PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The pandemic has reshaped how we interact with merchants — and what we expect, as customers, from those increasingly digital interactions. Call it the transformation of CX, shorthand for the customer experience. It’s not enough that the CX be secure — though that’s critically important, of course.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

And according to Doug Brown, senior vice president and general manager of digital banking at NCR , simplicity and innovation have turned what could have been a disastrous year into a transformational pivot for the better. Brown said in a recent conversation with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster. “So So we led with technology.”.

Banking 127

Banking Compliance Retail Economics 127

Future CFO

MAY 15, 2023

In short, uncertainty is the new norm. To manage inflation and its impact on their business, companies need the right digital technology to help them navigate these uncertain times and continue their transformation journey. Source: worlduncertaintyindex.com Figure 1: World Uncertainty Index Context setting: Why inflation?

IFRS 52

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

As the great shift to digital continues, the last three months have shown that consumers are not only used to conducting commerce in bits and bytes — they like it. Drilling down a bit, Mueller said, verticals such as grocery are being transformed. Physical brick-and-mortar retail was suffering long before the pandemic.

Retail 92

Retail Sales eCommerce Leverage 92

Collectiv

JANUARY 2, 2023

There are so many amazing opportunities that CFOs can take advantage of in 2023, as well as new challenges to be prepared for. There are so many amazing opportunities that CFOs can take advantage of in 2023, as well as new challenges to be prepared for. New FP&A Technology Options. Opportunities For CFOs in 2023.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 59

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

According to digital location platform provider Radar , although the initial “scrappy” version of curbside pickup has been wildly popular and replicated, it is not without its flaws, including long wait times, ambiguous signage, vague pickup instructions and poorly timed rendezvous plans to connect customers and staff.

Retail 79

Retail Planning Technology Investments 79

CFO Talks

JUNE 8, 2022

However, over the years the role of CFO has become much broader, now we look at implementing new technologies and they guide the CEO in making the right decisions. At Tolaram, where I work, we play an important role in handling HR functions, as well as guiding business strategies and new business development.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

With an open banking initiative, the company says financial institutions can create new forms of distribution channels and servicing capabilities, as well as provide access to third-party application marketplaces. It also gives them a way to comply with emerging regulatory norms through the standardization of APIs, Wipro said.

Banking 76

Banking Technology Numbers 76

Future CFO

MARCH 5, 2022

Women accounted for 32% of new CFO appointments, almost double 2020’s rate. The pandemic remains a test of mettle. This is particularly so for leadership. In good times, it is easy to cosy along to the next challenge. In periods of growth, leaders have bountiful resources, time, and goodwill to move things along. Russell Reynolds.

Leadership 98

Leadership CFO Management Consulting Construction 98

PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Consumers demand easy, digital banking, but this pressure for banks to deliver is also coming from corporate clients. The entrance of non-bank FinTechs and alternative lenders, too, is adding new pressures on traditional FIs to up their digital games.

Banking 68

Banking Technology Finance Leverage 68

Future CFO

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With such challenges, it might be tempting for CFOs to adopt cost cutting measures including shrinking discretionary spending and cutting back on digital transformation efforts. Cost cutting might be the first thing that comes to mind when there's economic uncertainty. Why cost cutting isn't the best way?

CFO 52

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

But in a panel discussion with Mike Massaro , CEO of Flywire , four executives from various verticals — from freight management to banking — discussed how pressure points are spurring a shift to digital processes. Eliminating paper is a high-level goal across each of the firms’ client bases, said the panelists. Points Of Pressure.

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B2B Entertainment Transportation Invoicing 97

PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

Ours is swiftly becoming the age of digital payments, push payments and instant payments, done by bits and bytes rather than through the conduits of coins and bills. After all, as Webster noted, the payments ecosystem is good about adding new things, but does not take many things away. Moving From Analog To Digital.

B2C 86

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Since its inception, LazyPay has always innovated to fulfil customers' expectations, demands and evolving needs, LazyPay Business Head Anup Agrawal said in announcing the new product. LazyPlus is a testament to our efforts in that direction. Last week, PayPal rolled out “Pay in 4,” its take on interest-free installment loans.

Valuation 68

Valuation Economics Budgeting Retail 68

Future CFO

JUNE 13, 2022

Over the years, I have nurtured the transformation of various departments by motivating staff to generate innovative ideas and equip them with expertise, practices and technologies to rapidly turn those ideas into business value using technology and design-thinking process. Grace Lim, CFO, KK Women's & Children's Hospital.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare CFO Leadership Finance 52

Future CFO

JULY 13, 2020

With the sales being affected with advertisers not placing the ads, we are mulling over scenarios where we adapt a revenue-share or profit-share basis to be able to fund new programmes. Running business scenarios in time of uncertainty. With COVID-19, they are flying blind through uncharted territory. Jarod Suwahjo.

Planning 52

Planning Finance Manufacturing Advertising 52

Future CFO

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Mike San Diego: Before COVID-19, the obvious trend in the APAC credit markets is fintech and full digitalization. We can see how each member is bragging on how digital-ready their markets are right now. We can see how each member is bragging on how digital-ready their markets are right now. We are winding down the year 2020.

Marketing 52

Marketing Profit and Loss Finance Credit Risk 52

Future CFO

OCTOBER 12, 2021

International tax reforms and supply chain transformations accelerated by the pandemic contribute to an unprecedented level of uncertainty and risk for businesses’ transfer pricing functions, said EY recently when releasing results of the 2021 EY International Tax and Transfer Pricing survey. Survey highlights. Survey highlights.

Auditing 40

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

To see where the great digital shift that is transforming financial services is headed…. ….follow Even so, lower equity returns (against a risk-free rate that is effectively zero) may become the norm. follow the money. The discussion was part of the ongoing B2B Payments 2021 PYMNTS TV series. The Big Picture .

