Generation CFO

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I did not fully appreciate how workforce planning has developed over the years, the huge difference between private and public sector, the GDPR conundrum nor the potential number of drivers that can be used in a salary plan. If we go back a few years, HR was very much concentrated on getting payroll correct. Access Full Webinar.

Planning 131

Planning Benchmarking Budgeting Concentration 131

Generation CFO

JANUARY 28, 2022

He suggests organisations need a safe space where the numbers will not be used as a stick to beat you with. “It However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. Consequently, his original career ambition was in professional football.

CFO 200

CFO Math Concentration Finance 200

Future CFO

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Private fund firms are now putting idle cash to work in money market funds (MMFs), which has the dual benefit of earning a yield from cash holdings in addition to mitigating concentration risk. Money market funds are “particularly attractive” as they generate yield on idle cash and are highly liquid, according to Quinn.

Cash Management 52

Cash Management Marketing Treasury Concentration 52

CFO News Room

JANUARY 8, 2023

Doing this requires the board to prioritize budget for upgrading IT foundations that enable speed, security, resiliency, and reusability. The cloud is changing security. For years, security was treated as a blocker — albeit a critical one — that slowed progress to ensure security protocols were in place.

Budgeting 130

Budgeting Securities Economics Technology 130

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the San Francisco-based company announced Monday (Aug. Wish’s filing follows a number of startups, including Snowflake, Palantir Technologies and Asana, seeking opportunities amid a crush of investors, Reuters reported. 31) in a press release.

eCommerce 70

eCommerce Concentration Valuation Startups 70

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2024

But again, you’ve got that net gain generally over time in a direct index, you’re getting that same professional and diversification, but instead of investing in a product that’s got one price, you’ve got access to the individual securities underneath – all trading at different prices. 400, 450, 500.

Concentration 95

Concentration Investments Accounting Marketing 95

Future CFO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We onboarded with Docusign to facilitate more secure digital signatures for transactional and legal documents. We also started to utilise Power BI for the creation of consolidated reporting materials that are easy to digest instead of referring to heavy excel sheets for the numbers. “We

Treasury 98

Treasury Cash Management Restructuring Accounts Payable 98

PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

New customers for Amazon grocery delivery will be directed to a waitlist so the eCommerce giant can concentrate on fulfilling backlogged orders, the company said on Sunday (April 12). In the coming weeks, we will launch a new feature that will allow customers to secure time to shop.

Concentration 71

Concentration eCommerce Securities Sales 71

PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

The money is being earmarked across a number of initiatives, designed to combat synthetic fraud. As Harris noted during the discussion, synthetic fraud essentially centers around creating a person (a fictitious one, in this case) — where bad actors can and do use fake names, Social Security numbers or birthdates, and build credit histories.

Construction 73

Construction Numbers Concentration Securities 73

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the San Francisco-based company announced Monday (Aug. Wish’s filing follows a number of startups, including Snowflake, Palantir Technologies and Asana, seeking opportunities amid a crush of investors, Reuters reported. 31) in a press release.

eCommerce 56

eCommerce Concentration Valuation Startups 56

PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

In terms of the headline numbers, net income was up 92 percent to 92.5 Management pointed to the recent introduction of the 3D Secure 2 product, now deployed by Uber, Match.com and other firms. Management said growth was logged across all regions, and termed that growth “well-diversified” as merchant concentration has been decreasing.

Marketing 66

Marketing Concentration CFO eCommerce 66

PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

DFA has a number of milk-bottling plants as well as consumer dairy brands. A couple of farm groups have expressed concern that the deal would concentrate milk buyers in different parts of the country. In November, the two entities announced they were looking into making a deal with each other. million in 2018. is marketed by them.

Concentration 60

Concentration Securities Sales Retail 60

Musings on Markets

MAY 5, 2023

In addition, banks can also invest some of the cash in securities, usually fixed-income, and with varying maturities and degrees of default risk, again earning income from these holdings. The first is the duration of these securities , relative to the duration of the deposit base, with a greater mismatch associated with more risk.

Banking 76

Banking Profit and Loss Securities Investments 76

PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

In addition to grocery stores, online EBT enablement using PIN on Glass technology is also being deployed at two of the nation’s largest farmer’s markets, given the high concentration of EBT customers who are served in those markets. They, too, want to provide more options for payment via online or mobile channels.

Concentration 72

Concentration eCommerce Technology Securities 72

PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Security firm UpGuard posted about the news on Wednesday (April 3). This same type of collection, in similarly concentrated form, has been cause for concern in the recent past , given the potential uses of such data.”. Since that scandal, the social media giant has reduced the number of apps that have access to user data.

Concentration 53

Concentration Securities Numbers Accounting 53

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Taking the pulse of where we stand coming into the last few months of 2019, deal activity has seemingly been concentrated within the alternative finance and investment arenas. Sites such as TechCrunch report that a number of merchants have also joined the company’s audience of active users. percent, eCommerce at 23.8

Finance 57

Finance Concentration Startups Investments 57

Future CFO

APRIL 14, 2024

By working in Shell, I get to be part of powering progress here in the Philippines by providing secure energy needed for transport, businesses, and homes. You measure your success based on your individual achievement—the number of strokes it takes you to complete a hole—regardless of what the other players are doing.

Finance 52

Finance Concentration CFO Transportation 52

PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

Issuers may be eying the coming chargeback and dispute storm, but right now, said Quevedo, they’re concentrating on prioritizing claims processing. In other cases, they may be devising bank identification number (BIN) attacks or using card generators to create many potential card numbers. The Issuer Side Of The Equation.

