The SaaS CFO
JANUARY 26, 2020
You’ve decided that it’s time to take on investment or sell your SaaS company. Or maybe that cold email from a private equity associate finally has you thinking about the next steps for your business. What’s next? Preliminary SaaS due diligence. Depending on your role and what side of the table you’ve been on, the […]. The post How to Prepare for Preliminary SaaS Due Diligence appeared first on The SaaS CFO.
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JANUARY 23, 2020
MoneyGram has partnered with Suez Canal Bank to let customers send money right into Egyptian bank accounts, according to a press release. The deal will expand MoneyGram’s presence in Egypt and give it access to Suez Canal’s large network of correspondent banks around the globe. The bank will also connect with MoneyGram’s platform and offer customers new deposit services to give customers an enhanced experience.
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Jedox Finance
JANUARY 23, 2020
A new calendar year can be a great time to take a renewed, fresh look at your business planning and performance management. What has been working well? What hasn’t? Where to begin? Let’s go back to the basics for a few minutes: From the definition of Enterprise Performance management through its business value. How does EPM fit within a business’s existing technology architecture?
CFA Institute
JANUARY 19, 2020
“This time is different” might be the four most dangerous words in investing. “Uncorrelated returns” may just be the two most lucrative.
Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting
Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical
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JANUARY 1, 2020
While one might assume that a payments revolution would be a hard thing to miss, as it turns out, it can happen. It all depends on how closely the world is looking — and what exactly it expects to be looking for. Sometimes, DPO Group CEO Eran Feinstein told Karen Webster, a massive paradigmatic shift can fly under the radar, if it looks just different enough from what the world is used to seeing.
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JANUARY 27, 2020
Retail keeps embracing numerous new technologies, and biometrics is not only one of them, but an area of recent growth and development, including via some of the biggest names in commerce. Take Amazon, which continues to expand its brick-and-mortar retail footprint, and the technology underlying those stores. The company is apparently making a bet that the future of retail, and retail payments, will involve consumers’ hands.
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JANUARY 30, 2020
Self-driving vehicle company Aurora has been approved by California regulators to allow passengers rides in its fleet of driverless vehicles, according to reports. The California Public Utilities Commission ( CPUC ) granted the company an official authorization, showcased on the official Aurora website. “This permit lets us give rides powered by the Aurora Driver and shows that we’re committed to being good partners to California and the Commission,” an Aurora spokesperson said.
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JANUARY 10, 2020
China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), said it has completed the “top-level” design of its proposed digital currency, according to reports. The PBOC released the information in a recently released paper, saying that the “top-level design, standard formulation, functional research and development” of the digital yuan coin has been completed.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 14, 2020
In financial services, demand for ease of use and security are sky-high, even for business customers. But for many service providers, achieving one can often mean compromising the other. Payments and financial service providers are facing an even greater challenge in balancing these two capabilities in the age of open banking and cloud migrations, with more opportunities than ever before for sensitive company and customer data to be compromised.
Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA
Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.
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JANUARY 24, 2020
In a move that signals Tokyo’s concern regarding China’s effort to make a digital yuan, as well as Facebook’s Libra, a collection of ruling party legislators is crafting a proposal for Japan to create its own cryptocurrency. However, Japan is not likely to issue crypto in the near future because of the legal and technical obstacles, Reuters reported.
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JANUARY 21, 2020
Cross-border peer-to-peer (P2P) payments firm MoneyGram has teamed up with foreign exchange and global money transfer company LuLu Money , MoneyGram announced on Tuesday (Jan. 21). The Philippines-headquartered LuLu Money will use MoneyGram’s API-driven platform to interface with leading consumer-centric capabilities and advance its global network. Adeeb Ahamed, managing director of LuLu Financial Group , which is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, said the collaboration with MoneyGram “will revolution
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JANUARY 27, 2020
Kobe Bryant , who died Sunday (Jan. 26), was a well-known businessman and leaves behind a strong legacy of savvy investing and mentoring, according to a report by CNN Business. He was 41 at the time of his death. “For 20 seasons, Kobe showed us what is possible when remarkable talent blends with an absolute devotion to winning,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement Sunday. “… He was generous with the wisdom he acquired and saw it as his mission to share with future generations
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JANUARY 27, 2020
Businesses have good reason to be concerned about data breaches. Fraudsters’ attempts to access systems and steal valuable information are becoming more innovative, and research suggests they are also increasingly successful. Cybercriminals’ accomplishments come at the expense of targeted businesses, with a recent study finding that individual data breaches cost firms around the globe an average of $3.92 million in 2019 — a 1.5 percent increase from 2018.
Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant
Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.
