CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Developing a solid technical foundation will make these skills second nature, freeing up mental capacity to focus on higher-level challenges as you progress. As you gain experience, start paying attention to strategic thinking and risk management, which are critical at the executive level.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Over the past year, QNB Privates strategic investment approach has significantly increased return on investment, reflecting its commitment to maximizing client value while maintaining prudent risk management practices. The private bank offers a comprehensive service suite of traditional banking and modern financial solutions.

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CFO Talks

APRIL 22, 2025

They pull in risk managers, ops teams, sales leaders, and procurement to build a rounded, interconnected view. Not every risk deserves a forecast branch. Focus on what could break the businessmacro risk, client concentration, supplier failure, regulatory shocks. They prioritise materiality.

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Future CFO

APRIL 13, 2025

Mornings are typically all about concentrated focus, starting with ensuring alignment with our clients across key objectives like risk management, credit solutions, and employee benefits strategies. At a high level, a normal day involves strategic planning, teamwork, and tackling challenges, but most days are diverse and varied.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2025

Their focus is on generating alpha with high conviction concentrated portfolios. But growth investing for us has really been about high conviction, deep fundamental research driven, active manage management. And you know, we’re a, we’re a concentrated manager. First, what is a concentrated portfolio?

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While the job has always had a strong risk-management component, the basic task was simple: making sure the company has cash available, when and where it’s needed. Predictive analytics can forecast future financial scenarios with greater accuracy, contributing to risk management and strategic planning. Not anymore.

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CFO News

MAY 9, 2023

The risk landscape is changing at a breathtaking pace, and your risk management plan needs to evolve in tandem. Today, business environments have become increasingly complex and uncertain, which has made identifying enterprise risk more challenging.

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Global Finance

JUNE 14, 2024

Banks are now prioritizing four key areas: liquidity management with a balanced portfolio view including commercial real estate (CRE), enterprise protection with anti-fraud and cybersecurity, operational resiliency and sustainability with climate risk and green products. Overall, balanced risk management is the ultimate goal for banks.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To protect against instability with banking partners, nearly half of treasury departments appear to be focused on concentrating their organisations’ partnerships with larger banks for services (cited by 48% of respondents).

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Miao described a variety of initiatives designed to strengthen management, accelerate innovation, and improve both wealth management and fintech risk management. That level of concentration defines ICBC, the world’s largest bank by assets and winner of this year’s Best Corporate Bank award.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He also recommends continuing dialogues with banks that offer market insights to craft good strategies for funding and risk management. Read market updates daily and try to assess the potential impact on the group, be proactive vs reactive.

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Global Finance

JULY 26, 2024

VAs help streamline the payment process and improve cash flow management; and Anand Sampath, FAB’s Managing Director, Head – Global Payments & Collections, says VAs offer corporates an efficient and cost-effective way to manage and concentrate cash.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Digital advances have generated enormous wealth in record time, but that wealth has been concentrated around a small number of individuals, companies and countries,” UN Secretary General António Guterres wrote in a preface to the report. has at the very least focused the world’s awareness on this growing problem.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Outsourcing also enables internal teams to concentrate on essential business tasks rather than getting weighed down by the challenges of telecom management. This doesn’t just manage expenses but also guarantees the company is utilizing the top services on the market.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Outsourcing also enables internal teams to concentrate on essential business tasks rather than getting weighed down by the challenges of telecom management. This doesn’t just manage expenses but also guarantees the company is utilizing the top services on the market.

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Future CFO

MARCH 19, 2023

Source: Gartner (March 2023) Despite government assurances that uninsured deposits will remain accessible, there is a sense of uncertainty among some CFOs about how the crisis will evolve, and there is a new focus on concentration risk for CFOs and their boards.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Venture capital funding rounds this week showed some concentration on the continent, with several announcements tied to Europe. CybelAngel , a risk management and cybersecurity startup based in France, raised the equivalent of $36 million in Series B funding. The funds will go toward product development and the firm’s expansion.

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The Finance Weekly

JULY 7, 2022

At the same time that elements of risk are constantly there, investors are demanding more disclosures and a deeper analysis. The never ending game of juggling risk management and increased transparency, all while continuing to lead the finance team and conduct day to day activities, has made the job of a CFO more demanding and complex.

