PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

INTL FCStone , a risk management and advisory service provider for players in the financial industry, announced a new acquisition to strengthen its small business foreign exchange and hedging offering. The takeover will enable INTL FCStone to connect GIROXX’s existing SMB customer base to its advisory services in commodities.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

There might not be another crypto-related IPO that is as big as Coinbase in 2022, but the cryptocurrency industry is still growing and users are demanding more and more crypto-related services, which could lead to a growing number of multi-billion dollar IPOs going forward. Consider Digital Asset ETFs to Capitalize on Crypto Trends.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

“Such investments and partnerships will accelerate our growth and enable us to deploy our solutions to a truly global business ecosystem,” said Adi Ben-Ari, Applied Blockchain founder and CEO, in a statement. Long-duration capital investments firm Calibrate Partners also took a minority stake in Applied Blockchain, reports noted.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2022

Its services include crypto asset custody, tokenization solutions, and a Luxembourg-based investment funds company. “We Notably for the environmentally challenged cryptocurrency industry, the bank says it has “particular expertise in the energy, infrastructure and cleantech / waste management sectors.”.

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CFO Talks

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Welcome to this CFO Club Africa podcast, in this podcast series I speak to leading financial professionals and CFOs about their professional journeys, their perspectives on the industry and their perceptions regarding the skills modern financial professionals must have to lead a successful organisation.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

“Cortex’s mobile-centric, closed-loop payment and secure tokenization solutions provide industry-leading technologies and security to our platform,” Uphold COO William Dennings said in the announcement. “It It additionally brings new commercial offerings and opportunities to our enterprise division, Uphold Solutions.”.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The second is on whether these profit effects vary across geographies and sectors, by estimating profitability measures across regions and industries. To explore differences in profit margins across industry groups, I broke stocks down into 94 industry groups, and sorted industries, based upon operating margin, from highest to lowest.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

And the Winklevoss twins – the founders of Gemini – are proposing a self-regulatory body for the cryptocurrency industry, they announced on their company blog. The group, which they propose to call the Virtual Commodity Association, would be “an industry-sponsored self-regulatory organization for the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Two industry startups secured their first venture capital rounds this week, with investors targeting an array of service providers — from alternative small to medium-sized business (SMB) lenders to B2B sales automation platforms — and focusing on a variety of geographic markets, from India to California. TechnifyBiz.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Small- to medium-sized business ( SMB ) buyers and sellers are facing fewer barriers to enter the market thanks to the rise of digital marketplaces and eCommerce-as-a-Service technology solutions. But global trade is a complicated operation, to say the least.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Blockchain consortium R3 , trade finance company TradeIX and several global banks are collaborating on a new solution that has entered into pilot phase. Earlier this year, Marco Polo expanded again to add more third-party players, including credit insurers, logistics companies and more as they begin testing the solution. “We

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

s tax authority has released cryptocurrency tax guidance for businesses, revealing that crypto assets will still be defined as commodities. The lawsuit was filed by Seattle-based angel investor Gregg Bennett, who has accused Bittrex of violating its own security protocols and ignored industry standards, failing to stop the April 2019 theft.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The company is looking for blockchain solutions for automotive, parking marketplace, NLP native chatbot, demand prediction algorithm, real-time monitoring of fuel quality (BSVI) and authenticating genuine spare parts.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

And this creates a working capital gap for them, and that’s what we are trying to address with our solution.”. “When you think of any cross-border transaction — let’s say an importer in the U.S. But no matter the business lines, Mukewar said the concerns of buyers and suppliers are fairly consistent.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In a new PYMNTS interview, Karl Schamotta, regional director of risk management solutions at Cambridge Global , talked about managing risk and hedging currency fluctuations in, perhaps, the world’s oldest form of production and commerce — a job that’s become more difficult in recent years, even with the benefits of digitalization.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Talk of “friction” in the payments industry is mostly about removing obstacles to consumer transactions, and how easily (or not) those payments get processed on the backend by merchants and banks. Tax Time, and Time as a Commodity. But there are other types of unwanted friction in finance.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

A new company targeting the coffee industry is emerging from stealth. is launching to enable supply chain management within the coffee industry. According to bext360, its solutions aim to support the livelihood of independent farmers in the coffee industry while improving quality control. Bext360, based in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

