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The Talent Tussle: Labor Shortage Hits CPAs and CFOs Alike

Global Finance

Bokhari’s observations, they agreed, highlight a serious issue in the corporate finance world: making numbers cool again. For Robin Helfer, a former CFO of clothing company Ashley Stewart, mentorship starts at the college level, because fewer students overall want to study accounting and finance.

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2018 Recap: B2B Payments Innovation Welcomes Bank-FinTech Collabs — And Beyond

PYMNTS

In B2B payments and corporate finance, it wasn’t only bank-FinTech collaboration that made headlines in 2018. Partnerships, joint ventures, as well as merger and acquisition (M&A) activity between banks, startups, payments firms, technology conglomerates and everyone in between became a popular strategy for tackling friction.