Sat.Dec 28, 2019 - Fri.Jan 03, 2020

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Africa’s Quiet Cashless Payments Revolution

PYMNTS

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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Book Review: The Ethical Investor’s Handbook

CFA Institute

That investing responsibly is complicated does not imply that investors should abandon the effort, in Morten Strange’s view.

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Zero-Based Budgeting: Zero in on the Money

Jedox Finance

Zero-Based Budgeting is a unique accounting practice with specific advantages and disadvantages. It forces businesses to think about how each and every expense is managed in a specific budgeting period. A detailed spending plan is still the fastest way to achieve your finance goals. In general, a budget can be used to determine where every single cent should go each month.

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Organisational complexity remains top auditor concern

Future CFO

As organisations continue to collect customer and employee data, chief audit executives (CAEs) are increasingly concerned about how to govern and protect it, noted Gartner. The analyst’s annual Audit Plan Hot Spots Report revealed that data governance has risen to the top spot of CAEs’ audit concerns, up from second place in last year’s report, replacing cybersecurity preparedness.

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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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Why Speed And Scale Will Define Global Payments In The 2020s

PYMNTS

Speed, scale and engagement — if you say it a few times, really get your vocal cords and mouth into the exercise, there’s a certain snap to those words put together like that. As well there should be — those are among the main traits set to define payments in the 2020s. We here at PYMNTS don’t mean to wear you down with all our anticipation about the new decade.

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What Is an Asset Class?

CFA Institute

The economy has only a handful of truly fundamental drivers that influence different asset classes.

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Max out your Win-Loss analysis

Future CFO

There are plenty of famous quotes that remind us that we learn more from our failures than our successes. I’m sure you’ve seen them: “We learn from failure, not from success” “Failure is success if we learn from it” “There is no failure, only feedback” This popular attitude may help explain why managers conducting win-loss analyses tend to look to their lost deals for wisdom more often than they inspect their wins.

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Samsung To Launch ‘Artificial Human’ Called Neon

PYMNTS

Samsung disclosed that it will introduce an “artificial human” called Neon at CES 2020 on Jan. 7 that is totally different than its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Bixby, Digital Trends reported. The limited information about Neon was shared on Samsung’s Twitter account, and includes an “Artificial Human” teaser in several languages with the tagline “Have you met an ‘artificial’?”.

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Risk Mitigation

Finvisage

Patisserie Valerie says finance chief arrested. The owner of Patisserie Valerie has said its finance director Chris Marsh was arrested last night and then released on bail. The cafe chain is fighting for survival after revealing on Wednesday it had uncovered “significant, and potentially fraudulent, accounting irregularities” Mr Marsh had been suspended when these problems were discovered.

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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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Top 10 Posts from 2019: Damodaran, Marks, Shiller, and Buffett

CFA Institute

The leading Enterprising Investor articles from 2019 feature insights from some of the top luminaries in all of finance.

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HKICPA launches new qualification programme

Future CFO

The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) said recently that it has scheduled to launch the new qualification programme stage-by-stage, aiming to offer flexible pathways and relevant trainings to students with different educational backgrounds to become CPAs. The new programme is designed to meet the market needs, in turn align with the concept of "Accounting Plus" to attract more young talents into the accountancy profession by equipping them with analytical minds and pro

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Self-Driving Truck Hauls 40K Pounds Of Butter Across US

PYMNTS

Silicon Valley startup Plus.ai is thought to be the first company to deploy a self-driving commercial truck to haul 40,000 pounds of butter roughly 42 hours cross-country from Tulare, California to Quakertown, Pennsylvania, ZDNet reported. The company’s Level 4 autonomous semi-tractor-trailer completed the 2,800-mile run for Land O’Lakes in under three days.

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Trade Credit Insurance

Finvisage

To what extent should we expect the demand for Trade Credit Insurance to increase in the UK and what are the major factors affecting the same? Executive Summary. Initially the research paper begins with an Introduction on TCI’s processes, technological advances and key features. The report further proceeds with Results and Findings column, confronting data on several key economic factors affecting TCI on a macro scale.

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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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KPMG, PwC, EY To Put $9B Toward AI, Data Tech

PYMNTS

The largest accounting firms – EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC – are investing billions of dollars in artificial intelligence (AI) and data technology products to change the industry in new ways, according to a report by Bloomberg Tax. The investment goes beyond the idea of just automating processes, moving into entrenched AI work, data analysis and tech training for all employees.

