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Three Years On, Open Banking Broadens For Business Banking

PYMNTS

Last week, the U.K. marked its third anniversary of adopting its open banking framework, making it the leading market to drive the concept of unlocking customers’ bank account data for integration with third-party solution providers. Over the last three years, the open banking model has continued to proliferate in markets around the world — even in jurisdictions, like the U.S., where there is no open banking regulatory mandate.

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WHITE PAPER - TRENDS AND FUTURE OF TMS

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Is Technology a New Asset Class?

CFA Institute

Investors may need to pay more attention to tech than all other sectors combined.

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The Storming of the Bastille: The Reddit Crowd targets the Hedge Funds!

Musings on Markets

I generally try to stay out of fights, especially when they become mud-wrestling contests, but the battle between the hedge funds and Reddit investors just too juicy to ignore. As you undoubtedly know, the last few days have been filled with news stories of how small investors, brought together on online forums, have not only pushed up the stock prices of the stocks that they have targeted (GameStop, AMC, BB etc.), but in the process, driven some of the hedge funds that have sold short on these

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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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Outdoorsy Makes Happy Campers Out Of RV Owners And Renters

PYMNTS

In the world of business, where the quest for profits, sales growth and the next big thing is never ending, here’s something you don’t hear every day. “I will die of old age before we've even cracked a fraction of this demand.” . That’s the market summary Outdoorsy Co-founder and CEO Jeff Cavins gave to PYMNTS' Karen Webster on the status of his RV rental platform, which’s about to cross the billion-dollar bookings milestone in only its fifth year in business.

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The Buffett Indicator Revisited: Market Cap-to-GDP and Valuations

CFA Institute

How useful is the Buffett Indicator really?

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Reimagining finance resilience and agility: A CFO Perspective

Future CFO

Chief financial officers are often seen as finance gatekeepers. Their job is to ensure the company has the right financial reserves, a strong balance sheet, and the in-depth forecasts that allow their CEOs to take the right steps forward. The pandemic changed this perspective. It shifted the finance role to the front and centre of organizations, with CFOs tasked to find the right steps forward in the absence of long-term forecasts.

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Visa, TransferWise Announce Global Partnership In Cloud Connecting

PYMNTS

Visa has debuted a new global partnership with TransferWise after working together on the new Visa Cloud Connect program, allowing FinTechs a new way to securely connect with the cloud, according to an emailed press release Wednesday (Jan. 27). Visa Cloud Connect connects FinTechs and other partners to VisaNet , Visa’s global processing network.

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WHITE PAPER - CASH-FLOW FORECASTING

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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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Data Update 3 for 2021: Currencies, Commodities, Collectibles and Cryptos

Musings on Markets

In my last post , I described the wild ride that the price of risk took in 2020, with equity risk premiums and default spreads initially sky rocketing, as the virus led to global economic shutdowns, and then just as abruptly dropping back to pre-crisis levels over the course of the year. As stock and bond markets went through these gyrations, it should come as no surprise that the same forces were playing out in other markets as well.

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LIBOR transition for corporates - tackling outstanding challenges

PWC UK

by Christopher Raftopoulos Director, Treasury Advisory and Assurance. Email +44 (0)7753 928134. More articles by Christopher. LIBOR transition has been a hot topic for the corporate treasury community for at least the past year. Although uncertainty over new reference rates has meant the corporate uptake has been relatively limited. A number of recent announcements should remind the treasurer that LIBOR’s likely eventual end date is fast approaching and action is needed.  Firstly in Decemb

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Reserve Bank of India Says It’s Exploring Possibility Of Digital Rupee

PYMNTS

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is exploring making a digital currency, a reversal of its prior position, according to a report from Cointelegraph. A booklet on payments released by the RBI Monday (Jan. 25), said the bank is “exploring the possibility as to whether there is a need for a digital version of fiat currency,” the report stated, adding that it would put one into use if necessary.

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WHITE PAPER - KYC

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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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What Your Business Needs in 2021

Capital CFO LLC

Leadership, high performance, and effective business strategies are needed more than ever as we move into the new opportunities of 2021. Last year was tough on us. It brought unprecedented […]. The post What Your Business Needs in 2021 appeared first on Capital CFO.

