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 26, 2017

Fundamentally, our approach to innovation is to deliver accurate and absolute visibility into an organization’s liquidity and provide the ability to securely deploy cash anywhere in the world. Our clients engage with the global market in a number of business verticals from aerospace to women’s fashion.

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Simply Treasury

AUGUST 2, 2022

The rate would be calculated based on a 10-year "risk-free interest" rate depending on the currency, increased by a 1% risk premium (1.5% Finally, it is planned to avoid abuses such as capital increases via loans granted by affiliated companies, transfers of equity securities, etc. Stability, like everything else, has a price.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

In this section, I will begin by looking at the bond market effects and then move on to equities and other asset classes, starting by looking at the localized reaction (for Ukranian and Russian securities) and then the global ripple effects. Bond Markets and Default Risk. Flight to Safety and Collectibles. Economic Consequences.

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Bramasol

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Entitlements can include a wide range of offerings, such as access to a cloud service, number of user licenses, software support, hardware maintenance services, warranties, media access rights, or usage-based consumption rights.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The G-7 plans are likely to send oil prices higher (despite US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claiming the opposite ) and reduce tanker availability, both of which will threaten India’s energy security and hurt its economy as India is the third-largest consumer and importer of oil worldwide. Russia is far from reliable in any realm.

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PWC UK

APRIL 21, 2021

Typically treasury payments are made via the TMS and commercial payments by finance colleagues from various ERPs.   But as the payments and business world change, the security and payment hub functionality offered by TMS solutions is becoming ever more attractive. And for corporates, that is including their commercial payments.

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CS Lucas

APRIL 28, 2023

This article provides an overview of the integration between banks and the CS Lucas Treasury Management System, highlighting the benefits, methods, and costs of integration. Enhanced fraud prevention: The use of automated systems for transferring files reduces the risk of tampering, improving security.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Mastercard Intros Mobilized Virtual Cards; Defines Intersection Between Functionality And Security. The virtual card offers a strong value proposition for corporates in the form of enhanced security and control over spend. Libra Launch Signals Sparks Between Big Tech, Central Banks On Digital Currencies.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 12, 2023

The second is the the health and stability of the economy , since investors with secure jobs and rising paychecks are more willing to take risks. . The value and price processes can yield different numbers for the same company, and the two numbers can diverge for long periods, with convergence not guaranteed but likely over long periods.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

Department of the Treasury report on how to encourage more FinTech, payments executives were mulling over the report, wondering if it would lead to any concrete improvements and giving their ideas to PYMNTS about how to best improve payments innovation and entrepreneurship. In the wake of this week’s release of a U.S.

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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. The number of subscribers has grown significantly, from around 370 in 2015 to over 20,000 in 2022.

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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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Future CFO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Beyond improving supplier relationships, and better control over working capital, other benefits include better security given the increased visibility of payment details, and improved ROI with the anticipated lowering of bank wire fees. Villanueva attributed this to the convenience, transparency, and security of the process.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And then, for corporate treasury professionals, there are really bad days. In the latest Treasurer’s Need to Know series, Mark McNulty, who serves as managing director, head of clearing and FI payments at Citi , told Karen Webster that security must always be top of mind. There are bad days. The Two Categories of Risk.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 27, 2023

Businesses face a tremendous number of uncertainties. From our perspective, we see the company demand, and it's about securing supply, finding the right customers, and, you know, all of my colleagues out there trying to choose deals," he adds. And this list is only getting longer daily, with many uncertainties remaining persistent.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

On the heels of the announcement of their partnership, Beeks’ McArthur discussed the forex trading space today and what makes it a challenging, never-before-seen ecosystem for corporate treasuries. People have to move currency, have to change currency, so forex transacting is changing very quickly because of globalization.”.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2018

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 Treasury Bill 3-6 Month Index (tied, of course, to shorter dated Treasurys) is up 1.7 In the U.S.,

