PYMNTS
OCTOBER 30, 2020
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.
Adam Kae
OCTOBER 29, 2020
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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Future CFO
OCTOBER 27, 2020
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.
The SaaS CFO
OCTOBER 26, 2020
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.
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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PYMNTS
OCTOBER 27, 2020
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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Future CFO
OCTOBER 26, 2020
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.
Planful
OCTOBER 28, 2020
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?
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 27, 2020
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.
CFA Institute
OCTOBER 26, 2020
What should investors consider before taking special distributions from long-term asset pools?
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.
Future CFO
OCTOBER 29, 2020
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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 30, 2020
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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 28, 2020
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
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 30, 2020
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
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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 28, 2020
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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 27, 2020
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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 28, 2020
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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 25, 2020
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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PYMNTS
OCTOBER 26, 2020
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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 28, 2020
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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 27, 2020
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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 30, 2020
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.
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
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 30, 2020
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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 29, 2020
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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 29, 2020
The pandemic is affecting the amount of money migrant workers can send home, with remittances projected to drop 7 percent this year to $508 billion and forecasted to drop a further 7.5 percent by 2021, according to a statement from the World Bank Thursday (Oct. 29). Last year, migrants sent $548 billion in remittances, a record high, the statement noted.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 30, 2020
It cannot be overstated how integral non-cash payments are to the global economy, with the United States processing more than 174.2 billion of these payments in 2018 alone for a total of $97.04 trillion. Cash payments are quickly falling to the wayside, with only 26 percent of all U.S. consumer purchases made with cash. Digital payments are fraught with obstacles, however.
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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