Future CFO

MARCH 5, 2025

Winnie Law , CFO, Technology & Operations (T&O), Global Functionsand Fit for Growth, Standard Chartered , believes the war on talent continues to be a challenge as the role of Finance pivots from being mere number crunchers and financial journalists to strategy influencers.

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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. Technology as an Enabler, Not the Destination Digital finance transformation remains a boardroom prioritybut its not about technology for its own sake.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Distributed ledger technologies help reduce fraud. Award Winners Evolve With The Market Global Finances Best Trade Finance Banks award winners have excelled in cross-border financing, notably supply-chain financing, financing in emerging markets, and technology adoption. But technology often furnished solutions.

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Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Most Innovative Financial Technology Company in Africa | MNT – HALAN MNT-Halan has been transforming access to financial services for African consumers and businesses. The solution is helping Absa pivot to new technologies as the market evolves, without disrupting existing workflows. With over 2.4

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Future CFO

JUNE 19, 2025

To prevent the overburdening in local teams, what I found effective (and) is a critical factor is leveraging new technology to automate the conversion between local and global reporting standards," he says. Basic intelligence tools such as Power BI can streamline the process, reducing manual effort."

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CFO Talks

MAY 8, 2025

Whether its expanding into a new market, acquiring a promising technology, or simply diversifying your organisations portfolio, every opportunity comes with a side of risk. Leverage Risk Assessment Tools Risk isnt just a conceptits something you can measure. CFOs should use quantitative tools to make risk evaluation more precise.

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Future CFO

MARCH 11, 2025

This evolution is particularly pronounced in Asia, driven by factors such as rapid economic growth, increasing regulatory complexity, and the accelerating pace of technological change. The complexity of managing diverse invoices, with multi-currency, continental tax variations, and format differences, further strains operational capacity.

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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.

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Global Finance

MARCH 3, 2025

This technology is a first in the South African energy market and one of the continents largest standalone dispatchable battery energy storage facilities. billion rands and leveraged a structure that penalizes funds not deployed into green projects within 24 months. This raised 3.4

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The Big Picture

JULY 1, 2025

And the team actually that did all the technology in media, one ended up being the core technology team for Cisco. So because we have a view on our liability profile, we need to make sure we match our assets on a currency duration and liquidity basis. Velina Peneva : Absolutely. So it was really cutting edge at that point.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But this is just like any other technology you and I remember when the internet. I remember looking up websites in a book, which I now sounds absolutely insane, but technology has advanced. Today, he’s talking about it transforming the world of currency and he holds more Bitcoin than almost anyone else. was hard to use.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

billion leveraged loan for Lone Star Funds as part of its acquisition of Carrier Globals commercial and residential fire unit. LZ Central And Eastern Europe TBC Bank A mixture of local market and eurobond offerings is helping TBC Bank leverage its leading position in Georgias up-and-coming economy to post phenomenal growth.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A Country Of Superlatives Joel Shen, a lawyer based in Jakarta and Singapore, who heads Withersworldwides technology practice in Asia, boasts that Indonesia is a country of superlatives and is an attractive investment destination with a number of very clear advantages. GDP per capita (2024): $5,000 GDP growth (2024): 5% Inflation (2024): 2.5%

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

China’s largest bank works directly with EV manufacturers such as Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology, Zeekr, and Li Auto to provide one-stop loan application, facility, interview, and issuing services. CCB’s Guangdong Province branch in March reported lending ¥160 billion to more than 50,000 local, technology-based enterprises.

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 29, 2025

This shift demands that billers stay informed and proactive, as compliance and efficiency heavily depend on understanding complex regulations and effectively leveraging service providers. Combine technology, regulatory expertise, and strategic planning to manage evolving requirements effectively.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Additionally, Goldman was involved in asset manager Blackstones A$24 billion (about $16 billion) acquisition of data center specialist AirTrunk, a major deal that emphasized the investment banks expertise in technology infrastructure deals. stake in Alior Bank, a move that would leverage Pekaos position in the region even further.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Against this backdrop, FX services have been gaining ground on companies balance sheets over the past few years, currently driving an average 50% of corporate value allocation, according to recent research by the market structure and technology research team at Coalition Greenwich. trillion this year, according to J.P.

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JULY 7, 2025

In addition, your role is being affected by significant advancements in technology, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) applications, a turbulent economy, a dynamic global environment, e-commerce innovations, expanding use of virtual currencies, evolving demographics, and regulatory changes. You need to be.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Supply chain finance boosts resilience, liquidity, and ESG goals amid deglobalization and technological shifts. It requires accurate data, robust technology, and thorough risk assessment, crucial to ensuring the creditworthiness of suppliers at all levels. Santanders 50 million Brazilian real ($8.3

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The Finance Weekly

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These areas aren’t just candidates for AI integration—they’re proof that technology is redefining how finance departments operate. It’s the new currency of career advancement in finance. When assessing new technology, CFOs rank AI features as their top consideration, even above price.