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JANUARY 26, 2020
Latin America-based AlphaCredit has signed up for a funding round to raise $125 million, led by SoftBank’s Latin America fund. AlphaCredit is a FinTech platform with a focus on consumer lending and finance solutions. It provides credit lines to individuals and has usually worked in communities without much access to banks. In Mexico and Colombia, it has loaned more than $1 billion total to various clients.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 24, 2020
Cash flow management remains a major headache for small companies of all kinds, preventing many firms from making payroll, paying bills or even staying in business. Getting a handle on cash flowing in through accounts receivable (AR), and money flowing out through payroll and accounts payable (AP), is no easy task for resource-strapped SMBs – but in the auto collision market, cash flow complexities can be more extreme than the average mom-and-pop shop.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 23, 2020
Faster and real-time payments capabilities continue to proliferate in the global financial services arena, and consumers aren’t the only beneficiaries of the trend. Corporates, too, are beginning to explore opportunities in real-time transactions in areas like payroll and intra-company payments. The acceleration of the movement of money is likely to have significant implications for how organizations of all kinds – particularly banks and financial institutions (FIs) manage liquidity.
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JANUARY 20, 2020
Among other strategies, the U.K. has enlisted a name-and-shame approach to late-paying corporates. Yet analysts agree that the late B2B payments problem continues to worsen. According to recent reports by U.K. publication The Times , small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face an extra hurdle when chasing down late payments: collection efforts can damage the buyer-supplier relationship.
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Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.
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JANUARY 23, 2020
The New York City Council on Thursday (Jan. 23) passed a ban on cashless food and retail stores. The ban was reportedly spearheaded by Councilmember Ritchie Torres. After the decision, Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), praised the Council for doing away with cashless stores , saying that forcing customers to use only credit or debit is “discriminatory” and serves as a disadvantage for low-income customers, people of color, undocu
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JANUARY 24, 2020
Italian postal service Poste Italiane is introducing a new payments technology in an effort to attract more domestic small businesses, according to a report by Reuters. Marco Siracusano, the head of digital payment company PostePay, shared the news on Friday (Jan. 24). Poste Italiane’s new technology will be based on QR codes , which let buyers pay for things using their phones without the use of a POS terminal.
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JANUARY 24, 2020
With an array of bills brought forward by lawmakers during this legislative session, Washington state could become a leader in artificial intelligence regulation. The legislation homes in on digital profiling as well as biometric screening and is part of a wider list of bills related to technology that the state legislature is mulling, GeekWire reported.
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JANUARY 30, 2020
Farfetch, a luxury technology platform, has raised $250 million from Tencent and Dragoneer through the sale of convertible senior notes, according to a release. Tencent is a global technology company based in Shenzhen, China, and Dragoneer is an investment firm based in San Francisco. Each company will purchase $125 million of the notes. “I am pleased to have Tencent and Dragoneer as part of the Farfetch investor base.
Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll
Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng
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JANUARY 23, 2020
Mastercard and digital personal finance company SoFi have teamed up on a suite of products and experiences to benefit SoFi’s nearly one million customers, the companies announced in a release. The partnership starts with the SoFi Money debit card, an offering that will exist exclusively on the Mastercard network. SoFi’s card will provide an additional way for customers to spend with their SoFi Money cash management accounts.
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JANUARY 27, 2020
Here’s a truth about human beings: We’ll collect — and resell and profit from — just about anything. And the latest big trend in collectibles combines what amounts to a hat-tip to essentially ancient digital culture with up-to-date eCommerce. It seems that old-fashioned video games are that hot new item, assuming they are in pristine condition and come in factory packaging, according to a new report in The New York Times.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 12, 2020
The mPOS landscape got more interesting today (Jan. 12), as Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy XCover Pro, an enterprise-grade smartphone that comes pre-installed with Visa’s Tap to Phone app. Tap to Phone enables sellers with Android phones to accept contactless payments without the need for additional devices or peripherals. The evolution of commerce comes down to a single but powerful word: acceptance.
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JANUARY 26, 2020
Supermarket pharmacy counters are closing across the U.S. as they struggle to keep customers coming back. The move, happening in states as varied as Washington, Minnesota and everywhere in between, comes as customers have been making fewer trips to visit pharmacy counters while doing grocery shopping. Also, the large hand of big pharmaceutical companies has had an influence.
Speaker: Mark Stovel
When it comes to automating, many firms focus on finding the latest tech, believing that efficiency is something achieved through new tools. Yet true efficiency is achieved by delivering real value to clients, not merely by upgraded systems. Without a clear approach, no level of automation can overcome the complexities of serving every client’s needs.
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