Sat.Oct 24, 2020 - Fri.Oct 30, 2020

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Mastercard’s Cyber Secure Uses AI To Help Banks Fight Cyber Fraud

PYMNTS

Mastercard has unveiled its artificial intelligence (AI)-fueled Cyber Secure tool suite, which lets banks evaluate cyber risk throughout their ecosystems and stop possible breaches from occurring, according to a Friday (Oct. 30) announcement emailed to PYMNTS. Banks can discover and rank threats and vulnerabilities across their cyber environments with the help of the tool.

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Myths of Private Equity Performance: Part I

CFA Institute

"In private markets, no one can figure out your true performance.".

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Negotiation for Physicians

Adam Kae

We get it, you're a doctor, not a lawyer! So we understand if you dread the idea of negotiating with your insurance company. Negotiation may not be your cup of tea, but it can impact you AND your clients. Think: more money in your pocket, saving your patients money, and getting paid in record time. It's more than a big smile and a "salesman" technique or two.

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China and Vietnam: the most complex countries in Asia-Pacific for accounting and tax

Future CFO

TMF Group is a global provider of critical compliance and administrative services, with some 7,800 in-house experts across 80-plus jurisdictions. New report Accounting & tax: the global and local complexities holding multinationals to account analyses and ranks 77 jurisdictions based on the complexity of their accounting and tax laws and practices.

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The Human Side of Finance: The Intersectionality of People, Culture, Adaptability, and Resilience

Speaker: Melissa Hurrington

Finance isn’t just about the numbers. It’s about the people behind them. In a world of constant disruption, resilient finance teams aren’t just operationally efficient. They are adaptable, engaged, and deeply connected to a strong organizational culture. Success lies at the intersection of people, culture, adaptability, and resilience. Finance leaders who master this balance will build teams that thrive through uncertainty and drive long-term business impact.

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Visa To Acquire YellowPepper To Expand Network of Networks In LATAM

PYMNTS

Visa has inked an agreement to acquire YellowPepper , which works with startups in the Caribbean and Latin America, according to an emailed press release. The acquisition builds on a strategic partnership and investment made in 2018, where Visa invested in the company back then. With YellowPepper, companies can access application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow issuers, processors and governments to easily access numerous payment rails and let multiple payment flows through one single con

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How to Grow Your SaaS Business with Debt Financing

The SaaS CFO

You’ve bootstrapped your SaaS business to thousands or millions of dollars in revenue. You feel like you have more potential to grow, but you are limited by the cash in your bank account. You need capital, but where do you start? We are all familiar with the traditional path of equity financing, exchanging ownership in […]. The post How to Grow Your SaaS Business with Debt Financing appeared first on The SaaS CFO.

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CIMA launches new online ethics tool

Future CFO

The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) has launched a new online ethics decision-making tool designed to help accounting and finance professionals make ethically sound decisions in tough situations. . The tool’s launch is part of the Institute’s month-long campaign celebrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals, culminating today on Global Ethics Day, CIMA noted.

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Hands Off: Touchless, Contactless Payments Drive Consumer Safety Preferences

PYMNTS

That consumers are a bit gun shy when it comes to shopping in physical stores — particularly when it comes to checking out at the point of sale and having to share a touchpad with every other shopper that’s been in all day — is well known a little over a half-year into the pandemic. But as PYMNTS’ recent data on the subject found, there’s more than one way to avoid physical contact with the POS inside a store — and consumer preferences are trending toward one over the other.

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Radical Uncertainty in Finance: Why Modern Finance Keeps Failing

CFA Institute

We need to reject the mirage Modern Finance projects on the market and revive a commonsense approach to uncertainty.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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HR Transformation: Better HR, better people, better business

Planful

At Planful, when we talk with our customers about finance transformation we hear clear goals and talk of compressing cycle times and raising the financial IQ in every corner of the business. But when we listen to Human Resources leaders talk about transformation of their domain, the outcomes usually aren’t as defined. . Why is that? Let’s dig into HR transformation and uncover why it matters and how to take your team from being seen as a service desk (Payroll questions?

