economy to ‘remain strong,’ grow 2.3% in 2025: Conference Board

CFO Dive

Several organizations, including the International Monetary Fund, have recently singled out the U.S. as an especially promising economy in 2025.

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Burdened by Business Complexity?

Navigator SAP

If this story sounds even vaguely familiar, it is time to consider SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and help from Navigator Business Solutions.

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FP&A’s Scope: What Is In And What Is Out?

Fpanda Club

As FP&A professional, how often do you feel that you do something you shouldnt? FP&A is an evolving function that falls into the intersection of finance, operations and strategy aimed at driving better decision-making trough insightful analysis, forecasting and goal setting. Having unique access to data about all the activities throughout an organization, it is not uncommon that FP&A teams are often asked to perform tasks which are not necessarily aligned with their core objectives.

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Protect What Matters: Rethinking Finance Ops In A Digital World

Speaker: Cheryl J. Muldrew-McMurtry

Distributed finance teams are rewriting how the back-office runs, and attackers are taking notes. Disconnected workflows, process blind spots, and rising cyber threats are more than just growing pains—they’re liabilities. The challenge isn’t just going remote. It’s building resilient systems that protect accuracy, control, and speed across every transaction and touchpoint.

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“Nobody Knows Anything,” Wall Street Strategist Edition

Barry Ritholtz

A regular theme around these parts is “ Nobody Knows Anything. ” Specifically, nobody knows what will happen in the future. This is true about equity and bond markets, specific company stocks, and economic data series. We do not know which geopolitical hot spot will erupt in turmoil; we have no idea where or when the next natural disaster will hit.

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

For the last four decades, I have spent the first week of each year collecting and analyzing data on publicly traded companies and sharing what I find with anyone who is interested. It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them.

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22 Top Financial Advisor Podcasts To Listen To In 2025

Nerd's Eye View

There is no shortage of written content available for financial advisors to enhance their technical skills, grow in their careers, and run more successful planning practices, from books to research studies to long-form written content. Of course, given the demands of their busy schedules , finding time to dig into this content can be a challenging endeavor.

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How to Prepare Your Finance Team for Growth 

CFO Talks

How to Prepare Your Finance Team for Growth One of your most important roles is to nurture and develop your finance team. After all, a strong and adaptable team is key to achieving long-term success in a competitive business environment. Preparing your finance team for growth is not just about giving them new tasks; its about equipping them with the skills, mindset, and tools to thrive in a changing world.

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Avoiding The M&A Failure Trap: Q&A With NYU’s Baruch Lev And SUNY Buffalo’s Feng Gu

Global Finance

Baruch Lev is Philip Bardes professor emeritus of Accounting and Finance, Kaufman Management Center, Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. Feng Gu is chair and professor of Accounting and Law at the School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo. Together, they recently published The M&A Failure Trap: Why So Many Mergers and Acquisitions Fail, and How the Few Succeed (Wiley).

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The AI Race Isn’t Just About Tech Superiority – Its the Supply Chain, Stupid!

The race to dominate AI is no longer about who has the smartest algorithms — it's about who can build and scale faster. Behind every AI breakthrough lies a battle for resources: data centers, compute hardware, power, and telecom infrastructure. And right now, even tech giants are hitting a wall. Our latest white paper reveals the six critical supply chain elements that are increasingly separating AI leaders from the rest.

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Cyberattacks, tech disruption ranked as top threats to business growth

CFO Dive

Forty percent of executives view data breaches and leaks as the most financially burdensome man-made threats, a Chubb study found.

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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Intelligent ERP 2025 Predictions Summary

Navigator SAP

The IDC FutureScape report highlights key trends and predictions shaping the future of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise application technologies. The document emphasizes how AI, particularly Generative AI (GenAI), is transforming business operations and enabling a shift toward more automated and efficient workflows. The main predictions and drivers provide a roadmap for organizations aiming to modernize their systems, optimize processes, and maintain competitiveness in a data-dr

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DeepSeek crashes the AI Party: Story Break, Change or Shift?

Musings on Markets

I am going to start this post with a confession that my knowledge of the architecture and mechanics of AI are pedestrian and that there will be things that I don't get right in this post. That said, DeepSeek's abrupt entry into the AI conversation has the potential to change the AI narrative, and as it does, it may also change the storylines for the many companies that have spent the last two years benefiting from the AI hype.

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Financial alchemy: How CFOs can lead the tech revolution in their organisations

Future CFO

At the FutureCFO Conference series, organised by Cxociety, finance leaders in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand ranked automation and degitalisation (80%), investing in talent and employee development (58%) and continuous innovation (47%) as the top three strategies most important to sustainable growth in 2024. Source: Data collected during the FutureCFO Conference series in 2024, Cxociety Research Coming into 2025, as finance leaders face mounting pressure to do more

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2025 Global Finance Leaders Survey

79% of finance leaders we surveyed say they play a multifaceted role—ensuring financial stability, managing risk, and enabling transformation. In our 2025 Global Finance Leaders Survey, 751 global leaders shared their biggest challenges, top priorities, and outlook for the year ahead. Here’s what you’ll learn in the survey report: An in-depth look at different leadership approaches and what they mean for finance leaders Top challenges facing finance leaders, from data reliability to talent manag

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Kitces & Carl Ep 156: How Are You Getting Value Out Of ChatGPT As A Financial Advisor?

