Global Finance

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Niall Byrne, chief financial officer of QIA (Qatar Investment Authority), the country’s wealth fund, discussed from Doha his two-year tenure and his focus on transforming the QIA’s finance function to support growth. It doesn’t just impact the finance function, it impacts all of the investment teams across the whole organization.

CFO

Bramasol

JANUARY 15, 2025

Although these topics have been on our radar in past years, the outlook for 2025 holds a common thread as the accumulated innovation and investment in each of these areas morphs into tangible acceleration, scalability and productivity payoffs going forward. The core cloud ERP can be SAP S/4HANA in either Public or Private cloud deployments.

SAP

E78 Partners

MARCH 21, 2025

Understanding what PortCo in private equity is, how private equity firms manage these investments, and their role in the broader investment lifecycle is essential for anyone navigating the private equity landscape. What Is a PortCo?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Global Finance

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The worlds biggest exporter of liquified natural gas leverages innovation to pursue diversified growth. The authorities have created blueprints and made strategic investments that aim to develop new industries, attract foreign investment and create a business-friendly environment beyond the gas sector.

Technology

Future CFO

JUNE 19, 2025

A delegate from the healthcare sector commented that: "From a finance perspective, we need to talk about data reliability. The human-AI collaboration framework Despite these challenges, leading practitioners are developing frameworks for human-AI collaboration that preserve analytical rigour whilst leveraging AI capabilities.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

The Big Picture

JULY 1, 2025

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer , is below. Eva is group Chief Investment Officer for insurance, giant Swiss Ray. Really a fascinating conversation with someone who is uniquely situated in the investment world. It was the best from the investment banking teams.

Investments

Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The partnership augments the bank’s defining strength: its ability to support intra-African trade and investments critical for SMEs’ growth. Before the pandemic, DBS had relentlessly leveraged emerging technologies to help SMEs, especially micro and small enterprises, streamline services and manage credit risk.

Banking

CFO Thought Leader

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Morris shares insights into Guardian’s journey from a single pharmacy to 50 nationwide, discussing the strategic milestones of investing in talent, data infrastructure, and a robust financial planning process. His experiences underline the power of team empowerment and preparation for continued growth in a competitive healthcare market.

CFO

E78 Partners

APRIL 23, 2025

In 2025, private equity (PE) firms and PE-backed companies are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to drive value creation amid economic complexity and technological disruption. Conversely, poor data qualityfragmented systems, incomplete recordscan lead to unreliable AI outputs, undermining investments and delaying exits.

Auditing

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

Lisa Shallet, chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley has had a number of fascinating roles in Wall Street, which is kind of amusing considering she had no interest in working on Wall Street, and yet she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein. Because you were not just in the investing side, correct. As baby analysts.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Global Finance

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In investment grade bonds, we’re now at spreads of 80 basis points. We would see high yields in the leveraged finance markets much more vulnerable in that situation. In terms of defensiveness, we like investment grade over high yields. I think for investment grade, the demand continues to be strong from yield buyers.

Economics

Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Two-thirds of workers report burnout during transformation drives and workplace stress accounts for 8% of national healthcare spending in the US. They are leveraging their margins by levering AI, Shaw notes. They took it to heart, he says, investing in training and dialogue with employees. C3 are rock stars, Brown adds.

Corporate Finance

The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

I wanna, I want to get into some of the details before we start talking about markets and investing. And so I was going to have to invest and save on my own account to accomplish that. And I discovered that when you’re writing about investing, one of the key subjects that you have to nail down is the history of finance.

Math

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

Deficits can be used to accomplish big things like, you know, repairing crumbling infrastructure, improving our healthcare education systems and, and so on and so forth. But they didn’t, interest rates didn’t go up, they didn’t suffer the, the crowding out problem of rising interest rates, you know, pushing investment down.

Budgeting

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 13, 2025

I had a friend that worked there, so I was a couple of years out of school in investor relations at Sunoco, and then I had a friend who said, you know, if you wanna get more into finance and investments, we have an opening at Vanguard. So I joined in the corporate division as an investment analyst. I think you’d really like it.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 4, 2025

Really fascinating because she sees the world from a very unique perch, has incredible access to every aspect of both commercial and investing banking that a small startup or medium-sized company, and by medium I mean up to $2 billion in revenue might need. Previously she was co-head of the bank’s Innovation Economy Group.

Banking

CFO Thought Leader

JUNE 9, 2025

According to Alt, the company’s balance sheet has played a critical role, enabling investments and allowing Cardinal Health to return capital to shareholders through increased dividends and share repurchases. We look at both the quarterly results, but more importantly, are we investing for the long term? Are we generating the cash?

CFO

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services , healthcare expenditures in the U.S. percent) the largest healthcare payors in the U.S. Another 15 percent of total healthcare costs are attributed to billing and payment inefficiencies. That may not come as much of a surprise. In 2018, that was 28.4

Healthcare

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What’s unique about Anh, though, is how, as a solo advisor, she differentiates her firm by leveraging the combination of a high-touch concierge approach to client service with a unique investment management approach through the use of very carefully chosen structured notes to differentiate her portfolio design from other advisors.

