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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Many enjoyed huge first-day price pops, heating up the IPO market even more — and 2021 seems poised to only continue the fireworks. Popular stock-trading app Robinhood Markets reportedly recently hired Goldman Sachs to lead a possible 2021 IPO that would value the company at more than $20 billion. Then shares soared 85.8

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Generation CFO

JANUARY 21, 2022

Bulent’s role involved leading a team driving financial and operation integrations as part of this acquisition, which was no easy feat. Financially transforming. The acquisition involved almost 2,000 employees across both companies. And they were.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Mastercard Gets Nod To Join China’s $27T Payments Market. China approved Mastercard for a bank card clearing business with its partner, NetsUnion Clearing Group, giving the company access to a $27 trillion payments market. Amazon Expected To Control 70 Pct Of US Smart Speaker Market By Next Year.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2018

Mastercard and IFC , a member of the World Bank Group, announced Thursday (April 26) that they have updated a $250 million global risk-sharing facility in an effort to expand access to electronic payments in emerging markets. Mastercard said its work with the World Bank Group is helping to increase universal financial access by 2020.

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CFO Thought Leader

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

This involved going back to the basics and understanding the core financial inflows and outflows. Poor Financial Visibility: She faced a situation of poor visibility into the company’s finances and cash flow, necessitating a ground-up rebuild of financial understanding and management.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) recently sent a letter to Powell raising this concern, noting that the Fed’s “anemic scrutiny of applications for mergers and acquisitions [M&A] raises concerns that [it] may oversee a wave of bank consolidation to the detriment of consumers and the financial system.”

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

 This week, we speak with Bill Dudley , former president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York , where he also served as vice chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee. Dudley explains how he became President of the NY Fed in January 2009 — right in the heart of the GFC.

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E78 Partners

APRIL 11, 2023

Today’s global financial landscape is fraught with high inflation, geopolitical risks, and a shifting economic environment. These factors have tested the resilience of the financial system and posed significant challenges for corporate financial leaders.

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CFO News

MAY 29, 2023

However, there are risks to this growth, including slowing global growth, protracted geopolitical tensions and a possible upsurge in financial market volatility following new stress events in the global financial system, the RBI said in its report.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The central bank helped stimulate lending by taking interest rates to zero, and boosted market liquidity by adding trillions of dollars in assets to its balance sheet. Those higher rates are already taking a toll on the housing market, with home sales down 35.4% Mortgage markets were broken. “It was financially generated.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

financial system, has been used mainly in the past against banks and other financial institutions and in most cases has forced the institution to close. But unlike other collapses, it has largely avoided rippling into other markets. Lisa Monaco. said Wednesday. Deputy Treasury Secretary. Wally Adeyemo.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The groups argue that such efforts are secured under the current regulatory regime, and that allowing innovation at the expense of the financial system’s stability isn’t beneficial. A lack of safety and soundness rules will expose the financial system to significant vulnerabilities.”.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Financial conditions near historical average Moody’s proprietary indicators suggest financial conditions are near historical averages in the US, but are tightening in the euro area and are weak in emerging markets (EMs). Falling loan demand and tightening credit standards have led to a large slowdown in bank lending globally.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 12, 2023

Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How bonds ate the entire financial system : A very short, very wild history of the market that will shape the next financial crisis. The weekend is here!

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

With UPI, money transfers can be set up without having to share bank details or source, using a virtual payment address instead of the usual bank account numbers or Indian Financial System Code (IFSC). India is an important market for us," he said, according to the release. "We

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Future CFO

JULY 18, 2023

Given higher interest rates and lower growth, distress in the largely unrated non-bank financial institution (NBFI) sector globally could have spillover credit impacts on many other sectors, the credit rating agency noted.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2020

Rajnish Kumar, chairman of the State Bank of India , the country’s largest lender, said the resurgence of the coronavirus jeopardizes reform of the financial system, the Financial Times (FT) reported. “If India’s banking system has been plagued by one of the world’s highest bad-loan ratios.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2019

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde issued a warning over the weekend about the impact artificial intelligence may have on the financial system across the globe. But it has also led to two firms controlling more than 90% of the mobile payments market.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Twelve years after the housing and mortgage markets’ collapse threw the United States into financial distress not seen since the Great Depression, market watchers are again on the lookout for a possible new banking crisis spawned by upheaval in the U.S. commercial real estate sector. Slater wrote in a recent report. “We

