PYMNTS
AUGUST 9, 2020
Google’s transition to SAP Ariba ‘s cloud-based services has a completion date set for Aug. 24 after multiple waves that began last October, according to a press release. The final wave concerns the Asia Pacific region. Last October, U.S. suppliers were switched over, and in May of this year, the rest of North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa made the jump, the release says.
Anaplan
AUGUST 13, 2020
This is the second post in a three-part series following our recent webinar series with Slalom Consulting, entitled.
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CFA Institute
AUGUST 13, 2020
Achieving Investment Excellence is a comprehensive guide to the roles and responsibilities for trustees and board members.
Regent Assay
AUGUST 12, 2020
UK based healthcare software specialist Chameleon Information Management Services Limited and its subsidiary, Flex Software Limited, trading as InfoFlex has been acquired by Civica UK Limited , the wholly owned subsidiary of Civica, a global leader in software for public services. With over 25 years’ experience in the healthcare sector, InfoFlex provides a market-leading cloud enabled application with trust-wide and cross-organisation capabilities.
Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Sales Engineer Manager
Automating time-consuming manual tasks can save your firm hundreds of hours–and thousands of dollars. But it can also have longer-lasting benefits, like helping you attract and retain the next generation of CPAs, and we don’t need to tell you how important that is amid the current generational staffing crisis in the tax and accounting profession. You'll want to save your seat for this new webinar with industry expert Joe Wroblewski, where we'll explore how to: Maximize ROI with Cost-Effective Te
PYMNTS
AUGUST 13, 2020
Waze, the popular GPS navigation app owned by Google, has introduced contactless payments for ExxonMobil and Shell card holders in the U.S. When drivers pull into participating stations, they will see a notification on Waze prompting their Android or iOS device to securely pay through each company’s app. “Waze is committed to continuing to help businesses leverage innovative technology to adapt, evolve, and engage with customers,” said Andrew Kandel, Waze U.S. country manager, in a statement.
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CFA Institute
AUGUST 10, 2020
Negative interest rates may offer an opportunity, says Eric Lonergan.
Future CFO
AUGUST 13, 2020
Moody's Investors Service said that its Asian Liquidity Stress Indicator (ALSI) decreased to 38.1% in July from 39.7% in June, primarily reflecting improving liquidity at three companies and the addition of a fallen angel into its high-yield mix. The ALSI measures the percentage of high-yield companies with Moody's weakest speculative-grade liquidity score of SGL-4 as a proportion of high-yield corporate family ratings The indicator increases when speculative-grade liquidity deteriorates., accor
PYMNTS
AUGUST 10, 2020
Real time is getting ever closer to prime time. But it might not be the Federal Reserve ’s doing. You’d be forgiven for thinking that faster payments might be the purview of the U.S. Federal Reserve, where details (a roadmap, really) of FedNow , the proposed instant payment system, were released earlier this month. But with a 2023-24 timeframe to implementation, the Fed’s efforts will take a while to cross the Rubicon from concept to reality.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 13, 2020
With back-end digitization no longer an option for the financial services sector, adoption of cloud infrastructure is a vital — yet often painful — process for financial institutions (FIs), FinTechs and other organizations. The biggest friction points are often traced back to the sheer size of the project. Migrating apps and data from on-premise systems into the cloud can seem an overwhelming task, and indeed, there are many pitfalls and mistakes organizations can make in the process.
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PYMNTS
AUGUST 14, 2020
The relationship between traditional banks and the slate of FinTechs that have arisen over the past decade hasn’t always been one of enthusiastic cooperation. Big banks tended to view FinTechs and their offerings with suspicion — meaning that in the early days, startups often had to beg banks for access to the infrastructure to build it out better. Although it wasn’t easy for either side, the landscape has begun to change, Payoneer ’s General Manager Eyal Moldovan told PYMNTS in a recent convers
PYMNTS
AUGUST 11, 2020
If you are interested in not just tracking your credit score, but finding ways to boost it, American Express may have the product for you. On Tuesday (Aug. 11), Amex launched Score Goals , an online platform that augments and expands the card company’s established credit score tool, MyCredit Guide. The new offering, which is available to consumers whether or not they are American Express cardholders, “includes a range of information and tools to help them understand their credit score better and
PYMNTS
AUGUST 14, 2020
China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sector, once 6,000 businesses strong, has been reduced to fewer than three dozen as the government tightened regulations, leaving billions in loans unpaid. Now, Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, the nation’s top banking regulator, said investors have been saddled with more than 800 billion yuan ($115 billion) in debt from the failed platforms, Bloomberg News reported.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 11, 2020
Not all that long ago, blockchain and bitcoin were inseparable – shorthand for the Wild West of cryptocurrencies and speculation. And you might recall that digital tokens were emblematic of volatile price swings. A boom and crash just a few years ago showed that, as estimated by Bitcoinist.com , as many as 160 projects were on tap at as of January 2018, and by October of last year, that tally was zero.
