CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Though much work remains to be done to enact a progressive economic agenda, this midterm election showed clear signs of support for a policy agenda that prioritizes economic, racial, and gender justice for working families. Nebraska: Voters approved Initiative 433, which will increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2026.

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CFO News

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) has been ranked first in four global rating agencies for its climate actions and environmental performance.

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Future CFO

APRIL 2, 2023

The report, published by Marsh Specialty, identifies four areas where increasing risk threatens global trading, security, and investment environments into 2023: persistent political instability; economic retrenchment; competition for strategic resources; and supply chain diversification.

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Future CFO

MARCH 7, 2024

The SEA CFO Agenda 2023: Decoding the CFO’s trilemma report found that financial chiefs in the region are looking into the global economic slowdown as a major concern, with 80% of respondents marking it as their top external risk for the next 12 months.

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Future CFO

APRIL 23, 2023

Economic confidence rises as clear signs of business improvement emerge, said ACCA recently. While the accountancy body’s Q1 2023 Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS) shows confidence lower than a year ago, it rose for the third consecutive quarter as fears fade over the prospects of a recession in 2023.

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CFO News

JUNE 9, 2023

The Chief Economic Advisor of India, V Anantha Nageswaran, has rejected the idea of Universal Social Security for the country, saying it would create “perverse incentives” and discourage citizens from seeking opportunities to generate income.

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CFA Institute

JULY 10, 2022

What role does security selection play in cryptocurrency investing? Can token pickers demonstrate differentiated performance?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

19) announced that its Sigma Instant Desktop Issuance product will set “the standard for simple, secure and smart instant-ID solutions across enterprise, healthcare, government, higher education and financial institutions (FIs)." One challenge for companies is maintaining “a safe and secure flow of data ?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

1) after the first major data report of the fourth quarter showed a continuation of America’s recent economic woes. New figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that personal income fell 2.7 Hopes for fresh signs of strength heading into the holiday shopping season were crimped Thursday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

At a time when our nation’s secrets at the NSA and Homeland Security and assets at the Department of the Treasury were able to be illicitly tapped into by foreign hackers, the security and reliability of countless other online industries and enterprises have also been brought into question.

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CFA Institute

JULY 29, 2022

Maitland, F. Barry Nelson, CFA, and Daniel G. Partlow's book "presents quantitatively sophisticated valuation methods and trading strategies, invoking terms of art that will be new even to many seasoned practitioners.".

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) ordered domestic brokerages’ overseas units to stop opening new stock accounts for onshore investors to stem capital outflows that have pushed the yuan to a 16-year low. The post Chinese securities regulator stops brokerages from opening overseas accounts appeared first on FutureCFO.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 14, 2023

The Department of Homeland Security took a positive step by clarifying and streamlining the process to protect migrant workers in labor disputes. Posted January 13, 2023 at 3:18 pm by Daniel Costa. Today, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

What’s more remarkable is the resistance to using debit online even though debit use overall has been growing during the pandemic — a phenomenon attributed to the economic anxieties and budgetary concerns it has engendered. consumers, offers an in-depth examination of how and why consumers choose to pay online.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 29, 2020

Economic crime costs the world $3.5 Economic growth flourishes on technological advances while criminal activity also responds and reacts and the opportunity that criminals exploit creates challenges for regulators, legitimate businesses and their customers, auditors and advisers alike,” he said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In this month’s Feature Story, Sridhar Narayanan , chief architect at IBM Payments Centre-Canada , and Mike Cooke , the firm’s senior partner and head, explain the growing interest in virtual cards and what FIs and FinTechs must keep in mind when creating secure virtual card onboarding experiences. Check out the full story in the Guide.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

As individuals were beginning to seek COVID-19 benefits, hackers disrupted Italy’s Social Security internet site, per the leader of the welfare agency. Tridico said he notified authorities about the incident, which has brought into question the security of the country’s online infrastructure as it grapples with the COVID-19 crisis. “In

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

He said the bank hopes to break even within a year, but it will depend on the economic recovery. As savings deposits increased by £16.2bn ($20.2 billion) in April, more than five times higher than the same month in 2019, Janardana said Zopa would offer “competitive” interest rates.

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Future CFO

JULY 14, 2021

Economic recovery and solid capital supplementary bond issuance will support Chinese insurers' solvency in 2021, said Moody’s recently. The post Economic recovery, capital bond issuances support Chinese insurers’ solvency appeared first on FutureCFO. But pressure remains on some segments, Moody’s cautioned.

