PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Financial services firm ION is introducing the industry’s first treasury management solution for cash forecasting, powered by machine learning, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. Developing solutions are on tap to lower costs related to the implementation and time-to-market of a treasury management system (TMS).

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

I spend most of my time in the far less rarefied air of corporate finance and valuation, where businesses try to decide what projects to invest in, and investors attempt to estimate business value.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

From accounting to treasury to corporate planning and corporate finance to tax management, and cash flow management that all falls under my scope of work and I am ultimately responsible for that, says Cheng of his responsibility as the CFO of the top real estate developer. . We never stopped.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As the corporate treasurer takes on a more strategic role in the enterprise, treasury and cash management technologies can often be stuck in the past, failing to keep up with financial execs’ needs. financial services space, data security will also come into focus for corporate finance executives even more than today.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

Financial technology innovation has opened the doors to massive transformation of corporate finance departments. While flashy corporate FinTech is exciting, innovation efforts have rarely focused on a mainstay of corporate finance teams: the financial close process, a crucial, but continually outdated function.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Asia Pacific-based corporate treasury management technology firm CS Lucas is expanding in the U.K., office to connect businesses in the country with its treasury Software-as-a-Service offering. comes amid a time of changing treasury management challenges for corporates. reports said this week.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

Remlinger, Project Manager — Solutions for Business at foreign exchange technology firm OANDA. Because APIs facilitate integration between two services, the technology allows FinTechs to innovate in their niche markets, rather than attempting to be a jack of all trades. “I

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

” In its 2018 AFP Technology Survey , underwritten by corporate treasury management firm BELLIN , the AFP surveyed 708 corporate finance executives about their thoughts on adoption of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

"Businesses and consumers must prioritize cyber resilience and recognize that it is everyone's responsibility to protect their data," said OpenText CEO and Chief Technology Officer Mark J. This week's B2B Data Digest looks at the latest figures behind such fraud targeting corporate finance teams. Barrenechea in a statement.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Corporate treasury professionals are reassessing investment strategies to stay agile and conserve cash amid interest rate shifts and geopolitical uncertainty. A sense of nervousness amid ongoing global disruption pervades strategic thinking across global treasury functions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

Rising corporate finance metrics don’t always mean good news. Find out which figures led to good growth — like digital corporate payments increases or a rise in SME hedging practices — and which signal bad news for corporate FinServ. The numbers are on the up this week! But don’t let that fool you.

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Global Finance

JUNE 6, 2024

Technology advances bring the high-touch experience to more clients, large and small. The project’s deployment required the collaborative efforts of several bank departments, including business, legal, compliance, engineering, security and IT, as well as outside technology vendors Metaco and Avaloq.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

There are a lot of moving parts in B2B payments that are keeping corporate finance executives busy as they work to modernize and optimize their operations. As Thakur noted, the opportunity to consolidate complex systems through treasury and banking integrations is vast. Corporate Priorities Ahead. Emerging Ecosystems.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Cryptocurrency-backed lending platform Cred is opening up its technology to third-party developers, the company has announced. Its set of application program interfaces (APIs) enable businesses to use crypto as collateral to access corporate financing products. In a press release on Tuesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Much of that innovation has been focused on corporate finance and payments, as top financial services players have introduced new blockchain solutions in an effort to disrupt and improve corporate payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

While financial services (FinServ) innovations often emerge with built-in security measures, new market trends — including faster payments and open banking — are introducing new security threats to corporate treasury departments, according to cybersecurity company BioCatch. BioCatch pointed to this risk in its blog post, too.