Concentration 83

Concentration Prioritization Entertainment Banking 83

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This growth is a double-edged sword for merchants, as they need to keep up with consumers’ shifting payment expectations online and in-store while protecting their data against increasing numbers of fraud attacks.

Concentration 79

Concentration Retail Leverage Entertainment 79

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

With a growing number of automated machines performing jobs and tasks that could eliminate jobs, one San Francisco official is pushing a statewide “tax” in California on robots that put people out of work. For some, though, the issue is more about safety than job security. jobs are lost to automation.

Concentration 43

Concentration Healthcare Securities Numbers 43

PWC UK

OCTOBER 26, 2021

ESMA will identify any difference in basis available between TC and EU CCPs, and model any concentration add-ons. It will prepare its own estimate, but will ask EU and TC CCPs, as well as a number of market participants, for their estimations. ESMA will “ use existing literature ” to guide calculation of netting efficiencies.

Credit Risk 52

Credit Risk Concentration Banking Marketing 52

PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

based fast-casual pizzeria &pizza has concentrated its efforts on an in-house mobile order-ahead app, aiming to have more control over the ordering experience and to reflect the brand’s quirky in-store experience rather than presenting a generic ordering experience. “I Washington, D.C.-based

Concentration 65

Concentration Restructuring Startups Sales 65

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The company’s transparency and frankness serve as a good example to other companies [that] are prone to minimizing the consequences,” Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of the web security firm High-Tech Bridge told Computer Weekly. Credit Unions Eyeing Data Security, Too. “BA’s reaction was very fast. Money Laundering Weaknesses.

Compliance 46

Compliance Concentration Securities Banking 46

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Some of the companies leading the omnicommerce charge recently concentrated their efforts on introducing innovative plans to expand both their consumer base and also bolster their payment offerings.

Concentration 74

Concentration eCommerce Retail Securities 74

The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 27, 2023

Encompassing tasks such as analyzing financial data, creating budgets and forecasts, managing accounting processes, and ensuring tax adherence and regulatory compliance, these advanced solutions empower finance teams to concentrate on strategic decision-making and higher-value tasks. What is Datarails’, FP&A Genius?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Planning Forecasting Budgeting 52

PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

For all that has changed dramatically in the last several weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, consumers are still looking for the same two core offerings in every transaction, no matter what it is or where it takes place: seamlessness and security. An awful lot of other things have changed all around that core, however.

Securities 129

Securities eCommerce Concentration Accounting 129

The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

While this may not be a full-time role in the early growth stages, it does necessitate self-discipline, concentration, and dedication. report numbers accurately and make timely payments to employees and suppliers." Implement fundamental finance processes The primary responsibility is to master the fundamentals.

Startups 52

Startups Finance CFO Forecasting 52

PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

It’s also a number that is only expected to grow, as both the number of tourists and volume of spend increase. Only 5 percent of Chinese citizens hold passports, and the nation’s largest online travel service, Ctrip , predicts that number will double over the next two years. That’s roughly $7,200 per person per U.S and most U.S.

Concentration 45

Concentration Entertainment Numbers Securities 45

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

The OCC is urging corporate banking firms to upgrade security software and hardware, enhance authentication measures and deploy greater management of privileged user access. Over time, consolidation among service providers has resulted in large numbers of banks reliant on a small number of service providers.”.

Banking 46

Banking Compliance Currencies Concentration 46

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

smartphone owners now download a grand total of zero apps per month, and most new app downloads are (unsurprisingly) concentrated in the millennial demographic. A recent report by RiskIQ showed that these less regulated stores are growing in number and becoming a primary source of blacklisted, malicious and fraudulent apps.

Concentration 67

Concentration Benchmarking Securities Currencies 67

PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

All in, the company sells over 35 SKUs of skincare and bath and body products that are “formulated with pure, active, highly concentrated vitamins, minerals and botanicals.”. The brand’s “big break” moment occurred after they had been in business for about four years, when in 2015 it secured a spot on the shelves at Sephora.

Concentration 43

Concentration Manufacturing Leverage Marketing 43

Corporate Finance Lab

MARCH 27, 2023

1] The (negative) impact of the tightened FDI rules on takeover activity in the Benelux will not be known from the outset and only become clear once the two screening mechanisms have been in place for a number of years. Hostile bids are therefore unlikely to succeed without the support of the controlling shareholders.

Economics 57

Economics Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Concentration 57

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

We concentrated on easy integration, appropriate pricing, sales support, client success, and four profitable (for the merchant aggregation points) use cases. The team then works collaboratively to identify any number of potential solutions to those challenges. And since the U.S. bitcoin , and same-day delivery of products).

Concentration 40

Concentration Profit and Loss Technology Sales 40

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Concurrently, the company concentrated its IT functions in Australia and reducing the number of CIOs to one. Your data centre is no longer behind secured doors. Freedom, speed, agility and being secure. Centralising shared services in Malaysia was not the only transformation that IBM did.

Finance 52

Finance Budgeting Concentration Technology 52

PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Consumers need reassurance that mobile is secure. since London, which is where much of the usage is concentrated , has a high merchant acceptance, and the transit authority now enables contactless payments across all of its endpoints. In Germany that number was ever lower, with 16 percent reporting yes and 84 percent reporting no.

Currencies 44

Currencies Concentration Securities Numbers 44

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. Bond Markets and Default Risk. Flight to Safety and Collectibles.

Economics 130

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

More appropriately called the concentrated market power of global finance and the multinational corporate structures that dominate the market under the auspices of the hands-off model. And more specifically vulnerabilities linked to the concentrated structure of global production.

Economics 100

Economics Concentration Investments Finance 100