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Future CFO

JANUARY 22, 2024

The accounting industry is undergoing profound transformation due to rapid technological advancements across all sectors in the market. Modern accounting software integrates seamlessly with diverse financial systems, automating tasks such as data entry, bank reconciliation, and invoice processing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

McDermott, previously a managing director for Goldman who was in charge of running the company’s internal funding operations, is a veteran of old-school financing markets, according to the network. So what you’re doing today in the physical world, you just do digitally, creating huge efficiencies,” he said, according to CNBC.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Sultan will be in charge of building a new "digital policy, strategy and advisory practice" that will consult with governments interested in digitizing their economies and financial systems, among other duties, the memo states.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

This makes Coinbase the first major bitcoin company to go for the public markets, WSJ reported. The company's goal is to meld its crypto focus with the existing financial system and to make bitcoin more accessible to more people, WSJ reported. It is the largest crypto exchange in the U.S.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

This pandemic presents a very serious threat to the stability of the global financial system. Following the COVID-19 outbreak, financial conditions tightened at unprecedented speed, exposing some “cracks” in global financial markets.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The current level of missed payments could further dampen investors' poor appetite for trust products and trigger early redemptions, potentially setting the tone for a negative feedback loop, with property stress causing strains in the financial system and exacerbating the spillover to a wider range of sectors, the firm predicted.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Fitzpatrick, global head of CitiFXTechnicals, Citi’s market insight product, compared bitcoin’s movements to the gold market, which remained within a $20-$35 price range for 50 years before breaking out in 1971, according to CoinDesk. Thomas Fitzpatrick’s report was leaked on Twitter Friday (Nov. Meanwhile, Binance on Monday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

The Central Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has confirmed it will abide by the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMIs). Regionally operated payment systems in Jamaica will consequently be regulated more closely. FMIs improperly regulated and governed could pose significant challenges to enhancing stability.

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Beacon CFO Plus

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

They provide valuable financial insights that inform critical decisions, such as product development, market expansion, or scaling operations. Scalability: As startups grow, their financial needs become more complex. Strategic Decision-Making: Fractional CFOs act as strategic partners to startup founders and executives.

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Simply Treasury

JANUARY 19, 2023

EMIR, reminder EMIR stands for “European Market Infrastructure Regulation” and has been passed on December 19th, 2012 and enacted on March 15th, 2013. The European Market Infrastructure Regulation is an EU regulation aimed at reducing systemic counterparty and operational risk and thereby prevent future financial system collapses.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

It also works to ensure that financial products and services can be distributed as smoothly and safely as possible. The 27 EU member states have their own financial systems, and many have also implemented their own domestic real-time payments rails. Official guidelines and regulations can only go so far, however.

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Michigan CFO

JUNE 7, 2023

Some of their key responsibilities include financial forecasting, budgeting, cash flow management, financial reporting and analysis, advising on financial decisions, collaborating with internal teams, implementing financial systems, and providing insights for growth and profitability.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Amazon is currently hiring for 200 positions in the city, including roles in data analytics, sales, marketing and public relations, and business development. Amazon will move staff into its new suite of offices in the Asia Square Tower early next, per the report. The world’s largest retailer is also on a hiring binge in Singapore.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The economy and its financial system have remained resilient, underpinned by large fiscal and foreign exchange reserves as well as a strong and well capitalised banking system.” The outlook for Hong Kong’s property market appears challenging, which could dampen the sentiment of households and firms, the organisation added.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2023

This is why rescuing them is so infuriating: “This inequity is especially galling to those of us who work in the financial markets. There are, however, those market players who fail to live or die by their own swords—but then expect to be rescued by others from their own folly. Wall Street has long been a brutal meritocracy.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

“This is a direct response to the Powell testimony and comments on Facebook’s Libra and the implications that could have for the entire cryptocurrency space,” said Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at FX trading platform OANDA. Libra also caught the attention of The BoE, the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Open banking is appealing to financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in many markets, even as the pandemic sweeps across the world. Regulators in other regions, including Latin America, are also shaping and announcing plans to enable open banking and better support digital financial systems.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

If stablecoins became widely used, “they would almost certainly become systemic by nature, not only because of their operational risks, but also in a more fundamental way: they could undermine the deposit-taking of banks and their business models,” Weidmann said at a conference at the Bundesbank.

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