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The Innovators 2025: Central and Eastern Europe

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Akbank reports that its gross profits have ballooned since the launch. Retail bank customers can now purchase credit protection insurance to cover loan installment payments in case of illness or job loss. Utilizing AI, the app provides leads and insights in a range of areas including travel planning and household budgeting.

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Playing It Smart with Idle Cash

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Not because governance boxes need tickingbut because no CFO wants to explain an investment loss that wasnt signed off, or a liquidity crunch that blindsided the group. Heres what forward-thinking CFOs are looking at: AI-Powered Cash Forecasting Goodbye guesswork, hello accuracy. Final Word Managing corporate cash isnt glamorous.

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Anna Zhirnova, Group FP&A Manager, Jones Knowles Ritchie

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For me, it’s been flashback time,” says Anna, who joined the company in February this year and is responsible for business insights, budget forecasting, profit and loss and cash management. . I’ve been doing a lot of scenario building, short and medium-term forecasting, cash management and so on. . “So

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For Manufacturers, Cash Management Is In Their Hands

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.” The vast majority know it’s critical to corporate success to optimize working capital; 88 percent said they agree doing so can boost profit margins, while 82 percent said it’s simply important to corporate success.

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World’s Best Banks 2024: Global Winners

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The banks “failed as a result of a combination of unrealized interest rate losses from their long-term, fixed-rate assets and the loss of the low-rate deposits that had funded these assets,” Larry Wall, research center executive director of the Atlanta Fed’s Center for Financial Innovation and Stability, explained in a blog post.

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Treasurers Beware: FX Risk Is Not What It Used To Be

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While international growth may seem an opportunity too good to pass up for a small business, Laurent Descout, CEO and founder of corporate cash management FinTech Neo , says hard-hitting fees exacerbate the often damaging threat of currency and exchange rate volatility, leading some firms to give up on global aspirations.

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Sally Beauty Holdings Sees Q3 Net Sales Drop 28 Pct YOY

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The Texas-based beauty supplier reported on Thursday (July 30) that its losses were partially offset by a surge in online sales and the opening of its shops from mid-April through the end of June. GAAP diluted earnings per share in Q3 fell by $0.21, compared to a profit of $0.59 Sally Beauty Holdings Inc. in the prior year. “We

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