Future CFO

MARCH 12, 2025

Ben Wong ,general manager for Southeast Asia & Hong Kong atfinancial technology platform Adyen , believes that with the vast amount of payments data available, businesses have an untapped opportunity to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to combat increasingly sophisticated fraud.

Risk Management

Future CFO

AUGUST 6, 2025

“These strategies can assist the management of organisations to control the mounting expenses, more effectively and protect the profitability of the firms in the unpredictable economic scenario,” suggests Jose. Real-time analytics and predictive models help align cash flow with strategic goals.

Forecasting

Global Finance

MARCH 3, 2025

This flagship project redefines the areas transition to clean energy and creates new economic opportunities for residents impacted by South Africas Just Energy Transition Investment Plan. billion rands and leveraged a structure that penalizes funds not deployed into green projects within 24 months. This raised 3.4

Finance

Global Finance

OCTOBER 30, 2024

QIA, established in 2005 with the target to create long-term value, invests across nine sectors: retail and consumer; technology, media and telecoms (TMT); liquid securities; infrastructure; financials; funds; healthcare; industrials; and real estate. I was at JPMorgan Chase for a long time.

CFO

CFA Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In that capacity, she meets with prospects and clients to discuss the firm’s economic and market outlook, as well as Amundi US’s fixed-income strategies. Meredith Birdsall, CFA, is a senior vice president and client portfolio manager for the Amundi US Fixed Income team. She has been involved in the investment industry for over 30 years.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

CFO Talks

MAY 20, 2025

Whether your organisation is teetering on the brink or simply seeking ways to future-proof itself, this episode is packed with practical, battle-tested advice, drawn from real-world recoveries, economic insights, and even ancient strategy. Debt Reorganisation : Negotiating with creditors to restructure existing debt obligations.

Restructuring

Global Finance

MAY 1, 2025

The strategic and operational aim of the IFIs is to increase digitalization to drive efficiency, gain new customersparticularly at the higher end of retail and commercial bankingand raise competitiveness in challenging banking markets. Its performance wins the bank the Best Islamic Retail Bank award.

Finance

Global Finance

OCTOBER 30, 2024

QIA, established in 2005 with the target to create long-term value, invests across nine sectors: retail and consumer; technology, media and telecoms (TMT); liquid securities; infrastructure; financials; funds; healthcare; industrials; and real estate. I was at JPMorgan Chase for a long time.

CFO

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JUNE 12, 2025

In an economic landscape marked by ongoing uncertainty, small businesses continue to navigate shifting consumer behaviors and market dynamics with remarkable adaptability. despite ongoing economic uncertainty. Retail sales grew modestly year-over-year (+0.9%), but declined -1.0% Sales inched up +0.2% Total transactions rose +3.8%

Benchmarking

Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

With hydrocarbons accounting for 90% of exports and government revenue, economic performance remains closely tied to OPEC+ production policy, global demand, and competitor output. It also shows Kuwait is serious in going ahead with the fiscal and economic reforms. Kuwaits economy contracted by 1% in 2024 following a 3.6%

Economics

Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The toolbox is open, and the fine-tuning is underway, as China’s policymakers and financial institutions respond to the thorny economic challenges of the post-pandemic era. Official media in July reported China Merchants Bank Chairman Miao Jianmin’s announcement of a strategic shift for his institution from “retail bank” to “value bank.”

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Profitability - Absolute and Relative While we may all agree with the proverbial bottom line being profits, there seems to be no consensus on how best to measure profitability, either from an accounting or an economic perspective. With operating margins, you are getting a handle on economies of scale.

Hurdle Rate

Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

By providing immediate cash flow, SCF helps suppliers avoid the pitfalls of traditional loans that can be challenging to secure during economic downturns. billion by 2033 as economic and geopolitical pressures reshape how businesses approach working capital and financing. billion in 2024 and is expected to reach $15.2

Finance

CFO Share

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

While it’s difficult to predict exactly how a second term might unfold, examining key aspects of Trump’s economic platform can offer some insights. For retailers, importers, and small manufacturers with suppliers overseas, increased tariffs would lead to higher costs.

Manufacturing

Global Finance

MAY 2, 2025

The USs pro-crypto stance is reshaping the global financial landscape by integrating digital assets into the mainstream economic agenda, says Federico Brokate, head of US Business at 21Shares, a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider based in Switzerland.

Currencies

Global Finance

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Meghan Robson: The economic landscape has been positive and driven credit spreads to multiyear tights. The retail sales reading is strong. In aggregate, we’ve seen a strong labor market, and retail sales are robust. We would see high yields in the leveraged finance markets much more vulnerable in that situation.

Economics

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2025

There aren’t many people who have this sort of perspective and perch to see the world of investing from both an institutional and insurance based perspective and a long, long-term retail investment perspective. You get a bachelor’s in economics from Colgate and then an MBA in finance from NYU Stern.

Concentration

CFO News

JULY 20, 2025

Reliance Retail is prioritising organic growth in quick commerce, finding acquisitions less appealing due to integration challenges and leveraging its existing infrastructure for better economics.

