The SaaS CFO
JANUARY 26, 2020
You’ve decided that it’s time to take on investment or sell your SaaS company. Or maybe that cold email from a private equity associate finally has you thinking about the next steps for your business. What’s next? Preliminary SaaS due diligence. Depending on your role and what side of the table you’ve been on, the […]. The post How to Prepare for Preliminary SaaS Due Diligence appeared first on The SaaS CFO.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2020
Retail keeps embracing numerous new technologies, and biometrics is not only one of them, but an area of recent growth and development, including via some of the biggest names in commerce. Take Amazon, which continues to expand its brick-and-mortar retail footprint, and the technology underlying those stores. The company is apparently making a bet that the future of retail, and retail payments, will involve consumers’ hands.
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Jedox Finance
JANUARY 31, 2020
The Jedox Global Kickoff 2020 signals the start of a new year, new opportunities, renewed goals, and one of our most impressive product updates in recent years. Jedox recently kicked off 2020 globally with our partners, customers, and colleagues with a renewed and refreshed approach to our motto, "One Team".
Adam Kae
JANUARY 29, 2020
Adam Kae & Associates uses a revolutionary new method to serve our clients: The Adam Kae Way. This process is based on classical business theory with the Adam Kae twist of financial expertise. Read on to discover our method to help founders command their finances to bring their business to new heights. Step 1: Adam Kae Analysis In order to understand your business, it’s imperative to also understand the environment around you.
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Time and time again we tell ourselves and others NOT take action on something that is not "broken." We apply that mindset at home and at work. Sometimes, it doesn’t work out so well. Because when it's truly broken, it's usually an emergency, costs more and causes stress. Join us in this webinar where we share ways where you are able to anticipate your needs, understand benefits that you will get from getting better now instead of later, and relieving your team of tasks that they don't need to be
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CFA Institute
JANUARY 30, 2020
Like its title, this book by Richard M. Ennis, CFA, "is brief, to the point, and unafraid to rattle the cage of conventional wisdom.".
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Future CFO
JANUARY 30, 2020
Disruption is now an expected course of business, yet traditional planning remains slow, error-prone, and fragmented. Adopting finance best practices such as driver-based planning, rolling forecasts, and zero-based budgeting can be difficult with manual processes and legacy toolsets. Accessing FutureCFO Premium Content. Welcome! To access Premium content and more, please login below.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 26, 2020
Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Saturday (Jan. 25) that central banks should be in charge of issuing electronic currency, not private companies, Reuters reported. Partially brought on by the emergence of cryptocurrencies and Facebook’s upcoming introduction of the Libra coin, central banks across the globe have been looking into launching eCurrency as a means of maintaining states’ control over money.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2020
Kobe Bryant , who died Sunday (Jan. 26), was a well-known businessman and leaves behind a strong legacy of savvy investing and mentoring, according to a report by CNN Business. He was 41 at the time of his death. “For 20 seasons, Kobe showed us what is possible when remarkable talent blends with an absolute devotion to winning,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement Sunday. “… He was generous with the wisdom he acquired and saw it as his mission to share with future generations
PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2020
Businesses have good reason to be concerned about data breaches. Fraudsters’ attempts to access systems and steal valuable information are becoming more innovative, and research suggests they are also increasingly successful. Cybercriminals’ accomplishments come at the expense of targeted businesses, with a recent study finding that individual data breaches cost firms around the globe an average of $3.92 million in 2019 — a 1.5 percent increase from 2018.
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Global business travel is surging, with companies spending as much as or more than they did before the pandemic. This trend is expected to continue, with more growth on the horizon. The types of travelers are also changing, with millennials and Gen Zers taking on the majority of the load. Business travel is evolving, and younger generations expect less hassle, even though there are more ways to book and pay for travel than ever before.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 26, 2020
Latin America-based AlphaCredit has signed up for a funding round to raise $125 million, led by SoftBank’s Latin America fund. AlphaCredit is a FinTech platform with a focus on consumer lending and finance solutions. It provides credit lines to individuals and has usually worked in communities without much access to banks. In Mexico and Colombia, it has loaned more than $1 billion total to various clients.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 30, 2020
Visa ’s fiscal first-quarter results showed an acceleration of cross-border volumes, while contactless payments continued to gain ground in the U.S. and beyond. Headline results showed earnings per share of $1.46, which missed consensus by a penny. Net revenues of $6.05 billion were up 10 percent year on year and were also lower than consensus, which was $6.08 billion.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 30, 2020
Farfetch, a luxury technology platform, has raised $250 million from Tencent and Dragoneer through the sale of convertible senior notes, according to a release. Tencent is a global technology company based in Shenzhen, China, and Dragoneer is an investment firm based in San Francisco. Each company will purchase $125 million of the notes. “I am pleased to have Tencent and Dragoneer as part of the Farfetch investor base.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2020
Here’s a truth about human beings: We’ll collect — and resell and profit from — just about anything. And the latest big trend in collectibles combines what amounts to a hat-tip to essentially ancient digital culture with up-to-date eCommerce. It seems that old-fashioned video games are that hot new item, assuming they are in pristine condition and come in factory packaging, according to a new report in The New York Times.
