Bank of the West

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Here’s what finance executives need to know about R2P and its potential benefits for treasury management. ” These real-time collection platforms trigger payments from bank accounts for collections. What R2P Means for Treasury Operations. What is Request to Pay?

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The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 22, 2024

CFOs need strong finance and accounting skills, along with years of experience, to find ways to enhance the organization's financial well-being. The CFO may work with the finance and accounting team to predict the effects of different operational decisions. Resolve accounting and finance problems.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

Accounts payable (AP) teams and other financial functions of the enterprise were some of the hardest hit by the disruption caused by the global pandemic. “The finance function, historically, hasn’t been managed in a remote working environment,” he said. ” Offering the Right Tools.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If at that time, someone would have asked Citi Managing Director and Global Head of Domestic Payments and Receivables Anupam Sinha how long it would take for corporate treasury organizations to fully embrace digital , he said his answer would likely have been something along the lines of, “Don’t hold your breath.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

When it comes to corporate treasury, business clients demand robust solutions and services from their banks, and FinTech players are stepping in to help. But the banks themselves also have complex demands for their own treasury departments, which, like other corporations, must be able to manage finances, risk and compliance.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The competition is heating up between payment technologies in accounts payable, with ACH and virtual cards seeing significant pushes in the B2B payments space to combat the dreaded paper check. There are a lot of treasury management issues out there that need to be addressed,” he told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions is bringing its accounts receivable (AR) Payer ID solution to more markets around the globe. The accounts receivable solution enables companies to gain visibility into incoming payments for greater working capital management, Citi explained.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Back office modernization is in the spotlight like never before, and solutions that streamline accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) functions are in high demand. Automation could go a long way toward streamlining some of these problems, however, freeing up treasury professionals to focus on more pressing duties.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

SMBs using the WePay platform can now see funds deposited into their Chase bank accounts the same day without extra fees, a feature resulting from JPMorgan ’s acquisition of WePay in late-2017. JPMorgan Chase announced a collaboration with WePay last week to enable faster deposits for small business joint customers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

Although the enterprise continues to accelerate its digitization efforts, chief financial officers keep hitting roadblocks when it comes to modernizing workflows regarding accounts payable (AP) and embracing electronic payments. On the other hand, once CFOs migrate away from paper checks, some professionals might believe their work is done.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

This combination of facilitating payment and data connectivity was the motivation behind Transcard's launch of automated account-to-account (A2A) transactions. The Account-To-Account Connection. Businesses don’t want somebody setting their hands on large payments like that.”. Deepening Data Ties.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 19, 2021

Three quarters of C-suite executives believe that intelligent automation helped to augment their finance employees’ capabilities, according to results of a survey jointly done by the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) , AI Singapore and the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School recently.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

“Corporate treasurers are increasingly seeking to manage their payments functions in real-time to enhance control and visibility of their cash flows,” Steve Evans, head of Corporate Liquidity and Bank Treasury, FIS, said in a press release. million payments annually.

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Strategic Treasurer

JANUARY 6, 2022

Coffee Break Session Host Alexa Cook catches up with Strategic Treasurer’s Managing Partner, Craig Jeffery, to discuss what RTP is and how it can be advantageous from a treasury perspective. Hey guys, welcome to The Treasury Update Podcast Coffee Break Session. Hey guys, welcome to The Treasury Update Podcast Coffee Break Session.

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Future CFO

JULY 19, 2021

But the challenges we have faced in the past 12-18 months have received great focus and highlighted the need for good accounts receivable and credit management now. Credit and finance professionals have been forced to review how they perform certain processes and tasks involved. None of these is new business challenges.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

The embrace of the cloud has opened up the opportunity for procurement, travel and expense management, treasury management and other corporate financial platforms to integrate and embed the payments function directly within that solution. procurement), and its related payments (i.e., the function of payment a vendor). The Next Steps.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In a recent interview with PYMNTS, Deluxe Corporation CEO Barry McCarthy, discussed the continued relevance and importance of the lockbox for corporates’ accounts receivable (AR) operations today. In a macro sense in accounts receivable, it’s this same challenge. What is the role of a lockbox today? What is its historical role?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Partnerships, she said — such as FISPAN’s own efforts with traditional financial services firms — help treasury banks to build embedded banking solutions inside enterprise resource planning (ERP) and accounting systems. Reconciliation should be an intuitive process, she added. This is the No.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

One of the latest FinTech firms to do so is accounts payable (AP) automation company Centsoft , which recently announced a data integration with QuickBooks Online. It’s one thing to enable two B2B FinTech platforms — like an accounts payable and accounting platform — to share data with each other.