Web Financial Group, a data-driven managed service solutions provider, and Selerity, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered contextual search and automation company, announced Wednesday (April 19) they have partnered on content personalization solutions for the digital wealth market.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Another company, Conservis , rolled out its own financial accounting and automation services targeting the farming and agriculture industry. Analysts have also pointed to mobile payments technology as a game-changer in agriculture, especially in rural and developing areas.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Separately, a blockchain pilot focused on commodities trading — and financing — was completed earlier in the month. The supply chain finance solution, known as WeChain, is focused on small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Bread By Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2018

When it comes to what supplies the platform would provide to hospitals, nearly half said they hope to see commodities sold on Amazon; fewer than 10 percent said the platform should focus on surgical supply sales, pharmaceuticals, or IV solutions, reports said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

A surge in FinTech innovation, new industry players and the embrace of cutting-edge technologies – like artificial intelligence and mobile payments – positions the T&E market as an example of how B2B payments can, in fact, be innovative. Only about a third rely on web-based solutions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2016

said in the worldwide wearable tech device industry will have grown by 38 percent year over year in 2016, with 110 million units in the field by the end of the year. Yet, said Sarkissian, the equipment itself seems to be effectively going the way of commodities, as far as the health market is concerned. Depends on your perspective.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Her job is portfolio and product solutions and that means she could go anywhere in the world and do anything. Elizabeth Burton : I think it’s because I went into risk management straight out school on the risk side of fund to funds and, and various other industries. So I had to switch industries.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

All the while, skyrocketing freight and commodity costs have squeezed the margins at consumer-packaged goods companies — and made competition harder for them. Instead, they usually have a food-related need or a problem to solve and want the most seamless solution. It is also said that the grocer “makes more in-house” than other U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

A new white paper from treasury management solution provider Hazeltree emphasizes the crucial role metrics and data play in counterparty risk management and mitigation for buy-side treasurers, for instance. For fund investors, active risk management is of particular importance for treasurers, Hazeltree noted.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

Luckily, the rest of the week played out fairly nicely for B2B startups, with a few raising dough for their B2B financial services solutions. The startup may not operate in the fleet card space, but Haven’s B2B solution can certainly impact the bottom line. Turns out, it wasn’t a total bust. Fleet Management.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2016

The drive of payments innovation, security and speed in B2B payments is fueled by more than the basic buyer-supplier commodities transaction. ” The firm is burrowing within an industry rife with disruption from these many market players, so as Beanstream sharpens its game plan for its U.S. “The U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2017

The company recently launched a new solution for its FI clients that want to offer their customers a P2P loan, a solution that nixes any need for banks to partner with or acquire an alternative lender.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

As phishing and ransomware become known commodities in the world of digital security, the hackers and crackers just change up their methods. While there is much negative to be said about cybercriminals, one can’t accuse hackers and cybercriminals of being uncreative in their methods. Their latest malovation? Formjacking.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

“Reality is that many large businesses — powerful buyers such as chain stores — often change their payment terms to suit their own needs and not their supply chain, especially if the product is a commodity as part of their own financial planning,” said King. “If

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

Just west of the Research Triangle in North Carolina, Charlotte’s technology industry has been slowly growing over the past few years. The North Carolina Technology Association’s 2017 State of Technology Industry Report found that Charlotte and the Research Triangle area account for 60 percent of the state’s tech sector.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

Equity research analysts are even more focused on handfuls of companies in their assigned industries. Nothing is lost, and a great deal is gained, by stepping back from your corner of the market and looking at how stocks are priced across industries and markets.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

So, it doesn’t matter what the stock market does — commodity prices, interest rates, none of that is having a direct impact on investment in litigation, which is really operating inside a courtroom vacuum.”. Quite a bit down the line, we can see that FINO PayTech brings up the rear, so to speak, with $37.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Financial services firm ION is introducing the industry’s first treasury management solution for cash forecasting, powered by machine learning, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. “By using historical data, the solution has the potential to create cash forecasts more quickly.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Hackers are only getting better and so adoption of the same solution may not be the safest for the industry.”. A favored solution — for both the storage of individual keys and for the proper protection of large bitcoin vaults — is cold storage, or putting the caches offline. The Cold Storage Conundrum.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Commodity Futures Trading Commission had recently subpoenaed several large exchanges — including Coinbase , Kraken and Bitstamp — as it investigated alleged price manipulation. This listing will only help us to continue to do what we are doing now: helping our merchants grow and reshaping the payments industry.”. percent on the day.

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