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Complete guide to Sales Management

Anaplan

As salespeople are the employees most directly responsible for a company’s revenue, Sales Management is a critical component of a company’s success. Here’s a guide to all things Sales Management. Index: What is Sales Management?

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Visa EVP Of Tech: AI Should Go Narrow And In Layers

PYMNTS

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to change lives, literally – aiding in the detection of diseases, for example – while in commerce, it has the potential to stop bad transactions. We’re getting there, but bringing AI into everyday life is an evolutionary process that differs markedly from the breathless portrayals in the movies, where the rise of sentient computers and robots bodes well, or ill, for humanity, depending on what you’re watching.

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Sunset Provisions for Dual-Class Share Structures?

CFA Institute

New findings challenge the dominant view that dual-class voting is suboptimal.

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Are you Investment Ready?

Creative CFP

Introduction For many business owners, their business is an accumulation of enormous efforts over a lengthy period of time: a schooling career, tertiary education, mentorship, saying no to many social get-togethers, hard work, mistakes, parting ways with savings, more hard work. The list is endless. Given the sacrifices made in building a business, it is no surprise that deciding to expose it to potential investors, is an emotional rollercoaster.

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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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Complete guide to Sales Management

Anaplan

As salespeople are the employees most directly responsible for a company’s revenue, Sales Management is a critical component of a company’s success. Here’s a guide to all things Sales Management. Index: What is Sales Management?

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Water Neutrality: The Next Frontier in ESG?

CFA Institute

ACTIAM, the Dutch asset manager, has set itself a groundbreaking goal: By 2030, it hopes to be water neutral. Hans van Houwelingen, the firm's CEO, talks to Monika Freyman, CFA, about this ambitious target.

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Fundbox, Brandwise Execs: How Net 60 Helps B2B – And Why They’re Joining Forces  

PYMNTS

B2B payments are mired in delays, in errors, in an imbalance in funds flow and credit terms. Simply put, buyers stretch out payments and suppliers play the waiting game – at least as well as it can be played with checks and cards. The result is a cash flow crunch. Access to financing (trade finance, that is), especially online, can level the playing field a bit.

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Post-Merger, NXGEN And Payscape Eye SMBs’ Digital Shifts

PYMNTS

The path to the payments deal started about three or four years ago when Adam Bloomston, CEO of Payscape , and Thomas Nitopi, CEO and founder of NXGEN , first met. As they talked about their respective payment services firms, they realized, in Bloomston’s words, “that both of our companies didn’t really compete with each other in multiple areas.”. However, they both understood the opportunity: to further their global presence and create what Nitopi, in a PYMNTS interview, called “a global sales

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Why AP Draws The Innovation Short Straw

PYMNTS

Accounts payable operations are essential to ensuring that payments to a firm’s partners and suppliers are processed and delivered on time. These processes prevent companies from missing payments and running the risk of souring business relationships and hurting their partners’ bottom lines in the process. However, despite their importance to keeping businesses afloat, old school practices like physical paperwork are still the norm for many AP departments.

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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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Bank Of England Mulls Blockchain Amid ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’

PYMNTS

The digital revolution comes to the land where the industrial revolution was born? To that end, Invest In Blockchain reported that Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, said that the central bank should gear up for a “fourth industrial revolution” that includes at least some impact to payments, chiefly through blockchain and decentralized systems.

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In India, Faster Payments Deliver ‘Instant Gratification’ To Migrants

PYMNTS

Migrants make up a substantial portion of the economy in India. By some recent accounts , more than 100 million migrants are participating in the nation’s workforce — one-fifth of the nation’s workforce. Many of these workers travel from rural, low-income regions, hoping that work opportunities in urban areas will enable them to support their families.

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Deep Dive: Making Instant Payment Schemes Universal And Interoperable

PYMNTS

Many countries around the world are rolling out instant payments schemes that bring speed and convenience to payments made within their own borders. Unfortunately, those benefits are often limited when it comes to cross-border payments. A London-based manufacturer can’t rely on the U.K.’s Faster Payments Service (FPS) to quickly shuttle funds to a supplier in Canberra, Australia, for example.

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Most FIs Don’t Consider FinTech Firms As Competitors, But Maybe They Should

PYMNTS

Along with digital transformation, innovation has been a buzzword for some time. These may seem like abstract concepts, but innovation has had concrete results in the financial industry. For example, in the newly released J.D. Power 2019 U.S. Retail Banking Satisfaction Study , retail banking was declared to have bounced back reputation-wise over the past decade, due to improvements in customer service spurred by innovations like mobile banking.