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World Economic Outlook

Future CFO

Global growth is projected at ?4.4% in 2020, a less severe contraction than forecast in the June 2020 World Economic Outlook Update. The revision reflects better-than anticipated second quarter GDP outturns, mostly in advanced economies, where activity began to improve sooner than expected after lockdowns were scaled back in May and June, as well as indicators of a stronger recovery in the third quarter.

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Personal Loan Apps Show Resilience In Latest Provider Ranking

PYMNTS

Maybe it’s a byproduct of that which shall not be named — by which we mean the pandemic — but PYMNTS’ Provider Rankings have been remarkably calm and unwavering throughout 2020, including our latest Provider Ranking of Personal Loan Apps , a category of intense interest. We’re not saying there are absolutely no changes, but few enough that we should be able to make short work of summing up the hottest personal loan apps out there.

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Kount Says Fraudsters Will Follow Shoppers This Holiday Season

PYMNTS

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton — the famous criminal with four decades of bank robbery experience — is said to have offered what was likely history’s clearest answer: “Because that’s where the money is.”. Whether Sutton ever actually uttered that line is a matter of historical debate. But what isn’t debatable is the essential truth of his purported statement — and how relevant it is to the 2020 holiday shopping season, as Kount Chief Customer Experience Officer Rich Stuppy recent

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Smarter Card Solutions: Meeting the Challenges of Mid-Market Travel & Expense

Our 2025 Center Travel Survey is clear: as corporate travel increases, so does corporate credit cards distribution, and a rise in off-platform travel booking. This 61% rise causes various challenges: compliance, spend control, reporting problems, and a lack of visibility across organizations. To evolve with the ever-changing needs of travelers, decision-makers need a better solution.

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Why PDFs Aren't Enough To Digitize The Procure-To-Pay Workflow

PYMNTS

Digitizing documents is key to optimizing workflows, but when it comes to the procure-to-pay space, not all digital invoices and purchase orders are created equal. XML invoices, which digitize the data on the invoice, are only a fraction of total invoice volume. The rest come in a variety of formats, including PDF and, of course, paper. And just because a PDF may be technically an "electronic" format, it presents many of the same challenges as paper — i.e., the need for manual extraction and ent

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Digital Transformation Accelerates Emerging Payment Platforms

PYMNTS

It would be difficult to pick a single reason why payments modernization is currently accelerating. But Domenico Scaffidi , head of market infrastructures for FinTech software maker Volante Technologies , told PYMNTS in a recent interview that better cloud technology, proven cost efficiencies and COVID-related lifestyle changes are all partial explanations.

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Bitcoin Daily: Crypto Industry Stocks Jump With Bitcoin’s Rise; Cashaa Teams To Build Crypto-Friendly FI

PYMNTS

Blockchain industry stocks are on the rise as bitcoin reaches new heights, Seeking Alpha reported. HIVE Blockchain Technologies, Riot Blockchain and Marathon Patent Group are on the uptick, according to the report, which was published early Tuesday (Oct. 27) afternoon Eastern Time. Bitcoin reached higher than the $13,600 level intraday. The price of bitcoin was $13,750.90 as of 7:19 p.m.

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REPORT: Payments Orchestration Optimizes Digital Payments Efficiencies, Boosts ROI

PYMNTS

Businesses across the United States likely knew they would be in for a long, uphill battle to stay afloat when they first began closing their doors in mid-March, but did not know just how long they would be dealing with the fallout from the COVID-19 crisis. Roughly eight months since the pandemic was first declared, businesses are now open, but consumers have yet to return to the store in previous numbers.

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Bringing AI to Finance: How to Leverage Technology for Efficiency and Control

Finance teams are balancing more than ever, but manual processes shouldn’t slow you down. In this ebook from BILL, discover how AI is transforming finance—automating AP, expense tracking, and document management to reduce errors, increase efficiency, and improve financial control. Learn how real companies are using AI-powered automation to streamline workflows, detect anomalies, and gain deeper insights.

