PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin believes that Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency could pose as a national security threat. In a press conference on Monday (July 15), Mnuchin warned that Libra “could be misused by money launderers and terrorist financiers” and that it was a “national security issue.”.

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Global Finance

JULY 26, 2024

Modern treasuries face a diverse array of demands, such as real-time payments, high inflation and interest rates, and new compliance and sustainable finance obligations. Some may lack the appropriate treasury management solutions or may not know how to maximize liquidity process efficiency.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

Yet for finance leaders of the enterprise, adoption of digital assets poses plenty of risks and challenges, not least of all the inability for their current treasury infrastructures to manage crypto in an integrated and compliant way. But it may not be smooth sailing ahead. We’re not just talking about the digitization of fiat,” he said. “As

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The head of the country’s only licensed and publicly traded cryptocurrency broker says tighter regulation and exponentially higher yields are causing corporate treasury and cash management accounts to seriously consider this alternative asset class. With the treasury market for S&P 500 companies valued at $2.3

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The accelerated growth of USDC over the course of this year is the result of our active work to establish an open standard for fiat digital currency on the internet,” Puth said in a statement. Cuy Sheffield , head of the crypto at Visa, said this is the first business card that will make the balance of USDC available for spending.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Offshore investments become a hedge against currency volatility. High inflation, currency volatility, and foreign exchange scarcity have eroded wealth and significantly contributed to a decline in net worth for many people. Wealth preservation and growth in Africa are highly challenging.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Long-term guaranteed fixed rates allow corporate treasuries to enhance financial stability, optimize liquidity, and align cash management practices with overall corporate strategy. BofA launched Guaranteed FX Rates beyond a 24-hour period eight years ago, supporting over 200 currency pairs.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is warning financial institutions of a “high-profile” new scam exploiting Twitter accounts to try and scam convertible virtual currency (CVC) out of individuals, according to a Thursday (July 16) press release.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

GTreasury , a treasury management system provider, is working with Goldman Sachs on a new solution to offer easier, more transparent B2B payments both at home and internationally, according to a press release. Terry Beadle , GTreasury’s global head of Corporate Development, said the combination would prove valuable.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The majority of the national debt is issued in the form of government bonds, known as Treasuries. 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. GDP Is Hard to Measure Accurately.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2022

Treasury said Tuesday (Jan. Treasury said in a statement. Kardashian, boxing legend Floyd Mayweather and NBA Hall of Famer Paul Pierce were among those who were sued in a class-action lawsuit for promoting the digital currency. The Treasury said the tougher rules will be phased in over six months once they’re finalized.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In a panel discussion with Karen Webster, six payments, banking and FinTech executives weighed in on the very nature of change that is transforming treasury banking and corporate clients in real time. Morgan Chase ; and Brad Windbigler , head of treasury and investor relations at Western Union. Setting the Stage.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

One financial technology firm currently navigating the process of securing a bank charter is Avanti Financial Group , and as it approaches market launch, Founder and CEO Caitlin Long said the firm is focusing on another area of financial services that has struggled to manage complex regulatory challenges: digital assets. As a whole, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) disclosed it was hacked in September, reported The Wall Street Journal last week. The OCC said that, once it found the data breach, it referred the case to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s office. The incident occurred in Nov.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Mosier succeeds Jamal El-Hindi, who will serve as the interim chief data officer (CDO) for the Department of the Treasury. In that role, El-Hindi will apply his FinCEN experience to “help lead the vision, design and development of the Treasury’s agency-wide data and information management strategies,” per an announcement. “As

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Treasury Department proposed sweeping new rules that the government says would require banks and some other institutions to obtain and report the identities of parties engaging in certain digital transactions. In the nascent and burgeoning cryptocurrency space, the U.S.

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Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

The US Treasury, the European Union, and the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) have deemed certain markets high risk, making operations more costly. The Caribbean is finding its own potential solution in central-bank stable coins, such as the Eastern Caribbean digital currency DCash.

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CS Lucas

JANUARY 20, 2021

Digital landscapes make dealing with payments, across multiple currencies and banking relationships easier to visualize and quicker to execute. In this webinar, CEO of CS Lucas, CS Tan – makes the case for Treasury Management Systems and showcases our new free TMS solution: CS Lucas Essentials. .

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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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Global Finance

JULY 26, 2024

A fragmented regulatory environment, uneven access to financial services, a shallow pool of readily available funds, and currency controls and limitations in some African markets can lead to trapped cash. A specialist banking partner will help provide and support an effective treasury model to help make the most of the opportunities.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

When PayPal announced recently that its 350 million users can deposit bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in their accounts and spend it at 26 million merchants next year, it was characterized as the inevitable advance of digital currency. Privacy And Security.

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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

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Two individuals from Russia who were recently sanctioned by the Treasury Department purportedly put into place copycat websites for cryptocurrency exchanges that that tricked people into providing login information, CoinDesk reported. After that time, they purportedly stole ether, bitcoin and NEO to the tune of $20 million.

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Strategic Treasurer

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Global Payments Survey Shows Fraud Concern and Security Investment Plans. Results show the top challenges and areas of planned investment among companies of all sizes, with fraud and security as consistent themes. The second highest challenge for all firms overall was security fraud management at 49%.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

This has broadened the ECB’s real-time banking reach to 30 countries and more than 3,800 FIs, setting the stage for countries that transact in different currencies to join the network in the future.”. Problem No.

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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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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

These include account lifecycle management integrated with customers’ treasury systems, a central cash management hub for payments and reporting, and group-wide, near-time cross-border payments. These innovations collectively provide clients with enhanced speed, security, and ease in managing complex cash operations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Bank of America (BofA) is introducing a cross-border payment tracker and expanding SWIFT gpi to support more than 140 currencies, accessible through the integrated CashPro platform. Commercial clients using SWIFT gpi for corporates can also get alerts about inbound and outbound payment status directly to their treasury management system.

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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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The feature can connect to more than 11,000 financial institutions (FIs) and retains security through multifactor authentication and tokenization, Acumatica explained.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Amid the digital transformation of the enterprise, data is now considered the most valuable currency for corporates looking to transform via technology. Add legislation like PSD2 into the mix, which promotes data sharing and security, and there is an opportunity for T&E processes to be truly transformed, Jouini recently told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

Treasury management firm BELLIN is expanding its offerings through a new partnership with Kantox , reports in bobsguide said this week. By teaming up with Kantox, we can now complement our TaaS [Treasury-as-a-Service] offering with FX management and hedging ,” said BELLIN Founder and CEO Martin Bellin in a statement.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2021

In this post, I will take a look at these other markets, starting with a way of dividing investments into assets, commodities, currencies and collectibles that I find useful in thinking about what I can (and cannot) do in those markets, and then reviewing how these markets performed during 2020. Currencies : A currency serves three functions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Between the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency clearing the way for financial institutions (FIs) to embrace stablecoin, and The Clearing House's latest real-time payments (RTP) push, new payment rails continue to gain traction. BELLIN Secures SWIFT gpi Label. According to Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian P.

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Global Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

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. The past 18 months have seen a major shift, with the rise of institutional-grade issuers focusing on treasuries and other publicly traded assets.

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