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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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Uber Drivers Could Get $40K Pre-IPO Bonus

PYMNTS

Uber is gearing up to award drivers ahead of its initial public offering to the tune of $300 million, giving them as much as $40,00 each. Uber said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late last week that it planned to pay roughly $300 million to around 1.1 million drivers located across the globe. Uber said in the filing it was paying a one-time cash driver-appreciation reward to “acknowledge drivers who have participated in our success.

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Cash Is Here To Stay In The UK

PYMNTS

The British Government has announced that it will protect the future of cash to make sure the proliferation of digital currency doesn’t affect portions of the population who rely on physical money every day. Chancellor Philip Hammond said there’s going to be a new group to tackle the issue, and that it will be chaired by the treasury and will include regulators and the Bank of England.

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Pundi X White Labels Digital Token Tech For Corporates

PYMNTS

Blockchain payments company Pundi X has announced plans to launch Open Platform, a tool to enable developers and businesses to create blockchain solutions. In a press release on Thursday (May 2), Pundi X said Open Platform will let developers and corporates list digital tokens, and create custom XPASS cards. These cards are physical crypto wallets that allow users to top up digital assets and make payments with sellers that use the XPOS, its blockchain-powered, wireless point-of-sale (POS) solu

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Credit Card Losses Outpace Home, Auto Loans At US Banks

PYMNTS

Credit card losses at the biggest banks are outpacing auto and home loans, with the biggest margin seen in the last 10 years, according to Bloomberg. The problem is not yet out of hand, however. Since the economy remains strong and the unemployment rate is low, most consumers can stay current on debt repayment. Even new foreclosures and bankruptcies fell to a level not seen in 15 years.

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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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How To Motivate FinServ To Take Action On Cybersecurity

PYMNTS

To those who understand the importance of cybersecurity, and the monumental risks that growing cyberthreats impose on organizations, safeguarding systems and data may be assumed to go hand in hand with digital transformation. After all, the larger a company’s online and cloud presence, the bigger the target on that company’s back for cyberattackers and bad actors.

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The High Price Of API Avoidance

PYMNTS

Keeping global commerce moving requires rapid-fire, cross-border B2B payments. As financial institutions (FIs) and other corporates seek to keep pace, many are turning to application program interfaces (APIs) to help. More banks are tapping SWIFT gpi, while corporates are tapping a new offering that enables them to use the Single European Payment Area (SEPA) Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme.

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WeWork Files For Confidential IPO

PYMNTS

The We Company, formally known as WeWork, has confidentially filed for an IPO, the company announced on Monday (April 29). “(The company) announced that it has confidentially submitted an amended draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (‘SEC’) relating to an initial public offering of its common stock.

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The Value Of Faster Payments

PYMNTS

The flow of money and data across borders is developing a new ecosystem in which payments data has as much value as the funds themselves. In business-to-business (B2B) payments, application service provider Brandwise has tapped Fundbox to help provide net terms for suppliers, buying agents and retailers. And, in retail, hair color is a big business (especially in the United States), while meal kit companies are thinking outside the box.

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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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Facebook Seeks $1B To Launch Crypto Payments Rails

PYMNTS

Facebook has been meeting with financial firms and online merchants as it makes plans to launch its own cryptocurrency-based payments system. The social media giant has been working on the project — code-named Project Libra — for more than one year, with it centered around the company’s own digital coin that users could send to each other, as well as use to make online purchases.

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Gas Station Software Vulnerable To Hacking

PYMNTS

Homeland Security ’s cybersecurity agency has issued an advisory about a popular gas station software that has flaws, making it highly vulnerable to hacking. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave the Orpak SiteOmat software a vulnerability severity rating of 9.8 out of 10, revealing that it has several security vulnerabilities that require “low skill” to exploit.

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Mastercard Revamps SMB Card Rewards

PYMNTS

The main challenge of designing a holistic solution for the small business (SMB) community is that it’s a diverse segment, making it particularly hard to create one-size-fits-all solutions. The term “small business,” Mastercard EVP of Core Products Amnah Ajmal told PYMNTS in a recent conversation, can refer to all kinds of firms — from gig workers to individual proprietorships online, to firms with a few hundred (or even a few thousand) employees.

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Cross River And Cloud Payment Co RS2 Form Digital Banking Partnership

PYMNTS

Cross River Bank, a company that provides banking services for FinTechs, has partnered with payments processor and tech provider RS2 Software to provide an improved payment and digital banking experience for its customers, the companies announced. “Cross River and RS2 understand that technology innovators demand regulated, secure payment solutions that address dynamic, ongoing changes in the marketplace,” said Cross River Senior Vice President, Public Affairs Phil Goldfeder.

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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.