Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Additionally, the bank’s X-Border API enables other banks to automatically send payment instructions to Societe Generale in 40 different currencies from a single account, benefiting from a guaranteed rate for 20 minutes after obtaining the quotation.

Forecasting

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 30, 2024

They offer a complete suite of features that help businesses forecast cash flows, handle short-term investments, and improve liquidity. Cash Flow Forecasting - These tools can analyze historical data and current transactions to help businesses predict future cash flow needs, ensuring liquidity and avoiding financial bottlenecks.

Cash Management

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Financial models are essential for organizations, helping forecast financial performance using historical data and future projections. This practice allows businesses, investors, and finance professionals to evaluate investment opportunities, assess risks, forecast future scenarios, and support strategic decision-making.

Financial Modeling

CFO Talks

APRIL 17, 2025

Whether it’s expansion into a new market, investment in digital infrastructure, or rationalising product lines, information is the common currency that enables sound judgement. Shifting from static reporting to dynamic forecasting and real-time analytics. Building partnerships across business units to co-create solutions.

CFO

CFO Talks

MAY 2, 2025

If youre operating in multiple currencies, dual-currency deposits or FX-hedged funds may be game-changers. Heres what forward-thinking CFOs are looking at: AI-Powered Cash Forecasting Goodbye guesswork, hello accuracy. If ESG is on your boards radar, green bonds or socially responsible funds might be the right strategic play.

Treasury

CFO Talks

AUGUST 6, 2025

Cash Flow and Currency Risk Cash doesn’t move freely across all borders. Technology and Data Integration Your finance systems must support multi-entity, multi-currency, and multi-GAAP reporting. Trying to fix a poor structure later is expensive, time-consuming, and often public.

Foreign Exchange

CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Protects the business from risks like currency fluctuations and interest rate hikes. Understanding Market Volatility Market volatility refers to the way stock prices, currencies, and interest rates change over time. For example: If a currency drops in value, imported goods become more expensive.

Treasury

CFO Talks

MAY 8, 2025

This means asking uncomfortable questions, challenging overly optimistic forecasts, and knowing when to walk away from a deal. The potential for growth is high, but so are the risks: Currency Risk: Exchange rate fluctuations could erode profits. As a CFO, your experience, intuition, and leadership play a critical role.

Investments

Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Comprehensive FX management integrates tools, analytics, and AI to mitigate currency risks. A comprehensive foreign exchange (FX) exposure management strategy combines tools and techniques to identify, measure, and manage currency risks, empowering businesses to confidently navigate the complexities of the global marketplace.

Foreign Exchange

Global Finance

DECEMBER 6, 2024

in 2025, Sinitsky says cautioning that there could be some risks to this forecast due to a slowdown in mining production caused by environmental disruptions, bringing 2024 growth to under 2.8%. and forecasts a 2% rate by the end of 2025. With economic activity averaging 2.8%

Construction

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 8, 2025

dollar bank account, but your currency has high inflation, you’re going to want access to stablecoins. All these crypto-currencies are just speculative excess. bank account at the fingertips of anyone with a cell phone anywhere around the world. That’s built primarily on Ethereum. How do you respond to that?

Technology

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In business financing decisions , the cost of capital becomes an optimizing tool , where businesses look for a mix of debt and equity that reduces the cost of capital , and where matching up the debt (in terms of currency and maturity) to the assets r educes default risk and the cost of capital.

Hurdle Rate

Future CFO

JUNE 19, 2025

Assigning dedicated experts, especially for forecasting activities, which commonly recorded with less detail, would further reduce the stress on local teams, enhancing both accuracy and efficiency."

Finance

Future CFO

JULY 4, 2025

Ahamed believes this is where local relevance becomes critical, as businesses are demanding solutions that feel native to each market – from preferred local payment methods and multi-currency support to settlement capabilities. Innovation must be built on trust. Further, he expects a step-change in AI adoption.

Cash Flow Forecasting

Global Finance

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

We have cash management services with different consolidation levels and with third party banks and the state of the art tools for cash analysis and forecasting as well as e-banking applications, digital contracting and e-signing. Beyond using technology to support our clients, we are passionate about service excellence.

Cash Management

CFO Talks

MAY 14, 2025

It must be lived, demonstrated, and embedded across every financial decision, every forecast, every conversation with the board. Integrity as Strategic Currency Integrity isn’t a soft skill. It’s hard-edged capital in boardrooms, funding rounds, and investor briefings.

Numbers

Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Now, Market Data Forecast projects a 7.14% yearly compounded growth rate into 2032 for the global FX market. Banks are creating personalized solutions like customized currency hedges or swaps. In some cases, having the opportunity to trade in different currencies gives clients the chance to realize cost advantages.

Foreign Exchange

Global Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs forecast in a 2022 paper that APAC will grow from 4.2 At the same time, a new financial system is emerging based on digital assets that range from those issued by regional central banks to digital currencies. billion citizens to 4.6

Economics

Future CFO

AUGUST 10, 2025

BCG forecasts that AI and generative AI could boost ASEAN-6 GDP by up to US$120 billion by 2027, with the ICT and financial services sectors leading the charge. Stablecoins—digital currencies pegged to stable assets, such as the US dollar—are now emerging as a preferred solution for international payments.

