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This challenge often emerges with small businesses (SMBs) that are not large enough to fit into a bank’s corporate and treasury services unit, and are, therefore, forced into being serviced with consumer-targeted products. The financial services space often encounters the conundrum of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The initial coin offering (ICO) has emerged as a corporate financing trend just as volatile as many of the cryptocurrencies themselves. “We’ve seen some ICO project treasuries fall by 80 percent or more, resulting in significantly less runway for building out their product and business,” he continued.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

12) that its Treasury Link solution is now live in the U.S. and will provide cash management services for such corporate customers. Corporate users can customize their dashboards for quick access to data on accounts, balances, transactions and other areas of corporate finance.

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MAY 30, 2016

Rising corporate finance metrics don’t always mean good news. Find out which figures led to good growth — like digital corporate payments increases or a rise in SME hedging practices — and which signal bad news for corporate FinServ. The numbers are on the up this week! But don’t let that fool you.

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APRIL 10, 2020

Financial technology innovation has opened the doors to massive transformation of corporate finance departments. While flashy corporate FinTech is exciting, innovation efforts have rarely focused on a mainstay of corporate finance teams: the financial close process, a crucial, but continually outdated function.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

With more than $89 million raised, B2B FinTechs this week impressed venture capitalists (VCs) with a range of services, including small business accounting, financing, spend management and payroll. Small business accounting startup Xendoo announced a $3.5 Modern Treasury. With $10 million in new funding, U.S.-based

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APRIL 18, 2018

Treasury management system provider GTreasury announced it reached a deal to acquire risk management and compliance software company Visual Risk , reports in Mondo Visione said Tuesday (April 17). The companies will combine their risk analytics and hedge accounting software as well, they said. “We

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MAY 22, 2017

Wells said Friday (May 19) that it is adding features to Receivables Manager, an accounts receivable service for its corporate treasury clients. The tools aim to reduce paper in corporate finance operations, Wells explained, and nix manual remittance and data entry.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

While financial services (FinServ) innovations often emerge with built-in security measures, new market trends — including faster payments and open banking — are introducing new security threats to corporate treasury departments, according to cybersecurity company BioCatch. The tactic is relatively simple.

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APRIL 1, 2016

Corporations have been chastised in recent years as floods of new data reveal the ongoing prevalence of paper checks in B2B payments. But if the financial services sector is going to actually service its corporate clients, then it must acknowledge that checks will remain in the mix — at least for the foreseeable future. “It

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APRIL 19, 2016

In an effort to increase the digitization of B2B billing and payments, Transactis provides financial institutions with software that allows corporate customers to switch to electronic billing, accounting and payments processes. PNC Executive Vice President for Treasury Management James G.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Corporates may not be adopting faster and real-time payments technologies as fast as consumers, but that doesn’t mean the acceleration of payments isn’t impacting corporate finance. For the corporate treasurer, this could mean real-time FX exposure management and the need for faster action to mitigate FX volatility risk.

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MAY 1, 2019

Corporate treasury technology company HighRadius is rolling out a new cash flow forecasting solution developed using artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Previously this year, the company also launched its Freeda Digital Assistant, an AI-powered too to help AR professionals manage daily operations.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

11), Cred revealed the rollout of its developer platform CredX (not to be confused with the new credit card accounts payable solution recently launched by Finexio ). Its set of application program interfaces (APIs) enable businesses to use crypto as collateral to access corporate financing products.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Much of that innovation has been focused on corporate finance and payments, as top financial services players have introduced new blockchain solutions in an effort to disrupt and improve corporate payments. in blockchain development efforts.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The announcement of Mastercard Track expanding into B2B payments last week represented a significant push for B2B payments modernization by one of the industry’s giants — and followed Visa’s own push in the B2B payments modernization space through the rollout of Visa B2B Connect in June. announced last month.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Amid the flurry of B2B FinTech innovation aiming to transform organizations’ back offices, there is often one common threat within the disruption: the need for previously siloed, disconnected systems and processes to integrate with each other, offering a streamlined, holistic view of the enterprise.

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JULY 24, 2018

In one report, a survey by treasury management solutions provider Kyriba revealed that treasurers are wasting nearly 5,000 hours every year working with manual spreadsheets. “But what our numbers show, rather dramatically, is the cost of over-relying on spreadsheets to manage an entire finance function, like treasury. .

