CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Some worry that excessive government debt levels can impact economic stability with ramifications for the strength of the currency in trade, economic growth, and unemployment. Treasury Department must issue Treasury bills, notes, and bonds. Others claim the national debt is manageable and no cause for alarm.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 24, 2021

Inflation: Measures and Drivers For those who are under the age of forty and have grown up in the United States or Europe, inflation is an abstraction, a number that governments report on and experts talk about, but not something that is central to their investing or regular lives. What is inflation? How do you measure inflation?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Alternatively, an investor could trade sizable amounts of investments on a usual basis, have more than two years of experience at a financial organization or hold over $74,400 in securities to meet the requirement. As it stands, Russia has ratified legislation regarding digital securities issuance.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The provider’s new Money Transfer API supports fund transfers directly into overseas bank accounts, while another API supports money settlement in local currencies to spare recipients from the frictions of handling conversions. The API system enables FIs to quickly and securely provide necessary data, saving time for all parties.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In the drive to modernize treasury operations, mind the gap — o r gaps. As it turns out, there may be a disconnect between what treasury professionals need in their day-to-day endeavor of cash management and what their service providers think they need. Right now, the focus is on plumbing, said Bateman, and that is as it should be. “If

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

But Kellerman and other security experts advocated at the hearing for legislative measures, such as modernizing anti-money laundering (AML) and forfeiture rules and moving the Secret Service to the Treasury Department, to help combat the threat. However, he noted that the move could negatively impact morale at DHS.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The complaint claims that the defendants dishonestly claimed to actual and possible clients that their company had “master traders” with a long history of trading digital currency and harnessed “cutting edge trading robots” to trade bitcoin at all hours of the day for clients. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing.

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CFO Leadership

MARCH 31, 2022

Global operations make it more challenging for small treasury teams in mid-market companies to handle day-to-day operations efficiently and securely. New currencies, global banking structures, regional regulations, disparate processes, and disconnected systems all add complexities to the treasury operations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

MicroStrategy was reportedly the first public firm to invest most of its treasury in the cryptocurrency in the summer, according to Bloomberg. The firm has roughly half a billion dollars primarily kept in short-term federal government securities prior to the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

The digital transformation of corporate treasury is not a destination; it’s a journey. It stands to reason that firms that have been around for decades, with far-flung operations and payments done across multiple currencies, have a range of legacy systems in place with less-than-efficient processes entrenched in back-office functions.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

Policy rates were yanked to Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) levels, facilities were extended to provide liquidity to firms having difficulty selling securities in the primary and secondary markets, and direct lending to individuals and firms reached never-before-seen levels. If something worse is brewing, much sooner. Peter C.

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 25, 2022

In this environment, CFOs should be alert to strategies such as paying a premium to become a preferred customer and securing the supply of certain products with high margins (and thus relatively low production quantity). That puts the onus on the CFO to manage treasury risks and closely monitor the company’s international contracts.

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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. The Lead In. Bond Markets and Default Risk. Economic Consequences.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Treasury Department designated Bitzlato under a section of the USA Patriot Act, a law used to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, for allegedly laundering illicit funds for ransomware actors based in Russia. Deputy Treasury Secretary. authorities designated cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato Ltd. Wally Adeyemo.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Speaking with PYMNTS, Fides Treasury Services Head Client Relations Simon Kaufmann explored how some of the biggest opportunities to modernize the treasury function are adding new pressures to finance teams as they navigate the pandemic. ” Challenge Turned Opportunity. . ” Challenge Turned Opportunity.

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Simply Treasury

AUGUST 2, 2022

In early May, the European Commission unveiled its proposal for a "DEBRA" (Debt-equity bias reduction allowance) Directive, aimed at encouraging companies to finance their investments with equity and capital contributions, instead of resorting to loans (bank or other). François Masquelier, CEO of Simply Treasury – Luxembourg June 2022.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 12, 2023

To put risk capital in perspective, it is best to start with a definition of risk that is comprehensive and all-inclusive, and that is to think of risk as a combination of danger (downside) and opportunity (upside) and to consider how investments vary in terms of exposure to both.

