E78 Partners

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This can make it difficult to implement best practices, develop state-of-the-art technology solutions, or recruit top talent. However, middle-market company leaders may not fully leverage the potential of this function in their organizations.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Moving money from one currency to another sounds like it should be pretty straightforward, especially in an era where moving money is basically moving bits of information across the internet,” Lembo said in a recent interview with PYMNTS. Kicking Free Of Correspondent Banking.

Foreign Exchange 85

Foreign Exchange Compliance Currencies Banking 85

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Financial services providers that slack on regulatory compliance and fail to safeguard their operations against money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activities may face damaged reputations and significant fines. A report found that the U.S. imposed a full $23.52 billion and the Middle East levied $9.5 million. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To get a sense of just how hard it is for cryptocurrencies to gain, well, currency in everyday life, consider bitcoin, perhaps the granddaddy of cryptocurrencies — and still the 900-pound gorilla in the space, with roughly two-thirds of the market cap across the entire sector. The Difference A Decade Makes . Back in May, i2c Inc.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

The advantages of outsourcing the back-end integrations and compliance issues tied to, say, international markets can accrue swiftly to corporates’ bottom lines, free up resources and streamline back-end processes. Technology brings the concept of flexible payments into reality. PaaS could be worth as much as $16.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Financial services firm Figure Technologies, Inc. has sought a national bank charter from the Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC), which will let it meet “promises of efficiency, affordability and financial inclusion,” according to a Friday (Nov. 6) announcement.

Banking 65

Banking Compliance Currencies Leverage 65

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments. And herein lies the great irony in financial services.

Banking 86

Banking Leverage Compliance Technology 86

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

billion transactions for potential suspicious activity and screened more than 157 million transactions for compliance with applicable sanctions requirements. Much of those revamped efforts come, perhaps not surprisingly, through advanced technologies. It's the combination of these technologies that becomes powerful.".

Banking 139

Banking Leverage Compliance Currencies 139

PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2019

“The enhancements improve the payment-to-settlement time, increase security and reduce costs for both payers and receivers by further automating and streamlining reconciliation of the growing number of international payments coming from different countries in different currencies,” the company said.

Reconciliations 62

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

PYMNTS’ latest research report, The Mastering Multichannel Commerce Playbook: Digital Payments And The Road To Growth , lays out the shifting dynamics of digital commerce — and how corporate treasurers and other finance leaders can best leverage them. The average multinational firm works with six separate banks and six currencies.

eCommerce 63

eCommerce Healthcare Compliance Currencies 63

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has again released its report on top risks facing banks, with its Spring 2017 analysis warning FIs that threats are coming from all angles. Noreika, acting Comptroller of the Currency, in a statement. Compliance. Amid these fluctuations, the U.S.

Banking 46

Banking Compliance Currencies Concentration 46

PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

Online gambling compliance experts are also predicting that cybercrime will sharply rise in the coming months. A recent survey revealed that 93 percent of United Kingdom gaming compliance managers anticipate growing numbers of chargebacks and fraud as the pandemic prods consumers to access online services.

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Compliance Entertainment Securities Accounting 89

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In a press release , Payment Rails said its white label platform supports business payments sent to more than 220 countries in more than 135 currencies. Many of our clients are migrating off their core banks’ treasury service and leveraging Payment Rails’ payout platform because we offer automation and REST API connectivity.

Foreign Exchange 78

Foreign Exchange Treasury B2B Compliance 78

PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Kevin Phalen, head of Global Business Solutions at Visa, told Karen Webster that Visa B2B Connect acts as a brand new, end-to-end global payments network, built on using elements of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and the open source Hyperledger Fabric framework hosted by The Linux Foundation. Mastercard, Too.

B2B 75

B2B Compliance Currencies Leverage 75

Future CFO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They also had to learn how to leverage the new opportunities from payments to go beyond just the handling of transactions, and how to derive new revenue streams and build new products and services around payments. This view is shared by Austria, saying technology vendors are seen as partners instead of competitors or even threats.

Banking 98

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

That is geared toward eliminating pre-funding needs of banks to have foreign currencies on hand tied to destination currencies. We also saw a 350 percent increase last year in customers sending live payments, and we’re beginning to see more customers flip the switch and leverage XRP for on-demand liquidity.”.

Currencies 76

Currencies Banking Compliance Numbers 76

PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

According to Hikmet Ersek, CEO of Western Union , the deal helps Western Union sharpen its focus on building out cross-border payment capabilities, with an eye toward technology-driven initiatives. Replicating that flexible capability, at scale, is easier said than done, as regulation and compliance mandates may be tough to navigate.

Sales 56

Sales B2C Currencies Leverage 56

Future CFO

JANUARY 12, 2021

Seamlessly integrating potentially conflicting financial data from multiple sources across geographies, time zones, and currencies onto a single platform saves time and effort and allows you to streamline processes and apply automated analytics.

Foreign Exchange 40

Foreign Exchange CFO Compliance Reconciliations 40

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Amit Agarwal, global head of cross-border payments at Citi , told Karen Webster in the latest installment of the “What Treasurers Need to Know” podcast series that the world is becoming flatter and supply chains are getting longer, stretching across borders and currencies. Macro Trends as Tailwinds. The Challenges of Cross-Border .