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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. The second benefit is improved risk management.

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Future CFO

JUNE 2, 2024

For example, with financial analyses and forecasts more easily performed with AI augmentation, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO)’s role may no longer be concentrated on financial numbers alone.

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Concentrate on particular areas of improvement. After you've documented and comprehended the extended financial closing process, you may concentrate on identifying the areas that require immediate attention. When it comes to something as vital as risk management, though, best practices must be followed: 1.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

It would be “too risky” to allow non-European banks to lead the way of financing and risk management in Europe, Sewing added. Rather, trimming off other assets will allow Deutsche to concentrate its focus on its strongest areas, including payments, dollar and euro clearing and FX trading, reports said.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

In the office, I will try to block time each day, first thing in the morning, before any meetings or appointments to work on something which requires uninterrupted concentration, deeper thought or greater creativity. Often this will be either a strategic issue, planning related or a specific client matter.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 14, 2023

Third-party viability was the top fast-emerging risk that organisations are monitoring most closely in the 2Q23 survey, Gartner pointed out, adding that financial planning uncertainty was ranked the third among emerging risks for enterprises, followed by cloud concentration risk.

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Future CFO

MARCH 23, 2023

Few Fitch-rated banks in APAC have the sort of depositor concentration profiles that left SVB particularly vulnerable to a run, the firm observed. “We We believe the risk of deposit volatility could be significant for digital banks in APAC,” Fitch said.

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CFO Simplified

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today, we want to introduce one high-level principle that should be used within any business to manage, direct and control the outflow of cash: The “three-way match ” or “triple match.”. Internal Controls and Risk Management in a Business. One of the more challenging elements of running any business is risk management.

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Spreadym

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Debt Management: If you have debt, like credit card debt or student loans, develop a plan to manage and pay down your liabilities efficiently. Risk Management: Assess your insurance needs, including health, life, disability, and property insurance, to protect against unexpected events that could impact your financial well-being.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 20, 2024

It involves trusting your team, delegating effectively, and concentrating on strategic financial planning. It’s about leading, not just managing. Strategic Financial and Risk Management: The CFO is the architect of the company’s financial strategy, including tax and risk management strategies.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s quick response to the banks’ failures stemmed additional contagion and has left businesses with an object lesson in concentration risk. Through its prudent lending approach, robust risk management, and geographic diversification, the bank nearly doubled its deposits to 17.36

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Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Areas of concentration are determined in part by the lab’s “innovation radar,” a proprietary trend-indexing framework that systematically searches for potentially game-changing innovations. Formally established in 2018, the CTBC Data & AI R&D Center in Taiwan now employs more than 200 people.

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Spreadym

JUNE 15, 2023

By identifying the key drivers, organizations can concentrate their efforts and resources on those areas that have the most significant impact on achieving their goals. This driver involves analyzing and managing expenses, negotiating better vendor contracts, implementing cost-saving measures, and monitoring budget adherence.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Globally, Allianz Trade is looking at an around 10% increase in 2024, which will be concentrated in the US and European markets, driven mainly by the global economy, what with the expected mild recession in Europe and the continuing Russia-Ukraine war, as well as the coming elections in the US.

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 21, 2024

Communicate with clients, investors, senior management, and stakeholders. Facilitate risk management, audits, and research. By looking into this angle, finance operations can be streamlined, freeing up more time to concentrate on activities that bring value to the business. Compile quarterly and annual tax returns.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. With no further ado, my interview of GCM’s Ken Tropin.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And, and our vision was to create an investment partnership like you’d find with a Wellington or a capital group with the risk management expertise of Citadel wrapped in a specialist structure at Woodline. 00:21:47 [Speaker Changed] And a lot of funds that have found success seem to have run some pretty concentrated portfolios.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

Another the great lesson, and I was still a global macro portfolio manager with my own silo at SAC Capital. And at the SAC Capital, it was all about risk management. I’ve focused much more on risk management, downside risk hedging. But as you said, at Soros, it was all about big macro bets.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” Matthew: It’s very risk management based. And most people have very underserved in a risk management perspective, so you can place the right insurance products along with investments and get a whole financial plan going. .” You’re obtaining clients. Matthew: Exactly. We have the ACHs?

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