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Record Holiday Sales Trigger Record $100B Returns

PYMNTS

Gift returns have become a holiday tradition in the U.S., with consumers anticipated to send back a record $100 billion worth of unwanted goods bought this year between Thanksgiving and Christmas, The Financial Times reported. Last year returns from purchases made during the same period hit $6 billion. Online purchases are almost three times more likely to be returned than those in stores, leaving retailers with millions of items to sort.

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2020 To Mark A Turning Point At The Point of Sale

PYMNTS

The end of one decade, the beginning of another. Might the coming year be marked by innovation at the point of sale (POS)? The PYMNTS 2019 end-of-year survey of 30 executives asked for payment-related predictions that could (theoretically) be placed in a time capsule to be unearthed 12 months hence. The time frame, of course, is somewhat short. Thinking about what will come to fruition by the end of December 2020 gives little runway to predict, say, the most mobile of mobile commerce options (fl

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PayPal Deepens LATAM Reach With MercadoLibre Integration

PYMNTS

Digital payments firm PayPal is turning to Latin America to strengthen its position in the eCommerce payments and remittance arenas. Today (Dec. 30), PayPal announced an expansion of its partnership with Argentinian eCommerce company MercadoLibre (dubbed the “eBay of Latin America”), as it positions itself to capture more of Latin America’s market share.

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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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Get Ready For More Voice In Retail — And Soon

PYMNTS

It’s going to be a very vocal year when it comes to retail. Voice is the killer app of the connected commerce experience, according to the How We Will Pay: 2019 Edition study. For the third consecutive year, the use of voice-enabled devices and assistants to enable purchasing has increased faster than any other type of connected commerce. About 31 percent of consumers now own voice-activated devices, up from 27 percent in 2018 and 14 percent in 2017.

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Deep Dive: AP Processing Delays And How New Payment Innovations Can Help

PYMNTS

Paper-based payment methods such as checks and cash are awkward and cumbersome in either business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions. The negative impact that these increasingly outdated methods have on both senders and receivers has mostly been ignored, however. Such legacy payment methods are usually tied to paper-based invoices and manual tracking and reconciliation procedures, which impede payments from being processed in a timely manner.

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When Instant Payments Are Just Payments

PYMNTS

In just three years, one word, one idea, has rewritten the payments rulebook: “instant.” Driven by faster phones, ingenious apps and sheer market force, the move to instant is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with payments, opening up new worlds of risk and reward. Rarely do consumers and businesses agree on anything as much as they have on instant.

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How Mobile Order-Ahead Drives Innovation In Restaurant Design

PYMNTS

As diners can order a wide range of cuisines from their smartphones, mobile order-ahead continues to become more popular — and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are taking note. The technology is changing the design of restaurants, as some coffee chains are rolling out pick-up only locations while others are refreshing stores with pickup windows. Large chains like Dunkin’ and Starbucks were among the first to embrace mobile order-ahead technology.

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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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Corporates Brace For Cloud Computing Accounting Changes

PYMNTS

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which establishes accounting standards in the U.S., has released new guidance on computing costs for cloud computing to take effect for public businesses in 2020. It also provides a new standard for companies that struggle with the implementation of the technology, according to a report by Compliance Week.

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2019: A Banner Year (And Bumper Data Crop) For Hackers

PYMNTS

It’s the list no one likes to be on. It’s kind of like being on the “worst dressed list” except that we’re talking about stolen data and, probably, lots of lawsuits. Welcome, then, to the Top Data Breaches of 2019. The readings are pretty grim. At a high level, the numbers are staggering. Millions of accounts hacked. Billions of records accessed. Thousands of breaches.

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JPMorgan Ups Security By Blocking FinTechs From Passwords 

PYMNTS

The downside of data sharing has come full circle as JPMorgan Chase strives for enhanced protection by blocking FinTech apps from accessing customers’ passwords, The Financial Times (FT) reported on Tuesday (Jan. 2). As a way to get users’ passwords “out of the system,” the lender will disburse tokens to third parties, embedded with limited data, Bill Wallace, Chase’s head of digital, told FT. .

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Open Banking Overcomes The Data Obstacle Of Paper

PYMNTS

The Open Banking business model has derived mixed reactions from the financial services market, and without a regulatory mandate in the U.S., it’s not entirely clear how deeply the data sharing strategy will proliferate. What is clear, however, is that Open Banking is gaining traction, largely driven by the competitive pressure for banks to enable their customers with the FinTech tools they demand.

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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.