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Bramasol

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As of the third quarter of 2023, SAP SE reported cloud revenue was up by 23% at constant currencies, driven mainly by the growth of SAP's combined SaaS and PaaS portfolio. This includes evaluating the service provider’s infrastructure, security features, and pricing models. According to McKinsey & Company. trillion to $4.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Liquidity and cash investment plans would be made by 10 a.m. Knowing where and how much cash there is across various legal entities, countries and currencies is crucial. Indeed, the broader embrace of real-time payments, and real-time management of treasury functions, will take a little time, as savvy observers have prognosticated.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

If money is a vote of confidence, via investments, then confidence is strong in the tech sector, and specifically for FinTechs. As noted in American Banker , the deal count came to 371 deals for the first half of the year, with a few triple-digit investment rounds. But there can be a sea change afoot that can mix things up a bit.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

To that end, gold or, in this specific case, the activities of gold mining and marketing — the production and procurement of the yellow metal that has been coveted and used as currency for centuries — is also finding a niche via blockchain. New Use Cases.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

As the firm aims to boost its crypto investments, it hosted officials from the Treasury Department, as well as a number of Washington’s regulatory agencies, at a full-day, private conference in San Francisco in late May, according to The Wall Street Journal. regulatory environment has gone from uncertain to hostile.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

The investors are dozens of hedge funds, the financial publication has said, with billions of dollars invested in cryptocurrencies. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said last month that it would train its sights on virtual currencies, with a focus on larger firms and international companies. A currency?

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

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. In fact, since trading has been suspended on both indices, the extent of the damage is probably understated.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

The investors are dozens of hedge funds, the financial publication has said, with billions of dollars invested in cryptocurrencies. The Internal Revenue Service said last month that It would train its sights on virtual currencies, with a focus on larger firms and international companies. A currency?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In other news, the Marco Polo Network has announced that it has secured its first Russian-German import-export operations financing project. with a flexible access to working capital financing instruments to the parties,” added Anna Sokolova, NLMK director for treasury.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

The language is not explicitly tied to recent activities from the Treasury Department (and specifically mandated by the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act passed by Congress in 2018). JPMorgan last month obtained approval from China to establish a majority-owned securities business in the country. Counterfeiting.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

Among one of the loudest of these blockchain champions is Ripple, a FinTech firm that has recently secured millions of dollars in investments and strategic partnerships aimed at promoting blockchain technology’s use for traditionally friction-rich areas, like cross-border payments and real-time payments. Cost-Saving Opportunities .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

And that’s all about using technology-based services to re-engineer treasury activities.” He pointed to Citi ‘s investments in tools like artificial intelligence, biometrics, behavioral analytics and multi-factor authentication as essential strategies to combating fraud. More Progress, New Challenges. ”

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With growth also high on the agenda of Boards and CEOs, finance leaders must balance cost-control efforts against investments. Villanueva attributed this to the convenience, transparency, and security of the process. The common question that comes to mind for the regular consumers: ‘How secure is my money or my funds inside this app?’”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

As the saying goes in the investment community, “cash is king.”. Amid that downdraft, Treasurys gained ground, and safety of government-backed securities was top of mind. Treasury Bill 3-6 Month Index (tied, of course, to shorter dated Treasurys) is up 1.7 In the U.S., As noted by the Journal , the S&P U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The currency isn’t going to work,” the executive said. You can’t have a business where people can invent a currency out of thin air and think that people who are buying it are really smart.”. money movement, payments in securities transactions). It’s not created to be for public investment.”. dollars from JPMC.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

To put risk capital in perspective, it is best to start with a definition of risk that is comprehensive and all-inclusive, and that is to think of risk as a combination of danger (downside) and opportunity (upside) and to consider how investments vary in terms of exposure to both.

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CFO Leadership

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The bill is huge and focused, and the bipartisan support comes because too much of the world’s high-end chip capacity sits in China’s backyard, making it a national security issue. Quantitative easing, as it’s known, is a fancy term for buying all those mortgages and treasuries. Now, with inflation a concern.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In finance, that could mean introducing smart contracting capabilities in global trade, or the ability to facilitate cross-border payments via crypto-to-fiat currency exchanges. When it comes to investing, the movie business is unique in that financiers can often be left out, even when their pockets are wide open, Woodrow explained.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2018

Separately, the European Central Bank , based in Frankfurt, Germany, has said that it chose Openlink to provide the bank’s risk and treasury management system. The bank serves 19 European countries, it said in a statement, with the Euro as their currency. The partnership involves strategic referrals.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

If there was a transparent use for a company that had value to shareholders, they would be willing to effectively invest their money in order for that company to do what it does to grow whatever it’s growing. It’s because those billionaires are invested in markets that their wealth is propelling up so much.

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