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FutureCFO newscast: Jedox and the value of XP&A

Future CFO

Investing in transformation will likely continue to be a top priority for CFOs in 2021, for both top-line growth and operating efficiencies. This was the assessment of PwC flowing from its CFO Pulse survey in 2020. According to the survey CFOs are placing bets on data analytics, automation, cloud and customer transformation. How this will be executed in 2021 remains a question. “75% of CFOs play to allocate more resources to digital transformation in 2021.

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Report: Payoneer Could Go Public By Merging With SPAC

PYMNTS

Digital payments company Payoneer is in talks to go public via a business combination with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) FTAC Olympus Acquisition Corp., Bloomberg reported. The blank-check company has started discussions to bring in new investment to help with a deal that could value the merged firm at over $2.5 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing an unnamed source.

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When to Use Big Data — and When Not To

CFA Institute

The full promise of big data can only be realized when it is guided by thoughtful human expertise.

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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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Financial & Business Management Assessment & The Power of Controlled Costs for Restaurants

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As we leave 2020 and look ahead to 2021, the restaurants that assess their current situation, the ‘Now’, and look ahead to the goals they want to achieve, the ‘Where’, will be able to better plan, the ‘How’, to prosper in this new year. As you look through this assessment/checklist of key restaurant financials and business management activities below, mentally rank each one on a scale of 1 to 10 to establish where you are ‘Now’ and then establish ‘Where’ you want to be in 3, 6, or 12 months.

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Temple University: Moving from a paper close to the cloud in just four weeks

Planful

Financial close and consolidation on spreadsheets is always difficult. Add in a literal paper trail, international collaboration, and rigid reporting formats, and the manual efforts can sometimes begin to buckle under the pressure. . That was the monthly status quo for Temple University ’s Finance team. They labored to manage the reporting and consolidation process across tens of thousands of grants and programs, with added complexity given their foreign campus in Tokyo.

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ACI: Fuel Sales Add Fire To C-Store Digital-First Efforts

PYMNTS

By the numbers, convenience stores are America’s gas stations. They account for 63.7 percent of all gasoline sold in the country, and 80 percent of them combine the food staples they’re well known for with the pumps for the business they’ve come to dominate. But the simplicity ends there. For convenience store chains and independents, fuel is a razor-thin business.

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Moody’s: Uneven recovery, secular shifts widen divergence in Asia’s credit quality

Future CFO

The pandemic shock has increased the vulnerability of Asia's weaker credits though Asia’s China-led economic recovery is set to pull ahead of other regions, said Moody’s recently. Asian countries with stronger governance and better control over the pandemic will face fewer strains on growth prospects and a quicker reversal of negative fiscal metrics, said Deborah Tan, a Moody's Assistant Vice President and Analyst.

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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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Deferred Property Tax

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Mastercard Debuts NextGen Contactless Technology

PYMNTS

Mastercard has applied new quantum-resistant technologies in order to develop a new kind of contactless payment, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. The new Enhanced Contactless (Ecos) specifications will come along with the demand for more efficient, safer products overall, the release stated. Contactless payments are “future-proofed” in that they will let consumers access the security and convenience for long into the future, according to the release.

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Employers Need To Prepare For The Post-COVID ‘Golden Age of Workers’

PYMNTS

Given that the World Economic Forum has been relegated by the pandemic to a week-long digital discussion, how fitting is it that a conference of executives, elected leaders and academic experts that would normally be gathering in the snowy Swiss mountain town this week be told that the Golden Age of remote work is upon us and that there’s no turning back?

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Open Banking Meets Instant Payments At The Online Checkout

PYMNTS

Last week marked the third anniversary of PSD2 , the regulation that launched open banking in the U.K. and Europe. And those three years have given rise to a slew of new companies capitalizing on that initiative all over the world, as well as established companies making their mark. According to Ossama Soliman , chief product officer at open banking provider TrueLayer , the very fact that there are so many payment options pushes new entrants to differentiate themselves from the pack.

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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.