Nerd's Eye View

Since the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the mainstream technological landscape, conversations about which areas of the financial planning industry would be most likely impacted by AI have proliferated. These discussions have ranged from questioning whether everyone would be out of a job in five years to wondering if anything of substance would change at all.

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India: Private Investments Power $125 Billion Clean Energy Push

Global Finance

After the space sector, India opened up its last frontier, nuclear power, to private investments with an immediate market potential worth $125 billion. In a phased manner, private and foreign capital will be channelled to replace heavily polluting coal-fired power plants with a fleet of nuclear reactors and thereby decarbonize its economy. To begin with, 50 small pressurized heavy water power reactors with capacities of 220 MW each will be lined up with an investment of $26 billion.

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AI could drive new record growth in big tech’s capex this year: UBS

CFO Dive

The tech giants are also expected to make progress in narrowing the gap between their AI spending and revenue levels.

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502 Release Updates

Navigator SAP

What's New in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502 - Executive Update The SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502 release has arrived, bringing a range of exciting innovations. In a video, Bert Schulze, Vice President of Cloud ERP Product Success, highlights key advancements such as Joule , AI Copilot, AI-enhanced user experience features, the SAP Green Ledger for sustainability, and scalable partner solutions.

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How to Set Better OKRs and Drive Results

Before you can achieve success, you have to define it. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give you the framework to do just that. Paycor’s free guide includes a step-by-step process leaders can use to work toward – and achieve – their loftiest business goals.

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Data Update 2 for 2025: The Party Continued (for US Equities)

Musings on Markets

In my last post , I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years, increasing its share of market capitalization from 42% in at the start of 2023 to 44% at the start of 2024 to 49% at the start of 2025. That rise was driven by a surge in US equity values during 2024, with the S&P 500 delivering returns of close to 25%, all the more impressive, given that the index delivered returns in excess of 26% in 2023.

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Female Leadership in Finance: Ong Hui Giap from Coface

Future CFO

Editors note: Don't act to prove yourself to others, said Ong Hui Giap, Chief Financial Officer (South East Asia & India Region), Coface. In todays Female Leadership in Finance interview, Ong shares with us her advice for aspiring female finance professionals, the challenges facing her as a finance leader, and how hiking inspires her life and career.

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Five “Self-Persuasion” Questions To Connect With Prospects Who Say They’re Interested… But Aren’t Moving Forward

Nerd's Eye View

Financial advisors often engage with a variety of prospects, each with unique needs and motivations. Some prospects approach an advisor with an immediate 'problem to be solved', such as a fast-approaching retirement date. These situations often narrow the focus of the prospecting conversation, giving the advisor a clear opportunity to affirm their value (e.g., "I help clients in retirement by doing X, Y, and Z.").

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Saudi Arabia’s IPO Boom Reshapes Its Market Dynamics

Global Finance

A flood of public offerings in the kingdom is redefining its markets, luring foreign investors, and fueling global expansion. Saudi Arabia is experiencing a boom in IPO activity, signaling the liberalization of its economy and a shift away from government-led privatizations that once dominated its investment market. The Arabian Company for Agricultural and Industrial Investment, known as Entaj, is the latest to announce its IPO plans, intending to offer 30% of its share capital to the public.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook For Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.

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Walking a tightrope: 6 CFO trends for 2025

CFO Dive

Financial executives can gain an edge in 2025 by monitoring six trends in federal policy and business strategy.

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud in the Product-Centric ERP Market

Navigator SAP

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is positioned as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises. With a focus on midmarket and large enterprises, the solution is designed to support essential manufacturing, supply chain, and financial processes, making it a strong choice for organizations aiming to modernize operations and adopt composable ERP strategies.

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New 10-year TIPS gets real yield of 2.243%, highest for this term in 16 years

Tips Watch

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The Treasury’s auction of $20 billion in a new 10-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security — CUSIP 91282CML2 — generated a real yield to maturity of 2.243%, the highest for this term at auction since January 2009.

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How is AI Going to Affect Accounting and Finance Teams?

CFO Selections

These days were hearing a lot of clients ask, How is AI going to affect my business? Unfortunately, theres a lot of fear mongering going around related to AI based on largely unfounded concerns. Theres an uneducated belief that AI could steal jobs away from skilled professionals across various business facets like accounting and finance. However, this is simply untrue!

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Data Talks, CFOs Listen: Why Analytics Is The Key To Better Spend Management

Speaker: Claire Grosjean

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.