Leverage

PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

Call it the Amazonification of healthcare. with patients through real-time video and will leverage Truepill’s infrastructure and distribution to fulfill and deliver medications. Truepill will continue to invest in its portfolio of consumer health brands, including Ahead, a startup specializing in adult ADHD treatment, and Eve, a U.K.-based

Healthcare

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Healthcare as pay-as-you-go or installments? Among the findings of “ The Changing Landscape of Healthcare Payment Plans ” study, released last month, through the joint efforts of PYMNTS and Flywire : The struggle to pay medical bills is real. percent would like to see a payment plan offered upon receiving their first bill.

Healthcare

PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

healthcare system badly needs reform. For all of its 21 st -century brilliance, the American healthcare system of billing and payments, for example, is still extensively mired in 20 th -century business processes. These companies [are] paving the way, and healthcare is the next insurance type primed for innovation.”.

Healthcare

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The new investment raises K Health’s total funding to $139.3 Founded in 2016 by Adam Singolda, Allon Bloch, Israel Roth and Ran Shaul, the telehealth platform offers remote access to healthcare services via patients’ smartphones and taps artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze symptoms and diagnose medical problems.

Startups

PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

Humana is placing a $100 million bet that the future of healthcare can be found in a 21st-century version of the old-fashioned house call.

Investments

CFO Thought Leader

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We knew from the start that success in healthcare is a long game,” he says, underscoring the team’s deliberate approach. “We almost consider ourselves a healthcare data analytics company because that’s the way we’re running it.” So, we’ve got our hands full.

Leverage

Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Also in industry news this week: After experiencing a downturn over the past few quarters, RIA M&A activity ticked higher in the 3rd quarter amid continued interest from sellers and increasing costs for internal succession A recent study shows that housing-related costs are more likely than healthcare spending to cause unexpected spending shocks (..)

Healthcare

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The first was the investment in early December of procure-to-pay healthcare payments company Procurement Partners. The new fund, according to the company, Serent’s Fund IV will remain focused on “investing in successful, bootstrapped businesses where Serent’s business-building capabilities can help drive future growth.”

B2B

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Digital technology is changing healthcare, from recordkeeping to disbursements, but the move away from analog is a journey that involves significant hurdles. Designed to cut “red tape” from healthcare, the initiative seeks to reduce the amount of documentation produced by doctors. In the $3.5 New Standards.

Healthcare

PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

Currently, higi is working overtime to strike partnerships with both healthcare-related organizations and retailers, with the goal of creating a “new front door in every neighborhood in the U.S.” Simply stated, higi is making healthcare easier for people,” said Tom Main of 7wire Ventures. population.

Healthcare

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Launched about a year after Healthcare.gov’s initial debacle, USDS has been tasked with bringing the federal government’s technology up to speed by leveraging the skills of technology specialists. healthcare. cannot and will not move forward unless CMS is on board and investing in it. That ethos doesn’t work,” Tasnim said.

Healthcare

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

They can capture that distribution by aligning with incumbents who can leverage enablers’ innovations. Chief among those verticals will be healthcare, with particular attention paid to integrated and embedded payments functionality on offer from software providers. It’s not a one-sided relationship, though. It’s overfunded by a lot.”.

Investments

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

and have reach that expands into consumer finance, insurance, healthcare, higher education, utilities, government and mortgage. Our strategy remains focused on expanding our digital services, leveraging our platform to unlock new cross-border, cross-currency payments opportunities, and generating additional operating efficiencies.”.

Concentration

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The pandemic has placed unprecedented demand on the healthcare system while also creating revenue crises for many institutions because it has forced them to delay nonemergency procedures. The situation has compounded a challenge with which the healthcare sector has long struggled: inefficient and complicated billing practices.

Banking

PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

In particular, Alibaba Health said it is developing plans to utilize “internet technologies” in order “to build an omnichannel for pharmaceutical and healthcare products and service supply and a service system.”.

Pharmaceutical

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The government is investing $9 million across a series of blockchain initiatives that in addition to the aforementioned, port-focused one, include customs clearance, cross-border e-documentation and livestock supply chain management. The transparency is tied to sharing data about imports and exports in real time.

Healthcare

The Finance Weekly

JULY 14, 2024

For instance, a healthcare solutions company might have a long-term strategy to introduce a new telemedicine platform. The use of spreadsheets often means investing countless hours creating, distributing, collecting, and compiling complex Excel models, only to encounter issues with data accuracy, quality, and consistency.

Planning

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Office Depot is changing tactics in 2020, leveraging its strength in catering to businesses, schools, healthcare organizations and government agencies. Investment is lower retail operations, but eCommerce technology, distribution network and other customer services are all growing.

B2B