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

In this section, I will begin by looking at the bond market effects and then move on to equities and other asset classes, starting by looking at the localized reaction (for Ukranian and Russian securities) and then the global ripple effects.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

To that end, the first phase of the trade deal with China tackles a number of competitive issues between the two countries, if not fully resolving them. As has been reported earlier this week, the Treasury Department expanded the ability of the Committee on Foreign Investment to scrutinize transactions. Counterfeiting.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

I was reminded of that paper a few weeks ago, when Fitch downgraded the US, from AAA to AA+, a relatively minor shift, but one with significant psychological consequences for investors in the largest economy in the world, whose currency still dominates global transactions. For an investment to be risk free then, it has to meet two conditions.

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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.”. To use the coins, a JPMC client commits deposits to a designated account, and receives an equivalent number of JPM Coins.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

Umar Farooq, the head of digital treasury services and blockchain at the company, said the firm will run a pilot of the coin with select customers near the end of 2019, if regulators allow it. Many clients are interested in the coin’s ability to potentially speed up bond and securities transactions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Switzerland , like a number of other countries, has promoted itself as a hub for FinTech and for innovation, and so, of course, any country that promotes itself in that way – in my view, it’s incumbent upon that country to take these particular concerns at the highest level in(to) the utmost regard,” she added.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

The second is the the health and stability of the economy , since investors with secure jobs and rising paychecks are more willing to take risks. The value and price processes can yield different numbers for the same company, and the two numbers can diverge for long periods, with convergence not guaranteed but likely over long periods.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has again released its report on top risks facing banks, with its Spring 2017 analysis warning FIs that threats are coming from all angles. Noreika, acting Comptroller of the Currency, in a statement. Today, the federal banking system remains healthy,” he continued. “As

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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. Some blockchain pioneers have also begun to explore how the technology might be able to address financial challenges for particular industries.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

Treasury Department announced plans for more inclusive representations of note-worthy (pun intended) Americans on the $5, $10 and $20 bills, there were rumblings that some other denominations of currency should perhaps disappear altogether. But just as the U.S. The cash versus cashless debate is complicated.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Take, for example, how the Fed views statistics, such as employment numbers, when it’s thinking about inflation or raising rates so quickly, which is really constraining to people on an actual budget facing other inflationary pressures, and, by the way, not actually doing anything about inflation. So those numbers are disparate.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Teoh shared with us her thoughts on some of the gender-related challenges at work and how to overcome them, advice on how to deal with the new normal as a finance executive, and how she reimagines borderless digital currencies as a “point junkie”. Sereen Teoh, CFO, BIG Loyalty. FutureCFO: Can you share with me your finance career journey?

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Musings on Markets

MAY 24, 2021

As inflation makes its way back into market consciousness, there are debates raging from whether the higher inflation numbers that we are seeing are transitory or permanent, and if it is the latter, how they will play out in financial markets. Put simply, inflation is a measure of the change in purchasing power in a given currency over time.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2017

For Earthport, for example, she called out the international focus on payments done on an international scale, with high-volume and low-value transactions as a key area of expertise, “expanding across different countries and territories and currencies.”. They, too, seek to solve a problem, and their concept is a simple one.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The currency is well-known for its massive value fluctuations, as a single bitcoin cost just 9 cents in 2010, $313.92 World governments have already taken a number of steps to curb money laundering by requiring cryptocurrency exchanges to bring their KYC processes in line with those of other FIs. in 2015 and a staggering $13,421.44

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

Yet, through this new solution, the bank said its clients in China need to send payment instructions with what it termed a “linked” customs declaration number. By working together, the partnership will connect people across the cluster of countries using multiple currencies. SWIFT’s Action Call On Cross-Border.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2018

“As money launderers and other illicit actors constantly evolve their tactics, we want the compliance community to likewise adapt their efforts to counter these threats,” said Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker. Legacy AML Approaches Are Ineffective.

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