Future CFO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG) Berhad ’s group chief financial officer, Boo Hui Yee , acknowledges that during the pandemic, cash became scarce. ICTSI) as senior vice president, chief financial officer and compliance officer says the company’s digitisation agenda was fast-tracked considering state lockdowns during the pandemic. “We

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Future CFO

APRIL 13, 2023

With continuing uncertainty in 2023, how are CFOs and treasurers calibrating their strategies in the years ahead to reflect desires for growth and profitability, a return to business as usual in the face of unpredictability and market volatility? and “How do I unlock those potential opportunities for growth?” That's the reality."

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Yields are up 1% or more on each of these bond maturities since the end of June. ( Yields are up 1% or more on each of these bond maturities since the end of June. ( Financial Times ) • How to Build a Private Credit Portfolio : GIC and StepStone tested model portfolios for risk-mitigation and return enhancement.

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ProCFO Partners

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Rather than robust financial departments, it could be just a handful of people fulfilling financial functions. With the right approach to post-close financial functions, PE companies can avoid inefficiencies, frustration, risk and operational headaches. Post-close, this small team can be exhausted and stretched to its limits.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

In financial functions, adoption of procure-to-pay, expense management, accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR) and other apps is on the rise — particularly as today’s corporates are forced to accelerate their cloud migrations to support remote working environments. A Spectrum Of Maturity.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 27, 2022

The Pricing Game One reason that I enjoy valuing a company just ahead of its market debut is that there is no market price to bias your analysis; in my experience, the market price operates as magnet, drawing intrinsic valuations towards it. 74 per share and soared into the stratosphere, peaking at ? 169 per share in late 2021. 76 per share.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Thus, you would be making a mistake, if you assume that this discussion only applies if you are investing in India, Brazil or Belarus, and that it does not, if your investments are in the United States, Germany or Australia.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

How to meet those preferences profitably has become the focus for both commerce and financial services. All the pandemic really did was pull them into focus and accelerate some timelines.”. And [that] opens the question around: ‘How long does it take for your relatively young customer base to catch up?’”.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

While these valuations led me to different assessments of value, there were common themes across time: At its core, Tesla has been an automobile company : In my 2016 post on Tesla , I described it as the ultimate story stock, driven less by news about its most recent financial performance, and more by news that alters its story trajectory.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 5, 2023

The overarching questions for us all are whether this crisis will spread to the rest of the economy and market, as it did in 2008, and how banking as a business, at least in the US, will be reshaped by this crisis, and while I am more a dabbler than an expert in banking, I am going to try answering those questions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Recent weeks have seen headlines in the financial press heralding the death of unicorns — tech companies that are (or were) valued at $1 billion or more, that went public, crashed and burned. WeWork comes to mind, of course, once valued at $47 billion, now teetering on the brink of collapse. But that might be changing. The General Landscape.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

In the latest PYMNTS Commanders in Chief series, Bruce Lowthers, executive vice president of FIS Global, a financial technology solutions provider , and president of the company’s Payments Division , didn’t set out to be an innovator. PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? It’s very deliberate.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2016

With a reported 1,000 new businesses being introduced to iZettle’s service every day, and an annual processing volume of €3 billion, today the company is servicing both the very green and more mature merchants that are looking to attain the omnichannel vision. DELIVERING MORE TO SMBs. But it’s finding customers that’s the pain point.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In this first post, I will use the investor debate about Facebook to talk about corporate governance , what it is, why it matters and how I think governance disclosure research, rules and scoring services have lost the script in the last two decades.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio. Tell us a little bit about the firm’s history and how it’s evolved over the past a hundred years. They’ve been around literally nearly a century. Really interesting.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this first post, I will use the investor debate about Facebook to talk about corporate governance , what it is, why it matters and how I think governance disclosure research, rules and scoring services have lost the script in the last two decades.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this post, I will look at the levers that drive Paytm's value, and you can make your judgments on where you think this offering will lead in terms of valuation and pricing. Since its public offering, Zomato's stock price has reflected that excitement, more than doubling from its offering price of 74 rupees per share.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The resulting debate among accountants about how to bring intangibles on to the books has spilled over into valuation practice, and many appraisers and analysts are wrongly, in my view, letting the accounting debate affect how they value companies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Collaborative commerce is in its infancy, he said, but will move quickly toward maturity as we head into 2021. Data flows and transparency can help corporate treasurers and chief financial officers act strategically in day-to-day cash management and optimize working capital as they break down silos within their own companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ ANNOUNCER: This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. RIEDER: Yeah.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Welcome to the December 2022 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors!

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Jedox Finance

MARCH 7, 2023

Take a look at how real teams and organizations around the globe have experienced an elevated state of planning and achieved the adaptability, integration, and simplicity they need to shape the future. Retailer accelerates budgeting and reporting 2. Table of Contents Increasing adaptability 1.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 8, 2023

In my sixth data update, I looked at the trade off that should determine how much companies borrow, where the tax benefits are weighed off against bankruptcy costs, but noted that firm often choose to borrow money for illusory reasons and because of me-tooism or inertia.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In some ways, the lack of digitization is the result of the financial services industry operating on misconceptions about the best ways to ensure that electronic B2B payments gain traction. “They said, ‘This will be great for you, and we’ll roll it out to your supplier base. Myth #1: Buyers Always Decide.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The move, said various financial publications, represents a push beyond the SoftBank traditional playing fields of tech and telecom. The company reportedly saw 40 percent growth year on year, along with maturation across uShip’s main delivery segments. In the billions of dollars. Think several billions of dollars and, in fact, $4.4

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio Barry Ritholtz : This week on the podcast, what can I say? And the spot was your front teeth, which are perfect and white and still perfect and white. It was 2015. You were great.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ ANNOUNCER: This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio. Let’s start out with just a little background on your career. Joe Baratta, welcome to Bloomberg. JOSEPH BARATTA, GLOBAL HEAD OF PRIVATE EQUITY, BLACKSTONE: Thank you.

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Onplan

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Finance professionals and teams today have numerous solutions available to help them plan, budget, forecast, and analyze financial information. In this buyer’s guide to the best FP&A software, we’ll provide an overview of the top financial planning and analysis tools to consider. However, not all FP&A tools are created equal.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ ANNOUNCER: This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio. It has allowed for this acceleration of number crunching.  The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

But that’s only one slice of how the offline experience could be made as intelligent as the online world. Sleep experts contend that people just sleep less than they used to, maybe even as much as 20 percent less than even a few decades ago. That is unless you live in Melbourne, Australia, where things seem pretty chill.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

.’s open banking framework have grown more diverse since its launch in 2018, the initial excitement behind the regulatory initiative was its opportunity to lower barriers to market entry for new FinTechs, and to augment competition in the financial services world. That’s not to say open banking has failed, however.

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