PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

In today’s top digital-first banking news, clients of BBVA subsidiary Simple Bank are reportedly getting emails telling them that Simple is closing and the intent is to move them to BBVA, while the Treasury Department announced that stimulus Visa debit cards are being mailed to homes. Fides Expands Connectivity for Finance Professionals.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Valuations of Hong Kong-listed stocks are now quite reasonable, Mr. Ru said, adding that he doesn’t expect China’s internet sector to be hit with major regulatory changes this year. . Treasury yield declined to 1.903%, according to Tradeweb. In the bond market, the benchmark 10-year U.S.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 24, 2024

Government Bond/Bill Rates in 2023 I will start by looking at government bond rates across the world, with the emphasis on US treasuries, which suffered their worst year in history in 2022, down close to 20% for the year, as interest rates surged. The Fed Effect: Where's the beef? The Fed Effect: Where's the beef?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 19, 2022

In a post at the start of 2021 , I argued that while stocks entered the year at elevated levels, especially on historic metrics (such as PE ratios), they were priced to deliver reasonable returns, relative to very low risk free rates (with the treasury bond rate at 0.93% at the start of 2021). The year that was.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered FinTech Software as a Service (SaaS) firm HighRadius raised $125 million in a Series B growth funding round, giving it a unicorn valuation, the company announced on Tuesday (Jan. The platform’s AI-powered cash forecasting helps to prevent poor financing decisions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered FinTech Software as a Service (SaaS) firm HighRadius raised $125 million in a Series B growth funding round, giving it a unicorn valuation, the company announced on Tuesday (Jan. The platform’s AI-powered cash forecasting helps to prevent poor financing decisions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Plus, new regulations in China will make Ant Group support any payments, lending or finances with substantial funds. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s announcement on television for Oracle’s victorious bid for TikTok's American operations. In today’s top news in payments from around the world, Oracle Corp. Technology Provider’.

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Global Finance

MAY 10, 2024

The agency recorded a decline in international investment project announcements, particularly in project finance (21%) and mergers and acquisitions (16%). Ryan, Deutsche Bank: China is holding fewer US treasuries and more agency and corporate securities. The post The Changing Face Of FDI appeared first on Global Finance Magazine.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Small- to medium-sized business (SMB) finance app Coconut has notched approximately 2.5 The company had initially aimed to raise 700,000 pounds ($881,000) at a valuation of 12 million pounds ($15.1 million pounds ($3.15 million) through a Crowdcube fundraising. million), Crowdfund Insider reported. There are said to be 5.3

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Hong Kong’s WeLab still won’t reveal its valuation after securing another major funding round. Further bolstering Asia’s alternative SMB finance industry, Kinara Capital, based in India, announced $14.5 Kinara Capital. B2B payments.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

That said, it is my experience with markets that has also made me skeptical about the over selling of both notions, since we have an entire branch of finance (behavioral finance/economics) that has developed to explain how more data does not always lead to better decisions and why crowds can often be collectively wrong.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Offered via TD Wealth Private Banking, the services aim to provide individual industry professionals in the healthcare market with customized financial solutions around banking, finance, insurance, tax, retirement and other products.

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Future CFO

APRIL 13, 2023

PwC says M&A tends to slow during times of uncertainty or market volatility—but those can be precisely the times when valuations become more attractive and opportunity knocks. At Tata Communications, the CEO and I put together a finance strategy to become fit and continue to sustainably grow for years to come.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

And that goes for the industries covered, too, with treasury management’s Kyriba, blockchain’s BlockApps and enterprise security’s Druva landing on the board, to name a few. BlockApps wants to expand its Blockchain-as-a-Service solution across the globe, and its latest financing round will help the company with that goal.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

PYMNTS looks at all the funding rounds, led by some big-name backers like ex-PayPal president Scott Thompson, JPMorgan and the International Finance Corp., The Series C round will be used to fuel expansion a Flexport said it is exploring new products and services for its customers, including trade finance offerings, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The $20 trillion in corporate payments done through paper checks represents a staggeringly large greenfield opportunity – and there is any number of ways to modernize B2B interactions (and corporate treasury activities in lockstep). And though valuations may be stretched, fundamentals are indeed sound. That’s where the market’s going.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

The Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Treasury Department said there is roughly $145 billion left in the fund. The FinTech startup, which works to help millennials get into equities, crypto trading and other options, has benefited from the quarantine’s effects as people stay at home and have time to explore new finance options.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Fair , a car startup that lets people own cars flexibly, has been paying attention to the fate of venture-backed startups like Uber and WeWork , who have been struggling to find profitability despite large valuations, and cutting back on staff in an effort to avoid a similar fate. The company, which is valued at $1.2

