CFO Talks

MAY 20, 2025

Expand into new markets or tweak products for untapped segments, just like how Vaseline became Lip Ice and aqueous cream. In an effort to avert collapse, Edcon entered business rescue proceedings in 2020, aiming to restructure its operations and stabilize its financial position. Define value from the customers perspective.

Restructuring

CFO Talks

JUNE 3, 2025

In my leadership, I emphasise leveraging real-time data and analytics. Youve got seven divisions reporting to you, and thats exactly what were seeing in the market: the modern CFO doesnt just lead finance anymore. Youve led teams through restructuring, regulation changes, and system upgrades. That shows great leadership.

Leadership

E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Adequate financial leadership has never been more critical to today’s market. When a company experiences leadership transitions, financial restructuring, or prepares for significant events like mergers or acquisitions, a transitional Chief Financial Officer offers instant, practical knowledge.

Leadership

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JUNE 11, 2025

Marketed as sales of future receivables rather than traditional loans, these agreements allow funders to withdraw fixed daily or weekly payments directly from a business’s bank account until a predefined “purchase amount” has been satisfied. For secured lenders, this matters.

Reconciliations

E78 Partners

MARCH 21, 2025

By leveraging a structured post-merger integration plan, organizations can accelerate value realization, maintain stability, and build a strong foundation for long-term success. Human Resources (HR): Manages talent retention, restructuring, and cultural alignment. Stay flexible to navigate unforeseen challenges and market shifts.

Leadership

Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

Game-changing transformations such as cutting public-sector wages and subsidies, which account for 80% of total spending; introducing a value-added tax (VAT); updating the emirates mortgage law ( see sidebar, page 78 ); and passing a new debt law aimed at allowing Kuwait to borrow on international markets, are still under discussion.

Economics

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

While accountants remain focused on balance sheets, with a fixation of bringing intangibles on to the balance and marking everything up to the market, much of the information that we need to assess the value of a business comes from income and cash flow statements.

Hurdle Rate

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2025

So we did foreclosures, we did restructurings, we did equity kickers, and we pulled up some of these loans into CMBS deals and sold them, sold them through Wall Street. I get the, the idea that, hey, this was kind of the early days of a bear market that that went on for another decade. Tell us a little bit about that.

Concentration

Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Companies in the Fortune 500 that underwent significant workforce restructuring in 2023 dished out $32.7 When the Swedish payments fintech Klarna wanted to reduce overhead in 2023, it reduced trauma via layoffs by outsourcing about 500 jobs in 10 markets to two partner firms. Constant pressure and uncertainty can wear people down.

Corporate Finance

CFO Strategic Partners

MAY 29, 2025

Why CFOs Must Act Now: Turning Tariff Disruption into Strategic Opportunity Insights from Acclarity Accredited to FP&A Subject Matter Expert: Marcus Fisher Global markets are entering a period of structural disruption—and finance leaders are on the front lines. Tariffs are significantly increasing raw material and production costs.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CSC Advisors

JUNE 25, 2025

Juggling roles like CEO, marketer, and accountant, it’s easy to overlook how high-interest loans or uneven cash flow start to chip away at progress. Refinancing allows you to leverage your improved financial standing to secure more favorable terms that weren’t available when you first borrowed.

Finance

Global Finance

JULY 8, 2025

From M&A advisors to food exporters, the proposed trade shifts under the Trump administration could reshape everything from pricing strategies to regional market priorities. GF: Will expanding to other markets be essential if the proposed tariffs come in full force? They could be a promising new market for our products.

Manufacturing

CFO Dive

JULY 8, 2025

The CFO appointment comes shortly after the Durham, North Carolina-based company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 30 as part of a restructuring plan aimed at reducing its debt and strengthening its capital structure, according to a press release at the time. billion with the restructuring. “In

CFO

Global Finance

AUGUST 16, 2024

The rattled corporation faces a rocky road through a wide-ranging restructuring, but some analysts see a more competitive company emerging. The decision, which was intended to help Anglo focus on its restructuring, swung the company from a net profit of $1.26 The restructuring itself is a complicated affair.

Restructuring

PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

But the ripple effects are daunting, as the moves could threaten the half-trillion-dollar market for commercial mortgage-backed securities. The new law gives small businesses more leverage in negotiating with landlords and suppliers. Crew Group Inc. Some of the retailers filing for Chapter 11, such as J.C.

Retail

Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What's unique about Cean, though, is how the path that he and his partners took to break away from the insurance and brokerage worlds to run their own independent RIA inadvertently created a three-way struggle to find the proper compensation and accountability structure across their differing books of business, and ultimately forced them to seek third-party (..)

Restructuring

Global Finance

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Djibouti, strategically located in the Horn of Africa, hosts China’s first overseas military base alongside the tiny nation’s US Navy station, symbolizing China’s expanding naval presence and strategic interest in securing access to African markets. billion, leading to debt restructuring negotiations. billion owed to Beijing.