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JULY 23, 2018

Treasury-related accounting tasks, payment fund transfers and cash flow forecasting are also top time-wasters for treasurers relying on spreadsheets. Using Excels spreadsheets to analyze daily global cash positions is the largest time-waster, analysts found, noting that this process alone wastes 1,296 hours a year.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

Failing to overcome those hurdles holds back corporate finance operations from progressing toward greater efficiency, transparency and performance improvements, from accounting to treasury. Now, new research suggests that the digitization hurdle is also holding back the procurement function.

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JUNE 1, 2016

corporations, and with new management, comes demand for younger (read: cheaper) talent. That’s according to Jerry Mills, professional CFO and founder of B2B CFO. Automated accounting and cash management technologies are a force to be reckoned with among today’s financial professionals, he said.

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MARCH 30, 2017

According to Graham Tasman, principal at Grant Thornton’s Business Consulting and Technology practice, this balancing act creates opportunity for service providers of the corporate finance function. Instead, 45 percent of CFOs cited increasing cash flow as their top priority in the finance function.

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APRIL 19, 2018

Multi-currency account provider Centtrip is introducing a way for corporates to make and receive faster cross-border payments. According to the company’s announcement, corporate customers of the company are provided with a master account, with the ability to open sub-accounts in different currencies and regions.

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MAY 11, 2018

The potential cannot be ignored, however – particularly in the finance department, where information from accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury and accounting hold the keys to insight into cash flow, predictable payment behavior and new opportunities to boost the bottom line. ”

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JUNE 13, 2016

88% of finance professionals anticipate a rise in payments fraud , said TD Bank in its latest analysis. TD Bank Head of Corporate Products and Services Rick Burke said corporate treasurers need to begin a dialogue with their banks and financial services partners to integrate adequate security controls within their corporations.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Treasury management technology firm Reval says Brexit makes it painfully clear that, for those businesses not conducting contingency and scenario planning, their financial situations are far less stable. When it comes to far-reaching events like Brexit, corporations, Seward explained, must take into account a complex array of factors.

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MARCH 6, 2019

One area where elimination of such processes can be of benefit is treasury management — specifically, reconciliation of transactions and liquidity management. Yet, corporate finance especially is “operating, more or less, the same [way] it has for 20 years prior. Real-Time Window To Treasury Management.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

If it seems like Visa has been on a B2B payments kick lately, it’s because they have. The payments giant has struck several new partnerships, expanded its commercial capabilities into new markets and developed new B2B payments solutions – all within the last few months. “Speed is becoming more important. .”

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The study confirms that in today’s dynamic business environment, much is expected of the CFO, going far beyond traditional accounting skills,” wrote Tiff Macklem, dean of the Rotman School of Management, for the report’s introduction. Similarly, fewer CFOs have both a master’s degree in addition to either an accounting or finance designation.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Instead, VCs leaned conservatively toward a mix of B2B FinTechs operating in the financial management space for small businesses (SMBs) and in the treasury management market for mid-level and larger enterprises. It seems VC has cooled off a bit in the B2B FinTech front. It seems VC has cooled off a bit in the B2B FinTech front.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

European corporate treasurers are ready to react to the threat of more bank fees on their corporate accounts, new analysis found. 17) by Euromoney explored how continually low interest rates are pressuring financial institutions in Europe to impose charges on corporate deposits. Reports Thursday (Nov.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Corporate finance executives seem to be readying for real-time payments, preparing to adopt faster payment capabilities and bracing for changes to their cash flow management strategies as a result. A new report from Deutsche Bank said this industry path is guiding banks and corporates to a new destination: real-time treasury.

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APRIL 23, 2020

The complexity of payment workflows within and between mid-market and large corporate entities can be so immense that many treasurers aren’t able to pinpoint exactly where the friction exists. For developers and corporate finance teams alike, speed is also a factor in the transaction itself.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Corporate finance executives and financial service providers quickly acknowledged a dramatic change in the treasury department: Over the last decade, the corporate treasurer has become a strategic component of the enterprise, driving growth in a challenging, constantly changing market.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The spreadsheet is the bane of many corporate finance professionals' existence. For accounting and treasury management departments, the spreadsheet's drawbacks can lead to detrimental impacts on corporate bottom lines.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

The traction gained from FinTech players demonstrates the willingness consumers have to connect their bank accounts to third-party apps and enable the data sharing that Open Banking promotes. How this new landscape of financial services will play out for corporate customers of the banks, however, is less clear, but disruption is on the way.

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MARCH 16, 2016

The two launched their co-hosted platform in January of this year to provide a centralized treasury management service for Bosch. We are pleased to be the first to use this new platform jointly developed by Deutsche Bank and Bank of China,” said Bosch Head of Corporate Finance and Regional Treasury for APAC Christian Zeidler in a statement.

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