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PYMNTS
AUGUST 14, 2020
There’s been no shortage of big payments and FinTech announcements over the past few days, such as Apple ’s bundle bet, Goldman Sachs ’ move to bid on the General Motors credit card or Square ’s decision to test small-dollar, short-term loans. Meanwhile, not-quite-household names (yet) like Blend are quietly snapping up big investor dollars and impressive valuations to push laggard industries into the digital commerce ecosystem.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 14, 2020
The eCommerce landscape is shifting on multiple fronts, with sellers embracing digital channels and adjusting their business models to a new reality of customer demands. Disruption is hitting both the B2C and B2B arenas, and while it would seem they are two opposite ends of the spectrum, these ecosystems share commonalities in the kinds of trends that force sellers to modernize their market strategies.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 14, 2020
Selling an EMV 3DS (also referred to as 3DS 2.0) product to merchants hasn’t always been smooth sailing. When PAAY , a software-as-a-service company that protects merchants from fraud and increases authorization rates first started offering EMV 3DS, it had to do a lot in educating potential clients in the face of many saying: “We don’t want to hear about this.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 10, 2020
By now, you’ve no doubt heard the story about how Isaac Newton turned quarantining during London’s outbreak of the Bubonic Plague between 1665 and 1667 into a time of great focus and innovation. Newton’s sojourn out of Cambridge, England, where he was attending Trinity University, to his family home in Woolsthorpe in order to avoid the risk of infection produced some of the world’s most important scientific and mathematical discoveries.
Speaker: Victor C. Barnes, CPA, MBA
In the climb from contributor to leader, the rules quietly change. If you’re aiming for the summit, the air gets thinner—and what got you here won’t be enough to get you to the top (a concept first popularized by Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There ). What made you successful early in your finance career—technical accuracy, sharp analysis, flawless execution—won’t be what carries you to the next level.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 13, 2020
Amazon ’s epic push to deliver its own packages and cut out third parties like FedEx is picking up speed during the pandemic, with a dramatic year-over-year gain in July. As of July, Amazon was shipping 66 percent of its own packages, up from 55 percent last July, according to CNBC’s Squawk Box , citing stats from ShipMatrix. The world’s largest retailer has managed this feat even as the volume of packages ordered and shipped through Amazon has exploded amid the pandemic, with volume up 46 perce
PYMNTS
AUGUST 14, 2020
Digital dollars on the horizon? Maybe – but first comes a focus on policy. A week after details of the Federal Reserve’s instant payment initiative emerged, news came via Bloomberg that the central bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency. In a speech delivered by webcast at the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Innovation Office Hours, Fed Governor Lael Brainard said that t
PYMNTS
AUGUST 13, 2020
Airbnb Inc. took a record hit in revenues in the second quarter (Q2) and its losses continued to mount as global travel was restricted to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Sources told Bloomberg News in advance of the release of Q2 earnings that the San Francisco-based online vacation rental marketplace’s revenue fell to $335 million in the period ending June 30.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 10, 2020
If America ever needed a digital estate sale — or even a garage sale, for that matter — it’s right now. Tens of millions of financially strapped or suddenly unemployed people are seeing rent and bill payments locked in the form of gifts and purchases they’re ready to part with. What they need is an online auction marketplace. Plenty of those around.
Speaker: Kim Beynon, CPA, CGMA, PMP
The most overlooked, yet most critical, element of transformation is preparing people for change. Automation and AI aren't just technical upgrades, they’re cultural shifts which can challenge identities. That’s why change management isn’t a side project—it’s the foundation. In finance, where precision and process rule, navigating change can feel especially disruptive.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 13, 2020
Retail has been among the sectors most dramatically impacted by the pandemic, though it’s impossible to paint the industry with a broad brush. With widespread furloughs and a growing wave of bankruptcies , many retailers were hit hard. Others were caught up in an unexpected boom, though that doesn’t mean they’ve evaded the volatility of the pandemic.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 11, 2020
From a lack of supplier acceptance of electronic payments to outdated infrastructure within accounts payable (AP) departments, the B2B payments ecosystem still has much room for improvement on multiple fronts. Moving the needle in the journey away from paper checks isn’t a one-sided battle, either. Indeed, solving some of the biggest AP challenges increasingly requires aa strategic focus not just on the payer, but on the supplier accepting that transaction.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 12, 2020
To gain riches – go public or stay private and sell to a high bidder? In a stock market that seems to continuously flirt with new highs, the answer seems to be: Aim for the IPO. To that end, as reported earlier this week, BigCommerce , the software as a service (SaaS) firm that focuses on eCommerce, went public, surging more than 200 percent on its first day of trading.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 11, 2020
The California judge who ruled that Uber and Lyft have to classify their workers as employees reportedly “saw straight through” the “bogus argument” that the companies’ workers like being classified as independent contractors instead. CNBC reported that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra , speaking on the “Squawk Alley” program on Tuesday (Aug. 11), agreed with the judge’s decision, which mandated that Uber and Lyft had to reclassify their workers as e
Speaker: Mark Gilham, FCCA, CPP
Finance used to be the function that counted, now it's the one that’s counted on. 📊 For accounting firms, controllers, and finance leaders, expectations are rising faster than headcount. Businesses want agile forecasts, granular analysis, seamless reporting, and smart automation—often without added resources while demanding uncompromised accuracy and compliance.
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