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Global Finance

MAY 1, 2025

Leveraging SCB’s global environmental, social, and governance (ESG) expertise, Saadiq offers market-leading, Shariah-compliant, sustainable-financing offerings, including transition finance, ESG advisory, and sustainable deposits. Kuwait | BOUBYAN BANK Boubyan Bank stands apart as the leading technology-backed bank in Kuwait.

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CFO Dive

JULY 1, 2025

Courtesy of Courtesy of Circle Guillaume Poncin is the chief technology officer at San Francisco, California-based Alchemy , a blockchain developer platform provider. Coinbase took home nearly $1 billion just for distributing the fast-rising digital currency. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Views are the author’s own.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 23, 2024

GF : In general, are costumers seeking more reserves apart from the traditional G5 currencies? amid robust growth in Asian countries, Korea has taken preemptive actions such as allowing for local currency transactions in IDR. Still, they hold currencies around the US dollar rather than non-G5 currencies (USD, ERU, JPY, GBP, CHF).

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E78 Partners

APRIL 3, 2025

Heres my take on where this trade war might head, andmore importantlyhow you can position your portfolio companies or finance teams to weather the storm, with support from E78’s transformative finance and technology solutions. A messy grind of deals and standoffs until costs or leverage shift the tide. its how do we stay ahead?

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Global Finance

MAY 2, 2025

Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value over time; they are typically pegged 1:1 to the value of traditional currencies like the US dollar or the euro.) Institutional buyers are less likely to sell on bad days than are leveraged retail buyers, he says.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

Barry Ritholtz : And you, you mentioned the investment in technology and people and the ability to scale at your size. Let’s invest aggressively in technology to, to support those advisors. And what I mean by that is that, you know, technology innovation tends to, to follow very clear scripts over history.

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The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2025

So no technology, no growth firms, nothing. And liquidity is gonna be anything from central banks, central bank actions to lending standards from banks, anything that’s gonna allow more leverage in greater liquidity in, in investible assets in the, in, in a stock market. Nothing with any amount of potential volatility.

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CFO Dive

JULY 11, 2025

Digital assets and blockchain technology are revolutionizing financial services, supply chains, and digital identity. This is a technology. Additionally,the technology and its use cases are rapidly evolving, “so we should not lock in definitions that will prove obsolete soon,” he said. You can unsubscribe at anytime.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

00:29:12 [Speaker Changed] Well, the central bank, so if we’re talking about a country like Japan or the US what I’ll call and what I call in the book, you know, countries that have issue their own sovereign currencies, it’s not even an issue at higher rates of interest. But that generally involves leverage, right?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

Barry Ritholtz : And footnote Roger Lowenstein, when genius failed, is so instructive, not just because of the things you are referring to, failing to learn from history, the danger of leverage and, you know, tiny inefficiencies. Because they tend to be overly leveraged and with inflation, their debts tend to get inflated away.

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Global Finance

JUNE 16, 2025

We also boast a vibrant and dynamic corporate sector and a highly skilled and technologically excellent pool of human resources.” Tech giants including Microsoft and Alphabet (Google) have established a significant presence in peninsular Malaysia, leveraging a skilled workforce and its strategic location. GDP growth (2025): 5% (est.)

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Global Finance

JULY 8, 2025

To find out how companies are coping with rising trade tensions and currency volatility, we asked our writers across key regions—Southeast Asia, Japan, India, and the United States—to speak with manufacturers and exporters on the ground. In Southeast Asia’s technology manufacturing sectors, steel is a critical component.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The fragmentation of technology is incredible, with multiple players offering multiple options for types of reward systems – miles, cashback, points, etc.,” But each has different limits on use, and there [is] no single, seamless redeeming activity empowered by technology to make it easy for consumers to use them.”. Salazar said.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Delving into the key trends shaping the treasury landscape in 2024, the focus is on themes such as staffing challenges, macroeconomic risks, technology adoption, and strategic financial management. Staffing challenges and technology adoption Staffing emerges as a central theme for corporate treasurers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The regulator of the nation’s banks has issued its first guidance on stablecoins , the cryptocurrency backed by traditional currency. . A letter by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) published on Monday (Sept. Allaire said this has been a long time coming.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

Business payment and accounting solutions provider Gilded said that digital currency data provider CoinMarketCap has implemented its cryptocurrency payment technology, according to an announcement. Our solution puts digital currency payments and accounting on autopilot, so businesses can focus on innovation and growth.”.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

AI-powered ERP systems can help address regional challenges such as complex regulatory environments, diverse currencies, and rapidly changing market conditions by providing more agile and responsive financial tools. Leaders can leverage this information to readjust the supply chain network based on AI-driven analytics.

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