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Simply Treasury

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Central banks are concerned about the now guaranteed and obvious climate effects on the global economy and finance. Think of the automakers and Tesla's recent valuation that reflects these profound changes. The green swan may be unavoidable because finance and money sometimes dictate behaviours that are contrary to what is needed.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2019

Kyriba , the cloud treasury and finance services company, announced on Thursday (April 11) that it closed a $160 million growth round of funding led by Bridgepoint, the private equity firm. Kyriba sits at the center of this shift and is well-positioned to help enterprises transform their treasury capabilities.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Analysts are framing this issue as Fair’s response to ate of venture-backed startups like Uber and WeWork , companies that have struggled to find profitability despite large valuations. Kirk has a decade of experience running treasury and capital markets for large fleet companies, and is well known on the capital markets side.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Analysts are framing this issue as Fair’s response to a spate of venture-backed startups like Uber and WeWork , companies that have struggled to find profitability despite large valuations. Kirk has a decade of experience running treasury and capital markets for large fleet companies, and is well-known on the capital markets side.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2017

PYMNTS takes a look at those cybersecurity firms, plus a few of the treasury management, blockchain and logistics firms that also grabbed fresh funding. It brings Duo Security’s valuation up to $1.17 Treasury Management. Cybersecurity. Duo Security. billion; the firm has so far raised a total of $119 million. Blockchain.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

From the ongoing global conflicts to the lingering effects of high inflation, corporate finance professionals are gearing up to navigate an environment marked by volatility and uncertainty. The year 2024 brings a landscape of unprecedented challenges and opportunities for corporate treasurers.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 12, 2023

The first is the return that can be earned on guaranteed investments , i.e., US treasury bills and bonds, for instance, if you are a investor in US dollar, since it is a measure of what someone who takes no or very low risk can expect to earn. There are two macro factors that will come into play, and both are in play in markets today.

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E78 Partners

APRIL 13, 2023

E78 Partners offers finance and technology solutions for PE firms pursuing roll-up strategies. This trend was made possible by the staggering amounts of capital available in private markets during an era of lower interest rates and surging valuations. We are highly involved with all parties to deliver an effective operational playbook.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Editor’s note: For our Female Leadership in Finance Series, FutureCFO editor Teresa Leung recently had a chat with Sereen Teoh (pictured below), CFO at BIG Loyalty. FutureCFO: Can you share with me your finance career journey? When did you start to become interested in finance? Sereen Teoh, CFO, BIG Loyalty. Why or why not?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

To illustrate, consider a practice in valuation, where analysts are trained to add a small cap premium to discount rates for smaller companies, on the intuition that they are riskier than larger companies. It is very likely that these rules of thumb were developed from data and observation, but at a different point in time.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 5, 2023

Put simply, if you are using an equity risk premium in your company valuation that is much lower (higher) than the market-set equity risk premium, you are biasing yourself to find the company to be under (over) valued.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. and how much to hold in investments with guaranteed returns over their time horizon (cash, treasury bill and treasury bonds).

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

The first is the return that can be earned on guaranteed investments , i.e., US treasury bills and bonds, for instance, if you are a investor in US dollar, since it is a measure of what someone who takes no or very low risk can expect to earn. There are two macro factors that will come into play, and both are in play in markets today.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

You’ve got a Treasury secretary coming in who wants them too, big league. Stripe (and fundraising): It’s not every day, or every month, that a firm’s valuation doubles in one fell swoop. But that is exactly what happened with Stripe, when the firm got a round of funding last month that vaulted the implied valuation to $9 billion.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2016

Serra Ventures, which provided the financing, is showing confidence in OPER — short for order, pay, earn, redeem — a mobile payments and rewards platform. Shopify is a Canadian startup that went public with unicorn valuation ($1 billion) on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges, and it’s launching its own card-reading device.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 22, 2023

That said, when investors buy equities, it would be both irrational and illogical to settle for expected returns that are less than what you can earn on risk free or guaranteed investments, though behavioral finance suggests that both irrationality and illogic are persistent human traits.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 21, 2023

That said, when investors buy equities, it would be both irrational and illogical to settle for expected returns that are less than what you can earn on risk free or guaranteed investments, though behavioral finance suggests that both irrationality and illogic are persistent human traits. Stocks: The So What? Stocks: The What Next?

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Bramasol

JUNE 10, 2022

Either method enables companies to perform valuations and closing preparations for particular company codes according to required accounting principles for specific countries or locales, while still maintaining the ability to roll-up everything for enterprise-wide management. Treasury and Risk Management (TRM). Controlling (CO).

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

According to Chancellor, interest is the single most important feature of finance, both ancient and modern. I went into what’s called corporate finance, what people would see now as sort of M&A department. But I didn’t last very long there because I thought I didn’t like corporate finance. CHANCELLOR: Yes.

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