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Verizon, Microsoft Partner To Accelerate 5G Technology

PYMNTS

Verizon and Microsoft have teamed up to accelerate the delivery of private 5G networks for businesses, announcing a collaboration they said will transform the retail, transportation, logistics, manufacturing and healthcare industries. Touting 5G data speeds that are already 25 times faster than current 4G technology (and will eventually be 100 times faster), the two companies said the security, reliability and ultra-low lag times will bring increased efficiency and reduced costs.

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Upgrade Rewards Cardholders For Paying Down Debt

PYMNTS

The pandemic has changed all kinds of things about consumers. They’re more concerned for protecting their health, they're working remotely, they’ve relocated most of their commerce lives online and on mobile — the list goes on and on. But perhaps the most interesting shift, Upgrade CEO and Co-founder Renaud Laplanche told Karen Webster, is how much more focused they’ve become about being financially responsible in these uncertain times.

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ISPs Reinstate Data Caps For US Employees Working From Home

PYMNTS

The mass increases of people working and learning from home during the pandemic have resulted in changes in habit for internet use, but also new strategies to keep bills down as internet service providers (ISPs) start putting data caps back into play, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Even users who never had to think about their internet usage have received notices from companies like Comcast saying they are using too much data, WSJ reported.

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Pandemic’s Pressure Points Highlight B2B Payments Vertical Needs

PYMNTS

B2B ’s pain points when it comes to payments are well known — where paper checks dominate, where even the fax machine makes an appearance. But in a panel discussion with Mike Massaro , CEO of Flywire , four executives from various verticals — from freight management to banking — discussed how pressure points are spurring a shift to digital processes.

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Say ‘Goodbye’ to Clunky Spreadsheets and Say ‘Hello’ to Month-End Automation

Technology is rapidly changing the way accountants perform and manage month-end activities. Spreadsheets, emails, and shared drives no longer need to slow you down. In under four weeks, your team can start reaping the benefits of month-end close automation by vastly reducing spreadsheets, cut down on reconciliation work, speed up the month-end close, and better manage your remote team.

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OpenPayd Launches Access To Quick Foreign Exchange Payments

PYMNTS

OpenPayd , an application programming interface (API)-led Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider, launched InstantFX on Tuesday (Oct. 27), which will help clients access easy foreign exchange payments, according to a press release. This will do away with the need for batch processing. The program is delivered through OpenPayd's BaaS platform, installable through existing technology with an API, according to the release.

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Home Is Where The Package Is: Merchants Bring Last-Mile Delivery In House—And To The House

PYMNTS

The great digital shift hits us where we live, literally. In an interview with Karen Webster, Khaled Naim , co-founder and CEO of Onfleet , which provides last-mile delivery management software to merchants, said year-over-year delivery volume has been surging amid the pandemic, with triple-digit increases in some segments, double-digit increases in others — and no signs of stopping.

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Deep Dive: How Payments Orchestration Can Drive ROI And Reduce Payments Processing Costs

PYMNTS

Covering the cost of payments processing is an unavoidable expense, but many businesses can find themselves paying more than necessary. It is not uncommon for firms to try to mitigate processing costs by using only one payment service provider (PSP) in the hopes of limiting fees, but businesses that rely on just one PSP have less bargaining power to negotiate favorable contractual terms.

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Mastercard Uses Blockchain To Innovate AgTech

PYMNTS

Trust in supply chains can be a tricky thing to achieve. It’s absolutely necessary to make them work, but they can be hard to establish because so much of how things actually move from Point A to Point B can be frustratingly opaque. Mastercard ’s Senior Vice President of Innovation and Startup Engagement Deborah Barta told Karen Webster in a conversation with Luis Macias , CEO and Founder of GrainChain , that COVID-19 has only intensified the issue.

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Outsourcing Vs. In-House: The Ultimate Battle For Better Collections

Speaker: Susan Richards

Your past-due accounts are growing, cash flow is tightening, and the pressure is on. The big question: Do you handle the collections internally or outsource to experts? Both strategies come with advantages and risks - but which one delivers the best impact for your business? In this session we’ll dive deep into the in-house vs. outsourcing debate, examining cost-effectiveness, efficiency, compliance risks, and overall recovery success rates.