Compliance

The Big Picture

AUGUST 9, 2025

The topics include currency issues, the latest crises, and economic philosophy. One cannot gather 50 economists and their ilk and not expect forecasting to occur. My slot opened up a dozen years ago when a Chicago currency trader decided to stand up in his canoe, flipping it over, sending everyone and everything on board into the lake.

Economics

CFO News

JULY 16, 2025

Crisil forecasts CPI inflation to average 4% this fiscal year, down from 4.6% Softening inflation may prompt another repo rate cut, but global uncertainties could impact capital flows and currency stability. last year, supported by a favorable monsoon and lower commodity prices.

Currencies

CFO Talks

MAY 21, 2025

South African CFOs are also shifting from imports to local supply chains to sidestep logistics shocks and currency volatility. Start by tightening forecasts. Build long-term partnerships with fewer suppliers to negotiate better terms and mitigate risk. This isnt patriotic, its practical.

Budgeting

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

There are economic risks, market risks, systemic factors, currency risks, constitutional questions, and ultimately, the standing of the United States as a global superpower and ally. Move fast and break things may work in Silicon Valley, but it is not what market participants want from the White House (or the Federal Reserve).

Currencies

Future CFO

JUNE 23, 2025

Currency volatility: The new treasury frontline The dollar's volatility has transformed foreign exchange risk management from a routine hedging exercise into a strategic imperative. Noting that due to significant fluctuations, they needed to adjust their foreign exchange (FX) strategy for various markets where they hold currencies.

Treasury

Global Finance

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Analysts predict the administration may deploy tariffs as strategic tools in negotiations on immigration, foreign currency policies, and Europes purchase of American liquefied natural gas. US corporations, many of which rely on complex global supply chains, are preparing for potential disruptions.

Economics

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 29, 2025

Additionally, it supports faster payment processing, better fraud detection, and improved cash flow forecasting through more granular and consistent data. For businesses, this means enhanced efficiency, lower costs related to payment failures, and stronger financial controls.

Invoicing

Global Finance

JULY 28, 2025

The region is on the brink of an unprecedented generational wealth transfer; by 2030, over $1 trillion in assets is forecast to change hands, opening rare opportunities for investors to become shareholders of some of the region’s crown jewels. A high-profile example is Emirati retail giant Majid Al Futtaim.

Investments

CS Lucas

MAY 4, 2025

At CS Lucas, weve built a suite of dashboards that provide exactly thatclear visibility, flexible reporting, and powerful forecasting tools. To give you a closer look, weve created a short video walkthrough highlighting just a few of our dashboards in action.

Treasury

The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2025

And our challenge as investors is to find indicators that will allow us to effectively forecast that profit cycle. So I know you’re not a currency analyst and you don’t make those sort of calls. So like that year date, something like that.

Investments

Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Suppliers can instantly track invoice payments and upcoming payment totals for improved forecasting. The cloud-based platform provides the most competitive funding, a standardized contract approach, a supplier-onboarding tool, and a centralized view of all the companies programs and suppliers in all locations and currencies simultaneously.

Finance

Global Finance

MAY 6, 2025

Vital Statistics Location: West Africa Neighbours: Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo Capital city: Accra Population (2023): 33.79

Foreign Exchange

CFO Talks

MAY 22, 2025

Add to that: regulators want more transparency, boards want sharper forecasts, and your team wants leadership they can trust. For CFOs, that looks like: Ditching static budgets for rolling forecasts If your budget is only reviewed once a year, its already out of date. Theres no space for delay. You need a mindset shift.

CFO

Global Finance

MAY 7, 2025

This predictability helps with cash flow forecasting and overall financial planning. Currency mismatches are also a threat; Standard Chartered offers a digital foreign exchange solution, SC PrismFX, to address these issues. This safeguards the buyers cash flow and enhances working capital, all without requiring supplier participation.

Cash Flow Forecasting

The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

You, you look, all you have to do is ask yourself what unit of currency that would buy yourself something in the year 1900 can still buy yourself something today. Well, 00:46:11 [Speaker Changed] You and I are engaging in, in a forecasting exercise, which is well beyond computational impasse. Can buy you something.

Math

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

They’ve made forecasts, they’ve made predictions about what will and won’t happen, and none of it’s come true. And he’s this old British guy who was, you know, quite famous in England as a policy advisor and an economic forecaster. He was known as one of the, I think seven wise men. We shared a wall.

Budgeting

Global Finance

APRIL 2, 2025

Within days, Turkeys stock market plunged, the lira tumbled, and by March 24 the Central Bank of Turkey (CBT) had burned through $26 billion trying to stabilize the currency. Mercan is forecasting 2025 inflation of 28.4%

Currencies

Global Finance

JUNE 16, 2025

million citizens and forecast average growth of 5% in 2025, Malaysia is expanding its profile as an investment hub. million citizens and forecast average growth of 5% in 2025, Malaysia is expanding its profile as an investment hub. million Official Language: Malay GDP per capita (2025): $13,140 (est.) GDP growth (2025): 5% (est.)

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