B2B 51

B2B B2C Compliance Currencies 51

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

“We want to come up with an expression of value exchange between consumers that is a delightful experience, that works anywhere in the world, that works across currencies, is instant and, for the consumer, free.”. This can be across the table in their own currency or through the blockchain to send value globally, Allaire added.

Currencies 75

Currencies Compliance Communication Credit Risk 75

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

Payments and commerce so often boil down to giving consumers what they want, and the same is looking to be true for blockchain , the popular distributed ledger technology underlying cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin. The Chinese eCommerce giant will reportedly use blockchain technology for its cross-border supply chain.

Currencies 47

Currencies Leverage eCommerce Compliance 47

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Cross-border transactions remain difficult to navigate due to the various regulations and technologies available in different countries. You have to make sure the colors match up across a myriad combinations of markets, currencies and use-cases. Ensuring Compliance While Improving Speed and Convenience.

Compliance 57

Compliance Securities B2B Currencies 57

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

For airlines and hotels, catering to customers from around the world means dealing with a long list of complications, including accepting payments in a host of local currencies, complying with national and international regulations, and finding ways to afford or offset the high price of processing fees.

Prioritization 49

Prioritization Currencies Securities Compliance 49

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The whole point of startups is to do things differently than mainstream players, and that is exactly what these companies are doing with automation, interoperability and digital currency initiatives. Why should organizations say “yes” to purchase order matching and “no” to cryptocurrencies? Chargehound. A digital U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2017

As many newer FinTechs develop their own API solutions to help facilitate cross-border transactions, Haag said Western Union is in position to help these companies move their innovations forward by leveraging Western Union’s network and providing access to its payment rails.

B2B 70

B2B Foreign Exchange Compliance Leverage 70

PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

Inability to support multiple languages, currencies and transparency on the final cost of the product turn shoppers off. based global eCommerce sites accept foreign currencies, and research tells us that customers are more likely to abandon shopping carts that only show U.S. Both of those problems were very in the crosshairs of FedEx.

Currencies 47

Currencies Transportation Compliance eCommerce 47

PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

One of blockchain technology’s earliest corporate supporters just recently completed testing for its blockchain-based proxy voting system. But as cross-border investments grow, the exchange hopes to facilitate greater investor engagement while also potentially reducing overhead cost by leveraging various blockchain traits.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2017

And especially in cross-border payments , where, amid globalization, currencies shift and businesses connect across time zones, languages and even industries. Cambridge, of course, as an international B2B payments provider, has seen some sea change of its own, having been acquired this past August by FLEETCOR Technologies.

B2B 44

B2B Invoicing Compliance Technology 44

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

A certain amount of anonymity must be sacrificed to meet regulations like anti-money laundering (AML) compliance standards. Brisker, a serial entrepreneur who previously founded TOA Technologies, believed he was up to the challenge, and the Mezu mobile app was born. The vision is for users to be able to get on a plane in the U.S.,

Startups 47

Startups Currencies Transportation Banking 47

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

He noted the standards recommended by FIDO Alliance (Fast IDentity Online), a consortium of several major financial institutions and technology companies. To get more banks into the two-step authentication mix, Clarke recommends regulation, which would compel mandatory compliance. “A

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Strategic Treasurer

JANUARY 3, 2022

They discuss technology developments that will likely have the biggest impact on treasury in 2022. They discuss technology developments that will likely have the biggest impact on Treasury in 202s. And really how best to leverage those across their enterprises, what sort of data to give access to those solutions?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Also netting praise was the quick-charging technology that allows the phones to run for over seven hours on 15 minutes of charge (though the loss of wireless charging was bemoaned) and the 12.3-megapixel megapixel camera. The most lauded upgrade, however, was Google Assistant, available with a long press of the on-screen home button.

Currencies 60

Currencies Advertising Banking Compliance 60

PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

Thanks to the proliferation of connected devices, software, the cloud, ever faster and more ubiquitous broadband, new technologies and the great imaginations of innovators everywhere who see a future that most can’t yet comprehend but work tirelessly to make our reality,” MPD CEO Karen Webster said on Day 1 of Innovation Project 2016.

Securities 41

Securities Leadership Compliance Banking 41

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

That said, we do expect banks to leverage their assets and their reputation for trust and security to innovate in ways that speak to the value proposition we value the most: keeping the funds there secure, and access to them secure, yet friction-free. Making B2B Payments Rails Hot.

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B2B Banking Economics Securities 76

Onplan

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Our guide to the best FP&A tools compares each vendor based on five criteria: Adoption — How easy it is for users to adopt the technology and learn and leverage its full extent of features and capabilities. When it comes to reliability, OnPlan is built on the latest cloud-scale database technologies. Customer success.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

In other words, pay no attention to the notion that voice assistants are these clunky, friction-filled technologies that have reached their peak. In 2019, read big bang stuff for fun, but embrace – and fund – innovations that leverage what already operates at scale to deliver a more valuable experience for your customers.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. technology, that was something to ride for a while. Tell us a little bit about what you do on Twitter and how was it getting that through legal and compliance? RIEDER: Well, first of all, anything I tweet goes through legal and compliance before it gets out there, first part.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 57