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Strategic Treasurer

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Survey Results Treasury Fraud & Controls Thank you to all of those who participated in our 2023 Treasury Fraud & Controls survey. Pre-Request the Report Depth of Coverage This annual survey seeks to evaluate the current and projected impact of fraud on the finance and treasury environment.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2020

Speaking with Karen Webster, Citi Commercial Bank Senior Vice President and Treasury Sales Officer Thor Perplies described the experience of working with Flywire to facilitate the movement of funds from the U.S. to China within only a few hours in order to secure a PPE shipment for healthcare providers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

With pressure mounting for the enterprise to digitize, accounts payable automation is seen as a crucial part of achieving greater efficiency, cost savings, visibility into spend and strengthening of vendor relationships, to name a few benefits. But when it comes to money, businesses may be reluctant to hand the reins to a third party.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

The majority of corporations also said they manage more than 100 accounts, a feature that “makes it very difficult to implement consistent payment processes, controls and formats, adding significantly to the cost and risk associated with payments,” FIS concluded. “What we see in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Cross-border payments, trade finance, smart contracts — blockchain has the potential to disrupt B2B processes, but FinTech players are only beginning to take these concepts onto a real-world stage. Real-time payments and reconciliation, the company added, could be a major boost to corporate cash management efforts, too.

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Finvisage

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Patisserie Valerie says finance chief arrested. The owner of Patisserie Valerie has said its finance director Chris Marsh was arrested last night and then released on bail. Accountancy firm PwC is reported to have been hired by the company to look at its accounts, which are audited by Grant Thornton.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Open banking jumped onto the financial services scene with a focus on enabling consumer-facing FinTech platforms to connect with their users’ bank account data. The model quickly gained traction and today is accelerating its expansion into B2B financial services, too. Open Banking Targets Corporates.

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Future CFO

APRIL 7, 2022

In one FutureCFO workshop of finance leaders, despite two-thirds using some of the most advanced ERP tools in the market, nearly all concede the use of spreadsheets as part of work. Forty-three years on, spreadsheets are still a staple of finance functions for companies big and small. Albert Leong. Lee Chee Leong.

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Bramasol

APRIL 15, 2024

In this new post, we get more granular to provide an update on how AI and Gen AI can enhance productivity, insights, and results in finance applications such as order-to-cash to compliance (OTC 2 ), along with a look at how new SAP AI initiatives are key to this transformation.

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PYMNTS

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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Bramasol

MAY 6, 2022

In too many instances, as CIOs and CFOs implement new software to improve finance processes, the expediency of getting systems up and running quickly can create isolated silos of inefficiency across the enterprise-wide technology landscape. Need for ongoing data manipulation and reconciliation between systems. Sources of Digital Debt.

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CFO Leadership

MARCH 31, 2022

Global operations make it more challenging for small treasury teams in mid-market companies to handle day-to-day operations efficiently and securely. New currencies, global banking structures, regional regulations, disparate processes, and disconnected systems all add complexities to the treasury operations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

And cash flow lives or dies by the correct reconciliation and posting of payments. ” “Financial institutions are looking to define and expand and, in some cases, create a comprehensive treasury management offering.” And increasingly, he said, traditional finance firms must compete with FinTech upstarts.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Corporate financial services providers taking aim at accounts payable friction this week pulled double-duty with new tools that also addressed friction for clients’ suppliers. Bank , each of which launched new accounts payable (AP) offerings that impact the biller-side of the transaction. Finally, U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The tool would target businesses’ inter-company transactions for streamlined payments, bookkeeping and reconciliation. Research from Deloitte published in 2016 found that inter-company accounting can be a particularly high-risk operation and introduce more friction to company processes. Banking Tech reports on Monday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

The study surveyed 300 treasury professionals involved in international business across several industries and found that 64 percent want real-time tracking capabilities. Treasurers find this to be of importance because it can help reduce the rate of reconciliation errors.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

With Fraedom, that means integrating those expense management and reporting capabilities into other areas of corporate finance and banking. “Through APIs, you can then connect this app into treasury workstations, connect it into other forms of reporting.” “Speed is becoming more important. .

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