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Bramasol

APRIL 26, 2023

As shown below, the current Quote-to-Cash portfolio from SAP (formerly known as BRIM) includes Subscription Order Management (SOM), Convergent Charging (CC), Convergent Mediation (CM), Convergent Invoicing (CI), Corporate Finance Management (CFM) and Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The spreadsheet is the bane of many corporate finance professionals' existence. For accounting and treasury management departments, the spreadsheet's drawbacks can lead to detrimental impacts on corporate bottom lines. For GRID, the opportunity to tackle spreadsheet friction isn't in offering corporates an alternative.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Today, Misys is gearing up for another overhaul that similarly reflects times of flux and progress in banking technology and corporate finance. In reality, corporate banking is fragmented,” Singh-Jarrold continued. The company will merge with DH Corp.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

While executives may understand the importance of key technologies like data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve their processes, they don’t always turn that understanding into actionable adoption of those tools. Only 8 percent of survey respondents are using third-party technology solutions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Corporate finance executives and financial service providers quickly acknowledged a dramatic change in the treasury department: Over the last decade, the corporate treasurer has become a strategic component of the enterprise, driving growth in a challenging, constantly changing market.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

While this trend has disrupted legacy business models, it has also opened up opportunities for cash managers to embrace new technologies and drive efficiencies through things like smart devices and growing cloud computing power. And that’s all about using technology-based services to re-engineer treasury activities.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This is especially true in finance-related functions like accounting, procurement, payroll and treasury, and a new survey from Workday suggests chief financial officers are recognizing the opportunities in a more collaborative approach to their positions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

The latest research adds new chapters to this story, highlighting the continuing struggles of technological adoption while, at the same time, showcasing the progress the enterprise has made. “But what our numbers show, rather dramatically, is the cost of over-relying on spreadsheets to manage an entire finance function, like treasury.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Corporate treasury technology company HighRadius is rolling out a new cash flow forecasting solution developed using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2017

According to Graham Tasman, principal at Grant Thornton’s Business Consulting and Technology practice, this balancing act creates opportunity for service providers of the corporate finance function. while technology presents significant promise. There is no shortage of challenges, but optimism is high.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

According to new research from Capital One , corporate treasurers have their eyes on these changes and are looking to upgrade their current commercial card tools. Nearly half (46 percent) said their biggest priority when deciding which commercial card service provider to pick is one that can adapt to their corporation’s unique needs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

The complexity of payment workflows within and between mid-market and large corporate entities can be so immense that many treasurers aren’t able to pinpoint exactly where the friction exists. For developers and corporate finance teams alike, speed is also a factor in the transaction itself.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

Corporate treasurers gathered for the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) annual conference last week, and there, treasury professionals made clear where their priorities stand today. According to reports in Global Finance , an estimated 1,100 corporate treasurers from across the U.K. Nearly a third (31.1

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Treasury Cash Management Finance Risk Management 49

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Corporates may not be adopting faster and real-time payments technologies as fast as consumers, but that doesn’t mean the acceleration of payments isn’t impacting corporate finance. But FX management isn’t the only area of corporate treasury seeing positive disruption from faster payments.

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CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 29, 2024

Mann found a door of entry at Goldman Sachs, where after initially filling a quantitative role involving complex financing structures she subsequently transitioned to investment banking and a new focus on M&A and corporate finance in the tech and media sectors. We support the insurance industry worldwide.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The competition is heating up between payment technologies in accounts payable, with ACH and virtual cards seeing significant pushes in the B2B payments space to combat the dreaded paper check. There are a lot of treasury management issues out there that need to be addressed,” he told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

Treasury-related accounting tasks, payment fund transfers and cash flow forecasting are also top time-wasters for treasurers relying on spreadsheets. That’s more than 600 full work days that could otherwise be spent on strategic initiatives.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

How this new landscape of financial services will play out for corporate customers of the banks, however, is less clear, but disruption is on the way. A new report from treasury technology firm Centtrip predicts that businesses in the U.K.

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CFO Thought Leader

OCTOBER 22, 2024

From her early career as an investment banker to 18 years at Morgan Stanley, Winkles emphasizes the importance of building a diverse finance toolkit through roles in corporate FP&A, treasury, and equity research.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

” In corporate finance, though, it may not pay to look at financial performance in isolated fashion. They say “you’re biggest competitor is yourself.” In procurement, companies tend to measure their performance against historical, internal data.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

Corporate treasurers know fraud is something to keep an eye on, but amid all of the high-profile breaches and hacks over the last few years, apparently, these money managers haven’t acted — yet.

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