Anaplan
MAY 3, 2019
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?
PYMNTS
MAY 1, 2019
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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CFA Institute
MAY 3, 2019
New findings challenge the dominant view that dual-class voting is suboptimal.
Creative CFP
APRIL 29, 2019
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.
Speaker: Ashley Harlan, MBA
What if your role as a fractional CFO went beyond operational support to actively shaping the future of your clients’ businesses? 💼 ✨ In this session, discover how fractional finance professionals can position themselves as architects of growth, guiding their clients toward sustainable success and preparing them for full-time financial leadership.
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Anaplan
MAY 3, 2019
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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CFA Institute
APRIL 29, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
MAY 2, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
MAY 1, 2019
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
PYMNTS
MAY 1, 2019
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.
Advertiser: Paycor
Use these handy calendar templates to stay on top of payroll in 2025! Download them today to share with your HR team or post for employees. Whether your company has biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay periods, Paycor has you covered. Get your templates today!
PYMNTS
MAY 2, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
MAY 3, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
APRIL 29, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
APRIL 29, 2019
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.
Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting
Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical
PYMNTS
APRIL 28, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
MAY 3, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
MAY 3, 2019
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
PYMNTS
MAY 1, 2019
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.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.
PYMNTS
APRIL 29, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
MAY 3, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
APRIL 29, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
MAY 3, 2019
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.
Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant
Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.
PYMNTS
MAY 3, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
MAY 3, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
MAY 2, 2019
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.
PYMNTS
APRIL 30, 2019
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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