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Corporate Finance Lab

MARCH 27, 2023

As important as these practical implications are, the tightening of FDI rules also raises more theoretical questions, that is, from a Law and Economics perspective. 2020) 136 Journal of Financial Economics 106, 116-117. [4] 5] David Scharfstein, ‘The Disciplinary Role of Takeovers’ (1988) 55 The Review of Economic Studies 185, 185.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Can monetary policy cure the ills of an economic slowdown caused by the Coronavirus ? In a series of actions aimed at boosting liquidity (and, by extension, economic stability), China’s central bank has pumped money into the country’s financial system, which had been slowing markedly even before the pandemic.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A global economic recovery will come much later than expected and at a much slower pace, UBS was quoted as saying in a recent CNBC report. UBS's global head of economics and strategy researcher Arend Kapteyn predicted that global growth —now at 2.6%

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As such, data security has simultaneously emerged as a renewed focal point for the financial services market, because the more data moves and the more actors touch it, the more exposure that information has to nefarious actors. It’s not the only security concern that this data-sharing trend has created in financial services, however.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

Many third parties sell or trade information in a way customers may not understand, and the third parties, quite often, are doing it for their own economic benefit — not for the customer’s,” he wrote. Data security is an issue with far-reaching consequences.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

It might get trapped in a security deposit , or get frozen in place by new, ill-understood rules and regulations. tied up in cash security deposits. $57 57 billion: Potential drop in economic activity European businesses are facing in the first year of SCA. There are all kinds of ways money can end up “trapped.”

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Future CFO

APRIL 20, 2021

Economic integration between China, Japan and Korea will continue to deepen despite China's focus on reducing its dependence on foreign suppliers and developing its technology capabilities, said Moody’s recently. Sustained geopolitical tensions will not thwart growing economic integration, according to Moody.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

State governments began rolling out economic nexus laws after 2018’s South Dakota vs. Wayfair ruling. The Wayfair ruling enabled states and cities to apply sales taxes to businesses based on the latter’s economic activities within their jurisdictions, whether or not businesses have physical presences there. .

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 10, 2024

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners"– this week's edition kicks off with the news that a recent analysis from Morningstar suggests that the Department of Labor's (DoL's) new Retirement Security Rule (aka Fiduciary Rule 2.0)

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Unless people feel safe and secure and confident around the virus, the economic impact will continue in some way, shape or form,” said Solomon during the earnings call, and noted that the strategy is to hope for the better “but plan for the worst.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

In today’s top news, state-owned financial institutions in China are offering incentives to boost consumer lending, and economists at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley predict the coronavirus will be economically devastating. Beijing is looking at personal lending as a way out of the economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The billionaire and Virgin Group founder said blockchain will create an “ economic revolution ,” especially in developing countries. But that’s also true for absolutely any other form of technology,” said Luther Martin, distinguished technologist at HPE Security – Data Security. Richard Branson.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

Economic data released Thursday (April 30) may hint at a “one-two punch” for consumer spending — indicating a reluctance to spend now, yes, but paycheck pressures may keep purses and wallets closed for a while. Consumer spending slid 7.5 percent in March, which The Wall Street Journal reported represents the sharpest decline since 1959.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

Perhaps the two-week cycle persists due to force of habit, or perhaps it’s the need to design a payroll system that keeps track of workers’ hours in real time while also calculating necessary adjustments for taxes, Social Security, benefits, etc. Industry observers are quick to note: Disrupt or be disrupted.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Indonesian wholesale eCommerce market Ula has announced that it has secured $10.5 ” Countries in the Asia-Pacific region are looking forward to more connected economic victories, such as open banking, which would improve the lives of many residents there who remain unbanked.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

FIs must be prepared to support the pandemic-driven shift in consumers’ payment and spending behaviors while also keeping up with new security needs, Chris Tremont , executive vice president of virtual banking for Radius Bank , said in a recent PYMNTS interview. “As Security And The Consumer Element . is huge,” Tremont said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Take the issue of retail security as one example. As that happens, retail operators — including some of the biggest and most famous — are turning to AI and putting more faith in the technology to help secure the future. Reducing network demands, the technology works even if cloud connection is lost.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

That matters, because rising rates will increase the debt service (interest payments the US government must pay on the outstanding Treasury securities). We know that rising indebtedness brings colossal opportunity costs, which in turn affect every American citizen and our national security. Follow him on Twitter.

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