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Georgia’s Push To Reopen Falls Flat As Consumers Stay Home

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The road to recovery after the coronavirus pandemic is widely expected to be a winding one as businesses, consumers and officials work to figure how to restart an economy intentionally shut down roughly two months ago. It is a situation complicated by the fact that a roughly comparable event hasn’t occurred in the U.S. in over a century, meaning there is no living expert with any practical expertise at managing the fallout from an incurable pandemic.

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4 Ways to Get Cash and Credit For Business Fast

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Get Cash and Credit for Business Fast Access to cash and credit for your business is crucial whether you’re in the early stages of starting a business or been in operation for years. When you have working capital, you have the ability to cover those unforeseen expenses you didn’t plan for and other costs you […]. The post 4 Ways to Get Cash and Credit For Business Fast appeared first on Business Credit.

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Epsilon appoints Craig Forrester as Group CFO

Future CFO

Epsilon said today it has appointed Craig Forrester (pictured) as its Chief Financial Officer, with immediate effect. . Forrester will lead Epsilon’s global finance and legal functions and work alongside recently appointed Chief Executive Officer Michel Robert to drive its business growth globally, the company noted. In addition, he brings more than two decades of experience to the role having held positions at Colt, BT, Sony and Lucent, according to Epsilon with a statement.

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Getting the most out of your Investor Update email?—?tips from your target audience

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Getting the most out of your Investor Update email?—?tips from your target audience By Christian Noske & Alex Lee This piece is a team effort between Christian Noske and myself. Christian is the Head of Alliance Ventures. We started talking about how important it is to have transparency between an investor and its portfolio companies. The outcome was this piece on Investor Updates.

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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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Virtual Tellers And Workhorse ATMs: Banking’s New (Digital-First) Normal

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The prospect of restarting the economy of bringing all manner of everyday life in the U.S. back to some semblance of “normal” has challenges — and opportunities for banks, especially community banks and credit unions. The challenge lies with serving the needs of the individual who may be hesitant to go back to the old ways of banking — of walking up to teller windows, of handling cash in envelopes.

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China's shadow financing system faces rising asset impairment

Future CFO

The shadow financing system in China will come under growing pressure in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic takes a toll on private companies' ability to generate cash flow, said Fitch Ratings recently. As a result of the expected prioritising of economic stability over deleveraging by the Chinese government this year, the clampdown on shadow banking will ease as the authorities look to stave off a potential wave of defaults associated with the pandemic and its fallout, the rating agency noted in

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Visa, Conferma Pay, Make Corporate ‘On The Go’ Card Spend Tap And Pay

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The stage is set for contactless payments in commerce, for plastic to remain in the wallet, and for consumers to embrace digital wallets. As workforces become more decentralized, as far-flung employees still have to pay suppliers and vendors — and perhaps even travel (someday) — the stage may be set, too, for technology to help transform the way employees spend corporate money.

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Why Unified Commerce Is Critical For Merchants — And Catnip For Fraudsters

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The shift to digital commerce is more urgent than ever — and so are some of the potential pitfalls as fraudsters recalibrate their attacks and eye card-not-present transactions as a new way to make off with ill-gotten gains. In an interview with Karen Webster, Carleigh Jaques, senior vice president and general manager of CyberSource , a Visa solution, said commerce is now different, especially for smaller enterprises.

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Visa Leads Latest Funding For FinTech Startup Nium 

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FinTech payments startup Nium , based in Singapore, is getting a new round of funding led by new investors Visa and BRI Ventures. Nium, formerly known as InstaReM, has closed four funding rounds totaling $59 million since it was founded in 2014. The size of this latest round was not disclosed. Prajit Nanu, chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder of Nium, said in a statement on Wednesday (May 6) that he is “thrilled” to get the backing of “prestigious” new investors like Visa and BRI Venture

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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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Payoneer CEO: eCommerce’s Surge And Brick-And-Mortar’s ‘Vicious Cycle’

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The coronavirus has spurred a seismic shift in commerce, moving shopping into the digital realm. . Consumers are buying anything (and seemingly everything) and conducting all manner of everyday business online because that is their only option. . In an interview with Karen Webster, Scott Galit, CEO of Payoneer , said the impact will continue to be global in scope and deeply felt across all avenues of commerce — giving new rise to cross-border commerce. .

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NEW DATA: States Push To Reopen – Will Consumer Demand Follow?

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It has been almost two months since the World Health Organization (WHO) first declared the coronavirus a pandemic on March 11, and it has since taken an unprecedented toll on consumers’ wellbeing and livelihoods. Many policymakers are making a push to lift the restrictions that have been put in place to slow the spread of contagion in the hopes of reviving the battered economy.

