PYMNTS
JULY 26, 2020
India has embraced its model for digital payments so much that it intends to take it global. Since its debut four years ago, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the instant payment system developed by the National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI) that facilitates inter-bank transactions, has propelled the growth of online payments, the Financial Times (FT) reported.
Business Credit Blogger
JULY 31, 2020
How to Build Business Credit In today’s post we’re going to talk about a key fundamental step for building business credit for your company. While acquiring credit from vendors, suppliers and other businesses that report to the business credit agencies is a widely known practice for establishing business credit; why not also have your business […].
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CFO Plans
JULY 30, 2020
By Casey Gillam – Sales Manager at CFO Plans Inc. Greg Baszucki , a serial tech entrepreneur, built Wheelhouse Enterprises to address several key needs in the business software industry – giving companies the tools and resources needed to compare business software solutions, generating demand online, and connecting leading software vendors with highly qualified customer leads.
Future CFO
JULY 30, 2020
The current pandemic will trigger a major acceleration in business insolvencies due to both the suddenness and historic size of the economic shock and its expected lasting effects, said Euler Hermes recently. The lasting effects are critical for companies that were already the most fragile before the crisis and are now among the sectors —transportation, automotive, non-essential retail, as well as hotels and restaurants — hit the hardest by measures to contain the pandemic, the trade credit insu
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.
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PYMNTS
JULY 30, 2020
The ATM isn’t living up to its full potential, a fact that’s really starting to come into focus for financial institutions (FIs) under COVID-19. The days of the ATM serving as just a quick cash dispensary are numbered, Sonia Sedler , Diebold Nixdorf ’s global head of managed services and banking strategy, told PYMNTS in a recent discussion. Consumers who are rapidly moving to digital commerce in the pandemic’s wake are looking for very different things when it comes to transacting with financial
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CFA Institute
JULY 29, 2020
Does investor overreaction to ESG controversies create the opportunity for abnormal returns?
Future CFO
JULY 29, 2020
While cybersecurity is increasingly an issue when employees have to work from home, it's no longer only a responsibility of IT because the financial impact from security incidents can be huge. FutureCFO talked to David Sajoto (pictured), Vice President of Sales for Asia Pacific and Japan, ExtraHop for advice on how CFOs can work with IT to guard their organisations.
PYMNTS
JULY 31, 2020
Tests of truly autonomous self-driving vehicles have been uneven at best, but with each scraped test hubcap, the concept draws closer to reality. Major automakers are in, with Toyota backing autonomous driving startup Pony.ai and Fiat Chrysler striking a deal with AutoX , the Hong Kong-based firm that has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for driverless vehicles.
CFO Plans
JULY 30, 2020
By Gary Hewamadduma ACMA, CPA, CGMA, MBA, B.Sc.(Hons) in Computer Engineering. Let me start by saying, I am all for automation. All entities in our portfolio are geared for automation. Anytime we have a chance to use a piece of software to take care of things, we make use of that. In a wider spectrum, we also think of ways to improve ourselves in the long run by adopting the latest technologies.
Speaker: Claire Grosjean
Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.
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CFA Institute
JULY 27, 2020
Are investors correctly pricing expected future growth in the current valuations of MNC companies and their parents?
Future CFO
JULY 28, 2020
The SAP Concur 2020 survey, Finance in the New World of Work , revealed gaps in organisations’ expense management, business travel, and remote work processes. According to Asia Insight , which conducted the survey, 38% of respondents submit expenses manually by filling out a form and enclosing physical receipts. The manual process results in tedious and error prone processes that do not take advantage of available technologies and process innovations.
PYMNTS
JULY 29, 2020
With the economic and political battles between the U.S. and China heating to a boil, one of China’s top banks is urging financial institutions (FIs) to cut their use of the SWIFT financial messaging network for cross-border transactions. The bank’s messaging applies to Hong Kong and Macau as well. With U.S. sanctions against China looming, state lenders there have reportedly been developing contingency plans.
PYMNTS
JULY 28, 2020
The bank-FinTech collaboration model is often about wielding digital-native FinTech solutions to fit within bank offerings. Yet this week’s look at the latest tie-ups reveals new models of collaboration, including FinTechs expanding their footprint within banking, and wielding banks to fit within their own tech solutions. Kabbage Steps Into Banking.