Transportation

Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Melody is the president of Townsend Financial Planning, an RIA based in Lexington, KY, that oversees $112 million in assets under management for 160 client households.

Restructuring

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The company also announced Nina Barjesteh as the new marketing chief and the creation of a new position of chief customer officer. billion leveraged buyout in 2013. Of note, however, is that Levi responded to the market and has seen growth in women’s wear, which has been dominated by athletic and yoga clothing.

Retail

Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Tim is the founder of PrairieView Wealth Partners, a hybrid advisory firm based in Orland Park, Illinois, that oversees $100 million in assets under management for 190 client households.

Concentration

CFO Leadership

JANUARY 25, 2024

The current office market landscape is witnessing a pronounced downturn, primarily catalyzed by the pervasive adoption of hybrid work models, resulting in substantial disruptions across major central business districts (CBDs) in the United States. Vacancy rates are ascending, and rental rates are on a downward trajectory.

Marketing

CFO Leadership

JANUARY 5, 2024

The current office market landscape is witnessing a pronounced downturn, primarily catalyzed by the pervasive adoption of hybrid work models, resulting in substantial disruptions across major central business districts (CBDs) in the United States. Vacancy rates are ascending, and rental rates are on a downward trajectory.

Marketing

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 25, 2022

And the consequences of this disconnect are more severe in this post-Covid era: Company leaders are balancing the call for more purposeful work from their employees with ever-increasing performance demands to succeed in their markets. This evaluation is a huge opportunity to boost employee morale and further other top strategic outcomes.

Restructuring

CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In the current market for talent, employers have no leverage to bring their employees back full time to the office. There are basically three levels of “office subscription” occurring in the market right now. Market timing has never been better. The labor force is demanding flexibility where work is performed.

Leadership

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

One of the Open Banking Platform’s primary goals, he said, is to help banks restructure and transform themselves into market platforms. The market platform is the ultimate destination that we are driving our clients toward,” Eck explained. However, banks should remember to stay focused on their customers in this changing market.

Banking

CFO News

JULY 14, 2024

NCLT approved restructuring creates Raymond Lifestyle, Realty, and Raymond. Realty is developing Thane and Bandra projects, with substantial market potential. Focus on shareholder value, strategic governance, and leveraging cash flows for real estate and quality execution.

Restructuring

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

The second is to look at the industry group or sector that a company is in, and then follow up by classifying that industry group or sector into high or low growth; for the last four decades, in US equity markets, tech has been viewed as growth and utilities as mature.

Corporate Finance

E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Adequate financial leadership has never been more critical to today’s market. When a company experiences leadership transitions, financial restructuring, or prepares for significant events like mergers or acquisitions, a transitional Chief Financial Officer offers instant, practical knowledge.

Leadership

E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Adequate financial leadership has never been more critical to today’s market. When a company experiences leadership transitions, financial restructuring, or prepares for significant events like mergers or acquisitions, a transitional Chief Financial Officer offers instant, practical knowledge.

Leadership

Global Finance

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To get there, they’re leveraging their respective strengths and forging partnerships to create new and innovative payment solutions that can move money across borders at any minute of the day with unprecedented speed. But as the market moves faster and tech gets more innovative, so do the attendant threats.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The growing variety and complexity of tasks within the finance function has resulted in the creation of a discipline that is supposed to become a bridge between the finance and business to support decision-making process by leveraging data and technology. This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

E78 Partners

AUGUST 21, 2023

Macro Investment Market Challenges a Headwind for Private Equity Valuations Private Equity Sponsors are facing their most challenging valuation market since the great recession of 2008-09. It involves an exhaustive investigation of a target company’s operations, financial performance, legal compliance, and market position.

Planning

PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

The firm said the increased debt levels are the result of a highly competitive market in which lenders were more willing to offer lenient loans. The survey revealed that 76 percent of those polled are more concerned about the leverage levels of middle market companies in the U.S. than they were at the start of last year. “In

Restructuring

CFO Share

AUGUST 22, 2024

Freelance Fractional CFOs Independent fractional CFOs work as 1099 contractors, often self-marketing their services or paying referral fees from lead-sourcing agencies. Project-Based Fees Fractional CFOs might charge a flat fee for specific projects, such as fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, or financial restructuring.

CFO

E78 Partners

OCTOBER 28, 2024

By leveraging the insights of these experienced specialists, businesses can better navigate complex market conditions and maximize value creation. They can even help with market analysis, risk management, and financial modeling to ensure investments align with long-term profitability objectives.

Financial Modeling

Future CFO

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“Private companies in China , particularly property developers, with high leverage or weak liquidity are more vulnerable to default risks.” The US dollar bond market remains largely shut to Asian HY companies. Rated dollar bond issuance is hovering near its lowest level on record, at just $1.2 billion so far this year.

Restructuring

Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 1, 2023

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how developing business segments such as Fire and Police, Sports and Entertainment, and cross-border Canadians, helped Brad and his firm scale and grow because they could leverage having their advisor teams seen as specialized experts in many different channels without needing to fully commit the entire firm (..)

Restructuring