PYMNTS
MARCH 20, 2020
A police department in California is going to use drones equipped with loudspeakers to help enforce the state lockdown orders imposed due to the coronavirus, according to a report by the Financial Times. The Chula Vista PD has purchased two drones worth $11,000 each. They’re made by DJI, a Chinese company, and the department plans to also add night vision cameras to the flying vehicles.
The SaaS CFO
MARCH 18, 2020
Greetings, I created a free course over the weekend to help those businesses thtat might be facing a cash crunch due to the corona/covid virus. Check out the course here. It’s posted at The SaaS Academy. 350+ have enrolled as of last night. Eleven video lessons ranging from 5 to 10 minutes. Also, if you […]. The post Free Focus on Cash Course appeared first on The SaaS CFO.
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Future CFO
MARCH 20, 2020
Editor’s Note: For our Female Leadership in Finance Series , FutureCFO editor Teresa Leung recently had a chat with Vyin Ng (pictured below), CFO at Microsoft Hong Kong. If you think a finance person is focused only on numbers and shy away from changes, think again. Ng is keen to try new things and sees the similarities between wakeboarding and her finance journey.
CFA Institute
MARCH 20, 2020
How Money Became Dangerous is an insightful account of a key period in the development of finance.
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
MARCH 19, 2020
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) gave the green light to an application from the FinTech firm Square to create a de novo industrial bank in Utah, the agency said on Wednesday (March 18). Square Financial Services will originate commercial loans to the retailers that use Square for payments. The headquarters will be in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The CFO Centre
MARCH 18, 2020
To accelerate the growth of your company and organic growth doesn’t appeal, consider merging with or acquiring another company. In this article, we’ll go through the about your business tips for growth through acquisition. Such a move can help business owners like you to grow your top line and profitability, says the FD Centre’s FD East […] The post Growth Through Acquisition appeared first on The CFO Centre US.
CFA Institute
MARCH 18, 2020
Does market history offer any parallels to today's novel coronavirus crisis?
PYMNTS
MARCH 20, 2020
Banking technology FinTech Finastra was hit with a security breach on Friday (March 20), and was forced to shutter key systems and send employees home, according to a report by KrebsonSecurity. Although the company’s statement doesn’t mention the type of attack specifically, Krebs believes it is likely a ransomware attack based on the reaction. Two sources forwarded internal notices about the outage.
Future CFO
MARCH 16, 2020
CardUp offers a practical, easy-to-follow approach to getting your business digitised. It looks at three fundamental aspects of any business – bookkeeping, invoice and payment, and payroll and HR – and how to go about digitising these. Accessing FutureCFO Premium Content. Welcome! To access Premium content and more, please login below. Not a Premium member yet?
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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PYMNTS
MARCH 17, 2020
Facebook wants to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) survive the coronavirus pandemic, and is offering $100 million in grants to 30,000 companies in over 30 countries. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, said on her page and in a blog post on Tuesday (March 17) that the social media giant wants to “do our part” to help with the “enormous challenge in front of us.”.
PYMNTS
MARCH 20, 2020
To honor staffers who are maintaining stocks of supplies on shelves as shoppers visit locations in droves, Walmart said it would pay almost $550 million in bonuses to hourly workers. The retailer has experienced an increase in sales as consumers stock up on toilet paper, food, hand sanitizer and other products as they get ready to remain in their residents with increasing COVID-19 cases, CNBC reported.
PYMNTS
MARCH 18, 2020
Every consumer has gone through at least one iteration in their commercial life of the clunky, junky product search. It starts with a basic idea of what one is looking for — but nothing as specific as say a SKU — entered into a search bar. From there, it is picking through returns for the right option, or at least as close to right option as possible, and then clicking around until one finds a transaction point on a checkout page with a buy button.
PYMNTS
MARCH 16, 2020
A new Goldman Sachs deal will allow more companies to work with with the wide swathe of businesses using SAP’s Ariba Network , which boasts trillions of dollars in commerce transactions annually, according to a press release. Goldman Sachs’ capabilities for cross-border payments and tech-savvy achievements that simplify payments as reasons why SAP is also getting something out of the deal.
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
MARCH 17, 2020
Speed drives innovation, particularly in payments. In this week’s look at payment rails innovation, PYMNTS finds a slew of new markets around the world adopting entirely new payment networks that can support their demand for real-time transactions. While some geographies have opted to collaborate with the private sector to develop their own national instant payment networks, others are adopting solutions like RippleNet and SWIFT gpi to modernize their banks’ capabilities.