Speaker: Don Gallianza, Credit Manager at Chevron Phillips Chemical and Indy Chakrabarti, Chief Marketing Officer at HighRadius
4 Case Studies to Optimize DSO 26 Days Sales Outstanding. Already better than most. But, should you improve on that? Why would 3 fewer days even matter? It matters because it fundamentally transforms business outcomes. Join this webinar to explore 4 things companies do to reclaim hard dollars - not just soft costs - and go from good to great! What You'll Learn 6 operational KPIs every AR manager should track: Define and track these metrics to enhance performance, drive efficiency, and make infor
PYMNTS
JANUARY 26, 2020
Supermarket pharmacy counters are closing across the U.S. as they struggle to keep customers coming back. The move, happening in states as varied as Washington, Minnesota and everywhere in between, comes as customers have been making fewer trips to visit pharmacy counters while doing grocery shopping. Also, the large hand of big pharmaceutical companies has had an influence.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2020
Less than 20 years ago, freelancers were still a workforce oddity. They came and went kind of invisibly, taking on overflow work from full-time staffers, floating between different companies and assignments. Even taxi driving was a full-time profession, back when freelancers were rare. Skip ahead to the present-day gig economy , chiefly a byproduct of the Great Recession, when firms shed workers in the millions and whole industries contracted or vanished.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2020
The new year has not been kind to retail stores around the country, as the trend of accelerating store closings continues, according to a report by Yahoo! Finance. Macy’s, JCPenney, Papyrus, Express and Pier 1 Imports, among other retailers, have reported 1,218 closings this year already, according to data from global marketing research firm Coresight Research.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2020
Commerce Bank will strive to provide timely and convenient payments with its new partnership with Progressive Insurance in what they tout as a “truly strategic combination.” According to an emailed press release, the new program will be called CommercePayments PreferPay. It will focus on providing customers, claimants and service providers with numerous options on how to pay, including ACH, check, or direct-to-debit card via Visa Direct.
Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC
Imagine being a financial leader who not only ensures the books are balanced but also shapes the future of your organization. 🤔 ✨ This session will take you beyond the routine reporting and into the realm of strategic financial leadership. We’ll explore how today’s finance professionals can juggle the day-to-day operations while also delivering the long term vision that drives growth.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 30, 2020
PayPal put on a strong finish to 2019, managing to beat analyst estimates nearly across the board in terms of revenue, active usership and total payments volume processed. However, despite a solid holiday quarter, the digital payments giant found stock trading concerns about its Q1 forecasts. Chief Financial Officer John Rainey commented that there are some concerns about economic uncertainty to warrant caution, despite trends currently remaining strong.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 26, 2020
The EU is looking to adopt new antitrust rules that will aim to give European companies more leeway in the market. The new rules, described by Reuters as protectionist, will be unveiled in March. Documents obtained by Reuters show that the EU wants to adopt a strategy of utilizing more aggressive trade defense instruments against companies thought to be unfairly benefiting from foreign subsidies.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 30, 2020
A breach of India’s SpiceJet, one of the country’s biggest independent airlines, exposed the data of more than a million passengers, per a report on Thursday (Jan. 30), citing a security researcher. The cyberattack exposed records that included passengers’ names, contact information and birthdates, the researcher told the news outlet. Some of the affected customers were said to be authorities.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 30, 2020
Cloud technology has lost some of its mystique in recent years, and consumers’ improved understanding has led to a boost in demand. The cloud computing services market was expected to see 17.2 percent growth and reach a global value of $200 billion by the end of 2019. The final figures have yet to be tallied, but it is clear such tools and software are viewed as essential to quickly transferring data.
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By ditching paper and manual checklists, UNIFY embraced ART’s cloud-based solution for seamless automation. The robust dashboards, exception reports, and completion date reports allowed the team to easily track progress and resolve bottlenecks. ART’s flexible access for auditors ensured tight deadlines were met effortlessly. With competitive pricing and a rapid setup, ART cut costs and minimized disruptions, enabling UNIFY’s team to concentrate on high-impact tasks.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 28, 2020
When it comes to payment rail innovation, transaction speed is often the catalyst driving change. This week’s examination of the latest innovation initiatives finds this to be true both for innovators exploring ways to improve existing rails — like ACH — as well as those that have embraced the development of entirely new rails, including real-time payments (RTP) and blockchain-powered transactions.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2020
In the paycheck-to-paycheck economy, estimates vary slightly. Some analysts have reported that roughly 65 percent of all U.S. workers now live paycheck to paycheck, and a large fraction of those workers struggle to pay their bills. A PYMNTS study, done in collaboration with Mastercard, found that nearly 30 percent of gig workers — currently more than one-third of the U.S. workforce — live paycheck to paycheck, and have no savings to cover unforeseen expenses in the event of an emergency.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 29, 2020
Airbnb has hired Catherine Powell, a 15-year Disney veteran, to head up its Experiences division, the firm announced this week. She was hired ahead of the company’s expected initial public offering (IPO) coming up soon this year. The Experiences division handles things like tours and other activities, such as cooking classes for guests. The Experiences division was launched in 2016 as a way to expand into new services encompassing more of the travel industry.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 26, 2020
British banking unicorn Monzo is in talks with Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank for financial assistance in its growth plans into the U.S. Monzo Co-founder Tom Blomfield sat down with senior officials from SoftBank’s Vision Fund, sources told The Telegraph on Sunday (Jan. 26). The digital bank is looking to raise around £100 million (nearly $ 130.6 million USD) in new funding.
Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms
Join Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms for an informational webinar about how to select the ideal payments provider for your platform! This session highlights the 7 key criteria for assessing payments partners and maximizing the value of your investment. From evaluating technology and business development programs to understanding support and compliance, this webinar will equip you with a comprehensive evaluation framework and strategy for
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