Leverage

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 4, 2025

And in my summer in between I worked for Mayor Daley in Chicago on economic development issues. And I also wanted to make sure that I was going somewhere that would really leverage the quantitative skills that I was acquiring at Chicago.

Banking

Global Finance

JULY 8, 2025

Ignas Petrusis , founder Saigon Fruits GF: What happens to wholesale/retail prices if the proposed 46% reciprocal tariffs on Vietnam come into effect? GF: Is there likely to be an impact on DEEP C’s customers’ wholesale/retail prices if the proposed reciprocal tariffs on Cambodia come into effect?

Manufacturing

Global Finance

JULY 1, 2025

“Illicit trade threatens public safety, undermines intellectual property rights, and hampers economic growth, and the risks could increase as counterfeiters leverage new technologies and techniques to avoid detection,” said OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann. More recent national data for the US confirms the trend.

Pharmaceutical

PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Physical brick-and-mortar retail was suffering long before the pandemic. Highlights include grocery, retail and contactless, he said. In addition, retailers are searching for more flexible fulfillment options spanning online pickup in store, pickup curbside, and a number of variants of that continuum of reaching end customers.

Retail

PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2021

4) alongside volatility in highly leveraged futures markets before recovering losses. PYMNTS reported that this has the potential to make the coins more expensive, keeping them out of the hands of retail investors. Bitcoin had seen a string of days in which it continually broke records, passing $20,000 on Dec.

Profit and Loss

PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Retailers that mainly depended on brick-and-mortar foot traffic had to quickly mobilize distribution services to get their goods to customers. The pandemic placed a spotlight on the importance of short-haul, local freight moves between warehouses … and retail facilities to be used as triage for home delivery,” he said.

Leverage

PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Motivating a change in consumers or retailers is not always easy work, a reality evidenced by the plodding pace of contactless payments in the U.S. That has motivated a sea change as brands and physical retailers are working to rebuild their consumer experiences around digital, she said. Widening the Range Of eGifting’s Capability.

Retail

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The virus itself is not the only factor in play, however, with the devastating economic downturn and record-high unemployment rates also sharply reducing consumers’ purchasing power and their willingness to make retail purchases. Digital commerce is one of the only truly safe revenue streams available to retailers right now.

Retail

PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2017

Location is everything, and PlaceIQ has created a new way for retailers to leverage it. We really passionately believe in the power of location to solve real business challenges for retailers, casual dining – for all sorts of businesses,” said CEO and Co-Founder Duncan McCall. How much foot traffic is their store seeing?

Leverage

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Meanwhile, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO and co-founder of Klarna, noted in the press release that the retail market is changing again with the future of fashion retail focused on technology. Regardless of how and when customers want to shop, we need to be there for them.

Retail

PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

The last several weeks have certainly made for unexpected and unprecedented times for consumers and all players in the retail ecosystem and left a lot of businesses standing at a crossroads as they face the back half of 2020 and questions about what to do next. In other words, trust has become a primarily valuable currency of late.

Retail

Future CFO

JULY 20, 2023

China’s economic growth would stay above target though recovery momentum fades, said Fitch recently. Nonetheless, Fitch said it still expects China’s economic growth to hit5.6% China’s economic growth will be underpinned by accommodative policy settings, in particular for fiscal policy, according to the firm.

Economics

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

The holiday shopping season is the most wonderful time of the year for the retail industry. Brick-and-mortar merchants and online retailers alike often rely on end-of-year sales to generate up to 40 percent of their annual revenues and start the new year on a positive note. A notable $730 billion in U.S. A notable $730 billion in U.S.

Retail

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The retail ecosystem has been turned upside down over the past six months as changes big and small rippled through the segment worldwide in response to the pandemic. Much of the challenge of retail over the past half year, the panel agreed, has been in responding to shifting consumer preferences that aren’t always predictable.

Leverage

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Consumers have more heavily leaned on debit during the pandemic, with the economic downturn making shoppers more cautious than ever about the prospect of taking on credit card debt. Officials have struggled to stop or even detect these crimes, and fraudsters are making the task especially difficult by leveraging various schemes.

Banking

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It leveraged its three most prized assets — its craftspeople, its farmland and its access to the sea — to export its pottery, oil, paper and wine to Western Europe and the Middle East in exchange for things that it wanted or needed back home on its peaceful little island. The Commoditization Of Retail.

Retail

Global Finance

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Accordingly, China’s involvement in Africa goes beyond trade, encompassing a mix of economic investments, geopolitical strategies, and local challenges. Chinese-financed projects have had positive spillover effects on broader economic activity in Africa, something not as evident with World Bank loans.”

Transportation

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

lakh crore in FY23 could have a multiplier effect on all segments of society and lead to job creation at scale, allowing India to leverage its young demographic dividend. This should result in higher credit demand from all classes of borrowers — large corporates, MSMEs as well as retail customers. Views are personal.

Budgeting

Future CFO

JANUARY 24, 2023

Retail sales in China is expected to recover after the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions but is likely to be bumpier than those in many other major economies, said Fitch recently. year-on-year contraction in retail sales in December 2022, which led to a 0.2% The residential leverage ratio rose rapidly to 62.4%

Sales