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PayPal Processed More Transactions On May 1 Than On Black Friday

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“It was the best of the times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens in one of the more famous openings to a novel in history. It was a fairly good description of life in Europe on the eve of the French Revolution and, as it turns out, a reasonably good synopsis for the recent rush of earnings reports in the era of COVID-19. For many firms, the last two months have represented the absolute worst of times as social distancing and forced closures have ground their businesses to a halt

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Vista Equity Injects $1.5B Into India’s Jio Platforms

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Jio Platforms Ltd., India’s largest mobile operator, announced it is raising 113.67 billion rupees ($1.5 billion) from Vista Equity Partners, the U.S. private equity firm. The deal is the latest in a series of investments by the Mumbai-based firm to eliminate its debt, The Wall Street Journal reported. . Last month, PYMNTS reported that Facebook would invest $5.7 billion for a 10 percent stake in Jio Platforms, the digital technology arm of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s conglom

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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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Out-Thinking Hackers With Adaptive AI

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Whether the objective is teaching behavior to kids, being an effective team member, or building more impenetrable cyber defenses, learning from a good example works. This is pertinent to artificial intelligence (AI) in finance, where enhanced forms like adaptive AI are fulfilling the technology’s promise by actually “learning” — foremost from the behavior of legitimate deposit account holders — so that hackers stand out when they make a move.

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Earnings Reports from FIS to PayPal Herald Point of Sale’s ‘New Normal’

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For companies like Fiserv, Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), PayPal and others, selling terminals, offering payments platforms and designing checkout buttons, top and bottom lines were poised to move up and to the right. The first quarter of 2020 should have been business as usual — especially for the payments processors and financial services technology companies — the firms that keep commerce humming across offline and online channels.

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Federal, State Investigators Question Wells Fargo Over PPP Loans

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Federal and state officials are investigating Wells Fargo regarding the bank’s management of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. A regulatory filing on Tuesday (May 5) indicated that the country’s fourth-largest bank received “formal and informal inquiries from federal and state governmental agencies regarding its offering of PPP loans.”. The San Francisco-based bank started processing applications for PPP loans on April 4, a day after the program opened.

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Securing The Growing Digital Opportunity

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People have been talking about the world “going digital” for the last decade, and anticipating the arrival of a digital-first world. But even the most enthusiastic futurist or technologist couldn’t have forecast that by the first week of May 2020 the world would no longer be going digital so much as gone digital in response to black swan events that radically hit reset on our working, commerce and personal lives nearly overnight.

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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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1 In 4 US Cardholders Saw Credit Limit Cut Over The Last Month

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Nearly 50 million credit card customers in the U.S. said they have had their credit limit slashed or their card closed in the past month as lenders move to minimize their risk amid the COVID-19 shutdown, a new study revealed. The survey, released on Monday (May 4) by CompareCards, a division of LendingTree, found one in four Americans say their credit card terms have been changed involuntarily since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Credit Unions, CUSOs Fighting Fraudsters

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“Credit unions across the country are on high alert for scammers looking to take advantage of members during the pandemic and are stepping up fraud prevention efforts as a result,” according to PYMNTS’ April Credit Union Tracker® done in collaboration with PSCU. Detailing warnings recently issued by New York’s Sidney Federal Credit Union and the City of Boston Credit Union, among many others, credit union (CU) members are the target of cyberattackers posing as the Centers for Disease Contr

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Visa: FinTechs And Fast-Tracking The Road To Recovery

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“We’ve basically seen a multi-year acceleration of the world going digital over the course of a few weeks.”. That’s Visa Senior Vice President and Global Head of FinTech Terry Angelos reflecting on the impact of the rapid shift to digital for consumers and businesses around the globe who en masse began living many aspects of their personal and business lives in a mostly digital world — literally all at once, overnight.

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Fed Launches FedNow Community For Instant Payments, Seeks Participants

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The Federal Reserve has formed a FedNow Community group for its upcoming instant payment offering, the FedNow Service , and needs volunteers to support it, the Fed announced Wednesday (May 6). The Fed acknowledged the challenges brought on by the coronavirus but noted the FedNow Service is still scheduled to be unveiled in 2023 or 2024. “While we work to support the industry and our customers during this difficult time, we want to ensure that our collaboration with industry stakeholders on FedNo

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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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Samsung Pay Launches Debit Card, Money Management

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Samsung Pay is launching a physical debit card and this summer will introduce a money management tool in partnership with SoFi. “Now more than ever, people are counting on technology to help them make contactless payments, shop, and manage their finances without leaving the house,” said Sang Ahn, vice president and GM of Samsung Pay’s North America service business, in a statement.

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Why Data-Backed Innovation Is The Medicine Healthcare Needs

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Among the more unnerving surprises of the coronavirus pandemic for most people was learning just how vulnerable and thinly stretched some areas of our healthcare system really are. Between the panic over personal protective equipment (PPE), the concern over not having enough hospital beds and the interstate bidding wars for ventilators — the worries became so severe that shutting the entire economy down to flatten the curve seemed the only way to be certain that the entire system would not colla

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Room To Grow For ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’

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“Buy now, pay later” (BNPL) options are very popular — when people know they exist, that is. In the April-May 2020 edition of the Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker® , done in collaboration with Afterpay , we discover that the draw of instant credit has greater potential than it has already shown and, as awareness grows on this concept, there’s plenty of headroom for growth.

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Online Gambling And The Challenges Of Betting On Instant Disbursements

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a noted effect on how several industries can operate and interact with their customers during this time including retail stores, movie theaters and casinos. The pandemic has shut down brick-and-mortar casinos in markets like the United States to help minimize risk, for example, leading consumers to turn to online casinos and sportsbooks.

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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.