PYMNTS
MARCH 16, 2020
Select Starbucks mobile app customers are now seeing a payment choice of “Bakkt Cash,” CoinDesk reported. A spokesperson for Starbucks told the outlet, “We are currently conducting a limited test for our customers, using the Bakkt payment method. Customers can see Bakkt as an option but the test is only available at this time.”. Intercontinental Exchange, the parent firm of Bakkt, had first made it known in the summer of 2018 that Starbucks was eyeing the retail use of digital currency payments.
PYMNTS
MARCH 19, 2020
JPMorgan Chase is temporarily closing 1,000 branches — about 20 percent of its locations — in the wake of the coronavirus, according to a report in The Financial Times citing an internal memo. It is the largest retail bank to shutter branches because of the pandemic. A JPMorgan Chase official sent a memo to workers on Wednesday (March 18) that announced the closing of about a fifth of their branches, with the exception of drive-through windows.
PYMNTS
MARCH 18, 2020
The United States has reached a tipping point on COVID-19, with federal state and local governments implementing new restrictions on where consumers can travel, how many can gather in any given location and requiring restaurants and bars to shut their doors in the hopes of slowing the spread. But for all the actions these governmental bodies have taken to restrict consumers’ movements, most consumers had already changed their routines to avoid it, on their own free will.
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
MARCH 19, 2020
Tackling B2B payments friction is a journey, but when corporates take their transactions global, finding a remedy for cross-border B2B payments is a much more complicated process. The current climate of innovators appears to be up for the challenge, however. FinTechs and banks continue to develop new solutions to address many of the biggest pain points of global business payments, from speed to foreign exchange.
PYMNTS
MARCH 20, 2020
Open banking’s impact on small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) continues to proliferate as traditional financial institutions (FIs) embrace the opportunity to unlock data for third-party platforms. FinTechs continue to push the envelope to see how far open banking frameworks can go in improving the SMB banking experience, and increasingly, SMB lending is shifting to the center of these collaborative efforts.
PYMNTS
MARCH 14, 2020
With the coronavirus putting eCommerce front and center, it has unfortunately been joined by its cousin: online retail fraud. Conservative estimates put online sales at $630 billion this year. At the same time, a new report shows that fraudsters will take more than $12 billion off the table. That doesn’t count alienated customers who are ready to pull the trigger on social media with a bad review.
PYMNTS
MARCH 17, 2020
A big part of SoftBank ’s bailout plans for office sharing company WeWork could be in jeopardy after SoftBank backed away from a plan to buy $3 billion worth of the company’s shares, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. On Tuesday (March 17), WeWork shareholders were sent a message from SoftBank claiming that several regulatory probes into WeWork were being done by not only the Department of Justice (DOJ), but also the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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
MARCH 17, 2020
To stay competitive, especially with digital startups unencumbered by legacy systems, traditional financial institutions (FIs) need to deliver seamless customer services to individual consumers and enterprise customers alike. To that end, Vincent Caldeira, chief technologist for FSI in APAC for Red Hat told PYMNTS, FIs — especially incumbent FIs — are facing rapid changes in payments that demand they modernize payments processing, embedding new functionality along the way.
PYMNTS
MARCH 20, 2020
Fraud attacks’ frequency and complexity will likely continue to rise despite merchants’ best efforts to prevent them. Bad actors are tapping into personally identifiable information (PII) gathered from previous hacks to orchestrate their increasingly sophisticated efforts, including data purchased from the dark web to hide their tracks or pieces cobbled together from several victims to create difficult-to-detect synthetic identities.
PYMNTS
MARCH 18, 2020
While fast, explosive and unexpected change is almost impossible to miss — the global domino effect the coronavirus has kicked off being the most obvious recent example — change that happens more quietly and incrementally doesn’t quite set off the same type of alarm bells. Such is the situation in financial services, where the capabilities that have been unlocked by digitization have rather radically changed consumers and preferences — although perhaps in ways that don’t stand out as obvious.
PYMNTS
MARCH 17, 2020
When all is said and done, when the pandemic is over, when we emerge on the other side of this, it’s safe to say that who we are – no matter where we live – will have changed a bit. So will the ways in which we prove we are who we say we are. In an interview with Karen Webster, Philipp Pointner, chief product officer at Jumio , said the coronavirus may hasten a shift from paper and plastic documents toward digital ID verification.
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