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
PYMNTS
JULY 30, 2020
Large pharmacy chains selling mixed merchandise are a mainstay of life throughout the developed world. Familiar planograms with the pharmacy in back, pulling shoppers through rows of candy and cosmetics to get their medicine is an everyday routine. Or it was. Big Pharmacy’s reliance on the sale of non-pharmacy products — a strategy that’s worked for years — may now be an Achilles’ heel in a post-pandemic battle for prescription drug market share, where waiting on pharmacy lines with sick people
PYMNTS
JULY 29, 2020
As virtual marketplaces displace (and replace) the physical variety at a dizzying pace, payments speed and security are paramount concerns. When transactions and payments occur cross-border, those concerns are doubled. Companies want and need more visibility into cross-border payments, and with the blastoff of eCommerce in 2020, those needs grow daily.
PYMNTS
JULY 31, 2020
Corporate travel manager CWT paid $4.5 million worth of bitcoin in ransom this week to hackers who said they seized control of 30,000 company computers and two terabytes of data, Reuters reported on Friday (July 31). The news service said it learned details of the negotiations between Minnetonka, Minnesota-based CWT and the unidentified hackers because the talks played out in a publicly viewable chat room.
PYMNTS
JULY 28, 2020
“Be careful what you wish for – you just might get it.”. That ancient proverb, one oft-repeated by mothers and fathers to their daughters and sons over generations, also applies to PayPal’s Darrell Esch’s path to his new role as general manager of Venmo. A 10-year PayPal vet, most recently in the role of senior vice president of credit, Esch told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster that he was once asked years earlier if there was any other job at the company that he’d like to have.
Speaker: Dave Sackett
Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.
PYMNTS
JULY 26, 2020
Wells Fargo is engaging in significant cost-cutting, including layoffs, in a bid to become more lean amid the pandemic-induced financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. The total number of layoffs hasn’t been finalized yet, according to WSJ, but they are expected to be in the tens of millions, although they won’t all happen at the same time.
PYMNTS
JULY 27, 2020
Although there are countless ways a cybercriminal can swindle funds from a company — either from the outside or within — it’s often the invoice at the center of the crime. This week’s Data Digest looks at the latest in B2B payments fraud and the invoice’s role in supplier payment redirect scams, credential theft and more. 43 percent of employees admit to mistakes that have caused cybersecurity repercussions, a new study has found, according to OnRec reported.
PYMNTS
JULY 29, 2020
Bank of America (BoA) has expanded its mobile wallet use to include corporate customers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC) regions, hoping to enhance clients’ experiences through faster and more secure business transactions, according to a press release. In 2018, BoA launched digital wallets in the U.S. and Canada.
PYMNTS
JULY 27, 2020
The insurance industry has been bogged down by sluggish service and even slower payouts for decades, and while policyholders have certainly weathered their fair share of friction from the sector’s legacy incumbents, those insurance companies themselves have also suffered from a lack of digitization and automation. It’s a landscape that has created an opportune environment for technological innovation.
Speaker: Erroll Amacker
As businesses increasingly adopt automation, finance leaders must navigate the delicate balance between technology and human expertise. This webinar explores the critical role of human oversight in accounts payable (AP) automation and how a people-centric approach can drive better financial performance. Join us for an insightful discussion on how integrating human expertise into automated workflows enhances decision-making, reduces fraud risks, strengthens vendor relationships, and accelerates R
PYMNTS
JULY 27, 2020
Hackers boasting that they have “cracked” some of the hashed passwords stolen from digital banking aggregator Dave may be one of the most disturbing elements to emerge from the cyberheist that exposed the private information of millions of users, a top expert notes. The FinTech on Saturday (July 25) confirmed the data breach after reports emerged that details involving as many as 7.5 million banking users had been exposed on a forum used by hackers to sell and swap ill-gotten data.
PYMNTS
JULY 29, 2020
“Fundamental changes to the B2B payments landscape are taking place today, faster than ever before, helping the ecosystem eliminate inefficient B2B payments processes.”. Access to capital hasn’t been this tight since the market meltdown of 2008, so motivated players are finding better, faster ways of moving B2B funds especially. “Today, visibility and speed of paying suppliers — and getting paid — are critical for businesses,” said Kevin Phalen , global head of Visa Business Solutions at Visa.
PYMNTS
JULY 28, 2020
Millennials and Generation Z consumers get all of the attention when it comes to their changing digital habits amid the pandemic. Google the words “millennials shopping shift,” and page after page of listicles, think pieces and how-to articles appear. But do the same with “baby boomer shopping shift,” and one will find about a half a page of dedicated articles — and a lot of other pieces comparing boomers to millennials or talking about generational shopping shifts more broadly.
PYMNTS
JULY 29, 2020
“Digitization has helped support remittance market continuity in the face of reduced mobility. We also believe money transfers relying on informal or unregulated routes are converting to formal money transfers, and may even help stabilize the market as travel restrictions likely remain.”. Markets are seeking stability, though not necessarily finding it, as business essentially “feels” its way forward in a bizarre, post-pandemic topography.
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