Valuation 67

Valuation B2B Investments Leverage 67

Future CFO

JULY 7, 2020

Recent months have seen a distinct uptick in active jobseekers on the market who are looking for new opportunities. Recent months have seen a distinct uptick in active jobseekers on the market who are looking for new opportunities. Flexible working arrangements become the norm. Number of active jobseekers on the rise.

Leadership 40

Leadership Education Compliance Communication 40

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

In a roundtable discussion, the last in the “Powering the Digital Shift” series with Karen Webster, six experts in money movement, fraud prevention, banking and financial technology discussed one sure bet: “Digital optional” is no option as we move toward contactless commerce. Setting The Stage.

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Foreign Exchange Securities Currencies Technology 69

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

The panel discussed the necessity of meeting the consumer’s ever-evolving needs in a world that has undergone a significant digital transformation and faces a still uncertain future. The subscription business is all about the bundles. What's happened is now subscribers are much smarter. They understand the pricing.

Education 69

Education Entertainment Transportation Retail 69

PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

While retailers and merchants began using AI to help deal with the massive scale of global consumers — and to help stay competitive with others in the space — consumer behavior, and subsequently consumer expectations, have started to see a shift toward a true digital transformation.

Retail 51

Retail Startups eCommerce Investments 51

PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

From chatbots that answer questions about personal accounts and bill payments to dashboards that display individualized account information and advice on how to better manage money, personalized offerings have become the norm in the financial services space. Mahna has seen the transformation firsthand during his seven years at the company.

B2B 49

B2B Banking Accounting Startups 49

PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

And while official figures have yet to be released on how stay-at-home orders have upped that, a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Erik Brynjolfsson and others estimates that roughly half of the workforce is now remote. All in, PYMNTS found in its 2018 Digital Drive Report that 135 million U.S.

Economics 73

Economics Sales eCommerce Technology 73

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

If the payments landscape is marked by entrenched players partnering with smaller firms making their mark in digital payments, add one more deal to the list. The typical way of building a card product, by going to a bank and leveraging that bank’s platform, need no longer be the norm.

B2B 50

B2B Leverage Accounting Investments 50

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

This calls for a radical transformation of accounting education in order to equip accounting graduates with relevant work skills that will allow students to navigate a future workplace where computers and technology are the norm. Many of the manual, routine-based accounting tasks of the past are now undertaken by non-human support.

Accounting 40

Accounting Finance Education Communication 40

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Luxury automakers are upending their traditional business models with a new take on an old idea – a car subscription. BMW, for example, launched a pilot dubbed Access by BMW in Tennessee. This type of service is one way automakers can attract younger customers. Here is how different industries are innovating with subscriptions. in Q2 2018.The

Marketing 44

Marketing Invoicing Sales Planning 44

PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Poetry in motion? Value-added data in motion? Definitely so. Ours is the Age of Information, to be sure. The information is constant — and for businesses of all stripes and sizes, it’s a deluge. How to wrap corporate arms around it all? But with that store-and-search method, said Bettencourt, inefficiencies exist.

Analyzing Data 47

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

Though small in size, Wellington, New Zealand has grown into quite a hub for successful tech-based startups and social enterprises. New Zealand was ranked the number one country in which to start a business by the World Bank Doing Business Report 2016. Wellington, New Zealand is known for its 20 percent advantage.

Startups 47

Startups Concentration Education Investments 47

PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2017

And while the median analyst forecast places KR stock up about 18 percent in the coming year, it could be a hard-fought battle—though the grocery giant has some store-transformation tricks up its sleeve, including testing home grocery delivery with Uber, that could help to put it in much better market standing come 2018. percent to $167.81.

Forecasting 40

Forecasting Retail Startups Sales 40

Future CFO

AUGUST 5, 2021

This means that we will not only need to rely on stimulus plans but just as much on businesses agreeing to cooperate and creating and implementing mutually beneficial norms. One approach can be found as far back as Ancient Greece: as Aristotle declared, “a common danger unites even the bitterest enemies”.

Economics 40

Economics Technology Securities Investments 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

In a wide-ranging discussion at last week’s Innovation Project (IP) 2017 across panelists with a wide range of experience in commerce, from product creation to private investment, the consensus emerged: Corporate mindfulness is key when it comes to pleasing new and old customers alike. Just ask pollsters or people who bet on the ponies.

Investments 41

Investments Securities Technology Budgeting 41

Future CFO

JULY 26, 2021

What constitutes elements of a digital transformation initiative? For others, it is about transforming the business model. But in the current environment where unpredictability is the norm, how do you architect a strategy, and execute it, with minimum disruption and optimum outcome? Digital vs business transformation.

SAP 52

SAP CFO Compliance Planning 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So far, 2020 has been a year of transformational events on many levels, including a resounding impact on how the world conducts business, which has changed and established new norms for how and where we work. Finding ways to preserve working capital has become an ever more difficult challenge."

B2B 63

B2B Communication Technology Marketing 63

Centage

JANUARY 18, 2022

As we kick off the new year, we invite you to consider how to improve your overall budgeting and forecasting process , especially as companies face new, unique objectives and challenges in a post-pandemic world. Do we have the data we need readily available? Accuracy is the critical to the budgeting and forecasting process.

Budgeting 111

Budgeting Forecasting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) General Ledger 111

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Add speed to the list of new challenges that need to be considered and grappled with. The opportunity is also there for B2B’s transformation, he pointed out, as use cases coalesce around the twin drivers of speed and certainty. The question for any number of treasury professionals is what lies ahead? The Use Case – and B2B. In the U.S.,

Cash Management 63

Cash Management Reconciliations Treasury B2C 63